HOME and knitting pretty things

HOME! Yay!

I do LERVE travelling but one of the best things about travelling is coming HOME!  Yay!

Well that is most of the booky events over me thinks.  One or two to go.

See you at the Sydney Craft and Quilt Fair in June.

In July there are workshops and Portraits gathering in

Mittagong
Warwick
Miles
Hervey Bay

Ah it is a very knitty loife.

And now I have a little bit of room to play with pretty things.

The same but different.
Old but new.
Reiterating
Rejuvenating
Renewing

HOME!  Yay!

Kim - a Tea Cosy Guardian

I met Kim in Melbourne last week.  She is a Tea Cosy Guardian and came to share her story.

.... no not about Roger but about another cosy all together.  But you'll have to wait to see and hear about that one......

But LOOK ! at Roger Rampant.

Isn't he stupendous!
I do love him.

and her blog is definitely worth a good long look at.   It is filled with beautiful beautiful classic knitting, and some family stuff too.

Noice.  Real noice.

Sydney, Exeter and Mittagong this week.

The Bloke's mum gave him this tea cosy when he left home 45 years ago.

He has never been washed.  He's been burnt on the stove and some woman or other tried to strangle him with red wool.  The Koala that is.

The tea cosy is one of the very few things The Bloke has belonging to his mum, now long gone to the great tea party in the sky, his mum that is.

The Bloke often says things his mum used to say like...

Hands up who wants a cuppa tea hands down too late
and...


What's for dinner tonight bread and duck under the table
and then he says...
my mum used to say that.

Come to Mittagong in the Southern Highlands of NSW this Thursday.  It is very close to Sydney.

Bring your tea cosy and tell your story.

Book (essential) in your portrait sitting at the 
Sturt Gallery 
Thursday 24th May
from 2.00 pm 
Ph:  Mark Viner  (02) 4860 2080


What is is all about?  One hears you ask.
CLICK HERE


Fiona and Heidi - Brisbane

AND
come and meet Woody (et MOI) at 
3 book events.
Or at 1 book event.

at Avalon, Hornsby and Exeter
CLICK HERE for dates etc.

It is the month of after all and One is the....

One gave the Joyful Women of the Cooroy Patches Biggest Morning Tea Group on the Sunshine Coast the job of knitting up seven Official Biggest Morning Tea Daffodil Cosies.

One bloody well near cried.

LOOK at these exuberant tea cosies!

And LOOK at these exuberant women showing them off.


Next Tuesday 22 May


at 9.30 am 


come to the Cooroy CWA hall ...

for tea and cake and for parting with your money for the Queensland Cancer Council's Biggest Morning Tea.

There will be a bloody good feed and One will talk and tell the odd joke and do the Knit Rap.

And if your donation is the largest you can take one of these magnificent Official Biggest Morning Tea Daffodil Cosies home with you.

There are 7 cosies.  You will have 7 chances to give the biggest donation.

And of course as you will be playing with the Cooroy PATCHES group, there will be patchworky things for you to buy, win and generally covert as well.

What does One do when One is not knitting?

Well One crochets of course.
Little grannie squares.



One has been to Hobart and Melbourne this last week, playing with fellow Tea Cosy Guardians and Would-Be Tea Cosy Guardians.

And very noice too it was.

Photos to come but today is crochet day.

Crochet day... and...

... and...

Little Tea Cosy with a Big Agenda Day.

One has made the
Official Biggest Morning Tea Daffodil Cosy Mini Me.

... just for fun loike.

Free Pattern HERE.

Where am I?

Nantes, Brittany, France?!
Where's Nantes, Brittany, France?!

Home today.
Sleep tomorrow
BRISBANE Thursday

at Mary Ryans 40 Park Road, Milton
Phone   07  3510 5000
Start  6.15 pm

This is you in 2010 at Mary Ryans

and at...
Riverbend Books, Bulimba, Brisbane 2010

and at...
Black Cat Books, Paddington, Brisbane 2010

and at....
Avid Reader, West End, Brisbane 2010





May 2012
This THURSDAY
come and play tea cosy with me again at

Mary Ryans
40 Park Road
Milton, Brisbane

ALL Book events here.

and at...
Avid Reader THIS year.

See!

Tea cosies are funny.

May Madness - Book TOUR

One is planning a little lie down after May.

But DURING May One is planning on meeting as many Tea Cosy Guardians and Would Be Tea Cosy Guardians as One possibly can.

So

Pick your event from HERE

Book it in

and SEE YOU THERE!

Bring your mum, your daughter, your grand mother, your aunt, your best friend.  Bring whoever you like.

 

We are gunna kick up our heals, get down, get up again, roll over, go to sleep. 

Oh that's right.  That's not till June.  Not June?  September?  One can't sleep until September?!

Yes yes.  It IS a hand bag.  There is a hand bag in the new tea cosy book.

And?!

the Official Biggest Morning Tea Daffodil Cosy

One has been invited by those at the Cancer Council to take part in their annual Biggest Morning Tea.

