#Lioness art update#
#Lioness art code#

Thanks to everyone who left a comment and for all the birthday wishes.

Please contact me at with your favourite colourway and yarn base and your address and I'll post your lovely prize next week! So from all the people who guessed Haworth in their comment on the last blog post I picked two random winners, and they are: That's because I really wanted to record a little story to tell you about my recent trip to Haworth when I announced the winner of the colourway competition, but I just haven't had time, and I didn't want to leave you hanging any longer -) I'd rather read Jane Eyre, but I don't have it to hand. And it was written in Haworth ~ which (insert drum-roll here) is the name of my personal favourite of my colourways. So what? Well, I guess I thought I should, I mean, it's attested to be one of the most original pieces of literature ever written. Here's my own Artichaut in Alpaca Silk Sport in Iris: And if I hadn't had to go home to pick up my cards I wouldn't have been able to reorganise the food shop delivery and I would have had a very hungry family that evening. It was one of those days that was clearly going downhill, and was saved by the fact that no-one treated my like the moron I felt like. So I had to call the supermarket (who were less accommodating than the post office) to apologise and arrange a redelivery for that evening so that my family could eat that day (while I would still be at work). So I went to work to drop off my stuff, then walked back home to pick up my cards only to find the weekly food shop that I was expecting to be delivered that evening had been only ten minutes earlier, because I had got the time wrong. Wendy kindly told me to go home and get my card and come back when the post office reopened at 2pm to pay for the already processed packages. If you buy yarn from the shop, it's thanks to Emma that anything gets done with a modicum of order and efficiency, so send her a happy thought while you open your parcel.Īnyway, I get to the post office - and there's no queue!! Whoop! - at least until lovely Wendy has processed my 2 dozen or so parcels and announced the large sum of money to pay while I'm fumbling in my purse for my bank card which I HAVE LEFT AT HOME because I removed ALL MY CARDS to purchase a new electric hob (for dyeing sweater quantities, yay). Usually our packing involves her doing all the oragnising, making lists of who gets what and which orders need to be combined and who needs a postage refund, and me, still reskeining yarn that's only just dry, forgetting to make the tea and nattering incessantly (because only my hands are busy) while she tries to concentrate. I love packing kits with Emma, because often she'll be seeing the yarn for the first time and will say gratifying things like 'Ooh, it'll be gorgeous in that colour'.

#Lioness art update#

I lugged them happily up the hill, with the usual relief (phew, glad that's done), satisfaction (a job well done) and excitement (I can't wait for them to get their yarn!!) Emma and I had spent the best part of the day before carefully packing up Artichaut kits and update orders.

As many as I could carry in the 3 large reusable bags I keep for just this purpose. So this week I took a huge number of parcels to the post office. If you're discerning about who you knit for and what you knit them, your recipient might happily wear their knitted gift everyday, like my friend below wears his new fingerless mitts:

#Lioness art code#

If, like me, you know you're going to knit some gifts, most of which will never get finished, in fact most will be started far too late to be finished in time for the holidays, then there's really only two rules worth making:ġ) DON'T tell anyone they will be getting a knitted gift.Ģ) Have a back up plan (which you can always keep, save for later or give to someone else if you miraculously finish the knitted gift).įollowing these two rules will ensure that you don't need to go through the embarrassment of wrapping a half finished hat and, MOST IMPORTANTLY you can enjoy your gift knitting, indulge your startitis, justify those Christmas shopping personal yarn purchases (come on, it's not just me, surely?) and to help get you started early, I'm offering a discount code for all my individual patterns from now until the end of November.Įnter the coupon knitgiftsnow to get a 25% discount on any single pattern (e-books not included)

With Christmas around the corner there's been a lot of talk about gift knitting.