Making Marmalade

I recieved the best gift ever for Christmas , a preserving pot with all the accessories needed to make yummy preserves.
I plan to go foraging later in Spring/Summer so I can make LOADS of chutneys, jams, jellies etc...I have a group of people interested in going, all of whom know different places to go to get different fruits, berries and flowers:)
In the meantime I was sent an email from my friend reminding me it was marmalade season, seville oranges are only about for a few weeks so I started early so if any mistakes were made in the 1st batch I could try again. In fact in my case it took three time. Result, perfect marmalade (well perfect to me).

New recruits for the Shelf of Kool

I found this amazing 50's tea set in our local junk shop. I love it. I've seen random cups in this pattern before in other shops but never a full 6 piece set. It includes 6 cups, 6 saucers, 6 side plates a cake plate, a sugar bowl and a jug. The colours are fab I'm just glad I had enough room to fit it all on the shelf. I've ran out of room now though, I may need another shelf built:)

Valentine Monsters

Last Year for Valentine's Day I made these little His & Hers Valentine Monsters.
This year I'm making Valentine hearts, I plan to make them this week, watch this space.......................

Projects planned for the weekend...............

I have casted on for my blanket project and completed the first row all 96 stitches, it's a start:)
I found really kool polystyrene hearts in a craft store last Saturday so I plan to decorate them  by wrapping wool around them and some other trimmings I found. I reckon they will look kool on my wall.
It's Thursday already so only a day to go.
I love this doggie jumper.

Wooley Christmas pressie

I got this fab wool from my bestie friend Jill for Christmas. It's an amazing colour and really really soft. I now need to find something amazing to make with it. I'm thinking maybe a scarf??? I've been looking through ravelry for the perfect pattern.
                                           

1st project of 2010

I have decided the 1st project of the year will be a blanket. I bought wool for this project 6 months ago and then promptly forgot about it. I found it hard to get worsted wool in any of the local stores so I bought hand dyed wool online. I love strong colours so I choose an emerald green , dark grey and purple. It is for the back of our new charcoal grey sofa so I reckon it will work quite well. I found a pattern on ravelry for a chevron style blanket,see link;

http://library.ravelry.com/knittingnonstop/1461/Chevron_Blanket__knit_version_.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=1YZR91QYB6WCG3PM78G2&Expires=1263055278&Signature=Qf17kXF6cU7n7Z%2FER9%2BLBI9rCD8%3D

you have to be a ravelry member to access their patterns, so if you are not a member already sign up:)

Here is a sneak peak of one of the projects on ravelry, I love the colours of this particular one, it was made by HomicidalPrincess on ravelry.

The Black bird has landed!!

I got this in the post when I arrived home from my Christmas hols in Ireland.

Yay Thanks Thre you are the best sister EVER.

I brought it to work with me yesterday, we have had alot of snow so it was the perfect day to take some pics:)