Oh yeah!

I also did up a pair of SpillyMitts. They are from the brilliant Spilly Jane. If you are on twitter, she is one to follow. SO interesting and funny. And her stories about her bird Pooky are a riot. She's based in Windsor and does the most amazing mitten patterns. These ones are done in Patons Classic Tweed. Quick, easy & warm on the bum arm.


I pulled out my swift last night and started winding the Elspeth Lavold Silky Wool to start on the Honeycomb vest. Two observations: 1, that you know you have real wool when every once in a while you need to pull out some nature detrius, and 2, there's a surprising amount of yarn in these skeins! That's how the designers get you - you fall in love with their incredible fibre, then find that there's only 100m on the skein, so you need to buy 300 skeins (okay, slight exaggeration) to make your project, and each skein is $12 each (not much of an exaggeration there at all).

This swift is hilarious. Well, not the swift, but the cat's reactions to it. Bronte sat on the coffee table like Snoopy being a vulture, watching it spin. I kept expecting her to pounce, but she got tired of waiting for something more exciting to happen, I guess, so she went off to Rosebud's bed for a nap.

Sulis sat under the piano with huge eyes, watching it spin. I took a break for a bit to have a snack, and she came over & started batting it with her paws. I tried to play with her by making it spin, but as soon as it started turning on its own she freaked and ran away. It was quite cute.