and wham!!! 2 weeks have passed

Seriously, I blinked and missed 'em! ;)

My beautiful cousin was here for a couple of days - all the way up from Devon so she could visit the Chelsea Flower show. She stayed here two nights, coming up after work one day, going to Chelsea the next, and then driving home the third day. It was wonderful to spend a little time in the evenings chatting whilst sitting on my deck under my beautiful fairy lights. Listening to the hens clucking themselves to sleep. I feel very lucky that I come from such an awesome family. We don't get to see each other all that often as we are spread far and wide, but it never affects our relationships, we are as close now as we were when we were children.  It's interesting to see those personality traits that obviously come from genetics rather than background!! (misplaced your keys lately anyone?!)  Anyway, it was an honour to be able to help her meet her Chelsea dream, I hope we get to do it again one year.

In other news........ I've been knitting, and working hard on the Crafters' Barn (the new site, so I won't link)  It's coming along swimmingly and I've got someone in to do the T&C's now as well, so I'm beginning to see light at the end of the tunnel.  It feels it's been a long time coming, but it's been such a dream of mine to offer this website to all small business crafters out there.  Won't be long folks!

I have loads of knitting to do too. Laika is finished and it's beautiful, but it needs buttons so I'm not showing it until it's done (despite the fact that it's been worn several times already)  I'm now knitting some men's socks for a client, just plain vanilla type gardening socks.  Nice summer knitting really, quite mindless and not lots of heavy yarn sitting in your lap!

So a photoless post, that's not good is it??????

Spo-oht?!

She's always happy to oblige ;)

Quick Getaway - West bay, Bridport

The wonderful MrNoo took me away for a few days last week to celebrate my birthday (or to run away from it depending on your outlook!)  We spent 2 nights at West Bay, Bridport in Dorset.

We drove down on Tuesday leaving home at 8:30 to make the most of the day, and ambled through the New Forest and then along the coast.  We stopped in Weymouth for breakfast and then poodled along the coast road from there, looking out over the deep blue sea, and checking out the infamous Chesil beach from the vantage points along the road.  We stopped not long before our destination when we saw a little car park with a walk leading down to the beach, and lots of dogs about, so decided to walk Spot as she'd spent a few hours in the back of the car by then.  We walked down, played on the shingle, and then decided to walk westward for a while, along the coast path, just to get the lay of the land. - After about half an hour, we came across this:

A little oasis!!!  Luckily MrNoo had a few quid in his pocket so we popped in for tea!  It was well set out, with plenty of dog bowls outside with water which was great - although the sky is blue, it was pretty chilly so really it was only dog walkers who were there!

Anyway form there we drove on to the hotel and checked in, walked along the pier/harbour wall, (it was windy - but I still got a sun-burnt nose!)

looked at the view, and then decided to drive out further westwards for the evening.  We checked out Lyme Regis, Seaton, and Sidmouth, and ended up having a very respectable curry in Sidmouth.

My birthday was on Wednesday, so we firstly headed to Bridport for the market, didn't buy anything, but it was OhSoNice to walk around shops and stalls that weren't all clothes and cosmetics (I'm not much into either!)  We meandered around the vintage stalls, and admired the bakeries, and oohed and ahed at a Butcher's window (there aren't many butchers round here- we lost them all to Sainburys years ago,  a particular bug bear of mine)  It's the simple things isn't it?!

After that we headed to Portland to look out across the view

 and after a quick cup of tea we headed back as I had decided I'd like to go back to the beach restaurant for lunch as I'd noticed they had an amazing fish menu, so back we trundled - dog in tow.  .  I had the most incredible crab salad, (I have a bit of an issue with shell fish that it doesn't always like me, but decided it was worth the risk, and i was soooooo right!)

As we were eating the weather turned cold, so for the afternoon we drove to Exeter to placate MrNoo by visiting  a shop he had wanted to go to.......... I'm nothing if not accommodating! ;)

The rest of the day and evening were spent moseying along the coast, taking photos, pulling in to layby's to watch Buzzards hunting, and watching all manner of wildlife through some rather awesome binoculars.  I saw my first ever yellowhammer!  As the evening drew on the wildlife got better and better - foxes, a hare, rabbits, we sat for ages watching all sorts!

The last day rained :(   So we drove home the scenic route - along the coast past Weymouth to Swanage, Poole, Bournemouth Christchurch and then up through the New Forest to home.

