Rainy Long Weekend

It's a long weekend here in Australia, and it's pretty cold and miserable.

Saturday was busy, I headed into the World Wide Knit in Public Day in Sydney, watched Pirates of the Caribbean 4 in 3D, and then we wandered around the city checking out the amazing light sculptures for the Sydney VIVID light festival. Lots of buildings, including the Opera House, have light patterns beamed on to them, it is so cool. The Fire Dance at Campbell Cove was one of the most amazing things I've ever seen, they had fire jets to choreographed to the sound of music. I absolutely loved it!

I finally joined Pinterest and played on that all morning, it's a great way of keeping inspirational pics together, I just need to find more boards to follow. If you're on Pinterest, please let me know in the comments so I can follow you!

Today will be spent doing pleasant things:

Walking: In my gumboots to the library

Eating: Porridge with golden syrup
Knitting: Appalachia hat
Blocking: Lace Ribbon Scarf
Reading: Started Early, Took my Dog
Drinking: Tea

Back into knitting

I have done so little knitting since I came back to Australia ( now over three years ago!). But recently I've ben getting the itch again. I have a pretty big stash of sock yarn, but find it difficult to finish a pair. I decided to knit a scarf instead and I tried the Lace Ribbon Scarf by Veronik Avery on Knitty.

It's an easy lace pattern that's fun to knit, and I loved seeing which colour would make each stitch. I used Trekking XXL, which is a lovely sock yarn.

This is a close up of the pattern:



Here is the scarf in all its glory, I used the whole skein.



Now I just have to block it!