Cuckoo

I’m so excited, I just had to share this.   My birthday present to myself arrived about a month earlier than I thought it would.   I am now the proud owner of a cuckoo clock!  Believe it or not, it is the first clock in our apartment.  AJD and I use our cell phones as watches, alarm clocks, calculators, and very seldom, we use them to communicate.   I may change the pastic stag head on the clock for a wooden one, and likewise the plastic pine cones for metal ones.  We’ll see.

Speaking of changes, I’ve been rearranging quite a lot around here.  My living room, my time, and my priorities.  I need to spend less time with the knitting and more time with the painting, which means less knitting in general.  When I do knit, the patterns are not going to be terribly creative.  More like easy-knitting, stash-busting projects or Christmas presents.   And I’m on a diet, so there’s going to be way less baking content, at least until my birthday.  Not terribly exciting blog fodder, but then, I’m not sure how many people still read this blog after my hiatus last month.  I’m doing a really great job of encouraging you all not to delete me from your browsers, aren’t I?  Lest you think the knitting content will completely disappear:

Another hap shawl.  The navy blue hap shawl is for BK, and the light blue shawl is for JR.  Both ladies are my grandmas, and as such, I can be garunteed that they will at least fiegn delight in their Christmas gifts.   BK’s shawl colors are closer to the original Bressay Hap Shawl (Rowan 42), and JR’s shawl colors are taken from her clan’s tartan, and mixed with natural sheep colors.  JR’s closest clan is Campbell, and Ancient Campbell tarten is made up of lovely teals and light blues.  I think she’ll like my interpretation for her, even if it doesn’t scream ‘tartan.’

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