…to have so many people out there who are so generous. I’ve had lots of people wishing me well with the adoption and this week I received 2 swap parcels, so here’s what I got.

Firstly I got my parcel in the Sock it to Me swap, Laura turned out to be my spoiler and she really did spoil me -

She sent me a bag made from Recycled Plastic Bottles and a bar of Fair Trade Chocolate - both of which meet with my green principles. A set of clover bamboo dpns and a skein of beautiful Knit Picks Gossamer “Sweet Peas” a lovely little notebook, 2 sachets of Eucalan (never had this before!), a little tin of Burts Bees cuticle cream and a little packet of gorgeous wooden beads in blues & turquoises which comes with a cord and the finndings to make a necklace.

Laura must have been lurking around on my blog because the beads match perfectly with my favourite dress which I was wearing at my bbq!

Finally, and best of all, the socks! Here they are in their little wrapper

and here they are on my feet, which they fit perfectly

The pattern is Badcaul by Anna Bell and they were knit with Cherry Tree Hill Supersock Merino which is so soft it’s not true!

Thanks so much Laura.

The second parcel arrived today and was from a Swap-bot swap “Quick Stuff Swap” to send each of two partners something from their profile. Here’s my package -

Nicole sent me some really cute cookie cutters and stencils for decorating cookies/cupcakes with a Halloween theme - my friend Tracey is coming to visit with her two girls just before Christmas so I foresee a baking session!

On the knitting front I managed to complete another of my many and various UFO’s..this was an old one that had been completely knit and just needed sewing up. I spent most of yesterday doing that and got it from UFO to FO!

This is the “Alpaca Bolero” from Baby Style by Debbie Bliss, yarn is some BabySoft 4ply I bought sometime ago on eBay. I already knit another bolero as a baby present and still have about 3 full 100g balls left.

I’ve also been working on this

this was the “secret knitting” alluded to in a previous post which is unfortunately no longer secret. It’s a Gryffindor Scarf for J from Charmed Knits. Normally J doesn’t notice anything going on around him, I organised a surprise party for his 30th birthday right in front of him and he didn’t suspect a thing. I had conversations about it with him in the room. So I’d been knitting this and hiding it when he came in the room, usually not exactly “hiding” so much as putting it on the sofa next to me! Except a couple of days ago he finally notice it…oh well - no longer a surprise.

It’s taking for ever to knit as it’s very boring 1×1 rib with just the changes of colour every 30 rows for the trapped bars. It’s Merino Wool though so very soft and is knitting up really thick and I think it will be a lovely warm scarf for J to wear on his commute over the winter.

It finally feels like autumn around here this week, today it was damp and misty as I drove to work and I’ve been turning to “autumn things” …I’ll post about them later!

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