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Baby steps

You might remember that I had grand hopes for doing some fundraising running this year.  These haven't totally faded but I've had some technical issues - with my feet. I'm going to take myself to the doc this week to get it sorted. 

So lets start off with baby steps, which will still be plenty of effort - the I Knit Ravelry Group are putting a team together for the Race for Life on the 6th of May and the sponsorship page is here . 'Race' is a fairly elastic description of the event as I personally expect to be sauntering with perhaps a short burst of plodding towards the finish line if all goes well. Whilst knitting. This will be interesting.  Ooh, what should I knit? I know what I'll be knitting with - see below... and with whom, hopefully if she gets let out to play early enough...

I think it's going to be really good fun and it will be great to do something with knitters to support knitterly friends who've been affected by cancer. If you fancy joining in, coming along on the day, joining us in the pub afterwards (that's part of the plan, right??) or adding some cash to the total, then please do!

As a little incentive to encourage you to mosey on over to the fundraising page, I'm doing a little pink giveaway.  **Leave a comment to enter**.

The main attraction is a skein of super squooshy lovely sock yarn - produced by the very talented Jon at EasyKnits and he has very generously thrown in a £10 gift voucher for the winner too! In theory I'll be knitting socks on the course using the skein I bought for myself. 

I'll do the draw after the race on the 6th of May. Should my sewing machine recover soon (mutter mutter growl) there will also be a non-knitterly something. In pink, natch. 

Lost Days

And a couple more lost days.  Snatches of conversation, words spoken in vino veritas keep reappearing in my mind like clouds scudding across the skies and then fading again - but it's not all doom and gloom, like it usually is when I remember wild things I've pronounced to the world whilst under the influence.  You'd think I'd be old enough to know better but apparently not.
Heart-stopping moments containing remembrances of 'Oh jaysus, did I really say that' aside, I'm mostly keeping myself very busy, working, doing more planning and plotting than is good for me, and spending a little cash on pretty fripperies like the buttons above, from the Ladybird lady at Broadway Market. 

And just to announce...as it's now April, I counted up all the emails and comments and used a random number generator to pick the winner of the shamrock pendant... it's Leigh.  Get in touch, my dear...

Luck of the Irish

So this is the March competition, running here and on the shop website.  For the month that's in it, this is your chance to win a lucky shamrock  - an original handcut silver pendant .  Measuring about three-quarters of an inch in diameter, it comes on a sixteen inch sterling silver chain.

To enter, simply leave a comment on any blog post between now and the end of March.  International entries welcome!