Roarin'

If you happen to find your self roarin' along the Hume HWY between Geelong and Canberra (or, more prescisely, Holbrook and Gundagai) you'll have to slow down to 50km/h to drive through the small town of Tarcutta - while your hitting the brakes, you may as well stop for a break..

After all, the rest stop is on the side of the road, the loos there have running water (rather than that pit-in-the-ground) and there happens to be this place....

The Farmhouse Industries Handcraft shop, which happens to stock....

These basketfuls of hand- spun, -dyed, and -painted yarns...

... a few skeins followed me home :) (left to right - two hanks of handpainted angora 8ply, a handpainted wool 3ply and a handspun wool, all by Annie Gregg design)I bought all this last friday when driving up to Canberra. I couldn't resist starting to knit with the angora again on saturday. This was my progress when we went out to lunch at about 1230.Of course, I was trying to perfect my Roarin' Forties hat pattern, and it just so happened that Lucy-lou loved these blue-toned reds.THE STATS

NAME : Roarin' Forties #2
PATTERN: My own
YARN: Annie Gregg Design Angora 8-ply in blue-tinted reds
YARN SOURCE: Farmhouse industries craft shop Tarcutta
NEEDLES: 3.75mm DPNs and Circulars
COMPLETED 07 Jan 07

Lucy-lou and I couldn't resist doing a bit of a model-shoot with out new hats :)

And while I was tackling another project, Pierre was tackling one of Bridi's bones...

I'd say he's trying a bit of more than he can chew...