Thanks to Janette for the kudos and my very first blog comment! I never really thought anyone would look at my blog. It's a brave new world out here in cyberspace.

I'm terribly excited as I've just received my belated Christmas package from my Mum and it contained a ball winder and yarn swift. Can't wait to use them with the gorgeous yarn I picked up for my mother in law's shawl when we were in Tasmania last week, hard to tell from the photo, but it's a beautiful natural fawn colour and very soft

Can't wait to cast on but I haven't decided on the pattern yet.

Also finished the first of 3 pairs of socks for my hubby, and I'm thrilled with the completely serendipitous colour pooling effects on them

Well, I guess I've done it now. I have never quite understood the compulsion which drives the blogging phenomena, but here I am nevertheless, creating my own. I have no idea if this will continue or perish a natural death due to apathy and disuse but I've resolved to give it a go. Mostly this stems from my New Year's resolution to start looking into publishing some knitting design patterns as a creative outlet to counter my sometimes lacklustre job of office management. So, with this in mind, the overall aims of this blog are to chronicle my knitting and spinning projects and share the process of working on designs to publish (be it for free on this blog or otherwise). I hope it's of some remote interest to someone somewhere...............