We had banned mobile phones and internet access between us as we both have a tendency to get side tracked (OK more me than he!), and it was a really good call. The 3 days felt like longer, and we both had a really restful and peaceful time.

Now I'm back with loads of knitting to do, and ready to start work on the Crafters'Barn website again, as the last web developer disappeared on me (that might be a post for another time!)

Missing a party (or 6)

...... a lot of my family are on the Isle of Bute at the annual jazz festival. For numerous reasons I'm not there.  I have (hopefully) chicks hatching on Monday (although in truth I'm not expecting much)  I have a new website which is supposed to be Beta testing from today - although apparently I'm supposed to be able to retrieve the details of where it's held and how to get into it by psychic ability as I haven't heard from my webguy since 2pm when he told me he was uploading it? I'm also being taken away for two nights in a couple of weeks for my birthday (oooooh yes!) and we are going to Dove Holes jazz festival instead anyway. So I shouldn't complain really (and I'm not exactly.....sort of...... much)

But all of that doesn't make me feel a bit like i'm missing a party (oh hell yeah, I AM missing a party - in fact 3 a day and one or two all nighters probably)  So I am planning a weekend of crafting to make up for it. (Assuming I don't  attain the web beta login details by some form of  supernatural/clairvoyant brain surge).  I had ordered yarn to try to make this on the machine, but it hasn't arrived (I left it late, I knew it was unlikely - this is down to me mostly not having known what day it has been for much of the week).  But I am already handknitting Laika as I showed the other day, and I've done the body and 3/4 of one sleeve, so I reckon it's totally possible to finish at least the lace work over the long weekend, 1 1/4 sleeves and a hood, how hard can it be? (in 4 ply!). Especially now I have my yarn bras so don't have to chase 2 balls of yarn all over the place. (Have I told you how flippin' awesome they are? - no?  well that's all you need to know, they're flippin awesome!), or pick dog hair off them (you really don't want to know!)

So that's me for the weekend. A new audible audiobook will be chosen with great care (as much for length as for content as it has to last 3 non working days!), and I will settle in my newtome chair: (which has been cleaned since I got it and took this photo) and I will knit and watch the birds in the garden and cuddle spot and probably put a little TJ Johnson on the Ipod and whilst my family are there jiving away to the real McCoy, I'll be swinging my own little party here.... and loving every minute!

Responsibility of Words?

I really don't have time to write this blogpost, but I like words, I like our language, it's rich and varied and intense and full bodied...... I've just complained about something, and wonder if it's just me and I've over-reacted etc etc


Because my house, despite being on a main road, seems to be in a DrWho like vortex that doesn't exist for anyone except me and my neighbour (seriously don't ever send anything to me by courier...... even new post men take a while to get us sorted)..... anyway, because of that, I don't get the local freebie newspapers. So i subscribe to their twitter feed and read up quickly on any local news that I'm interested as it's published. The feed is quite good it seems to tweet the link to most major stories throughout the day.

This morning there was one that read "Motorcyclist dead after collision with lorry"   To the point I suppose, but I took objection to the headline in that I found it crass and harsh in terms of words.  I thought "Fatal Accident involving motorcyclist".... might have been gentler.?  I tweeted the paper and aired my views. I thought particularly as this accident had happened only this morning, (5:30am) the words were a little too "vulgar".  I assume next of kin have been informed by now, but death involves so many more people than that don't you think? Friends, work colleagues, drinking buddies, riding buddies.......

There is no name in the news article....... so, even more so, anyone who knows anyone who rides a motorbike along the road in question is going to be worrying and panicking.  Now I know that changing "Dead" to "Fatal" isn't going to change anything, it isn't going to bring anyone back, and it isn't going to help in any way shape or form...... but isn't there a certain responsibility to be gentle about these things? Isn't there a certain respect that's due to these kind of accidents and circumstances? Can the media not be a little bit kinder with their wording?

Or is it me? is it a case of the least number of characters to a headline, and getting the point across is the only important issue? Perhaps i have got middle-aged and grumpy, and i yearn for just a touch more delicacy in our vocabulary, and discretion in our choice of words?

They changed the headline after my mini complaint to "Motorcyclist Killed......" It doesn't seem a lot better to me, but at least they took the point on board i guess.

New Knitting - for meeeeee!

