From Soulemama {this moment} – A Friday ritual. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savour and remember.
I love your moments too. So feel free to leave a link in the comment section for us all to see. Have a beautiful weekend. Jacinta x
Joining in with Ginny from Small Things.
I am happy to say I have finished the cowl from last week and posted about it here. Over the weekend I managed to cast on and finish a Raspberry Beret. It was a quick knit. The pattern was easy to follow and the beret is very cute. However, the yarn I used wasn’t 10 ply like I had originally thought, but more like 12ply. I used smaller needles that the pattern called for, as I had intended the beret for either Scarlett or Tenneille, but it fits me! May try it again with some 8 ply yarn and see if I can get the right size for the girls. The pattern is free and can be found on Ravelry. The photos don’t really do it justice, it looks better on, but I couldn’t get a good picture wearing it.
As for reading, I still haven’t started the book I mentioned last week, instead I’m reading a kindle book (surprise, surprise!) called, Growing Up Country: Memories of an Iowa farm girl, By Carol Bodensteiner. I’m only a few chapters in but I am loving it already. Having spent my childhood in the country, I can relate to a lot of what has been written. It seems country life is similar, no matter where you grow up. I am looking forward to reading more of it tonight.
Looking forward to seeing everybody’s crafty loveliness and reading about your book reviews. Jacinta x
As mentioned in my previous post, I managed to find the perfect button for my Fear Of Commitment Cowl. The button is glazed and made from coconut with hand painted flowers. It matches the yarn perfectly. I think I may have done some sort of giddy happy dance when I happend upon it. I have already worn the cowl a couple of times and I am sure it will be worn a lot more come winter, seems it’s getting really cold now.
The button is looped together with elastic through a toggle button on the opposite side. It means I can move the button around, depending on how I want to wear the cowl. I love simple ideas like that. Jacinta x
What a wonderful few days I have had. My birthday was on Saturday, but we started celebrating the night before with Greg and I going out to dinner to a favourite restaurant. It was such a treat to go out, just the two of us, to sit and chat and enjoy food I didn’t have to prepare. Now it wasn’t just any meal either, I’m talking, eyes-rolling-into-back-of-your-head kind. Now my mouth is watering, just thinking about it. If you are ever in the Dandenong Ranges, I can highly recommend Coonara Springs Restaurant.
Coonara Springs Restaurant
Saturday lunch was spent with some of my gorgeous friends at a local cafe. We throughly enjoyed our time with much talk and a lot of laughter. I think we need to get together more often. After lunch we wondered to a near by yarn shop (what a coincidence) and I found the perfect button for my newly finished cowl (pics to come). None of us were in a hurry to return to reality, so we all went back to my place for another cuppa and more talk (about knitting of course). Many thanks to Greg, who had 5 kids in his care for the duration of our extended lunch.
My birthday bounty
Scarlett and Tenneille spent a good portion of Saturday afternoon decorating the birthday cake. They were even fighting over the privilege at one stage, and then, of course, there were tears, ho hum. I’m sure we could be part of a reality tv program at times! But after all that, Scarlett has declared she wants the same cake for her birthday next year. So it couldn’t be all bad.
The girls mater piece!
Sunday was Mother’s Day, so my family got to spread the love a little longer. I enjoyed breakfast in bed and the girls made me special cards. My day was mostly spent knitting, so what more could I have asked for. Well ok, I’m thinking of getting Knit Pick interchangeable needles and some yarn to make Tea Leaves cardigan. I bought the pattern for Tea Leaves 3 years ago, so I think it’s time I actually cast it on! I’m thinking I might knit it in charcoal or maybe red. Decisions, decisions.
Today I am feeling very blessed to have such wonderful friends and my sweet little family to make celebrating another year so very special. If you were celebrating Mother’s Day this past weekend, I hope you felt the love and honour, because you are so worth it you gorgeous women. Jacinta xx
From Soulemama {this moment} – A Friday ritual. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savour and remember.
I love your moments too. So feel free to leave a link in the comment section for us all to see. Have a beautiful weekend. Jacinta x
Following along with Ginny at Small Things.
