My Yarndale Uniform

Reflecting back on my Make 9 for 2019 made me realise I hadn’t shared any photos of my finished yarndale uniform*. Which is actually one of the few projects I intended to do & actually did, allowing me to tick “Berry cardigan” off my list!

I have always enjoyed seeing everyone’s Yarndale uniform projects collected together in previous years, however this was the first year I joined in.

I liked the knitting pattern selected, the feather and fan texture on the bottom did it for me, but the cardigan as a whole wasn’t my cup of tea so I decided to adapt it quite a bit.

My initial plan was to make it shorter, fitted on the waist and continue the feather and fan pattern up the whole body and have plain sleeves. Which I did to a certain extent…

I knitted the whole cardigan in one piece and incorporate the shaping into the sides; I cast on the size that would fit my hips and planned to decrease enough stitches by the time I got to the waist to go down a couple of sizes. This took a little bit of thinking, ripping back and head scratching/discussion at Knit group, (the latter is always useful). Helping me decided to just decrease the width of one pattern repeat over the hips and not try and keep it in pattern as that was causing me too much of a headache – I really liked the result.

Once I’d knitted past the waist and split for the fronts and back, I discovered I didn’t have enough stitches to do the v-neck and arm hole decreasing as I’d planned, but then had a mini light bulb moment and moved the neckline decreases to the side of one pattern repeat allowing me to continue the pattern up the front. I kept the garter stitch row of the feather and fan pattern to kind of keep it in pattern and I think it worked.

I much prefer knitting sleeves top down, as it’s much easier to adapt as you go, so I used Knitionary’s very useful tutorial, particularly for me on this occasion it was a sensible approach as it was looking like I’d not get my full sleeves knitted in time for Yarndale so I just cast off, wore it to the show and then later ripped back the cuff and re-knitted the sleeves longer.

It looks ok with 3/4 length sleeves however as someone who permanently has cold hands I like my cardigan sleeves full length especially in a dk weigh one that I’ll be wearing though the winter.

Looking a little tired, coming to the end of Yarndale. Thanks for the photo Jem Weston

I was really surprised by how many people complimented me on my cardigan at yarndale and asked for the pattern where I had to accompany my response with “though it bares very little resemblance to the actual pattern now”.

The finished garment isn’t perfect (the fit around the top of my arms isn’t the best), however I don’t mind, I learnt stuff & enjoyed having to flex some brain cells to make my adaptions and since finishing the sleeves (again) in November I’ve worn it a lot, which is always a good sign!

Yarn is Sirdar No.1, pattern is King Cole 5365 both bought from Knit Nottingham I have also listing the project on my Ravelry page here.

Isn’t this a happy bunch, all wearing their own version of the Yarndale uniform!

*Where customers from Knit Nottingham vote on a knitting & Crochet pattern to create and wear to Yarndale.

Lace Weight – trials and tribulations

I decided to tackle a new challenge over Christmas and I cast on the Anisoptera shawl by Petitchoufleur that I picked up at Yarndale, my first lace weight project.

I have discovered that although I do love knitting, I do not love all aspects of knitting. I do not like knitting in lace weight yarn – at all!! As I have been battling with this lace shawl, I have been contemplating why I do not like it and I have decided it’s just too delicate, too fine and too fiddly. I like my knitting more robust. I like to be able to see the structure and I’m so used to being able to read my knitting, which I have massively struggled with in lace. I enjoy discovering designers clever uses of different increases and decreased to great effect however I found myself wondering why I was bothering with a ssk, instead of a k2tog tbl when it really doesn’t look significantly different enough in such a loose knit. I also discovered a hatred for p2tog tbl (what a hideously awkward stitch – particularly in lace weight), each time I had to do these I felt myself getting more and more frustrated, when the main reason I knit, it to relax and produce something lovely.

Not the best photo & it’s a bit crumpled – to be fair not my best knitting either!

My issues are no reflection on the pattern, which is really pretty with cleverly layered lace sections, it’s just not for me!

Having already committed to doing about a quarter of the shawl and having found it frustrating to follow the pattern, I know I went wrong somewhere; my row count didn’t match up at the end of the rows and I found myself saying “Duck it!” a lot (disclaimer: that might not have been the actual word used)! I wasn’t vaguely interested in figuring out what happened, where and how to fix it, very unlike me, in any other project I’ve have figured out what the problem was and sorted it even ripping back whole sections & garments to ensure they’re right. So having got to a convenient point to change tack (after the first lace chart), I decided from here I’m just going to wing it. Knit until it’s big enough or I have run out of yarn so I at least have a finished shawl/scarf to wear.

