Just a gratuitous scarf shot – neither are finished but hey, I hadn’t posted anything for a while…

The Clap you know, and the other one is a varient of Misty Garden from Scarf Style. It’s a mixture of some Alpaca my SP sent me in the summer and some Be Sweet boucle mohair…

ok, as you were…

Not normally one for going out on a Sunday night – especially after a busy weekend – but I make an exception for the monthly London Roller Girl night at Bloomsbury Lanes… so much fun! A bunch of the Actionettes dressed up in our air hostess outfits with added ‘crash’ damage (not particularly tasteful as I will be on a plane next month!)… anyhow we won 1st prize! woohoo… Also managed to squeeze in some cocktail drinking, bowling and table football action… top night! M took some fab pics of the night here

in Dover Castle…

We went down for a book launch (illustrated by my mum) and spent the afternoon exploring the castle and Dover. It felt like the first proper Autumn day we’ve had this year, and it was super windy at the top of the Keep!

she’s finished!…
It’s still too warm to be wearing anything this wooly, but will be good for the trip to the Peak district in November…

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Pattern: Melinda from Colinette’s Wayfarer book
Yarn: Colinette Prism in Mint Chocolate
Needles: suggested -  6 & 5mm, actual -  5 & 4mm
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Almost finished…

Just need to sew up the sleeves / body and add the buttons. Again, it fits… bit only just!

Will take a pic when it’s finished and see what you think… May have to add to the cuffs to lengthen the arms (even though I already made them longer than the pattern suggests)

So the Plush You show 2006 is now open… If you’re in Seattle, pop along.. it’s on until November 2nd. Hopefully there will be a book along soon too, with instructions on how to make one of these fellas included

Today was such a beautiful sunshiny day we set off with the book of South London walks and caught the train to Kent… only one stop past Herne Hill it felt like the countryside already, and by the time we arrived in Farnborough (Village, not the place where they have the airshows) it was hard to believe we were here on a zone 1-6 travelcard!

The walk started off by going through a graveyard (where ‘Gypsy Lee’ is buried, and there is a memorial to Dr Thomas Young, who figured out the Egyptian Hieroglyphics on the Rosetta stone) and then it was fields, horses, autumn-type nature, and the weirdest combination of things I’ve ever seen; had it been in the Saatchi gallery it would’ve made a lovely installation!… Some horse tail (or mane), a ladybird and a spider all caught on the barb of a barbed wire fence… strange… maybe it was an ancient Autumn spell…

We walked past Holwood Mansion, the bench where Wilberforce and Pitt discussed plans to abolish slavery and the fishponds filled by the source of the Ravensbourne River; eating blackberries and drinking Kent’s Best all added to the feeling of spending a proper October afternoon in the country….

Just spent one of those happy days where you’re pleased to be living in the big city… We went into town for lunch at the Photographers Gallery looking at photos of the Rif in Tangiers… Went over the LGC for my Block Printing Colour fix (new favourite paints) and somehow a box of Caran D’ache pencils threw themselves my way too…

Walked up to the British Museum and saw some Kennington Stone carvers chipping away on the front steps… Inside we wandered amongst the exhibits in the Enlightenment Gallery – objects arranged in the way people would have catergorised them in the 18th century, many of them bearing C18 labels, or set upon C18 mounts.. The whole room feels like a kind of cabinet of curiosities or an amazing collection in an eccentric uncle’s library. In fact the room is called the King’s Library, where the books of King George III – that he left to the museum after his death 1820 – were housed before being sent to the British Library.

Also, if you get the chance, check out Room 2 where selected objects from Japan, Iran and Britain are on display while their permanent galleries are being refurbished. Amazing Bronze age finds from the River Thames (a 350 – 100 BC bronze shield inlaid with glass at Battersea Bridge, 150 – 50 BC bronze horned helmet found near Waterloo Bridge, a 1 AD Roman helmet near Kew and the bronze head of the Emperor Hadrian – 2 AD – from near London Bridge!).

There were also weird neolithic stone balls, hundreds of which keep showing up in Scotland, their carving reminded me of sculptures by Peter Randall Page.. Oh, and they have their ‘hands on’ volunteers in there too – I held an axe head from Norfolk carved *6000* years ago! (luckily you hold objects in both hands over a padded table – phew!)

In the BM shop I got suckered by the Peter Jackson illustrations and bought a book about London Bridge – it has those little diagrams that show cut-aways of buildings with people in the attic, climbing stairs etc that I love…

Walked up to Lamb’s Conduit Street, one of my most favourite streets in London. Up until the Starbucks opened at the bottom end of it , every single shop or business along it is independently owned. Visited Persephone Books – another one to add to this list – and then to the Lamb for a quick half before heading back to Brixton.