It started out a little grey and so we sat indoors
knitting and enjoying a beautiful lunch of grilled (barbecued to us Brits) chicken, home made Quiche, fried sweet potato and butternut squash (my favourite) and a pasta salad with roasted veg.
Mmmmm.The weather brightened and became very sunny and warm so we decamped to the more "public" back garden and variously knit or spun whilst we tucked into dessert and homemade lemonade or tea. Look at the height of that cake, another masterpiece from Carrie. But just who was it that got the first largest slice?
You know who you are!!
And this (still huge) slice was mine alongside the white chocolate mini cheesecakes made by Kimberly.
I followed this with a slice of Moira's mums Early Grey tea loaf (gorgeous!) So no diet on Saturday.Necessity being the mother of invention,
Carrie improvised a great table for the garden, can you tell what it is yet?
Who's that looking uber cool and stylish in her new sun hat? Long time no see Sandy, so nice to catch up again, hope that leg clears up really soon.
Gotcha Moira, I know you hate being photographed but I finally caught you!
Mhairi and Kirsty, sisters, enjoying the sun!
Innes, getting to grips with her new camera before getting out her wheel and spindles for an impromptu lesson.
The gorgeous Abby joined us outside and was very taken with Kimberly, particularly her necklace and her......nose!
(photo is a bit blurry as I was laughing so much)I had a thoroughly great day and spun quite a lot of my cherry alpaca
that has been sitting waiting for me to get back my spinning mojo.Thanks Carrie!
On the "Once A Sheep" front, they say no news is good news but I still have no news on the lease (aaargh!) but I do have a viewing on a second property so there is still another possibility. I'll keep you informed!
My Iknit weekender tickets (Sept 11-12)
arrived along with my pass to two workshops "Socks Upside Down" and "Adult crochet" (that's crochet for adults by the way not the more lurid other possibility!) Really looking forward to this as I can't make Woolfest this year.Meanwhile we have been busy in the garden and now have a (rather large) new deck,
patio and paved and gravelled area. It's not quite finished as you can see
so I am hoping for more good weather so I can get out and do the finishing touches. We also spent all of Sunday building Paul's new workshop. It turned into a bit of a marathon session and we were both suffering with sore backs by the end. But it is all finished and just needs filling with all of Paul's "best tools".Mum and dad arrived back from their Balkan cruise on Saturday with gifts of some absolutely fabulous fibre from Estonia (weird how the fibre smells different to British sheep?) and some gorgeous sock yarn from Finland.
Looking forward to working with both of them, though not at the same time as enjoying the litre of Absolut vodka from Sweden!Thanks mum they are lovely xx
What wonderful photo's , the really capture the day. Your garden is looking magnificent now , what fabulous decking/patio. And what fabulous fibre/yarn , can't wait to see in person! Mx
ReplyDeleteOh thank you so much for the pictures of all the fun!! I was so thrilled to have everyone out, and I'm so glad everyone had as much fun as I did. Hooray for summer!!!
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