ok, so im back again, mainly out of frustration. my very lovely uncle has created me a new site. it is very cool, and called knitrageous and i love it very much. i do not wish to be the purl girl any longer. one of the reasons for this is that as a 19 year old i feel a little bit more of a woman and also, knitrageous sounds way cooler.

i dont want to upset my uncle by not using the very cool site he has given me, but unfortunately, it never seems to be working, and im feeling a little blog urge, i will try to work out how to do links and link to my other blog in the future. however i am going to keep using this blog until all the glitches are worked out of my new one and when it is hopefully working all good i will give you my link (if there is anyone out there in cyberspace) and you can follow me to my home.

right now im thinking of it like i think of home when im at uni. i want to go there because there is good food and someone who does my washing (in blog terms that is prettier colours and my own personal layout) but when i get back home i start arguing with my dad and the chores are piled up high (my blogs wont save and the pictures have to be put in using this really complicated code and it is wayyy to complicated).

ANYWAY

since i last blogged i went to uni. i now study journalism and creative writing at middlesex, whichis right in london and i love london and it is the best city ive ever been to woooo.

i was very worried about making friends.

these are my two new best friends...

on the left is ashleigh, thats me in the middle and on the right is issy! they both rock my socks off and i have made them both knitters!!! ashleigh is a little less enthusiastic due to the scark i started her off on which she handed me back and asked me to "fix" because it had double the amount of stitches she casted on with and it was a plain garter stitch scarf.

issy however has taken knitting on like a trooper, she made her mum a scarf with a bit of a pattern! for her first project and then carried on by making her boyfriend a scarf for xmas!! after the hols im going to teach her to make socks!!! at the moment she is terribly afraid, but do not worry my friends. i will convert her!!

i have taken on knitting all my xmas pressies this year, but so far i have hope for the future! for the first xmas ever im actually on target with the presents! this has never happened before! im not saying there wont be some hard days to come were there will be no communicating and knitting only, but im getting there! failure is not an option.

i shall now give you a quick list of the best or most memorable things that have happened since i went to uni...

1. i became a halls rep (unnoposed so cannot relish in winning the election) which means i have to help people with probs in the uni halls etc.

2. i went to i knit london and london stitch and bitch knit nights. i have not been regularly to either of these knit nights but after xmas i plan to choose one, i cant decide yet because i kint london is in the shop so i can buy yarn (always a bonus) and london stitch n bitch is normally in different places so i can see a bit more of the city and they do all sorts of fun things that the shop doesnt etc. i think this decision will be influenced by whether issy decides to come with me, she is a very bossy lady (in the best sense) and will help me pick.

3. i love my course, i couldnt imagine any course of education that i would ever really love but i can truly say that this is the best thing i have ever done.

4. i went to stand outside the premeire of NINE in leicester square and we got there late and thought we wouldnt see anyone and then...

that my friends is nicole kidman! and i shook her hand!!!

it was such a good day that i can barely believe it happened to me and im so glad i took the pics otherwise i would have thought it was a dream. we then waited until after the premeire, well, we may have sneaked off and got a cheeseburger... and after we waited and watched them all get into their cars and we saw judi dench and penelope cruz and nicole again!! i never thought id be the kind to get totally blown away by celebraties but i totally am!

and talking of premeires, we then went to the premiere of st trinians 2 (and i took one of the giant boards with the pic of the film on and put it on my wall at uni) and saw gemma arterton and all of girls aloud except cheryl and rupert everitt and the noisettes and paloma faith etc. but was a little dissapointed about that one because david tennant and colin firth were supposed to be there and in the end neither of them turned up.

after that i cant think of anything else exciting to talk about HA, though i will post again tomoro and in it i shall show you the goodies i got at the knitting and stitching show at alexandra palace which was ages ago but i havent managed to blog about it yet. im still reeling about the fact that one of those great knitting things was only 3 tube stops and a free shuttle bus ride away from uni! god i love london!!!