Well my Fear Of Commitment Cowl is off the needles. The loose ends are now woven in, just need to pick out a button and it’s finished. I’m happy with how it has turned out and can’t wait to wear it. The pattern is easy enough for a beginner knitter to attempt, as there are only two lines of repeat to make the seeded rib stitch. The yarn is from my stash, made by Moda Vera and is labeled Mousse. I’d describe the colour as peacock blue. It has a lovely richness to it and is a blend of wool and soya with an uneven weave to it that resembles hand spun yarn.
This shows the yarn closest to it's true colour
As for reading. I’ve had a book on my bedside table for months that I think I will read this week. It’s called A Love Like Ours, by Rosie Harris.
Can’t wait to see what you have all been creating this week. Jacinta x
You might remember my little sneak peek of a project I was working on last week, well it was for some friend’s of ours who recently had a sweet little baby boy. Baby’s mama appreciates handmade items, so I knew a baby quilt was in order. I bought the fabric from my favourite Australia quilt store wantitneeditquiltit. Jane, is so lovely to deal with and her prices are fantastic! I love the colours in the fabric and as always, moda fabric is of great quality. The fabric was actually purchase as a quilt kit that Jane had designed, but me, in my usual craft craziness, knew that I’d no hope in finishing the quilt in time if I had to do the aplique that was part of the original design (I only had a week to get the quilt finished with very limited time). So I just added an extra row of charm squares to the pattern and omitted the lollypop aplique. However, Jane’s instructions for the pattern are very precise, so I have no hesitation in recommending the original pattern.
I certainly enjoyed having a gorgeous little boy to hold, who happily slept his time away in my arms. I’m so hopeless when it comes to babies, cluck, cluck, cluck! I certainly feel like a little piece of me always goes with a gift I have made and I hope little baby ‘A’ enjoys his quilt for many years to come. I have a little something for their daughter too, but it is still in the throws of being finished. I will share a picture once I have finished big sister’s gift (cause we all know big-little siblings are special too).
Jacinta x
From Soulemama {this moment} – A Friday ritual. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savour and remember.
I love your moments too. So feel free to leave a link in the comment section for us all to see. Have a beautiful weekend. Jacinta x
It has been such a cold, wet wintery day. I don’t think the temperature got above 8 degrees. The perfect day to stay indoors, well apart from getting the girls to and from school. Oh, and having to go to the supermarket twice! The initial visit, where I discovered I didn’t have my wallet when I went to pay (insert very red face). Thankfully, living in a fairly rural area, they were lovely enough to put my stuff aside while I got the kids from school then dashed home to get my wallet. I felt so silly having to return and explain to someone I was there to pick up and pay for my groceries!
Anyway, I digress. I’ve been working on a little something for a gift, that I will share here soon, but just incase the recipient reads here, I can only offer a sneak peak. I am currently tucked up in bed, ready to continue doing a little hand sewing while trying to ignore my allergies. I wish I knew what set them off, it certainly makes me feel miserable. But a fix of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries on ABC iview, will be the perfect medicine for this mama. We don’t have a tv hooked up to free to air, or pay tv, so often I have no idea about tv shows that people talk about. But when I was told there was a series based on the Phryne Fisher books, I knew I had to check it out. I’m three episodes in and so far I’m enjoying the series. The books/tv series are primarily set in Melbourne and the surrounding countryside back in the 1920′s. If you can get your hands on any of the books, I’m sure you would enjoy them.
I hope you have a lovely evening planned. Jacinta x
Joining in with Ginny from Small Things this week.
After my knitting issues last week, I’ve decided to cast on another project in the meantime, until I can face casting on my beret again. The pattern is called Fear of Commitment Cowl. The pattern is on Ravelry. I’m knitting it to go with this cloche style hat I made last year. The colour of the yarn is hard to get right, kind of a peacock blue, not grey/blue like in the picture. Doesn’t help that I have taken the photo late at night. It’s a really straightforward pattern that ‘should’ knit up quickly, just as long as I leave it out of the reach of curious little fingers.
As for reading. I just finished a Kindle book, Wild Montana Sky. A good old romance novel. Set in the 1800′s in Boston and then rural Montana. Rich girl falls for ranch boy kind of story. Not bad considering it was a 99c special.
Looking forward to seeing what you have all been crafting and reading too.
Jacinta x
