Gardening leave

Thought you might enjoy seeing some more photos from my recent "gardening leave" at the NEC.

I love the way the veg keeps appearing in the garden

contributions to the picnic - I loved the egg and cress sandwich

Look who appeared at Birmingham - Hilary was so touched by the comments that you'd left on this blog that she knitted another tortoise

Another donation made at Birmingham

Two new recruits for the garden - Jan and Mave , They started on making hanging baskets and trellis. My own contribution this time was far more modest - huge multi-green pompoms to use as filler in the bedding sections - I like to think they look like tufts of ornamental grass / small bushes etc

I'm slowly feeling more human after the bug. I managed to get to Liberty's on Thursday to meet up with some of the KCG group to start planning the stand for Ally Pally this year.

There's been a slight change in the decoration on the shelves and Christian (restaurant manager) said this was in our honour - tea cosies and yarn - I'd forgotten my camera but Amelia was on hand to catch an action shot of me having a good laugh over something so watch her blog for the photo.

On the knitting front - I packed 2 projects to take to the NEC - I forgot the pattern for the pink fuzz bolero and lost the needle for the Illusion project. So treated myself to 4 skeins of Bathed Recycled Sari Silk from Taj

I've been wanting to make the Raj Shawl (Fiddlesticks Knitting - every link I've tried to make has failed!) for a while so made good use of the travelling time and have now completed Chart 3. There's no point in photographing it at present as all you would see is a scrunched up fuzz. The bathed yarn is so much nicer to work with than the original and I don't mind paying the extra £1 per skein for the pleasure.

Today is the start of my first weekend at home for months, I plan to do normal things like shop for groceries, visit the library and check out the charity shops - there are a couple of good sources of vintages patterns and books in my local area and I'm becoming obsessed with finding different patterns for the garden.

Posted by Yvonne at April 8, 2006 09:46 AM