I bought yarn last year at Knitnation, to make Laika, and never quite got round to it.  Finally I have found time to get it under way, and I love it!  The yarn is Yarn Yard Twistle  (From TheYarnYard)

That's not a great photo because it's raining epically today, and this is the best my little phone camera could do given the lack of light - It's going to be wonderful though, and I love it already

Sometimes a downside.....

So, the downside to acquiring all those wonderful pots, planter, and bed that I wrote about here, was this:

3 tonnes of topsoil that needed to be moved from outside my garden, to inside my beds.  Boy do I ache today!

In other news I've just this minute received some new sunglasses from Spex4less.com  Very impressive service.  I just wanted a cheap pair of prescription sunglasses to wear when I haven't got my contacts in. I wear contacts a lot in the summer so generally just wear plain sunnies, but now and again for whatever reason I don't have them in, and this was an idea solution. Prescription sunglasses for £27 incl delivery.  In case you're interested, I went for these ones - Here. (They've gone up a bit since obviously, but there are offers and voucher codes around the site. Given that they are sunnies, I could probably have done with a deeper lens, but they're perfect for me, and I'm not the most careful person with my glasses so it's not worth spending a fortune on the, (1 dog, 8 hens and 2 cockerels do not bode well for glasses!) If they last the summer I'll be happy! *rolls eyes*

It's been raining (finally) this week, so not much else to tell you. I do have 2 finished objects to photograph and show but they're not "quite" ready yet! ;)

'Til soon xx

Ipad apps for Knitters, Sewers, Crafters and generally just good ones!

So I have noticed that a good few people seem to have acquired Ipads in the past few months in my crafting circle of friends.  I've had mine since Feb I think, there or thereabouts anyway, and one thing I've noticed is that finding apps isn't really as easy as you'd like it to be..... I mean there are hundreds of thousands, but how do you find the "one"  That one that is brilliant, the one that turns your ipad from an internet surfing gadget to an awesome and irreplaceable tool........ Well, to my mind the best way with these things is always to share information. So I'm going to write here the few apps that I couldn't be without, and hopefully other pad users will add their favourites in the comments, or will blog and add a link to their blog posts in the comments - either/or! ;)

Right, my first crafting love is knitting and yarn craft. I am a little fickle and do love plenty of other crafts but generally knitting and crochet are what I always have on the go.


KnitCompanion:

My favourite app of the moment is definitely KnitCompanion.  <<That link is to the website, if you want to go straight to the app it's here   The full version isn't free, in fact it's quite pricey as apps go (GBP 10.99), BUT there is a free version complete with 5 patterns included which you can use and knit to learn the app and see if you like it.  If you then want to use it to use other PDF patterns you need to buy the full version.  This is a brilliant idea because it's quite a complex app, and I don't think I would ever have bothered buying it..... but I knitted Haruni from it and was sold.  I have to say I don't think it would be for everyone. You need to set up your patterns, and there's a bit of faffing which you don't have if you just print the darn thing out.... but oh! it's so graceful to be able to pluck out your Ipad with your latest project pdf on it and know exactly what row of what chart you are on.  Knitcompanion recognises charts (well you tell it where they are) and you can then use row counters and stitchcounters..... it's all just so effortless to keep up.

I used to use Goodreader (another very good app) which opens PDF's and allows you to annotate them, so I'd open a pattern and draw lines across the chart as I completed each row.... but it's cumbersome and a little bit of a nuisance, and because of that you get complacent and don't always mark off your rows, and there my friend, is where disaster lurks (believe me!)

Knit companion just has a click button which advances up the rows on the chart and highlights the one you are on...... so easy. The most you have to do is turn off the auto lock feature! ;-o

If you are considering getting Knitcompanion, don't wade straight in and buy it, download the app from the website and knit one of the included projects - even if you don't want one! Only then will you know if this app is for you. It's expensive for apps, but is still less than most skeins of sock yarn (and we all have plenty of those don't we ?) and if it suits your geek style, it will be worth every penny!

Goodreader:

Goodreader is mostly a PDF opening type app! But it's cleverer than that in that you can make an "annotated copy" of your PDF's and scrawl all over them! There's a toolbar which includes icons for lines, text, bubbles, footnotes and all other manner of making far too many notes on a pattern! You can open your patterns from Dropbox, and link directly to your Ravelry library (see the iphone group on Rav for details - the post is stickied here) .  Good reader has some great abilities and can't be beaten for PDF's of garments where you want to ring sizes and note how many rows got you from A to B etc..... but I found it unwieldy for charts.

