A New Project

Hello Folks.

Still no news on the lost iPad I'm afraid, we are still trying to contact the right people.  

I finished The Sewing Machine book, and found it to be enjoyable.  It is set across the life of the sewing machine from 1910 to the present day.  One of the characters makes and alters clothing using the machine in order to supplement her income.  Every project she has worked on she records in notebooks, using a scrap of material or lace or line of stitching, writing in, what it was, who it was for and what she got paid for it.  This got me thinking.  I am going to record the projects that I have made with my vintage machines in a similar way but I will also be recording which machine I made it on.  Watch this space!

I forgot to show you last time the wrap cardigan that I was making for my granddaughter, Baby Needles.  You might remember that I was making this Baby Needles to wear at her mum and dad's (Miss Clicky and Hubby) wedding day.  I was finishing it off as we getting the marquee ready for the big day and I lost it!   We couldn't find it anywhere.  As it was, it was a gloriously hot day and it wasn't needed.  Six months later and I happened to look in the boot of Master Clicky's car, and there it was.

I finished it off and, as it definitely won't fit Baby Needles any more I gave it to my hairdresser who is having a baby girl in two months time.

Mr Clicky has asked me to knit him a Fair Isle Jumper.  I don't think he had ever asked me to knit him anything so of course I said yes.  We had a long and drawn out process of finding a pattern and I have to thank my lovely knitting pal Romain who rifled through her patterns and sent my away with ideas and her own hand made yarn colour sticks of Jamieson and Smith shetland yarn for Mr Clicky to choose.

It took a while but he has settled on this pattern.  

 

He decided on these colours.  The lovely rich ginger is the main colour with the contrast of plum and peachy mix. 

I'm working bottom up; the ribbing was on 2mm needles and the stocking stitch is 3mm and the yarn is 4ply so slow going!

This weekend Mr Clicky and me are on a Rail Trip.  We are taking The Amtrak Empire Builder Train from Chicago to Portland, Oregon a journey of 1750 miles.  We leave at lunch time on Thursday and arrive Saturday morning, staying in a cabin on the train for 2 nights, have 2 nights in Portland and then fly back again.  Whilst we are in Portland we are catching up with some bloggy friends.  ;-). I am tremendously excited about this trip, one I have been wanting to do for quite some time. 

Lastly a beautiful $1 hyacinth we bought in Walmart which is sending its delicate scent through our apartment.  It is becoming very heavy and is propped against the wall.

That's me for now, I'm off to pack for our trip.

Bye for now..........Clicky Needles