Our Beach Holiday!

We went to the beach for a week recently, here are my two boys watching Dad make a sand castle...much easier watching than helping!! I'll be posting more pics soon...I'm in a hurry right now!!

2010 Sewing Challenge

I just signed up to have a go at a Blog Sewing Challenge (the link to it is on the left). Should be a bit of fun. I might not get all 12 projects done but I'll give it a go anyway!

The first challenge is "Something for Me"...I have been going to make myself a top for ages and I'm thinking now is the time. Stay tuned for updates!!

We put the Christmas Tree up...

We put the Christmas tree up yesterday...Just thought I'd share this cute pic. We went out to a BBQ for tea so I grabbed the opportunity to get a photo of them with the tree while they were all dressed up.

It's Raining...It's Pouring!!

We have had so much rain in the past few days, about 65ml so far and it's still raining. We just had another thunderstorm go through not long ago. All our tanks are near enough to full, which they haven't been since we put them in 5 or 6 years ago. The orchard and vegie garden are just sheets of water, at least I won't have to water anything for a while!

Alister got out in it this afternoon, it took a bit of convincing him that it was OK to get his bike dirty...there's plenty of water to wash it in!! He had a ball riding through the puddles, then he got bogged...

...and WET...

...and ended up totally SATURATED from head to foot!! After this pic, he decided to have a swim in the puddle...lying down...

My memory card filled up so I couldn't get a photo of how he finally ended up but you get the idea, it was straight into the bath then!!

Finished another knitting project...

Yep...another Vanilla Soaker. This one was made using 12ply BWM 'Rustic'.

Finished!!

How's this? I love this pattern and I'm impressed how my dyeing job worked. I think I may have done an extra couple of rows in the body of it...oops...doesn't matter. And I also knitted less rows on the leg bands than the pattern says (I meant that). I will get a pic of them on a bum, they look much better on a 'model'.

Knitting it up!

Thought I'd better show you how the wool I dyed is knitting up...I am knitting a soaker called "Vanilla". It's such an easy pattern, although I was a little daunted by some of the techniques when I first read the pattern, especially the PCO (Provisional Cast On), but I did a practice and it wasn't as scary as I first thought.


I love how the red & yellow is knitting up together. Now I am up to the bands and realised I don't have the right circular needle for them, so...I have started another one!!
This one is in 12ply Bendigo Woolen mills 'Rustic' & the colour is 'Midnight Tweed', it's a very nice wool to knit with and is knitting up quite quickly...only catch...I don't have the correct circs to do the body for this one...so...when I finish doing the bit on straight needles, I will just have to...


...start another one!!
Yes, I have ordered the needles I need and hopefully will have them this week.

On another subject completely now...
I made a new nappy for my tractor mad little boy the other day and took some pics.


Pity it needs a cover to go over it though...not to worry, I do have some John Deere fleece sitting here too waiting to be made into a cover, they'll make a good pair!
Look closely at the second photo and you can just see some of Hubby's model tractors in the cabinet behind!