Loop Stitch

Carrying on from what I've mentioned a couple of posts back, this is one of my favourite things. And...it just so happens to be loop stitch knitted*, and with that kind of texture I'm not sure why it wouldn't be everyones favourite. Surprisingly, crazy semi-fringed hippie vests aren't everyones cup of tea and I managed to score this babe for free since the place I was working at the time was about to chuck it!
I've only worn it twice - its not exactly an everyday wear kind of garment - once on holiday at the beach where I got a few odd looks, and once to work where everyone loved it and it shed ridiculous amounts of fluff all over my black tee. Thats ok though, most of the time it just hangs out on the top rack of my wardrobe next to my giant cream crochet shawl-scarf and my hat collection.

*ok so technically the back is knitted in a plain garter stitch but the front for some reason is actually crochet. I guess it was cheaper for production...and I also realise that no one except me cares about this.

From the womb to my tomb I guess I'll always be a child

(wearing a vintage jacket and my favourite shirt ever, which used to be my dads. I also had on the pink tulle skirt from this post and the purple suede boots from this one. I kinda wish I had been wearing gumboots though!)

Sometimes I'm walking along, maybe on my way home from work or just going about my daily business and I look down and all of a sudden realise - I'm dressed like a seven year old. Today was one of those days, I love those days!


So I decided, today is the day I start knitting my cardigan. On my lunch break I went over the road to the op shop and bought some nice cheap double pointed needles, still in their packets! Hooray. (I also bought some hopefully delicious and not rotten free range eggs from the op shop, half the price of the supermarket and apparently you can place an order to be sure to get them every week, amazing.) 
The only problem is that I presumed that knitting on four needles was the same as on two, it's actually quite quite quite a lot harder and caused me to stomp my foot a bit and then stuff four marshmellows in my mouth at the same time! So I wondered, what is the solution to this? Is it to pout...(yes that is always the solution)...No! Is it to give up...No! Is it to search for knitting tips on youtube...YES. and then I found Wool and the Gang. I want to be part of their gang. Their youtube videos make me weak at the knees! That beautiful thick yarn (they call it Crazy Sexy Wool and I can see why, because it is), that delicious strange Swiss-with-a-tinge-of-kiwi accent, those easy to understand instructions. And then I realised they had a website, and you could buy pieces knitted by them, or kits to knit yourself, or THAT wool, and they make me want to quit my job and knit my way around the world. Oh boy.

Someone is sitting outside my flat singing and playing the guitar, its quite nice even though they aren't very good. They just sang old Bobs Redemption Song and now its Mr. Mellencamps little ditty about Jack and Diane, classics. While I wrote this post, we also had some Van Morrison (appropriate since one of my flatties is named after him) and some Hotel California by the Eagles. Not a bad soundtrack for a Monday evening.

Happy Birthday Loverboy

(outfit post? maybe. dotti gloves, topshop jumper, vintage skirt, jacket and bracelet)

(My birthday present to Matt - it cost me waaaay too much but it was so perfect I couldn't leave it behind)

(new favourite chocolate, me and Matt accidentally ate over half the block while doing scratchies in bed this morning, he won $5)

So once again I haven't posted for quite a while...even longer than usual really. It was Mattys 21st birthday last weekend, big party, lots of fun! And then on Monday, my flatmate and number one friend Abby had a (absolutly delicious) leaving dinner, as she flew off to Sydney the next morning. Even though it was a sad event, it was actually a hilariously funny night.


I have had quite a lovely weekend so far, lots of pajama time, sleeping in, sex, chocolate, sewing, going to the library, drinking vodka and so forth. 


Yesterday I spent about three hours at the library, and got out several books on knitting (I want to make this cardigan - in fact I would buy that one by Lonely Hearts, except it has a lurex thread running through it and I just can't do it), a CD-Book set to learn Colloquial Swedish, so that I'm all set when I move there in a few years (haha), and the DVD of Harold and Maude (when I got it out, the guy working at the library - and wearing a Dinosaur Jr tee - told me that his friend had met the guy who plays Harold at LA airport last week).


Today I am going to - make some poached eggs on toast - finish my sewing - wrap some very late christmas presents - load things on trademe - vacuum my room - make choc-weetbix slice - change my sheets so I better get going since its already past 2!!


Soon I think I might show you some of my favourite things clothing and accessory wise...strangely they all seem to have stories behind them so I might even make it into a series or something.


Oh how nice, the radio is playing Devendra Banhart! Perfect sunday music, I'm off to listen to some.

End of Summer Blues

Daylight savings ended on Saturday night, it's pouring with rain outside and for the first time in months I'm wearing long pants and a long sleeved shirt. I think today summer is gone. Still, its not the worst thing in the world, the rain sounds quite lovely outside and I'm looking forward to waking up to daylight in the mornings now.

(delicious dinner of Smen-coated Moroccan Lamb...isn't Smen a funny word?)

(on Good Friday we went over to the shore to watch the boys have band practice and party it up in Torbay)

(an actual Easter Egg)

(blonde wig time for our Beatles themed party - all night I got told I looked like Lulu or Garth from Waynes World. Excellent!) 

(finally got around to watching Point Break...I was expecting more surfing, less guns but it was still good)

I have had a mammoth past couple of weeks (as the picture of my handy diary shows) and this Easter weekend was especially large - on the Thursday me and my lovely boy celebrated three whole years together (semi-fittingly our anniversary is April Fools Day). We didn't do much, just went out for dinner after work and then fell asleep really early, but it was made even nicer because the next day was Good Friday and we had a nice snuggly sleep in followed by breakfast in bed!


The rest of the week was full of hot cross buns and chocolate eggs, drunken dancing, discovering new music, lazy afternoons and watching old movies. I kind of really wish that every weekend was four days long although I have a feeling it would be terrible for my bank account.

(Vintage Dress, Karen Walker Crochet Collar from Abby during her leaving-the-country cleanout, Vintage Bow Pin)