List 52 - Week 13

I'm joining in with Dreamer's 52 list and am choosing small tasks that I've been avoiding and would like to do/finish. My list is written in my organiser and I hope this will give me a kick up the backside and spur me on. My thirteenth week task is:

13. Find a home for this new wool and while you're at it sort out the wool you have already.

Yes, that's a rather good idea. I have 2 large and 3 small drawers of wool. They were all emptied and the yarn piled in a big heap on the floor. This was then sorted into collections of the same wool, DK, 4 ply, cotton and fancy.

I'm still in the process of bagging up all the wool and then I shall make a List of what I have. My stash should last me for many years.

xx

PS I'm still knitting a pair of socks started weeks ago. I'm on the toe of the first sock at the moment trying to get my head around grafting stitches.

So much to do. If I only had time, if I only had time.

xx

Alphabet Blogging - R

R is for Re-use, Recycle and Repurpose

Re-using is using an item again and again.

eg. I re-use plastic bags as bags for bread and then as bags for bin liners.

Recyling means that the item is broken down and the component materials reused.

eg. I recycle glass, cardboard and tins via the council recycling bins and they are taken to be processed into other items.

Repurposing is when unwanted items are used in different ways and made into different things.

eg. I repurpose towels to make floorcloths and dusters.


Eventually my reused bags will end up in the refuse and my repurposed items will not last forever. Clothing may end up as rags that will become stuffing for mattresses but they too will finally end up as refuse. I suppose with the re-using it stops the consumption of 'new' stuff. Recycled items could keep on going round and round so long as they continue to be recycled.

I'm sure I re-use, recycle and repurpose many other things. Do you?

Please visit the other Alphabet Bloggers by clicking on the links and please join in if you would like. Next week's letter is Q as we are going backwards in the alphabet.

Dreamer

johnnyjumpsup

KC's Court

Cathy

xx

One (wo)man's trash ...

… is another (wo)man's treasure.

Thank you to my friend who is having a de-clutter. I'm sure I'll have a ball with these balls of yarn - 3 ply, 4 ply, DK and cotton.

Whooah!

xx

For DD

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List 52 - Week 12

I'm joining in with Dreamer's 52 list and am choosing small tasks that I've been avoiding and would like to do/finish. My list is written in my organiser and I hope this will give me a kick up the backside and spur me on. My twelfth week task is:

12. Tidy the cupboards in the kitchen. Take or give away any unwanted or unused items. You need to know exactly what you have in there!

I sorted out the cupboards and separated DD's 'bottom drawer' items (crockery, bakeware, glasses, teapot, pans), other items were sent to the CS. 

Spurred on by neat and tidy kitchen cupboards I also blitzed the under stairs, the sideboard and the airing cupboard.

Whoa, steady - I still need some chaos.

Now my task is to stay tidy -

not a chance of that then!

xx

Alphabet Blogging - S

S is for Spring

The Vernal Equinox was yesterday and spring is officially here.



The weather today is sunny but still cold. Yesterday we had a biting wind and it rained. As the saying goes -

March comes in like a lion
And goes out like a lamb.

- so I hope the weather will warm up soon.

S is for Sowing Seed

Today I sowed parsnip (better late than never) and leeks straight into the ground.

S is for Should I?

Should I brush the breakfast in bed toast crumbs out of the bed before I make it in the morning or should I wait until the middle of the night when I turn over and find them? :)

Please visit the other Alphabet Bloggers by clicking on the links.

Dreamer

johnnyjumpsup

KC's Court

Cathy

xx

Sockywocky

Sockywocky

 (with apologies to Lewis Carroll)

‘Twas knittig and the slipsy needs
Did twid and twiggle for an abe,
All knotsy were the bally wools
And the mumsy nit outrabed.

“Beware the Sockywock, O Mum!
The stits that slip, the needs that clack!
Beware the counting pat with some
Mistakes - oh woe, alack!”

She took her clicky needs in hand:
Long time the slippy stits she thwart --
Then rested she by the bloggy tree,
To tell the world her thoughts.

And, as she tipped and tapped away
The Sockywock, and tugley woo - l
Called in tantilistic way
'Pick me up and keep your cool!'

Heely flappy turn and gurn
Gusset sorted click away
Slipsy, knitsy, is this furn?
K2tog and ssk ( :[ )

One, two! One, two! And three and four!
The clicky kneeds went knitty clack
She strove to do just more and more,
Moved onwards, broke its back.

“And hast thou slain the Sockywok?”
“Oh no, not yet but to be fair
One joyous day, I’ll blog away
And show the world the finished pair.”

xx