Hey guess what? I'm back....again!

Happy Monday Morning to you all!

I have decided to bring this blog back from the grave and breathe some life into it.

It is not that I have not been blogging, it is just I haven't been blogging here.

My other blogs are about travel, parenting, politics and other interests...........it is just I have decided I need a special place on the interwebz to talk about my knitting, dyeing, machine knitting and crochet.

No, honestly....I really am back this time!!!

Hi there folks,

I'm back blogging and hopefully I will be able to post with more frequency now......I have a new laptop and blogging is easy peasy on it! Before I would lose the will to live while my computer would consider my requests and sit on them for a while before having an attack of the vapours and shutting down completely.

Although I haven't been posting I have been knitting and crocheting - mainly for my muse, Beanie....hell, I've even been working on a few designs of my own, fancy that!

Pictured are a few recent FOs and a WIP....hope you like them!

I'm blogging again!

Okay, so it has been 5 months since my last post..............

...................why so long?

Well, I had a few issues with the blog, some technical and some external and decided it would be a good idea to put it to rest for a while.

But I feel now is a good time to return to Purl City, with a fresh head!

What have I been doing in the meantime?

Don't be silly, I've been knitting and crocheting, of course......mainly for Beanie, who is growing up fast!!!

Bang, bang! You're dead!

But only if your Ravelry name is Pippa and only in a Hat Attack yarntastic sense!

I knitted through the weekend (when husband and child permitted) to finish this bad boy and it is currently winging its way up to Scotland to knock Pippa out of Hat Attack.

Alas, I have already been slain by KraftyKoala whose hat is on its way to me.

I tried everything to stay in the game, I even emailed her assassin Perversia and asked her to hurry it up big time!!!

I am off to join the Zombie KAL now!

Interesting......

Q: What is your process when planning a project? Do you shop for yarn and then find a suitable pattern? Do you find your pattern and then go out to buy the yarn? Or are you stash-busting? If your stash is out of control, how did it get that way?

For me there is no set process! I shop for yarn all the time and quite often just buy it cos it looks and feels nice eventhough I have no idea what it will be eventually made up into.

Sometimes I do see a pattern I love and I have to buy the required yarn straightaway but usually I see a pattern and try to see what I already have in my massive stash that will work.

I am trying to stash bust at the moment as my stash is way out of control but it is hard because there is so much gorgeous yarn out there and I can't help buying it - that's why I have such a big stash!!

Last day to sign up to HAT ATTACK!

Thanks to the GeekCraft peeps on Ravelry there's a bloody battle about to commence.

It is called HAT ATTACK!

Think Sock Wars but with a cable detailed hat instead.....................can you finish your hat and get it to your target before your assassin gets their hat to you?!

Here is the Ravelry group page with all the details - but be quick!! Sign ups end TODAY!!!!

Frogs and Kisses!

I have just added a new yarn on to my Purl City Etsy store.

After a few days of struggling to find a name, Frogs and Kisses just came to me!

The only question is..............does it say Frogs and Kisses to you?

Speaking of names.................I am going to be holding a yarn naming contest on this blog shortly.

There will be prizes involved so stay tuned!!