Little Things on a Sunday

It is very difficult to photograph a ladybug (aka, ladybird). They are small; they are cute; and they are rather like my Oma in that they move very rapidly and look lovely in red.

Yesterday's attempt is shown here.

...and portrait of this morning during outside knitting-in-plein-air session (well, obviously, it is a not a portrait of the morning... Incidentally, how would one go about capturing a portrait of the morning? What is a morning? It has infinite variations and my morning may have been completely different from your morning, for example. Or, you may have spent your morning on the doorstep of #3, knitting and drinking two cups of tea and photographing ladybugs. And you were right next to me in a parallel universe. And now I am slightly disconcerted that you may have overheard me do something rude.).

Ladybug has been perched on my table for about an hour now and whilst she is being still, photos of her are just not coming out well at all. Various neighbors may also be peering through their lace curtains wondering if they ought to be afraid of the strange girl with the wooden sticks who keeps taking photos of her tabletop.

Am quite proud of m'self for knitting project (although would have been prouder had I managed to finish project last evening), which is for Breakthrough Breast Cancer. The lovely ladies from Norfolk Yarns, who come to knitting on a Thursday, brought the information last week. The Knit a Natty Key Ring Campaign is creating key rings to be sold as a fundraiser. (Please read about it, as their little sweaters are much

cuter than mine.)

Pattern for tiny sweater is a raglan pattern, and I have never knitted one of these patterns before. I believe we learned some things about finishing, as it is really damnably difficult to attach an arm and sew up the arm edge to the cuff when you have attached everything else on the whole sweater (this is also reason that the left arm -- on the right, facing -- looks like it is for a person with an arm paralysed into the air).

Am also not sure how to make the ring part neatly covered in

wool all the way around and so my ring is kind of boring (and I hope it is fastened strongly enough). The whole thing, with ring attached, is about 3 inches tall.

Methinks I shall do another!

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AND, have also found out what the craze is for the trees out front in the churchyard (by being nosy and interrogating people who are out there picking nuts up) -- they are Turkish Hazelnut trees and you can apparently toast the nuts and eat them! Who in God's name knew there was a Hazelnut Council...?