A Productive Holiday

School starts again next week and I am looking forward to it because the musical starts! yay! I have gone shopping a lot this week and have picked up quite a few goodies as well as doing some sewing and completing a (small) project.

I have (another) magazine: Knit.1 Summer which has a couple of 'omg must knit these' projects in it like this:
A finished beret for my friend Mad who had been waiting a while for it due to my Dad's jumper commitments. She really likes it which is great!

Also, Vogue Knitting has their huge 200 page 25th anniversary magazine preview up which has quite a few really nice patterns for free from well known designers like Kaffe Fasset and Debbie Bliss. Go check it out.

Hello Stranger.

The time that has passed since I have last posted have been packed full of great experiences. My week in Adelaide was fabulous! I learnt a lot and got a fair direction of what I should do if I choose to be an interior designer. I visited many shops and places including 'Studio Barcelona' a place to buy designer furniture where i discovered the 'Charles Eames' chair and the 'Barcelona' chair which i had never heard of before. I visited other shops which sell handles, glass and tiles. And of course, I had to visit Ikea. They had updated the fabrics and had some great sales on so I stocked up. This fabric was super cheap! The green one on the left is actually a huge print of clover in different colours

Perhaps a scrapbooking page is in order?

Last friday, I was lucky enough to go to Cirque du Soleil which were performing 'Varekai'. It was magnificent(!) and I reccomend you go if you are in Adelaide.

Also, My Dad's birthday has come and gone and unfortunately I didn't get his sweater done in time. I managed to get the whole of the body completed and seamed up so at least he could try it on after he had un-wrapped it.

When I Grow Up

Tomorrow I am jumping on a plane and going to Adelaide for my work experience with an architect and an interior designer. Hurrah! I'll be there for a week and I hope to learn heaps and see if this career (interior design especially) is the way I'll be heading in life. If I have access to a computer I'll post throughout the week but if not, I'll post when I get back!

Knitting Against The Clock

In less than a month, It is my Dad's 50th Birthday and seeing that he liked the socks that i knit him so much, I have decided to make him a sweater. The only issue is time. There isn't a whole lot of it to get cracking. So, from now on, until the 12th of July, I only will be knitting Dad's jumper and nothing else. It's gonna be difficult to keep focus because I just got some amazingly awesome phildar patterns.

I have decided upon Jamesey from Knitty for a number of reasons: A, It's not cabled; B, I think Dad will actually wear it and C, It's free. Pattern in hand, I ran down to spolight to pick up some yarn. The colour that I originally wanted (teal-y dark blue) had not enough stock so I settled on Merinos Fine 100%, a very dark brown italian dk merino, which feels as though it is excellent quality.

Birthday Time!

This long-weekend was the Queen's 'birthday' and also mine! I had a lovely day with my family and the food was great. I was utterly spoiled and received some pretty and useful knitterly and non-knitterly gifts. Thank You to my Mum, Dad, Nan, Pa, R, K and Perri for making my birthday such a special day!



Every year one of the highlights are my brothers cards. They are very funny and generally they pay out my love of knitting or my ebay habit. This years was no different and is certainly worth some blog space. He writes:

"It's official!

This is your only material possession which doesn't come from a sheep! This isn't a bad thing; in the last 18 months the amount of jobs available to sheep shearers has rose by 38.3% due to the wool demand. Either a sick minded individual is giving sheep chemotherapy or you have more wool in your cupboard than I think! Have a great day and enjoy it because tomorrow everything's back to normal! From R."

Exam week is over! So have a great weekend!

Burn, Baby Burn

It's musical year again at my school and auditions were held last week for 'Disco Inferno' which is set in the mid-1970's. This year I was casted as a back-up singer and 'voice coach'. I am not quite sure what being a voice coach involves but I get to make up all the harmonies all three back-up singers, including myself. I am very excited!

Knitting has been going slowly due to the sudden influx of due dates and exams. At the moment knitting has been my stress release time more than anything. Thermal is making some progress still and I am quite excited about the finished product:

I also jelly-dyed some more merino bambino. I followed Eunny's tutorial for making self-striping yarn. I am not sure how 'self-striping' it's going to be but it will have some nice colour graduations. The pink is raspberry jelly, the dark pink is port wine jelly and the yellow is the original colour of the yarn. I am very pleased with how it turned out.

And now for something completely different....

I've been tagged by The Knitting Librarian! I am supposed to give seven random facts about myself and then tag seven other people by leaving a comment on their blog. here it goes:

1. I have been suffering from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for just over two years. Hence the name, The Sleepy Knitter. Things are starting to look a bit brighter health wise, but It will take some time still for me to recover.
2. I am fourteen years old! My birthday is on the Queen's birthday!
3. I have a cat, Miss Millie, a rabbit, Shelby, and two guinea pigs, Tiny and Fatso.
4. Both my parents are music teachers.
5. I hate spiders. One time, in primary school (year 4) I was in the gym with my class and we were getting ready for a race. I had my leg out in a lunge getting ready to go. Ready...set....go! Then suddenly i felt something on my leg and I looked down to see a HUGE huntsman there. I screamed and started jumping in a circle. Jacob, a boy in my class, got it off my leg. Thank you Jacob, I owe you big time. Apparently, the huntsman fell off the 20 meter roof and onto my leg. Whats the odds of that?
   

Well there you are. not quite seven but that last one counts for at least two

Now for an update on Thermal; which is taking it's sweet, sweet time: