Passing on The Past Time!

Since I moved here in October(and actually for several months before hand) I kept telling Ryan, “I’m going to get you knitting” or whenever he’d laugh at my knitting craziness “just wait till your start knitting, who will be laughing then?” Well that day has come! I knew he would be keen to knit seeing as he already sews and embroiders, and comes from a long family of fibery crafters. His Grandma used to spin wool for socks which she knit for the whole family. Now there was one small hitch in this plan, I knit funny. There I said it I knit funny, actually backwards to be completely honest. Now since i have knit like this for over 16 years I have learned to adapt patterns and knowing lace and such is going to be backwards but it was hard at first, so I didn’t want to teach anyone else an odd way of knitting. So I waited patiently for a time when he wanted to goto my Monday night knitting group with me. Well last Monday was the day, and he took to it like a fish to water!

So now he has had to deal with me chasing him around the (very small)house with my camera, urging him to let me take a picture while he knits. As you can see I prevailed and he pulled faces! It’s all very interesting having a hobby that you can do with your partner, I really enjoy it. I can’t even begin to tell you how wonderful it is to sit next to your partner on the (way to small)couch and both knit while watching The Simpsons(even if it means that our elbows are constantly hitting each other).

In other news I treated myself to a new blog theme in response to upgrading my wordpress to 2.5, which I’m really liking. They have fixed a lot of the bugs and issues that really bothered me before. They also made it easier to upload your pictures to your actual server and blog post. The old way was just so frustrating at times that I often found myself either not blogging , or choosing to use flickr(which is just bad practice). The theme isn’t perfect and you will probably see some change in the near future, but I’m getting there.

I want to do a tutorial within the next week about steeks, seeing as everyone seems to be really panicy about them.. so keep your eye’s peeled out for that.

I leave you now with this final picture of Ryan. This was after several pictures and he kept screwing up due to ya know a flash in his eyes, and  me moving around him like the paparazzi at  The Beverly Hills plastic surgery clinic!

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