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Crafty Little Rat Podcast - Episode 17!

Look Ma! Shownotes.

This week, just to be extra blooming fancy you get a photograph in the middle AND some at the end, with music and transitions! Maybe don't get too used to it, I'm still a bit of a rubbish podcaster!

FO Frenzy

1) Flight Of The Owl Shawl - Heather Anderson

Midwinter Yarns - Lithuanian Linen in Mouse 155g 762 yards

3.0mm needles

Previously shown on the podcast but not when it was blocked.

2) Lightning Strike Hat - Mina Philipp

Stylecraft Swift Knit Tweed 3114 Orkney. 180g 112 yards

9.0mm needles

3) Rhys' House Socks - Own Pattern.

Stylecraft Special Effects 1802 Foxtrot 90g 269 yards. 3.0mm needles

4) Lolli Shawl - Own Pattern

Conway + Bliss Lolli 61010 Slush - 150g 360 yards. 5.0mm needles

5) African Flower Blanket - Own/Heidi Bears/ Cyprus Textiles (half hexi)

Stylecraft Special DK - Duckegg 700g

50g of Grass, Pistachio, Mustard, Cypress, Lobelia, Kelly Green, Fuscia, Boysenberry, Empire and Tomato.

5.0mm Hook - 3863 yards in total!

You're still working on that?

1) Linus on the Line - Midwinter Yarns 4.0mm needle

Ullcentrum 2ply Sport. 1 skein Sky Pink, 1 skein Sky Turquoise

2) Aisling - Justyna Lorkowska 3.5mm needle

Ocean Park Yarns Classic Sock - Neon Splattered

RainCity Knits Super Sock - Bright Aqua

In A Spin

Finished! Milk Protein Fibre. 50g, 181 meters.

Current spin "Wool" fibre

Ooh Shiney!

"Wool" and 2 new bobbins.

Woolcraft Superwash Sock - colourway 46

Manos Del Uruguay Alegria colourway Atlantica

Yan Tan Tethera Peddero Twist Colourway Winter Beach

Other things mentioned!

St Fagans

Comments

Corwin

I was hoping I wouldn’t have to write this post for a while. I’d hoped at least not this side of Christmas; but he had other plans. Last Thursday Rhys came home from work to find him laid up in the cage, dehydrated and not interested in moving. Rhys tried tempting him with Peanut butter and he turned his nose up a it. Corwin… not accepting food meant it was a bad sign. A few weeks ago he’d started to loose movement in his hind quarters – as can happen in old rats. He was still moving around reasonably well; eating, drinking and snuggling and we agreed to take each day as it came. We took him to the vets that evening, and all agreed that the best thing to do for him was to let him go easily, peacefully and quietly in his sleep. Corwin came to us from SPA Vets in Gloucester. This was our vets before we moved to Newport and one I would heartily recommend to anyone in the area. He’d wandered in through someone’s cat flap and realising (thank goodness!) that he was...

Staycation

Hello all! I’ve had a very busy weekend with my parents being down. While waiting for them to come down I got another 4 squares done on my sock yarn blanket. The left two are from a special mini skein I was given several years ago. I’m not entirely sure when I got given it, but it was a very small skein, probably under 20 yards. Just right to add into my blanket and serve as a reminder though! Saturday we went to Dyffryn gardens – A national trust property that they’re working on restoring. None of us are gardeners, but there was such a lovely selection – In the summer I’ll borrow more photos off my mum’s camera as I thought I’d forgotten mine for the start. Rhys was very enamoured by the cactus room. Sunday we were up and off an on. We went on some Segway’s at Chepstow diving centre, as we booked so late 9am was the only time slot, which was nice as we got to have the rest of the day to ourselves. Poor Mum fell off at the last bit (she’d misjud...

UFYL Day 3-

Yesterday was a day off because I worked all day. The idea is to get the house to a stage where 20 mins a day in the dedicated room will do it; but we are not yet at that stage so I had a day off. OH did some laundry and attempted to scrub at a mould stain. Today- Bathroom, Spare Room and Cupboard Under the stairs. Bathroom: Before So to start off with grout got scrubbed. See the little white patch in the before? That was where I’d attacked it with baking soda about a week ago. As a result the bathroom was clean-ish but horribly cluttered. I got rid of any bottles that we didn’t use anymore, any face cloths that were damaged because they hadn’t been washed in a while (Note to self, next paycheck buy new ones- Ebay?) and just generally sorted. All surfaces got wiped down including the outside of the toilet bowl, the stem of the sink, the pipes behind the loo, the outside of the bath and the skirting boards. Emptied the bin, removed that POS “organiser” from a...

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