The adventures of 8518 and owner

Hello guys it is me again. The balance has been achieved Dulcie is back at the shop after her illness and she is looking so much better. Yeah!

I had the great delight of visiting my doctors surgery for some sort of eye thing to do with the annoyance that is Neuralgia. I always know that no matter what there will be a delay or I will arrive an hour too early so I took my knitting with me.
Boy was there a delay today, a man had to be put in an ambulance and taken to Southampton general and a small baby was really rather poorly so I waited and knitted my back ribbing. By the time that I actually went to see the doctor the stabbing pain in my eye had almost gone and it seemed a little pointless having somebody looking at me.

I know that knitting and crocheting have really good health benefits, and I truly believe that it helps with my pain management at the moment. There has been a lot of research into the benefits of knitting, crocheting and crafting done by Betsan Corkhill, she has written articles about it, recently she wrote in simply knitting about men knitting and in issue 4 of knit on the net http://www.knitonthenet.com/issue4/features/therapeuticknitting/
She also has a group called stitchlinks found at www.stitchlinks.com.
The most recent pain magazine also had an informative article on knitting.

My thought is that if it helps a little it is better than nothing now where are my needles I want to get my back panel finished.

Moira Ann x

Moira Ann's misfit knitting adventures

Good morning one and all....

Purlessence has received a bumper crop of rather lovely cotton double knitting yarns and knitting patterns. The first rather lovely yarn is Sirdar's Summer stripes, there is rather good yardage on all the cotton dk yarn and this one is no exception. There are very nice patterns available and I'm thinking long and hard about knitting 9422 in the lemony shades.

Of course being a rather fun loving larger lady there never seems to be patterns that particularly take my fancy. I have tried on many occasions to start a jumper or cardie, I knit the back and I normally get to about the cast off for arms part of the pattern hold it up and think whoa that is never gonna fit and rip the yarn back and make something exciting out of the rip back and left over balls of yarn.

This week I will be challenging this fear of all things knitting for myself and I have casted on a rather lovely  cotton DK yarn from the Classique range by Stylecraft. Thinking that Lime green yarn would make me stand out a little too much I have opted for Nocturne which would be classed by normal people as dark blue but I think it is more petrol blue. I'm really not too sure that my cardie will be finished in 8 balls of the wonder yarn I will have to wait and see.

Paula has cast on the same pattern but ever so slightly smaller in the lime green but using pearl by stylecraft.

Dulcie is feel a little under the weather so I hope that she will feel a whole lot better soon.

Signing off for now

Moira Ann x

Knit and natter,patterns and yarn.

The knit and natter days are fast becoming my favourite days, the groups have been going from strength to strength and I don't think it is just the knitting that keeps people coming back. Paula and Dulcie are the hostesses with the mostest always on hand to help and there is always an anecdote or two throughout the three hours.

On another note the WI have decided on their topic for the knitting competition in the new forest show, I do believe that it is wild and wacky "tea cosies" what fun. Dulcie has been searching out all the knitting pattern so we are ready for the onslaught  of WI tea cosies knitters. I'm thinking a lovely cow tea cosy might be the way to go but I'm sure there will be more designs of much better quality than the one in my imagination.

Nothing would be complete without yarny wooly stuff! At the moment I'm loving the Bamboo yarn in many different colours the stitch definition is superb and the rather lovely Lana grossa basic tiramisu print yarn that feels just like teddy bears.

There is a special offer on the small balls of pompon £1.50 a ball, the colours that we have are most the light pinks and blues.