One has created

The Official
Biggest Morning Tea Daffodil Cosy

It is important to be official, every now and then.  Not too often.  But definitely on this auspicious occasion.

Join in the Biggest Morning Tea fun and games and at the same time raise a few much needed pennies for research, prevention and support.

Or just make "Daffy" because she is so, so, well, she is so damn sunny!

See!

Wes loves Daffy too.

OK.  So do I.

Love Daffy

and

Enjoy being official
Or is that officious.
Or offal.


Moi (still practicing my French)

For a Princess

Introducing 

Eugenie

For Princess Eugenie 

inspired by a Royal Wedding

Eugenie has now been outed in the Australian Women's Weekly (P.105) so One can show her off here.

AND of course she takes pride of place and is patterned in 

How Tea Cosies Changed the World.

News Flash

One has learned how to properly create short URLs to Free Tea Cosies
and to..

BEBUs

That is Bloody Embarrassing Bugger Ups to you.

One hates that word "Errata".  Now see!  Why on earth would One give it a capital "E". 

Why wouldn't One just say "Mistakes" or "Bugger Ups.

One is not one to say "Passed Away"  or "Passed Over".  One has always said "Died".  As in "Wes died today".

No no.  Wes did NOT die today, but if Wes were to meet his end, go off to the big cat tea party in the sky, kark it. One would simply say "Wes died today". 

Wes is alive and well and guarding the Lady of Clay in Green Spotted Bikini.

So One is saying there are mistakes in the new book.
and the old book
and the older book.

and One is on bended knee in apologeticnessessing and hoping YOU will forgive One and .....

Enough!
You will find the CORRECTIONS at

Errata on the website.

FIVE sleeps

One is feeling a little Devilish with just FIVE (5) f-i-v-e- sleeps to go until the launch of .....

How Tea Cosies Changed the World

One made an extra pair of horns to wear on Wednesdays, Wash days and for Wacumming!

One will not be wearing it to the launch.  One has a special knitted collar for that occasion. 

Brisbane Launch
6.00 for a 6.30 pm start.

Avid Reader
Boundary Street
West End
Phone:  3846 3422
Bookings Essential

One will tell a story or two.
One will show and tell.
One will ask you to show and tell yours.

Bring your tea cosy.

See all the funny people with their beautiful tea cosies on the poster?

Errrrr.

See all the beautiful people with their funny tea cosies.

One may even do the knit rap as the knit rap has not yet been performed at Avid.

Deconstructing the Reconstruction of a Tea Cosy

Spotted Gourd is allowed out for a little preview - soon to take the limelight in....

"How Tea Cosies Changed the World"

He is made of two berets shapes, each one knitted from the crown out and down and then in and in some more and in some more again and then out a little bit, finished with a rolled lip, turned upside down and folded in on itself to make a double thickness half.  The two halves are then stitched together along the crowns, now the base.  The rest is all smoke and mirrors and you'll have to BUY THE BOOK to find out all the numbers and tricks that make him sit up so grand.

One thinks this might be a first in tea cosy construction.  But then One could be wrong.

Here he is again, the same but different.

A tea cosy and pot stand all in one.

Blimey One is clever.

Mini tea cosies, for Mini Pots

Wood Fungus Mini Me - How Tea Cosies Changed the World

Garden Party Mini Me - Really Wild Tea Cosies

Carmen Miranda Mini Me - Wild Tea Cosies

Doonan Debutants

No, not a tea cosy.  Well spotted.

C'est un Sac-cadeau Belle Petite - a pretty little gift bag - for gifts, of course.


Adorable Alex made this one.


Alex will present her childhood friend with tickets to the opera - a 50th birthday pressie - in this pretty little knitted gift bag.


Noice.  Real noice.

Doonan Debutants

Just 6 women came to my home in the Noosa hinterland yesterday to learn...

1.  Long tail cast on 
2.  Double Knitting - the basics 
3.  Knitting in the round with the Magic Loop
4.  Making lace holes
5.  Weaving into knitted fabric
6.  i-cord
7.  The tricks of Rose construction

Introducing Gorgeous Gail, Kharismatic Krystle and the Lovely Lisbet

Introducing Adorable Alex, Bubbly Beverly and Bella Bronwyn.

They also learned...

1.  Talking AND knitting is OK
2.  Breaking for Lemon Meringue Pie is OK too.
3.  There is no rest for the wicked
4.  Knitters are wicked

Thanks girls for joining me to knit and talk and eat and play in the first Doonan workshop.  'Twas a real beaut day.  The first of many perhaps. 

Scoootish Tea

OK OK so here is a little preview of How Tea Cosies Changed the World on zeee blerg.

One joined Facebook and has been neglecting zeeee blerg

"Zeee Blerg"  ??  One is practicing One's French of course.

Perhaps One ought to be practicing One's Scootish.

See the wee hearts underneath?

See the wee teapots on top?

See the wee argyle on the side?

All in Shelter yarn.

hmmmm mmmmm.

Getting ready to go on tour.

tea hea hea hea hea

And in another incarnation.