just a quickie

cant remember what iv said yet, but i got into my uni!!! first choice!!! but that was a little while ago, i think i was saving it for a blog post when i didnt have much else to say but then i forgot so, there it is, i passed, got into my uni and am going to live in london, the only problem is that im not living on the campus that i wanted to be on, this means im on the other campus which is four tube stops and a shuttle bus ride away from the uni! but on the plus side i am getting a much larger student loan than i was first told i would get, which is good even if i do have to pay it back at some point, oh well, id rather have a debt than starve, itll be hard though, the ultimate yarn diet, a choice between food and yarn hhhhmmmmmmm???? which will it be????

anyhow, in knitting news, i do have a little to blog.

the rainbow socks are finished and i love them, and now im doing seaside socks xoxo

just chillin, sitting, knitting.

i have to work later, but until then its relaxing summer time. i thought that, in the spirit of regular blog posts i would give ya a little update. here are some socks iv made since i last saw you...

on the left we have a pattern described as basic, it was not basic, theyr were all these decreases around the leg and it is one hell of a pain in the arse. in the future i shall reserve this pattern for mens socks, only, ever. obviously the yarn is a multi blend but i cannot for the life of me remember what it is, anyway i got it from knit and yarn. over my toes you can see my gawjus little laptop, aint it pretty. on the left we have a regia self striping yarn in a pair of socks that i totally fudged. look at the heel of my left foot! i look deformed! well im not, it may be the position my foot was in, however i got bored with these socks and did the toe to early thinkin it would be ok, well it wasnt, theyr too short. but i knit them, so im wearin them. after the rainbow socks i think i might take a little break and do a dishcloth, iv got some cotton somewere and its only enough for that, itll be nice to knit on 2 straight needles for a while. love ya xoxo

huge massive update

ok so this is the huge massive update. i've been meaning to do an update for a while now and things kept getting in the way.

this is a little bit of yarn to tide you over whilst i begin my long slog through the months. its actually what i'm knitting with now, its making some gorgeous socks from lorna's laces and its called Rainbow, unfortunately whilst in the skein its looks gawjus, it looks disgusting when wound into a ball, rather like someone has eaten a mound of skittles and then thrown up on my yarn. However i think it looks gorgeous knit up (though not to everyones taste). its making a very plain sock pattern but i love it and i think sock knitting, if its plain is a perfect little project thats the perfect FO and lovely to take around with me because it fits in my bag yay.

ok so, i got my a,level results this thursday just been, (i know this is not chronological but its in order of what is the most important to me) and i was so nervous, i needed 3 D's and an E to get onto the creative and media writing with journalism course i want to do at middlesex university. I think it was particularly scary for me as i failed my first AS year and if i didnt pass this year i would have to give up on going to uni as i wouldnt be allowed to do another year at sixth form. but as you can probably tell by the way im talking, i passed!!! last year in my AS i got 3 E's and a D and i left sir john leman high sixth form with 3D's and a C. now whilst people may look at this and think well at least ya passed, i am ecstatic :) i have never been that good at grades, i love to write and i know that even though i worked this year, the first year i should've stopped writing stories and daydreaming and spent some time to WORK. but i dont care, i passed, i passed, i passed and im going to uni and its because i worked and yay.

Birthday pressies!!!! i was 19 on the 20th of june and i got some rockin pressies. the first was my ball winder which produces (as lickety knit once said) "yarn cakes". i literally wound every ball and skein into new balls on this little baby and i loved it. however, winding the skeins, which used to tangle over my leg or on the back of the chair, has become crazily easy with the use of...

