Knitting is the new drawing

My First Scarf!

I have been absent from my blog recently for several different reasons ... one of them is my rediscovered love of knitting :-) I'd been thinking for yonks that I should get my Grandma to give me a refresher course (she taught me when I was a nipper) so I managed to visit her last time I was 'down south' and after a 30 minute tutorial session I was away. 3 weeks later and I have drawn almost nothing but I am on my second ball of wool and more than half way towards finishing my first scarf. And it turns out that I work with a keen knitter who goes to a knitting group who meet once a month in the Starbucks above the Borders bookshop in York! I couldn't be more excited with my new skill and although it means I am slightly distracted from my drawing it's lovely and relaxing and addictive and, above all, creative which means I don't feel guilty that I'm neglecting my sketchpad a little.

Don't tell me you're not jealous ...

Polka Dot Folly & Angelica

At 31 and child-free it could be argued that I'm a little old to be buying a £40 children's polka dot teepee from Habitat (search for tent) but all I can say in my defence is that I've wanted one ever since I saw the one they were selling last year ... and it makes me smile whenever I look at it :-) I now have to work out how to make it comfortable enough inside for me to spend more than 30 mins in it at a time ... methinks that some kind of beanbag chair would be just the thing. Ooh did I mention that it's reversible (although you can see the polka dots showing through) and there are nine pockets on the inside and outside for me to slip my essential sitting in a tent belongings into :-) ... happy, happy, joy, joy :-)