Sunshine!

Spring

I just went for a little walk around a bit of the village and took my camera with me. It is a delight to see all the pretty spring flowers nodding their heads. The picture above is a link to an online album of all the shots shown in the contact sheet image.

I am knitting some beaded socks, I have started them three times, twice with some beads which looked awful on the yarn and then I went to my local bead shop in the village and he found me some really gorgeous ones at a fraction of the price of the proper knitting beads. I am really enjoying following the complicated chart. Each sock needs 168 beads threading onto the yarn before you start to knit. I found threading the beads on the most tedious of tasks. The first lot of beads went well on another yarn I have bought for another project and I thought of a way to transfer the beads from the wrong yarn to the right yarn. I used two of those tiny wire bead threaders with the collapsing eye, one on each of the yarn ends, I then twisted the two wire threaders together and slid the beads from one thread to the other, now I don't have to go through the rigmarole of counting and threading the beads on the other yarn. It is sitting patiently in my stash beautifully decorated with a string of beads, waiting for me to make it into another pair of beaded socks...oh well....time to get on with some more of the chart, I do so love a challenge. Doesn't time fly when you say to yourself, 'I'll just get to the end of this row'...then, 'I'll just complete this chart'...then 'I'll just turn this heel'....oh my, what's for dinner!!!!????