Above is just a bit of nonsense i scribbled over for the fun of it!  It certainly has it's uses, but I don't think it's a one app fits all kind of scenario (but then I probably don't really with Knitcompanion either) In a perfect world - you'd have both!  One thing I have noticed is that in a non-crafting world (I know it - it rarely exists, but what can I say - once in a while.........) I do almost always use Goodreader as my go-to Open-with app when I'm looking at PDF's in safari on the pad.

DropBox:
Where would us knitters be without Dropbox? 2GB of free space to store all your knitting patterns in the cloud so that when you're out and about and happen across a yarn store, you have you pattern and requirements to hand (assuming some form of signal)  Yes, you could surf to Ravelry on the net, and sometimes i do..... but i love Dropbox for having everything i really need just where I really need it (i.e. everywhere!) Yes, I did orginally sign up for it for work, but heck...... kniting pattern storage is just so much more important. And, as well as easy access....... they're safe from hard drive failures and all sorts of other natural tech disasters.  Dropbox has an app of it's own, but more importantly so many of the other file access apps have built in Dropbox support. - Can't beat it!

KnitCounter Lite:
Simple row counter - free - touch the screen and it incrememnts the row number. Easy! You can set it to remind you for increases/decreases etc too which is clever. There is a paid version, but for a good old row counter for plain and simple things like vanilla socks, you can't beat this.

Zite:
Zite is a sort of personalised magazine. Not particularly crafty in essence, but once you tell it to find you articles on Knitting, Sewing, Crafts, Crochet....... well then it becomes obsessive a very useful inspirational tool (if anyone has any other good categories that work - comment away!)

Safari:
nope not an app, just a good old fashioned internet browser that comes on the Pad, and you know what? - It's great. Fast, easy, reliable. Sometimes we get hung up on wanting apps for everything (did I hear you ask for a Ravelry app? - no, there isn't one!) but why? OK if they have added functionality, then great, but often all the info we need is sitting right there on the web, and on the Ipad it's easy to see and read, even for my poor old eyesight. Surfing is as good on the pad as it is on anything else, and sometimes even better!


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I do have some quilting apps, but to be honest they're not hugely worth the mention, nothing overly amazing. I don't have any other sewing (non-quilting) apps, and I don't seem to have any specifically crochet apps, although all the above would apply to all crafts really.  In non-crafting terms, I like flipboard for reading blogs when i haven't got around to them on my laptop. - It imports them from google reader so no need to set them up again.

For twitter content I use Echofon, just because it's simple and does exactly what I need it to do, and I'm used to it now!! I hate the facebook app, and usually just surf there in safari. The app hasn't updated to use timelines so half the information is missing, and it doesn't seem to auto refresh. Just rubbish really!!

I use a sweet little app call Signature to put a nice signature on my outgoing emails (instead of that awful "sent from my Ipad" )

Noo's Knits Bespoke handknitting service

In my signature these are all clickable buttons to follow me or find me in their respective platforms. (Strangely i can't find that app to link to?, but there are loads of others which I am sure are just as good) ** well look at that they're clickable in this post too - how clever!

TBH, those are the most often used apps. Well plus eBay of course, and a paypal calculator that tells you how much to sell something for if you want to make sure you receive a particular amount. and a Royal mail calculator which I hope will be updated with the new rates when the time comes. 

And finally there's words with friends - which I only play with my sister cos it interrupts knitting time! ;)

Right, I have just seen the time and nearly had a fit, i've been here 2 hours and the dog's not even fed yet. So this will have to do for now. Feel free to tell me your favourites below, or maybe do a similar post and link to it in the comments? It's always fun to hear what others are using

Making Monday - a List! ;)

n at The Yarn Yard publishes making monday posts.  I rarely seem to "make" on quite the right day - or at least I never get round to blogging about it. And to be fair today will be much the same. I will be making - I will be making a final sleeve for a jumper. (Well I hope i will be making it cos I've completely screwed up picking up the stitches from the provisional cast on - I must have had someone else's eyes in last night!) Anyway, I will be making that. But in the meantime i thought I'd make a list of things I want to blog about in the near future because when I come to writing I feel I'm a bit repetitive (knitting, dog, chickens, garden, chicken, knitting, dog!) and I never remember the thing I was going to write.

So Making Monday's List!