I wrote this post a little while ago (over the Christmas period), mainly to off load my frustrations – it worked I felt much better once I’d written about it, that and screwing up the pattern (I’m slightly ashamed about that – but it felt bloody brilliant at the time and a great stress reliever – we’ve all been there, right?) It was my intention to continue on with this project, I will someday – currently a bit fed up of it, so it has joined the few other WIP’s I have for now. It did however spur me on to pick my Blaithin cardigan back up (been in Aran weight yarn and much more my cup of tea). Good progress has been made and hopefully I’ll be sharing the finished garment with you soon.

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Yarndale 2015

Last weekend, was a great weekend, spent with lovely friends and friendly strangers at Yarndale – what I believe to be the best yarn event/festival I’ve been to. Admittedly I’ve not been to them all (yet!) but Yarndale is a high bench mark. I wish I had taken more photos, but at least these capture some of the colour and variety on show.

I wanted to go this year anyway after missing it last year, but when my friend Jem Weston, had her stall confirmed she asked me if I’d be able to help out and I was very happy to do so. This was Jem’s first solo event and she did incredibly well, I’m sure anyone who saw her stand would agree – her staging and attention to details was great, there’s more photos of her lovely work over on her blog.

What I enjoyed most about the whole weekend was just how lovely and friendly everyone was, from consumers to other stall holders and the organisers. I’ve not chatted to so many different people in one weekend before – it was fantastic! It was also a joy to see so many people wearing their wonderful creations and I was very flattered by the many compliments I got on both my Hedgehog Jumper and my colour affection shawl and how many of those people were impressed to discover the jumper was my first 4ply, first fairisle garment that I also adapted (originally Kate Davies Paper Dolls) and (don’t get me wrong, it’s far from perfect, with visible jogs up the sleeves and a slightly too tight neckline – but I love it and I’m rather proud of it).

I set out with a goal for Yarndale – a new challenge – I haven’t really knitted much lace before, I have knitted the odd pattern with a little bit of lace involved, like the clover lace wrap cardigan, but I wanted the challenge of a complicated lace pattern with different elements – I thought a shawl would be a great place to start. I tend to wear shawls more like a scarf, wrapped around my neck, rather than over my shoulders, so I knew I wanted a long thin shape rather than a triangular one. I found a lovely pattern on the Sylvan Tiger Yarns stall called Anisoptera by Petitchoufleur knits, in my desired shape and incorporates 3 stacking lace patterns – definitely a challenge for me! I searched for some lace weight yarn and narrowed it down to a few but it actually came down to colour, I decided on a jade green colour and the best match for that was on the John Arbon Textiles stall and I got 2 skeins (I’d hate to run out and it was only £5) of organically farmed Merino lace weight yarn in what’s called Teal Blue, which in reality I think is the perfect green jade colour. I think this may have to be a pattern that’s done alongside something a little more straight forward as I don’t fancy my chances of it going very well if I take it to Knit in Notts with me.
Being surrounded by yarn has done me the world of good I’m feeling very motivated to get knitting again, and since Yarndale I have knitted one of Jem’s Lazy Lace Cowls, the pattern and yarn was a  present from Jem for helping her out at on her stand and it was a delight to knit. Being able to knit an entire item in less than a week (albeit a small item) was much needed after my last (slightly frustrated) blog post about things not going to plan. Jem chose colours she knew I’d like – my finished cowl will go very well with my beloved handbag and be a good contrast with my grey winter coat, I just need to sew in the ends and give it a little press.

Now to get stuck back into finishing my other projects. I tried to rescue my cross pockets cardigan by blocking the outer pockets, which unfortunately wasn’t successful (but worth a try) however I have accepted the fact that the bottom of the cardigan will have to be ripped back and re-knitted. While I was blocking the cross pockets I did re-start my Blaithin so at least I’m a little bit further on with that now too! PROGRESS at last!

