The New Year got off to a great start with a traditional Japanese breakfast, sake and a trek round a very frosty Hampstead Heath. Then, like Hobbits, we went for second breakfasts at Kenwood House. A lazy afternoon meant I could complete my first project of 2010.The Ruffled Edge Wrap is from an old edition of Vogue, knit completely in garter stitch with lots of short row shaping. I had bought some wool boucle on eBay because the colours looked interesting and it was a bargain. The yarn is beautiful, I love the colours but they just don’t suit me. However, they are perfect for a friend about to have a shoulder operation. The drapey wrap is just her style; the colours will compliment her green eyes and auburn hair beautifully. Hopefully, it will be a great pick me up.
It’s hard to believe that I actually wrote the above at the beginning of Jan and its now February! Unfortunately, my laptop started making grinding crunchy noises and then died. My sons need to be resuscitated if parted from MSM for more than a few minutes so I have to beg to use one of their computers.
The wrap was passed on to its new owner who loved it! I’m pleased as a minor disaster meant it was nearly ruined. Second son, Koji, received a gadget from Santa to create a “Soda Geyser” using Mentos and cola. As there was snow on the ground, the terrible trio decided to set up in the lounge then detonate in the garden. A tube was screwed on to the top of the bottle, the safety pin set in place and the Mentos dropped into the tube. As he picked up the bottle to move into the garden, Koji didn’t realise that his foot was on the string attached to the safety pin. Panicked, he put the bottle in the middle of the room. Eldest son bravely ran out of the room and youngest son froze, wide eyed at the fountain of cola that was now hitting the ceiling. I screamed, leapt across the room and put my thumb over the eruption; forgetting that there were holes in the sides where the safety pin had been, so now there was cola shouting out sideways in two directions. Thank God the instructions recommended sugar free soda; we were drenched, the walls and ceilings dripping and my completed project in need of another hand wash. They should be grateful I have a sense of humour, especial when the physics of the situation was explained to me; how I’d made a terrible mistake trying to stop the flow of cola. Also how I shouldn’t worry, we had another bottle of coke and just enough Mentos to try again outside!