Blog Posts of the future

• Good Ipad apps for knitters/sewers/crafters etc. (a few people seem to have acquired them lately and I thought it would be good to pool resources!)
• (Maybe a separate post of Iphone apps?)
• Reveiw of some winter waterproof trousers I bought
• Hopefully some thoughts on re-covering a sun lounger cushion (mouse damage!), because I can't find any anywhere, although if anyone has any ideas i'd be chuffed to hear them!
• Free listing giveaway for the Crafters Barn when the site is live. 

That should see me through the next month or so, but feel free to comment if there's something you think I should say.
And just for n (cos she showed us hers!), here is a photo of my daytime knitting spot: - It's in the corner of my conservatory, next to the windowsill (for good light, and somewhere to put my scissors/needle/glasses/coffee/ipod) and it looks out onto my garden:

Have a great bank holiday Monday everyone,
'Til soon x

It's been warm this week (pic heavy)

It's been a sunny week here in my little corner of the UK, at the beginning of the week not a single blossom was awake on the plum tree, but look at it now! We've had several days of over 20deg C, and it's been great to get out in the garden a bit early and get a head start on some chores.

MrNoo has been busy making stuff:

A sweet pea trough for the side of my shed (shame he didn't forewarn me so I could repaint it first, but never mind, no one will know when it's covered in sweet peas!)

A three tiered strawberry planter.

A top for an old table that was ruined.

Various raised veg beds ......

and planters......

...


and trellis of all shapes and sizes











And he's terribly excited because with one more tiny little stretch of their arms......

   The peas will reach their support fence.



















Meanwhile, the chooks have just looked on in amazement at the activity:

Excuse the fuzzy mesh in that last one but i wasn't going in with him and a camera, you don't enter the run of this man without paying full attention to him otherwise you're likely to end up in hospital! LOL)

Of course there has been knitting, crocheting and machine knitting, but I'll save that for another day!

Fixing the sun (umbrella)

The mice in my greenhouse have had an excellent winter. As I haven't had chickens for a few months they took the opportunity of unmonitored supplies and bedded in my straw bale and ate through my bag of corn (that was fun when I picked it up..... Not!). And they demolished a small portion of my patio umbrella. Well yah boo sucks to them, I win!

New Silkie hens and a few finished objects

So last time i spoke to you I was entrenched in an instruction manual. Well this is the result so far.

Möbius cowl Machine Knit in pure Alpaca with a basic tuck stitch. It will be available for sale in Noo's Knits in  the Crafters' Barn when I get around to uploading it there ! :)

My Finished Items page (see link at the top under Spots photo) has been updated with a few of my latest knits too for those that don't want to trawl through all my rambling posts (and I can't blame you!)

In other news:  Noo's House is now complete again after last year's fox attack.  It's been hard getting Silkies but finally we found some, although I'm not quite sure how one lost White Silkie hen has been replaced with 2 hens and a cockerel! You'd have to ask MrNoo how that happened.  They're gorgeous tho' and settling already.  I'll leave you with these few photos, I'm off for a dog walk ! :

Me, and instruction book and a LOT of coffee

Oopsey over a week since i posted. Time does fly doesn't it?

I have had dreadful toothache this week so feeling a little below par. Luckily dentist has found a broken tooth and I'm booked in for filling it next Wednesday morning. So the end is in sight for that particular problem.

The grass has had the first cut of the year (and lovely it looks too) and the hens are all beginning to lay. I am getting 2 or 3 a day now out of 6 hens, so either all of them are doing it some of the time, or some of them are doing it all of the time.  Whichever the case, they clearly think it's spring!

Knitting is, as always keeping me sane. I'm making a jumper for a client. No pics because I've only taken a couple on my phone and they don't look as good as they should. But it's coming along nicely and the body is just about done. Bottom up raglan (was going to be top down, but I couldn't place the motifs properly - clearly one stage too far for my brain!)

And in somewhat related news, yesterday I bought a knitting machine.  A brother KH836 and accompanying ribber.  It is 2nd hand but from a dealer so has been thoroughly serviced and is guaranteed.  It's a punchcard machine so has a little "growing" room for me, but was recommended as a good beginners machine.  The ribber and other accessories that I might will get will all fit more advanced brother models so all is good. Brother don't actually make machines any more, but there are plenty in the market place and I was assured that even if parts become scarce there are enough old non-working machines to strip and "cannibalise" so it shouldn't be a problem in the nearish future.