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Colour Affection

I mentioned in a blog post in January that I was very close to finishing my Colour Affection shawl. I have now finished – I actually finished and blocked it last week, however I’ve only just had the chance to photograph it. I was very disciplined and didn’t knit anything else until it was finished. I have already got going on my jumper though and am enjoying how fast it is knitting up.

I had admired this pattern and the finished results of other knitters for a while and after seeing this blog post by Move Eat Create, quite some time ago (I love the colours used) I decided it was definitely going into my Ravelry queue.

I chose colours I knew would go with the colours I wear, even though I was tempted to go down the bright and bold route. You can see what the exact yarns I went for in my ravelry projects.

I have to admit that my relationship with this shawl have been a little up and down at times. I think I’m suffering the same kind of disappointment that you get when someone tells you a film is amazing and you watch it eagerly anticipating great things and it turns out it was just ‘ok’. This is how I feel about this pattern, I expected wonderful things – after all over 11,000 ravelry members have knitted it, bit I think it may have just been over hyped for me.

Stretched out it is pretty long, it hung over the end of a double bed!

Don’t get me wrong though – I think the pattern is rather clever and I love the overall effect, I just found the long rows towards the end a little tedious. I was very conscious of keeping my colour changes at the end of the rows quite loose, however I had a horrible sinking feeling after I cast off that it was all too tight and curly. However a good blocking sorted it out; I stretched the edge of the shawl until I thought it might break, then pinned the life out of it and left  it to dry.

I must admit I strayed from the pattern slightly (& unintentionally). On the short row section I miss-read “k 3 past the previous wrapped st” and ended up including the wrapped stitch in the 3 stitches which mean I ended up knitting more short row than were intended, I realised when re-reading the pattern (after the project was hibernated so I could knit my Mum’s Christmas jumper) but at that point I’d done too many rows wrongly that I decided to continue as I had been doing. I also kept loosing track of the number of the double increase rows while doing the short rows, so I just abandoned them, it made keeping track of the pattern far easier and neither error had a detrimental effect on the finished article so it was alright in the end.

I’ve found I tend to wear it more like a scarf. I knitted it in 4ply so I can get away with wearing like this with out it being too bulky.

Overall I’m quite pleased with the end result despite my hic-ups. Now I can get stuck back into my jumper… it’s not grown much so far, but I’ve only been knitting once a week at knit group in the last couple of weeks as I’ve been busy with (what feels like) a million other projects.

I hope to be able to have it finished and wearing it before the end of winter….we’ll see!

Knitting Discipline

Having finished my Mum’s Christmas Jumper I can now return to my previous project that has been in hibernation since the beginning of Nov. I am about 95% through knitting the colour affection shawl, it really is a labour of love and it was an ideal project to knit over late summer last year as it wasn’t too bulky, I even took it on Holiday to France with me. However I am only 5cm away from finishing it but it it sooooo long now (approximately 450 stitch on each row) it is feeling like a never ending project.

Almost finished Colour Affection Shawl

So at Knit in Notts last night I had great fun discussing what my next project will be, to help spur me on to finish. I have a few things I would like to do, having just finished a jumper which I couldn’t keep, I’d quite like to knit a selfish jumper, and I have been intending to knit Kate Davies Puffin jumper from her wonderful book Colours of Shetland.

Kate Davies Stunning Design

I have even already selected the colours in my local yarn shop, Knit Nottingham. I just need to go pick up the yarn now. However I don’t think I can bring myself to cast on another 4ply project just yet.

My colour Combination, navy being the main body colour.

So my interim project is something knitted in a thicker double knit yarn that I actually started over Christmas. I frogged a cardigan I knitted years ago, that I just don’t wear the shape wasn’t great on me. The yarn was lovely Rowan silky tweed, so worth turning into something else. I only had 6 skeins (8 would have been ideal) so I bought two extra balls of yarn in another colour with the intention of knitting a jumper with some stripes, to help the yarn go further.

I selected a dark red to go with the charcoal grey tweedy yarn, however I soon realised  when I began adding the stripes the red was an error, I was probably influenced a little too heavily by the festive season as the jumper was just screaming CHRISTMAS and I didn’t want to be restricted by when I could sensibly wear it (without felling a little silly). So I opted for using the left over cream yarn from my Mum’s jumper instead. I’m sure my family thought I was mad, having witnessed me frog a cardigan followed two days later by the beginnings of a new jumper. However if you know it’s not right or that you won’t wear it it’s best to make the decision quickly and get going again straight away. Which I did, though I didn’t get very far, but at least I got it started & that’s the important thing.

