Slow and squeaky.

Well it's still here, still on the needles and still not finished. The Mystery Blanket is almost done - it's just these 300 stitch borders (4 of them) that are taking FOREVER! Won't be long though, then I can show it to you in all its glory - and even if I do say so myself, it is really rather glorious!

On the scales front, I have lost another 1.5 pounds. Pleased about that - would have been more pleased had it been 2.5, but I don't want to be too greedy.

Oh, and another thing, not that it affects any of you, but I've almost lost my voice. The children at school think it's funny - I've developed a very high squeaky sound. Most unlike my normal husky tones (oh ha, ha!)

What a cow!

It's amazing what you see when you're trying to have a nice quiet bowl of bran flakes for breakfast. Looking out of my kitchen window this morning I saw this greedy cow looking in at me. And before you complain about me calling her greedy, let me tell you that this beast has single-handedly (or should that be single hoofedly?) devoured our pear trees, ivy plants, privet hedges, laurel hedges and anything else that she can reach from her field. There is a barbed wire fence holding her back from our fence, but such is the age of the thing, she just steps over that to get to our greenery.

Some years ago, one cow escaped from the field and got onto the road. To prevent an accident, a well-meaning neighbour ushered her into our front garden and closed the gate before calling the farmer. Now those of you who know Mr Stressy will know that he is a fanatic when it comes to his garden - not a blade of grass is out of place and once a week he sweeps the gravel. Yes, I really did say that. He sweeps the gravel with a brush. So to find a cow on the drive was not his idea of a good plan. However, it all ended reasonably OK, we had a few smashed plant pots, a few nibbled plants, but nothing too serious.

Thank goodness it was not this Greedy Cow who ended up on our drive. Mr Stressy would surely have had her in the freezer before you could say horseradish sauce.

Two for the price of one!

Here is my Saturday Pudding. Fat free rice pudding, flavoured with orange, lemon, apples and nectarines and fat free yoghurt. Too much lemon. Way too much lemon. Sour. Horrid. So revolting, I can almost see the pounds disappearing - after all, something this vile must surely be good for weight loss?

But it didn't really help that the rest of my dear family were tucking into this. Profiteroles, filled with white chocolate creme patissiere and smothered in warm chocolate sauce.

There were some leftover, so rather than keeping them in the fridge to torture me even more, I went round the neighbours offering them out!

As I have said before, losing weight is not easy for someone with such a sweet tooth as me. Especially when I keep being so stoopid as to make puddings like this.

What would you do?

Knit with some delicious new yarn from Nimu Yarns,
mmmmmmmm....

Continue knitting my latest obsession
mmmmmmmmm...

...or tackle this little lot.


Oh, and by the way, the last post title, 'Nothing Changes' was sadly prophetic. No weight loss this week for me.

Nothing changes...

I'm still swamped by my many unfinished projects. Starting to panic at the amount needing to be done. Wondering how I can ever work my way round to finishing something - anything even. So am I getting any finished? Am I finally getting out the long forgotten needles from some long forgotten project?

Er, no. I am doing what any other self-confessed knitting nutter actually does. I'm casting on something new! Yes, yes, yes, I know, I've heard it all before. Finish something before you start something else. Finish one thing, start on another. Easy peasy. Just like how easy it is to have just one square of chocolate from the huge family sized bar of Dairy Milk in the cupboard right next to me HERE!!!!! Yes, just as easy.

Remarkably though, my will power with the chocolate is much better than my will power with the needles. So I've cast on a scarf and left the chocolate alone. It is now October so Christmas is just around the corner and the sum total of my festive knitting amounts to a pair of socks for mum. Whilst thinking of this, I decided that my poor dad rarely gets any knitting for himself (though it could be argued that socks for mum mean that she doesn't warm her cold feet on him, so that's sort of a present?). Anyway, I digress, I thought my dear dad would like a nice cashmere scarf to keep him warm on those cold winter walks. So I dug out all those scraps of leftover cashmere from Tipsy and cast on a mere 400 stitches.

Oh this pattern is good. Easy, quickish - for 400 stitches - and very pretty looking. The colours actually work far better in real life than it seems here.

So whilst the Mystery Blanket will remain a mystery to you all for another week or so, Carica is still only half way up the back, Soho is just a square rather than a massive rectangle, the zig-zag anklets are just singular, the Golden Wedding Blanket is more like a cushion, the teeny Rowan jumper is still awaiting more weight loss before it fits, the quiviut snood is somewhat short, the million miles of cotton i-cord remains a million miles of i-cord, I am enjoying knitting a scarf.

Oh to be strong and finish something once in a while!

Thursday again

Thursday has come round yet again, and we all know what that means don't we? Get on those scales everyone! I have another loss to report - 3 pounds this week, so much better than last week's measly pound. (Still, a pound is a pound as so many of you told me - oh and if any of you complain about 'just' losing that much, don't expect sympathy from Mrs Moog. She's very scary!) (I got seriously told off, but not as badly told off as Trashy this week - from someone else, but oh that's another story...)

Anyway, here we have another raffle prize sent today from Daisie - a newbie to our little group. It's so exciting - all these prizes are so gorgeous - I want to keep them all!

This prize is a Della Q circular knitting needle case. It is beautiful, silky and oh my word, just look at the price of these things! Don't you just need to win this? No more messy circulars in the bottom of the case / pot / tub / whatever you keep them in.

Own up then one and all, have you lost anything this week? (Not just weight, have you lost anything at all? I've lost my rag quite a few times, but again, that's another story.)