Nanna says she enjoyed making the “free knitting and scrumbles shawl” that’s for sale at Kapiti Gallery.
She says she’s going to make one for herself now, in colours she loves and wears a lot. We’re guessing it will be blue…
But Nanna also says, If someone wanted to pay her a small fortune for it, she might sell it to them!
Nanna says she started knitting a jersey in colours to match her new trousers – and it got away on her! It’s long and striped and although it matches her “autumn” pants, she doesn’t often wear scarfs and might sell it instead.
We reckon it looks lovely and snuggly and warm and wiggly!
…and knitted a couple of new ones!
Nanna says she’s very happy someone bought her “Jump for Joy” jersey for their little kid and also some kids’ ugg boots.
We got beautiful yarn for Nanna for Christmas, and she’s nearly finished knitting a cardigan/jacket. The wool we got her is twisted blue and purple, and she’s knitting in some of the matching blue “for added interest”, she says.
We wonder what lucky little kid will get to wear it? Nanna says it’s probably too small for either of us, coz we’re big kids now.
Home again after a fortnight holidaying in the beautiful South Island. As we drove, in rental car, from Picton to Christchurch, then (after TranzAlpine train trip) from Greymouth via Haast and Wanaka to Dunedin, then Oamaru and back to Christchurch to fly home, some reflections on holidaying arose.
They begin with (1) at the bottom of the page, and end on the last day of our holiday at (6).
Some thoughts about traveling:
(6) Before telling airport check-in staff you know you’ve exceeded your suitcase’s weight restriction, check that the $2 shop bag scale is weighing in kilograms.
NB My suitcase did NOT weigh 35kg and only had two more items in it than when we left home (and I’m probably going to wear one of them on the plane.)
(5) The towels are skinnier than they used to be. Motels must get their linen from the same supplier, because although they’re very thick and white and long, the towels are not very wide. Unless you’re quite short, if you want to wrap the towel around yourself, you’ll have to decide which half of you you’re going to wrap! (BTW, I appreciated the motels which provided make-up remover wipes and mushroom coloured face cloth!)
(4) Another motel observation: in most motels, the bed is too soft and the pillows too hard. Curious.
(3) Why do motels have a single switch for the light and fan, and why is the fan so damn loud? Especially in the middle of the night.
(2) South Island roads are great, and well signposted. You can drive for miles and miles at 100kph. You need to take the “slower around corners” warnings seriously, however. The speed limit before towns is sensibly graded down to 80 then 60 then 50 kph, rather than suddenly halved from 100 to 50.
(1) You’ll enjoy your holiday better if you don’t keep a count of roadkill.
Nanna says she’s scrumbling again. She’s joined the scrumbles together. She says it’s going to be a shawl. She plans to put it in an exhibition.
It looks very warm!
We wonder who will buy it?
PS At the top of the first picture is a kind of scrumble flower bag Nanna made a while ago.
Nanna is still knitting for us, even though we’re far away now.
Little Brother and Big Brother have moved to their dad’s hometown in South Korea. It’s a long way from New Zealand!
Little Brother is wearing his stripy jersey already, and Nanna says she’ll send a Big Brother’s soon. She says it’s fully reversible – that means you can wear it back-to-front! (감사합니다 – gamsahamnida – Nanna!)
Now they’re done, Nanna says she’s going to keep on with the scrumbles she started last year.
Nanna says she’s knitting as quick as she can, to get jerseys finished for Little Brother and Big Brother. Mummy asked her to knit for us, becsuse we are going to South Korea for a while, and we will arrive in winter!
Here’s Little Brother’s jersey so far:
Nanna says she’s really enjoying “free knitting”! These are her scrumbles so far.
She thinks they’re getting away on her…
Nanna says she’s just finished a “summer beach / winter weight” scarf.
There’s a matching necklace you might want to buy to wear with it.
Nanna says they’ll be on felt.com soon.
Nanna’s knitted a LOT OF HATS but they’re not for Little Brother – who doesn’t like hats, anyway – or for Big Brother who already has a snuggly purple hat.
The hats Nanna’s been knitting are to give away to kids who don’t have a Nanna or Mum who knits for them; or who need to stay at someone else’s place and don’t have time to take their clothes (Foster Hope). We’re lucky coz we’ve got lots of clothes at home and some at Nanna’s house, too.
So, can you guess what Nanna’s been knitting just now?
Here’s an idea: Nanna says it’s similar to – that means, kind of like – another one she knitted, but this one’s smaller. We’ll show you:
It’s going to be a hoodie!
It’s a bit like the tunic Nanna’s finished, that’s ready to buy:
Nanna just finished this jersey. It’s made from hand spun wool she got from a knitting group friend, with some shop bought wool for contrast. She knit it in funny squares and rib patterns, with a V neck.
Then she needed a model. Big Brother didn’t want to put the jersey on, and Little Brother’s too little for it.
“Come on, Big Brother, please!” she said. “No!” said stroppy Big Brother. “No!” echoed copycat Little Brother.
Guess what? She bribed him! Big Brother tried on the jersey, and Nanna took several photos of him, looking sultry like a “real” model, as well as smiling and posing. And she gave him a lolly!
When he’d eaten his lolly (and Little Brother had one, too), he shrugged off the jersey and checked it on the sofa. Nanna said, if he liked the jersey he could have it. But he said, “No thanks”.
So now the jersey is for sale.
Maybe your little kid or grandkid would like it?
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