I am following a lovely simple Brick jumper pattern  by Clare Lee, which is a free download on ravelry.

Clare’s lovely simple, round neck, Raglan sleeved, top down jumper.

I am going to add stripes around the top and possibly on the sleeves, with a little touch of fair isle, this is a doodle of the pattern, it should give a slight wavy effect  on the stripe and with having an extra row of alternate coloured stitches all the way across, it will hopefully soften the edge of the stripes.

Gotta love squared paper of knitting doodles & plotting.

However I am having to be disciplined and not dive straight into knitting the  jumper even though I’m itching to do so (especially since it is already cast on), I AM going to finished the my colour affection shawl first. Watch this space…

Yarndale & Amy Singer

 

The past few weeks for me have been rather busy, the nice kind of busy, a big Family birthday, playing with friends kittens, local & national Knitting events.

The lovely owner of Knit Nottingham, Eleanor, organised a coach trip to Yarndale last Saturday, so 49 yarn enthusiasts headed up to Yorkshire to the first ever Yarndale event. I already had plans, so wasn’t able to go….or so I thought! It was also my Dad’s 60th Birthday, so all Family & friends descended on my Parents house for the weekend. However, thinking that I wasn’t able to make it to Yarndale I hadn’t paid too much attention to where it was & as I arrived home one of the first things my Mum & Dad asked me was did I know there was a ‘Yarn show’ on in Skipton that weekend….which is only 40min drive away, so off a pottered for a few hours!

Yarndale was held at Skipton’s Auction Mart, which I felt was rather appropriate, I arrived only a few hours after it opened & already the car park was full (fortunately I was just getting dropped off close by) & there were helpful signs telling you to follow the bunting to get to event – perfect start!

More advantages of a knitting show in an Auction Mart…you can bring animals like these very friendly Alpacas

The wonderfully colourful work of Attic24’s brilliant blog!

Great artwork for Yarndale’s knitting area set up in one of the Auction Mart’s theatres

Very cute Angora bunnies

I got the general impression that far more people attended the show than were expected, it was very busy, with long queues for the few catering areas. However there was a great atmosphere (not as claustrophobic as some much larger knitting shows can be), there were chill out areas, workshops & loads of stalls, so not a bad day out at all. I was very well restrained & kept mentally reminding myself of the size of my yarn stash at home and bought very little.

As well as organising a trip to Yarndale, Eleanor has organised several workshops and a talk by Amy Singer of Knitty.com (a rather brilliant free online knitting magazine) while Amy has been oven in the UK. On Thursday evening I attended ‘An evening with Amy Singer’ and the slightly croaking Amy (she’s picked up a British cold) chatted to us about how Knitty began, its contributors and its growing popularity and how just a few yarn enthusiasts blogs helped propel the magazine into the limelight. It’s quite a humbling story really and I personally loved finding out a little more about a website I’ve taken for granted for so many years.

There is one knitting pattern I have knitted many times from Knitty.com, Fetching, a lovely pair of hand warmers with some simple cable detail. This was an ideal project for me when I was trying to find a few projects to advance my skills without being overwhelmed. I have knitting several pairs now and they have made great gifts.

Fetching hand warms from Knitty.com – click image to be taken to the pattern!

For a novice knitter you should never get put off my things being too hard. When Amy was asked about how the difficulty rating is set for patterns on Knitty, she had a great answer… that knitting isn’t difficult; it just has different concentration levels, which I thought was very apt. I regularly have a few projects on the go, one with low concentration for pub knitting & nattering, then a project that requires higher concentration for knitting at home with far fewer distractions.

I would highly recommend browsing around knitty.com. You can keep up to date with all of Eleanor’s knitting exploits, future workshops and events by following her blog & checking out Knit Nottingham’s website or facebook page.

Knit in Notts

Back in the beginning of 2007, having graduated the previous year, started a new job and generally having had reality hit me in the face – for the first time ever my whole life wasn’t revolving around some form of education. With college & uni come the inevitable friends you make who have similar interests and I found myself not knowing many people in this city I’d decided was going to be my home. I had started knitting again while at university, having not done any since I was a small child. I’d enjoyed some very sociable evenings knitting & watching films with friends as poor students, so I decided to join a knitting group. Having failed to find a knitting group in Nottingham, I thought why not start one myself! So I did & in May of 2007 the first ever ‘Knit In Notts’ meeting happened at Lee Rosy’s tea on Tuesday the 29th May 2007.