MY SWIFT!!! chris has described it as a little wool washing line! i

love love love it. it spins so as i turn the little handle on my ball winder it just comes straight of the swift and right onto the ball winder. and of course makes the pretty yarn cakes.

of course i got other yarn- related presents however, im not going to take pictures of them all because it would get a little dull and i honestly do not want to take pictures of everything.

so, i got, "knitting vintage socks" by nancy bush, the domiknitrix book, 3 skeins of sock yarn. however, the internet shop my mum bought the three skeins of sock yarn from never delivered, and they didnt charge her either so i dont know what happened. so she let me pick my own sock yarn. the first one i chose was the first picture in the blog, the second is called seaside by lorna's lace's.

the third was called twilight and i think its by claudia's yarns but im not sure.

and i think its absolutely gorgeous. i think i'm going to make socks for grandma out of the seaside yarn, mainly because iv already given my nanny a pair and my long knitting grandma hasnt had any hand knits from me. i cant giv my grandma a present without giving my grandad one, and i also want to make a pair for my uncle. my uncle is a total legend, any computer worries i have i just call him, he takes remote control of my computer and walla, its fixed. he is the only reason i have the ability to blog. he made a mention to me about how he liked thick knitted socks, so bearing in mind i can find some good yarn, i think we all know what he's getting for christmas.

in other news, i think i may be going to a knit and natter this week. i dont know exactly when im leaving for uni but even if it is next monday i can still make it. i used to go to this lovely knit group in bungay and the most gorgeous shop, knit and yarn. however it was a little bit of a way to go and i could only go if i didnt have lessons on friday afternoon. but beccles (my home town) has a place called the craft workshop ( or some such thing) i dont know what exactly goes on in there because its not a shop and iv always been to scared to go in and find out. i was driving past yesterday when i saw a sign in the window for a knit and natter on wednesday and saturday 7.30 to 9.30 so if its actually in beccles then i am definately be there.

anyway, im doing nothing much as its the first bit of holiday iv had when im not working or panicking about my results. so im going to try and get near to finishing my rainbow sock. iv set myself up on the couch, star trek voyager is on virgin and x-files is on next, iv got my flash new laptop, which i shall post about next, and my knitting, today will be a good day.

love ya

laura

xoxo

i’m a lousy person

im historically bad with keeping up with anything. From knitting projects (which prove too adventurous or because a better looking project waltzes past me with a come hither look) to reading all the way through a book.
Therefore i will now make an effort to keep this blog up to date.
My knitting has been substantial over the last half a year. most of my knitted accomplishments have been given away as gifts so i have no pictures however i shall dig up the few things i kept for myself and photo them and post them in due course.
Ido have a few excuses for my poor blogging history, these include bad internet connections, going through my second year of A- levels (i get my results tommorow) and lots of other little things that trail of in unintelligible mumbling noises due to them actually being a product of my laziness. my apologies for being crap, photos nd lots of knit talk to come. xoxo

here come the piccies

i learnt how to crochet

i got a drop spindle and spun my first ever bit of wool (though it was only about 14 yards).

i started a simple blanket in baby blue and pink cotton plain garter stitch squares

i spent a morning in a glass cage (otherwise known as "i'm a sixth former, get me out of here") with the two sophies (one of which is not in the pic), nigel and georgia, we had fun, got hungry, and shook buckets at people to raise money for rag week, though in this pic we look happy it was just for the camera, we were actually all suffocating in the disgustingly people smelling stale air.

i bought this noro yarn on sale at gilly's shop and made clog slippers and a box stitch scarf out of it, it was fun.

more stuff to come

love yooooooou

sorry for being lazy

i have been lazy, im sorry, i kept thinking about posting a new blog and then i thought, hhmmm maybe tomorrow.
let me tell you something, tomorrow only just came.
so many things have happened recently that i wish id kept posting blogs to lessen my load now but, here it goes:

• i learnt how to spin
• socks were created- and very pretty to
• 90% of the presents i gave were handknit.
• my uni application was submitted and now i have to wait for them to tell me whether or not i got in eek im thinking i wont get in anywere and i will cry- a lot.
• my dad made me clean out my room- a lot
• Chris bought family guy series 1 on dvd and im watchin it- a lot

theres more stuff and a couple of pics but they will have to wait for another time, hopefully tomorow (the real tomorrow this time)

love meeeeee