This has been finished for a while now, but it’s buggeringly hard to get a decent photo of it. It’s uber wide and being only three inches tall means I can’t hold both ends out straight at the same time.

It’s from a 21st Century Yarns kit I bought at Ally Pally. The wool is fairly standard not-too-itchy not-too-soft sort of thing, but the dyeing is some of the best I’ve ever encountered. Despite all the dark blues, no dye washed out at all when I was washing it and the water stayed completely clear. I think witchcraft might be involved.

It’s a modular knit and you start off by making all the triangles along the edge of the shawl…

…and then you join them together by picking up stitches to knit the next triangle.

And on and on and on and on, until it’s done. Then a picot edging all the way around and I quite like it. So this will be the first shawl I keep. It’s lovely and warm too.

They’re going to be at the knitting show in the New Forest next month, so I’ll see what other lovely things they have then.

Once again the sun doth shine and the Professor and me are having adventures and drawing important maps for the forthcoming invasion drawing room.

This weekend we will begin our reckonasonce rconaissence recconyse lookings about in earnest and send many important pieces of information back to the military masterminds on Planet Donkey! Monkey! our mums.

If you have any knowledge of strategic targets fun days out, then please don’t hestitate to tell us. We’ll bomb go anywhere for ice cream.

This is where the primary invasion fleet will land. The Professor is going to send this special photo of himself to his mum. She loves to see the humans burn him enjoying himself on his day trips.

These buildings will be demolished to make way for the missile silo. I do so love the seaside. See the delighted gleam in my eye.

Mittens sock pattern

If you spot any mistakes let me know and I’ll deny all knowledge fix them. Maybe.

The file opens as a word doc because I’m too lazy for fancy pdfs.

(sort of)

Right. To get a little piccy by your name you go to gravatar.com and sign up for an account. All that really consists of is giving them your email address and the little piccy you want to use. Then they rate your avatar (apparently Super Monkey is safe for all ages, SUCKAS!). Then whenever you go to a site that supports Gravatar, you pop in your email address and it checks with www.gravatar.com and finds your piccy.

That all worked fine on my old theme, but when I changed to the more suitable FURIOUS RED of my soul it went a bit wiggy. So now I think it doesn’t work right, so Gethro the webmonkey fixed it in his own special way. So what you do is register on my blog using the link over there –>

Then, when you’re logged in there should be another linky that lets you into your account, but I dunno what that link is called because I’ve never seen it myself and I’m too lazy to register and see, so it will be something like ‘admin’ or ‘account settings’ or some such guff. You’ll know it when you see it.

That should take you to a page that I’ve never seen where there should be a page with a tab on it labelled Gravatar(s) or summit. If there’s a blue bar with ‘Options’ written on then click that and it will probably be in there. Maybe.

Right, so then there’ll be a little box where you can tell it where your gravatar is and your gravatar is at Gravatar so you bung in the Gravatar URL and it will check with them what your piccy is and pop it in for you.

Now if that doesn’t work, or you don’t want a Gravatar account, what you do is send your piccy to me. I’ll upload it and email you back with a linky and you pop that into the gravatar deely page on the blog and everything will be super funky cool.