Dyeing, Drying and Tyeing!

Phew! What ahectic week its been! I didnt realise setting up anEtsy shop was so time consuming. apart from dying all the yarn and re-skeining some of it I've had to re-photograph alot of it as my pictues were crap! Rachel showed me a really long winded way of upuloading pictures via Abode , then saving them to my folder. These pictures were too big for Etsy so I loaded them onto photobucket, re-sized them, which took forever and then uploaded them to Etsy. I was on here for hours with my eyes whizzing round in my head!! Then one day last week i was playing and chose an new upload option via some 'wizard' or other, (Sam would collaps laughing at my technicallity!!). This wizard gizmo saved the piccies staright to a folder and then I uploaded them straight to etsy!! Grrrr Non of that faffing about! anyway heres some of my latest dying;

BFL -colourway-party purple

BFL-colourway Lagoon

Merino 2ply cobweb lace-Partypurple

BFL-Victoria Plum.

I just love this BFL. Its so soft. I'm looking forward to making some socks of my own out of it. When re-skeining I got some knots in this skein so decided I cant sell it- How sad!!!!

This is actually my fave colourway so far-cherry-choc.

As far as my own knitting goes Its going very slowly as I've been spending the time doing the Etsy stuff, then being too knackered to knit!

But heres my progress,

This odd looking thing will eventually be a cushion cover!!Its fiddly as you pick up stitches to make frills and picking up a straight row on black is really hard. Its all done in Rowan and has cost me a fortune and I have enough yarn fro 2 cushion covers so I'll plod on

Next my lace jacket from Beads Buttons and Lace. I've managed to sew half of it wrongly with the seam on the outside!!! so it needs unpicking. there is a lace border to knit all the way up along and down which will take forever!

And last but not least my Jaywalker socks in Noro Kureyon Sock.

I read a funny remark on another blog and I cant remeber who's!! As this yarn is rather scratchy the comment was 'It'll either soften up in the wash or exfoliate your feet as you walk!!' Which I found very apt and amusing.

FM

I've been up and down like a yo-yo. I've now used up all the energy I had last week dying and skeining etc and I'm exhausted. My legs are killing me and I've had to be pushed up the stairs again from behind like a stuborn mule litterally!!!

I spent all of yesterday in bed and am off up there again now. no dying or re-skeining this week. Not that my stuff is exactly selling at the mo. Isp'ose it takes time to build up a shop.

I'm annoyed though as I missed Rachels art night at school, the chance to see her GCSE exhibition and she was awarded a prize for outstanding acheivemnt in art.

I need to rest as this weekend is my best pals sons Barmitzvah so there are steps to climb in the synagogue, hard wooden benches to sit on and aluncheon to be got through!!

Last Satruday we went to another friends house warming afternoon tea. it was nice but when we got home I went straight to bed and stayed there till Sunday mroning!! I missed art and an aromatherapy massage yesterday as I couldnt walk. Grrr!!!!

We are officially the worlds worst parents!!!

the law according to Josh!!! he loves and addores his hair. its his pride and joy. He was asked to get it cut at school as its long and passed his collar so he asked hubby to trim it. Only hubby's trim was about 3 " off it! Well you should have heard the tantrum when he saw it. 'You've ruined my life, I'm going to kill myself. My hair's the most important thing in my life' on and on hysterical!!! he cried himself to sleep. he wouldnt get up fro school, he texted Norman at lunchtime saying every one was laughing at him and he refused to speak to either of us for 24 hrs, then he started grunting at me, but is only just about speaking to his dad now!!!!

We apologised. O.K we made a mistake we're not perfect! But the way he carried on you'd think we'd cut his leg off or something.

Rachel has finished her exams and is home. Am I getting any help? Not alot!! I said to her she had to help and normn is frazzled tying to cope with me, the house, the kids and work, so yesterday she ironed 3 t-shirts and that seems to be it.

Sam is home for the summer in true teenage grunting, snarling style!!! he's working, hating it as its 'boring' and mundane sow e all know about it. But its money and when you're a student you cant scoff at money. If he moved himself, got off his backside instead of waitng for us to hand things to him on a plate he might have secured something he enjoyed! Gawd kids!!!