Bad Blogger Award goes to…. me!

Oh, I have been such a bad blogger.  Not just an absent blogger (second post in February?  Really?!), but a lax and lazy one, too.  I did not take a single photograph at Textiles in Focus.  I have been knitting on super-secret projects which I cannot share.  There has been nothing on my looms all year.  My latest spinning project has reached the plying stage, but I don’t think I’ve blogged about it at all – or even the previous one.

So it’s a good job someone else has been producing pretty pictures for me to show off, hmm?  Jen was the winner of the very first (yarny) Saturday Giveaway (there were a couple of bookish ones first) – and just look what she’s made with her winnings!

Isn’t that glorious??  (I love this photograph: the smile, the snow, the red-turquoise contrast, the yummmy shawl!)  I’m sure I’ll bore everyone to tears by repeating this all the time, but: I *never* get bored of seeing what everyone makes with my yarn and fibre.  (This was a one-off skein; a colourway very similar to ‘Kingfisher’ on a Bluefaced Leicester laceweight that I decided not to carry as a regular line!  Jen seems to have enjoyed knitting with it, though…  so perhaps I should change my mind?)

The pattern is Flukra, by Gudrun Johnston, and Jen’s own blog post about this project is here.  (If you don’t already read Jen’s blog, you probably should!  Jen is a knitter and designer par excellence, and she writes beautifully.  If that’s not enough to tempt you over, there’s also food, quilting and gardening to leaven the mix.  As a bonus, the wonderfully cheery header of her blog never fails to make me smile!)

Thank you, Jen, for allowing me to share your photo here; everyone else, the Saturday Giveaways will be starting up more regularly again very soon now – perhaps even as soon as this week!  And, errm, I’ll try to keep you posted on my own projects, too.  This is supposed to be a blog, after all, right?