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So I've just finished Plaza by Martin Storey! Pause for quick round of applause.

It was knit in RYC Cashcotton DK, which I was able to pick up discounted from Laughing Hens. My gauge was out by two needle sizes down which was fine as I'm much more comfortable using smaller size needles.
Thanks to my trusty method of writing everything down as I go along in an exercise book and crossing it off as it's completed, this cardigan didn't give me much in the way of a headache at all! The original pattern had crocheted curlicues attached around the edge of the collar which I decided to do without. The shawl collar worked out really well and warms my neck up lovely !

The cardigan finishes just on my hip bones and with the waist shaping, it gives it a look of a little jacket.

Okay, so of course there had to be something to complain about and that's the buttonholes. They're too small for the perfect, flower decorated wooden buttons I picked up from www.textilegarden.com, at the yarn fest/day/thingy/can't remember the name of I attended with Pol recently. Thanks Pol !

I began this cardigan 14.01.11 and of course would have finished it by mid February had I put more work into it. However, I'm very pleased with the final result and can't wait to wear it to choir on Tuesday.

Yes, I will sort the buttonholes out next !

Thanks Stephen for helping me to put the picture on here. xx

Well, oohda thout it? !

Travel forward 17 months, dear reader.

Thanks to my lovely daughter, P, I'm now blogging again !!
I guess as my dear husband, S, is about to work away from home, as in, sunny St.Helens, then this will be a place for me to come visit and lay my thoughts out for inspection.
So it might not be a regular occurrence and it's content may well be a hotchpotch of ideas.
Still, I'm rather taken with the idea of pulling my chair up, sipping from the cup that cheers and letting my fingers do the talking.
Mornin' all !