So, I've been scouring ravelry and the internet for information and patterns. I used to use a machine in my teen years, and was pretty adept at it. But now, of course, there is just sooo much more information out there to be read. It's wonderful.

So today, my plan is to run around with the hoover, dust a little in the middle (not round the edges!) and then sit with the instruction book, a notebook and a big mug of coffee

Spring

I've worked on the VAT return for job1 today and it took ages. I filed it online at17:03 and left straight away to take Spot for an evening walk........

Totally worth it!

Perfect Sunday ....(and what I has been up to!)

So here am I, sitting in the garden, with my laptop on my lap! I can't see a thing on the screen, but I'm hoping to get the gist of a blog down, and correct it later (or maybe just leave it for the heck of it!)  The weather is fabulous, a spring chill in the air, but warm enough to be sitting out in just a cardi and track suit bottoms (Sundays are for slobbing a little aren't the?) Spot is at my side

(and just as I typed that she got up and moved! LOL - she sooooo has to have the last word) and I'm noticing that it won't be long before i have to start mowing the lawn.  I can see a robin sitting on the edge of my incinerator (mostly used for red-mite infested bedding! - sigh) and the church bell is tolling 2 o'clock. I also started (well started isn't quite right as it was 11 o'clock) but I "started" my Sunday with the most perfect brunch courtesy of Attic24, and her recently posted instructions on how to poach an egg.  As a chicken keeper i do love a poached egg on toast, and mine often come out ok, but sometimes really don't, Turns out I had all the right ingredients (water, eggs, vinegar) but in slightly the wrong ratios. - Poached eggs on toasted homemade seed bread is a good way to start a Sunday:- All pretty awesome eh?

So, the week has been pretty busy. Started on Monday with a trip up to the NEC to the CHSI trade show. (as per my last blog post!) Not much for a small trader to be able to get as all the minimum order values were really quite high, but it was good to look around and see what is available, and how the coming seasons are being interpreted.  And the feedback from the magazines was really encouraging about the Crafters' Barn, so that made me feel good about that too. (it's always so scary thinking about starting a business and then realising how much it's going to cost - It makes it a bit easier when other people think it's a good idea too!

On Tuesday, i went to visit Bruce at SKD to get some yarn for my latest commission. This is something that has been on my order books for a while but I haven't been able to source good yarn for it, as it needed to be super-bulky, specific colours, and non-itchy! Not much of a task then?! Luckily Bruce and Birgitte have just started with a new range of yarns from Sandnes-Garn and their Easy Merino fit the bill perfectly.  I decided to drive over and see SKD though as it saved on postage and meant I could have a bit of a squish of some of the rest of their range. (Who can honestly resist the opportunity to squish??!) - I also came home with 2 balls of Alfa, and 2 balls of Kashmir/Alpaca - just for research *ahem* (The kashmir/alpaca is soooooo soft and lovely, I couldn't stop picking it up and stroking it)

Finally, yesterday I went to Unravel. - Fab day, met friends, had lots of hugs, lots of squishing, and not much purchasing (which was good as I really am running out of yarn storing room!)  Saw a fabulous new range called Ruth and Belinda, really lovely yarns and accompanying patterns, well worth a look. And relented on a 24mm pair of knitting needles so I can use one for some broomstick knitting and crocheting trials.

The granny squares throw has been finished. - Would you like to see photos?????...... No???........ well look away then cos I want to show this off! :-)

(Actually not the best photos as the sun has gone in every single time I've got this baby out to photgraph it, but you get the gist!) - It's big enough for a double bed, and is crocheted in Rowan Renew.  As per usual Rowan got the pattern wrong and i sent back (luckily I finished it quickly enough that the same dye lots were still in circulation) 2 balls of Digger, and 2 balls of Trailer. I needed 3 extra balls of Tractor *rolls eyes*.  I've told Rowan, as the quantities in the book in hindsight can't possibly be correct due to the colour sequencing, and if you wanted to take your time over this project (which would be understandable as it's huge!) you'd be a bit stuffed at the end to find all the qty's are wrong. Rowan have apologised and acknowledged the mistake, so it should be in the errata soon.

Right, this post is becoming a little too epic, so it's time to draw to a close for another week or so, before I bore you all to tears. Have a good week everyone, and I hope that a little spring comes to you all this week one way or another.  'Til soon ♥

ooh P.S. Just 2 days left to vote in the poll below, please do if you haven't already. And if you have..... thank you everso x