Seriously, I could teach dance

17 March 2006

Last video, my dears – at least, it’s the last clip from the recording we did a little while ago. This one was edited by the Lord John Almighty, cameraman and editing wizard. There’s a short bit you’ve already seen, but you’re strong people, I know you can take it.

Dance on Vimeo

The wool turned up yesterday, both from ebay and the online shop. I’m now in a quandary about leaving feedback for the ebay seller. Negative is too mean, but the wool did turn up smelling a bit smokey and one ball wasn’t the colour the auction had offered, although this was mutually agreed after the auction ended and before I paid.

So now I have a ball of plum mix and a dark blue mix. You can see the swatches for both here – numbers 1934 and 1951. The third ball of wool is a green so vibrant that it’s like Superman threw up a barrel load of Kryptonite in here. I can’t get a picture of it that does it true justice. It’s as if Nikon doesn’t accept that anything can be that horrific in colour.

Guess which wool I’ve started using first…

Anyway, while waiting for my wools to arrive, I completed another toddler hat. Behold its delightfulness:

It’s a little small again, but it’ll fit a toddler. In playing around with the pattern, I even made up my own double moss stitch: knit 2, purl 2, purl your knits and knit your purls. It makes a soft and squishy rib. The main body of the hat is just stocking stitch, with a strand of yellow and a strand of green.

Mum has also finished her jumper for the Dulaan project. Now she’s onto making a hat in bootiful red wool. We’ll send a package of heavier items (tabards, blanket and jumper) to the Dulaan people via surface mail at the weekend. Then the lighter hats and scarves can go via airmail nearer the deadline.