Friday, August 25, 2006

Buttons and Gloves

I seem to have lost my camera cable. It's probably lurking in one of my boxes of office stuff but I can't find it anywhere, so I can't show you the photos of the fabulous chocolate cake we made for Sarah's birthday. Happy Birthday Sarah.
(Yey! Found another cable that works)
Sarah's Cake
We all went out for a curry at the Nila Palace (our favourite curry place) last night to celebrate. It was probably Jonny's last curry there before moving to America and one of the staff ran out after him, opened our taxi door and presented him with a Bangala glass to remember them by. He has been a very good customer over the years. Here he is displaying it in the taxi (sorry for rubbish camera phone pics).
Jonny


Yesterday lunchtime I headed into town on various missions. I bought myself a selection of buttons, some for the bear cardi, a couple for the flaps on the gloves and some to make cardigan number three from a few posts previous.
Buttons from Button Boutique
I also got some brown wool to sew the bear's faces and because it seemed such a shame to only buy one ball of which I would use a tiny amount, I bought three, so I could make something proper (oops).
DB Baby Alpaca

And just because I feel like I should show some actual knitting. Here's one of my finished Broadstreet Mittens.
Left Hand Glove With Flap DeployedLeft Hand Glove (front)

5 comments:

Lucy said...

Number 3 was my fave!
I've never seen that baby alpaca DK before.
Love the Glove- was that sock yarn?
Yorkshire Tea Party is one of the best blog titles I've seen!

Anonymous said...

I made some socks in that very yarn! I never blogged them though..... Your mittens wil ast a very long time - that yarn is really hard wearing.

The Knit Nurse said...

It's Regia 6 ply. Clearly great minds thing alike.

Yorkshire Tea Party was my idea. Not that I am smug or anything. I rarely come up with names for stuff so I am proud of this one (I didn't come up with recycling sheep).

Sarah Lowes said...

The mitten/glove looks great. It makes me want to investigate 6ply more closely as I have a scarf pattern that uses it.

PURLPOWER said...

Wow, the mitten-gloves look well cool!