For that first ever knit group I was so excited & nervous (being quite shy & convinced no one would turn up) I roped a few friends and colleagues into joining me for the first few weeks (so I wasn’t sat on my own) but soon word spread & I had new people coming along each week & those I’d coaxed to come along at the beginning were happily returning each week with no coaxing involved! Whoo, it was a success!

I’d put flyers & posters up in various places and soon I had loads of people coming. Here’s an illustration I created to use on the flyers – I wanted something simple, to the point & that could be printed in black & white (to keep the costs down). I was very pleased with how it turned out & once scanned into my computer I’ve used it for all Knit In Notts events and it has turned into a great little logo for us! One occasion it was used for was the posters & flyers for a whole week of events I set up for 2008’s national knitting week! Yes I may have gone overboard with an event every day of the week, however it was great fun to organise and we had loads of people get involved – it was wonderful. By far the most popular events were the knit & roast dinner as well as film & knit. You can see on the poster below all the events.

When I first started up the group I was keen to get everyone involved and did quite a few different events to encourage people to knit & shake off the notion that knitting is just for Grannies. Not long ago I used to get very strange looks while knitting on a train or in public, these days it doesn’t happen so much I know people talk about a resurgence in craft and from a personal level it is really noticeable & I think it’s great!

I have got so much out of knitting over the years I have learn so much from fellow knitters (& crochet-ers) than I could ever learn from books or YouTube. My knitting skills have improved loads (I’d never knitted a garment before starting the group) and now I’ve knitted all sorts of wonderful items. Woolly things aside I have gained confidence by making myself speak to new people and organise events. Most importantly to me I’ve made some great friends through knitting, friends I believe will be friends for life – all brought together through a love of knitting – isn’t that great!

We had a great little party last year to celebrate 5 years of knit in Notts with plenty of cake, knitting, silly games (including knitting themed pass the parcel) and wonderful people! Check out my knitting geek cakes I made for the occasion. You can also see a little video of the birthday cake moment on Knit Nottingham’s blog written by the lovely & brill Eleanor!

One knitting event that happens annually is World Wide Knit in Public Day (this year it’s a whole week) we’re organising a knitting picnic in the park this year. There are events happening all over the world, you can see if there’s an event near you on the official WWKIP website. We’re making it a casual affair, meeting in the Arboretum, for knitting, nibbling & nattering! Why not find out more here & join in the fun, even if you don’t knit, we’ll have plenty of spare yarn & needles, providing you with the perfect opportunity to give it a go.

We’re still meeting every week, in a new venue, The Broadway Cinema’s mezz bar & cafe where we have a little more space plus massive & wonderful windows which are always useful for more complicated knits! You can join us on facebook & join us for knitting every week!

Cats, tea & knitting!

So if you haven’t already happened across the wonderful work of Amy Blackwell, you should have a little gander! Her bright & fresh prints are amazing! After a few of my friends commissioned Amy to make custom kitty prints of their lovely felines, I too couldn’t resist getting my grumpy moggy’s portrait made.

I think the likeness is great, I love the detail in the background, makes me think of a patchwork quilt!

I couldn’t wait to get Lady Chipington framed and up on the wall!

http://www.amyblackwell.co.uk/

You can spy Amy in this photo (she’s on the right) creating a lovely crochet blanket – using up oddments of her yarn stash – very efficient!

Look at her lovely colour combination!

The lovely Jem Weston (in the photo with Amy above), wanted a few snaps of our lovely little knitting group – she chose a great location a lovely little vintage style cafe called White Rabbit Teahouse. It was a great excuse for Sunday brunch, getting us all out the house (as opposed to knitting at home while watching a bit of Sunday morning tv).

I love all the crockery and simple vintage inspired styling & check out my amazing slice of cake – pecan & maple – it was delicious!

 

Lovely knitters – In the photo above I’m wearing the first cardigan I knitted (without a pattern), I didn’t think I’d able to do it – however Eleanor (on the right) persuaded me it’d easy & to give it a go – I did & (it wasn’t as easy as she promised : P – but definitely worth doing) I do love it!

