WATCH OUT! I'M TURNING THE HEEL....

Yes, I am making progress on my sock challenge...a bit hit and miss but the shape is very sock like so I'll carry on.

I have done the rib, cuff, flap and shaped for the heel. Now I have to pick up stitches down one side and across and up the other side and go hell for leather heading for the toe. Sounds easy right? I think I can actually do this.

I must admit I have been wary of knitting socks before but I did get used to using all the pointy needles and now it looks like I am going to get around the heel. I may even make a second one! Or I could just not bother and save myself the bother of loosing one in the washing machine. Where do they go???? Is there a secret compartment built into every machine to abduct socks? and if so ...why?

Anyway I bet Herself, Kimme, is clickity clacking like a mad thing with her weapons of mass construction! How's it going Kimme?...are you at the heel yet? Are you having fun? I am actually enjoying it and it's getting easier as I go along. I'll be unstoppable if I get this done. Thanks for the challenge!

 

My Dream Roof

People often have a dream home or dream car in their minds but I have a dream roof! It is one of the small things I wish for (but don't actually need) is a thatched roof on my cottage. If I ever realise this little dream it will look like this....

 

 

 

Isn't this a work of art? This little cottage is in my village in Dublin, Baldoyle. I think it is the oldest dwelling in Baldoyle and is now nestled among modern. Only a few hundred yards from my home. It was very run down until recently when the owners got in a master thatcher to put on a new roof...and he put on my dream roof. Ahhh, some day.

I also dream of a camper van so I can go visiting rural France and Germany and their flea markets. Again... some day it will happen.

And when it does....I hope to find treasures like this beauty....

 

It is a vintage, hand embroidered cotton pillowcase given to me by Kimme. You have me spoiled! I love it and it is even monogrammed with F for Flynn. The detail is amazing in this. All those tiny circles are hand worked  and the edges are scalloped and embroidered and it is open at both ends which I have never seen before. I use this regularly as I don't believe in saving anything "for best" .....Today is the best day to use any lovely thing especially if someone has given you a gift of it.

COUNTRY COTTAGE CUSHIONS

 

 

Just listed in my the White O'Morn Cottage Shop are these wonderful brand new cushion covers. Pure  Scottish wool from Edinburgh Mills and shades of moss green and heather. £25 sterling for all three and it includes shipping worldwide.

Laura Ashley Cushions

 

Angie found two of these Laura Ashley silk cushions in a charity shop  for 2 Euro each and used them for a while in her her schoolhouse. Then she gave them to me. Later we found them in a Laura Ashley catalouge listed for £62 each!

No, you can't have them back! MINE ALL MINE! HAHA!

 

 

 

Comments

[Deirdre]

I was admiring that roof and as I saw the whole photo I'm thinking - that looks vaguely familiar! Of course! traveling throught to Portmarnock I would know it wouldn't I?
Yes it's a fantastic piece of craftsmanship! Oh to have the cash :)

[sharie]

Theres a cottage near me with a lovely thatched roof. I keep wanting to take a photo of it but the dh says the owners will probably come out and shout at me! LOL.

Those LA cushions are beautiful. A great find.
I saw a pair of LA cushions in a CS when I was on a day out and never picked them up- now I'm kicking myself.

[kimme]

Wow Look at you! Your knitting a sock! It really looks good too. :) I am also on the heel.... on a different sock. I had to put the blue ones aside and start knitting a pair of burgundy as a gift for my daughter's favorite school teacher....

The thatch roof is gorgeous! Oh how I love thatch roofs!
I still dream of a cottage of my own day :)

I am so glad you like the pillowslip. Next month when I go out to the big flea market I will keep an eye out for a few more for you and flynners. Maybe one day you can come out with me.... wouldn't that be fun! :)

hugs~kimme

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Love the dream roof, it's so cute.
Good luck with the sock.

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