Thursday, February 28, 2008

Long time no blog?!

Well, it's been a while. I do have an excuse, the usual I'm afraid. I've not been well but I'm much better now thank goodness.


Anyway here's the UK Swap topic for this week.


Q: Have you done a swap before (doesn't have to be a knitting swap)? What do you like best about swapping? Are there any personal "requirements" that a swap has to have before you will join?

I love swapping. I don't have the energy to do lots at one time but when I do join a swap I will throw myself in it 100%. I enjoy putting parcels together and hope my partner likes them...so far so good. Like I've said before I like to see how people interpret my likes and dislikes. It's fab to 'meet' different people too.

I've done 2 knitting related swap bot swaps and 2 Sp swaps too! I've also sent little parcels to friends for birthdays or just to cheer them up. Oh yeah I've done sock wars twice too!!!

The only requirement for me is that it has to be something I'm interested in ...obviously!


I've put the SSS aside as it was becoming too stressful to try and do 2 mystery shawls at once...esp with my health being crap! It's made a big difference and I'm now up to date with SoSii.

Here it is trying it's hardest to show off draping over Audrey! (not the best photo) I've added another clue since that pic.

This is the hand spun (with what looks like George in the way as usual)I was going to use for my mate's scarf but it didn't look right at all. So I've started it in some DBliss alpaca silk I had hiding in my stash....the hand spun is now having a think as to what it wants to be!

I'm in the middle of a pressie for my UK Swap Pal. The rest of her parcel is finished so just got to get cracking on that.

I went to Guild on Saturday with Chris. We made Yorkshire buttons. Chris was fab and drove all the way from her house to mine(about 40Min's) and onto guild and back again! Her confidence is really coming on, plus it really helped me as there was no way I could have driven on Sat!

Quick msg to my SP....I've not got a mail addy to reply to you, but pink eyelash!!!!?????? LOL!

3 comments:

Sue said...

I love the colour of your SOTSii - congratulations on keeping up with the clues! One KAL at a time is really all I can manage as well. The handspun looks great too.
Take care,
Sue

Cinders said...

enjoy your swapping. Like the hand spun yarn

Anonymous said...

Hi Mel, well you got me online looking at your blog. I did contact you via ebay to say that i now have my own blog url. Yours is really interesting. I haven't dyed my own fibres uet and I have a load of fleece here waiting to be washed and sorted. The last lot I washed felted slightly though so I'm not sure where I went wrong. Can you explain all the swaps you're in please as I don't understand the abbreviations, I'm very slow really, lol.
I will keep checking up on you and see how you're doing.
Bye and thanks
Sarah/catssmudge