We’ll be having even more knitting gatherings soon, since it is Knit In Notts 6^th birthday next month, as well as Worldwide Knit in Public week in June!

Flying February

February so far has been a busy month & it’s not yet over. I have been on my good friend, Amy’s hen party last weekend, we had a great time at Sherwood Forest Center Parcs. One of the highlights for me was painting pottery, it was very relaxing (the only point of the weekend where we all fell silent – concentrating). Most of us painted coasters – nice small & practical items.

  The lovely Amy went for a striking motif in subtle colours.

Jem went for a wonderful bold & cheerful spotty design – I can’t believe she did all the spots by eye.

I went free-hand with dots & lines, sticking with 3 , it’s such a nice little memento of the weekend.

I’m just about caught up on sleep after one busy weekend & I’m already getting stuck into organising my stock for the Vintage & craft-fair I’m doing, on 3rd March at Wollaton park community hall, my first of 2013 and a perfect opportunity to make some lovely spring items & gifts in time for Mothers Day (don’t forget it’s 10th March).

Having creative friends is lovely, they help inspire you and they’re great for bouncing ideas off. It also means you’re there to help when they need it & you don’t feel bad when you need the favour returned – wonderful stuff!

In a previous post I mentioned helping out my friend with a small photo shoot at Wollaton Park, I can now reveal the end result. Jem Weston’s wonderful fairisle hat & mittens pattern created for Stash Fine Yarn, created in lovely Rowan felted tweed! I love the design (the squirrels are so cute & the colours are great) & fortunately Jem got the hat & mittens back in time to wear at the hen do!

Amazing fairisle Hat & Mitts, designed & modelled by Jem Weston for Stash fine yarn & photographed by me (Steph Gibbs) 🙂

Not only do I have creative friends, I also have very creative and talented colleagues at The Bead Shop, I spotted an update on facebook from Emma Ruth Jones’ about her latest creations & couldn’t resist this one…

I love this sweet little birdy, Emma has a few different coloured birds, including mint, perfect for spring summer, but I do love grey – it goes with almost everything! Thanks Emma!

Right, back to the crafting now, I just wanted to mention one other thing; on my way home from work today I needed a few small metal hooks for something I’m experimenting with at the moment, so I visited my favourite market stall, Aladdin’s Cave (& it really is). It is one of those places you pop in for one thing, spend ages looking around & buy more than you went in for, this little pile of treats only cost a whopping £2.99, absolute bargain!

BEST market stall ever! Aladdin’s cave, Victoria Market, Nottingham!

So now I’m off to go cut some paper up with my new fancy scissors & feel like a big kid!

Cute little Knits & a trip down memory lane!

Last Saturday night the lovely Jem Weston held a book launch for her first book published with Rowan. So as soon as I finished work I dashed across town to Tilt, a wonderful cocktail bar in Nottingham, to join in the celebrations. Tilt is the perfect venue for a party like this, the atmosphere was great & the settling perfect for all of Jem’s ‘cute little knits’ on show!

Collection Of Jem’s Cute Little Knits!

Close up of the knitted Hearts…trying to figure out which one I helped knit…

It has been an interesting journey to be a spectator, having shared some of the moments when Jem was excited about a new idea as well as a few frustrated when something hadn’t gone quite to plan, it’s so great to now see the finished printed book, it obviously it went down well, all 24 books brought along by Yarn sold in less than half an hour! I’m very impressed & proud of Jem & her achievement. I can’t wait for (hopefully) many more books!

Nottingham’s Knitting Celebrities. Jem Weston (left) & Eleanor Burke of Knit Nottingham (right)!

Close up of the Lovebirds Cushion

So after a not too late evening on Saturday, I was up at a reasonable hour Sunday morning, to head over to my Grandparents bungalow where I was meeting my parents & sister to retrieve valuable & sentimental items from their home before it is sold. Although we were supposed to be collecting up my Gran’s vast collections of handmade Embroidery and textile work (for which another blog will be dedicated to), we got massively side tracked by some fantastic photos we discovered, having never seen them before! I’m sure my little sister will not appreciate this, but I think she looks ever so sweet!

What a great combo – dresses & wellies! (I’m in the red ones)!

I love this! I think we thought we were very grown up with Gran’s hats & bags!
I love my sisters cheeky chops in this photo!