http://nicsilvester.sweetestcondition.com Welcome to la-la-land Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:57:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A big thanks to Vicky and Adam for hosting my blog here, I have really appreciated it.  But it's finally time for my blog to have it's very own home.  And this also gives me a chance to merge my two blogs into one, so hopefully I'll be more likely ... http://nicsilvester.sweetestcondition.com/2010/01/03/moving-home/ I haven't had a lot of time for knitting and stitching this month, but I'm finally moving forward on the shawl again.  Since restarting the border I knitted 17 rows before I discovered I had to go back 6 rows (not fun) but I'm back up to 22 rows into ... http://nicsilvester.sweetestcondition.com/2009/08/25/moving-forward/ Ever get the feeling that you're just spinning your wheels?  The last two weeks have been like that for me. The rewrite of our data analysis program at work that I thought would just take a week has had me going round in circles.  I think I finally know what I ... http://nicsilvester.sweetestcondition.com/2009/08/06/spinning-wheels/ I just visited Vicky's blog and saw all the wonderful stash she had bought at the show.  Seeing all this reminded me of the International stitching and craft show in Cardiff later in the year - I originally found out about this show by some lovely guys with a fabric ... http://nicsilvester.sweetestcondition.com/2009/07/27/conspiracy/ Well those magic needles are doing their job, in just two weeks I've managed to finish the center of the shawl (and that is despite having to unknit and reknit over 30 rows).  I'm really quite proud of myself and now am psyching myself up to start the borders - ... http://nicsilvester.sweetestcondition.com/2009/07/20/knitting-up-a-storm/ I've started a lace knitting project for a friend.  She is due to have a baby in November and we are having her baby shower in mid September.  So I'm knitting a blanket/shawl.  It's a shetland lace project, one of the easier ones.  The lady who designed it said she ... http://nicsilvester.sweetestcondition.com/2009/07/05/shetland-lace/ The growing of my own veggies is going well.  Some of it is trial and error, but one of the plants that are going really well are the zucchinis (courgettes for some). I'm having a stack of fun doing this gardeing thing.  I've overgrown my tomatoes so they are taking longer ... http://nicsilvester.sweetestcondition.com/2009/07/05/gardening/ I give up. I just spent a verrrrry long time trying to fix the layout on the last post. Of course what shows up in the screen is nothing like the visual box of the editing screen, nor in any way resembles the html code I try to ... http://nicsilvester.sweetestcondition.com/2009/06/21/arrgggh/ Ok, so what have I been working on over the last 12 months?  Well there was a crocheted shawl for my Granny, which I of course forgot to take a photo of before I shipped it off.  Then there was the dino quilt that I posted of a few months ... http://nicsilvester.sweetestcondition.com/2009/06/21/lotsa-pics/ I've just come in to my blog for the first time in ages, and I've been looking back over the infrequent posting I've done.  It's been even worse than I thought.  There are some posts that apparently I just did in my head as there is no evidence of them ... http://nicsilvester.sweetestcondition.com/2009/06/21/wierd/