Life LackaDaisiCal

In the world of good food, a palate cleanser is offered between courses....to cleanse the palate of lingering tastes...to help you digest...to prepare you for the taste delights of the next course! Sorbet is a traditional palate cleanser.... a light delicious pop of flavour that gets your taste buds ready for the next course! Want to be more adventurous?  In Normandy, locals rely on apple brandy as a digestive aid. Le trou Normand , or the Norman break, is a  fiery shot  of Calvados right in the middle of the meal.  Hmmm, Apple Brandy ! If you want to keep it simple, serve sparkling or still water, with a twist of citrus as a palate cleanser. I can hear you saying.... "What does this have to do with knitting?" Recently I have come to realize that small projects help me to cleanse my knitting palate so to speak. With a quick project that I can say is finished, I can go back to my main project with a regained enthusiasm for the next "course" of t...

Friday the 13th knitters!  You know what that means! Well, this is what happened today...rip rip rip.... because on Monday, while contemplating Clue 4 of the  Follow Your Arrow 2 KAL, I discovered a dropped stitch down in my Clue 3 wrapped bundles! It took until today for me to get down to ripping it out (boo hoo) and yes, now I have a marathon of knitting to do this weekend  to be ready for Clue 5 on Monday! Can I do it? What have I been doing all week then you might ask :) Well, my Earth Stripe Wrap  (the one I am supposed to be knitting 5" a month on) is now....pretty long..... I must say it is addictive...and I love the way the colours work with each other. Did you know that this is the 13th year that  Rowan have produced Kidsilk Haze? 13 years and still going strong! I've also been playing around with Crochet. Yes, the "C" word!!!! My little Tilley  Book of Crochet has large diagrams... which makes it really easy to see what is ha...

ABA Chose 1 A because of that gorgeous picot edge! Decided to go with the wrapped bunches of stitches :) 3A Because it repeats the theme of the stranding on clue 2B Just in case one skein isn't enough, I went to my LRS, The Needle Emporium for a backup skein of Fine Art. My shawl has used up 63 grams of my 100 gram skein and measured 25 cm in depth and 110 cm in width so far. There are so many two colour shawls that I'm thinking of adding a second shade....we shall see :) Follow Your Arrow 2 Rowan Fine Art It's always fun to compare notes with a kitting friend! My friend Ros is knitting the Follow Your Arrow 2 also.... here is her shawl so far, clues AAB I love this blue/brown colour way.....she is using the luscious  Sundara Yarns ! Anyone else knitting Follow Your Arrow 2? Happy Knitting, Anne

my coffee table would be stewn with my current knit projects... like these pockets for my Mette Cardigan. the cardigan is finished, seams are sewn, ends tucked in... I'd show you my mystery project! ...it all started when a stranger walked into the LYS...   "Follow Your Arrow 2" is looking gorgeous! 1a2b so far...but somehow with just 5 rows to go I've lost a stitch! Candice and I have started our own monthly KAL the Earth Stripe Wrap, a design by the incomparable Kaffe Fassett in Rowan's exquisite Kidsilk Haze , it was the cover design of Rowan Magazine 42 and now is available as a free download from the Knit Rowan web site here we intend to finish in 2015! while you were here...we'd watch this...and maybe some vintage Clint Eastwood after! Until next time,  Happy Knitting Anne x #Rowan #KnitRowan #KidsilkHaze #MartinStorey #Mette #RowanBrushedFleece #EarthStripeWrap #KaffeFassett, #FollowYourArrow2 #Y...