Archie The Wonder Dog

In January I linked up with the Finish-A-Long (find my Q1 list  here ) and put three things on my list.  It's now time to link up again and declare my finishes, so here goes! 2. (I'm saving the first item on the list for later in the post 'cos it's the one you haven't seen!)   Finish my stumpwork anemone - prepare the detached petals and attach to the flower and then mount on a canvas block.   Finished !! Now living at my parents' house, in a cupboard, I think!! 3. Finish and block the mystery knitting.  ('Mystery' because I couldn't post a photo without spoiling a surprise.  Fortunately, Our Dear Leader is very accommodating and let me email her a secret photo, to prove the project had indeed been started.)   Here's Deb 's scarf, all finished ! 1. Finish joining my Marmalade hexies (generously donated by Leanne aka Our Dear Leader) and make into a cushion, inspired by this gorgeous cushion .  Finished! It does...

and a catch-up?!  I'm planning to drink at least two big cups of tea while I write this post (I've done more, and shared less, in January than I thought!) so if you fancy joining me then pull up a pew...there are biscuits, if you want one two!  (Garibaldi's at the moment, or Rich Tea if you're not a fly cemetery currant lover.)  Ready?  Then off we go... I can finally share one of my FAL objectives (item three: to finish some knitting) as it has been received by its lovely new owner and is settling in nicely! Here's the (awful!) photo I emailed to Leanne  (at the start of the quarter) of my third Umaro scarf (this time knitted in ' Stonewash '): And this is what I sent across the pond: All finished! I received a beautiful parcel from Deb, wrapped in the loveliest tissue paper I've ever seen.  Yes, of course I kept it! Not that I'm done with this knitting lark or even this pattern ( Umaro  from Brooklyn Tweed) - I've star...

...I've remembered that Thursdays are random! I have to confess that there's not much random in my life at the moment.  Or everything is so random that I no longer notice.  One of the two. My first random thing is this: Sorry about the wobbly camera - I was at the ready from three min utes out so I got rather tired and couldn't hold the camera still!!   Yes, my new washing machine plays a tune when it's finished the cycle.  It also plays a little tune when you switch it on and another when you switch it off.  It goes rather well with my telly that plays a tune when you take it off (and another when you put it on) stand-by.  How long before the tune gets on my wick rather than making me smile?!  I'm sure I have some more random somewhere *going off to look* Ah, yes, I knew I had some! I found this saucer (it cost £2) and the old crochet hooks in a local charity shop.  I needed a saucer to put under an orchi...

I think that last time I sort of promised a post within a few days...turned out I lied!  Not deliberately, of course, but it was a lie nonetheless *hanging head in shame* I have made some progress since then.  Not a lot, but progress is progress, even if it's snail-like!  (Not to sound like a squeaky wheel but I really am knackered at the moment, fortunately I'm well enough for crochet/knitting and The Big Bang Theory , but little else!) My Summersville squares went from this: Ten squares of Summersville  to this: 48 squares of Summersville and 49 squares of interfacing (I need to cut one more square of 'Town' but I'm waiting until I can lay them all out and see if I've missed any section of the design  - if not I'm going to make sure the square includes the library as that's my favourite building on there...at the moment, anyway! ) I cut my interfacing over the course of a few days and after the first day I realised t...