Tangelled Angel

I’d like to extend my heartfelt thanks to everyone who joined us on our special day,especially my brother Kevin who came all the way from America to spend the day with us, oh okay then, my other relatives who also came all the way from America also
It was lovely seeing everyone, and while I felt that I didn’t get to talk to everyone on the day, I know that people understand that.

Everyone was SO generous with their wedding presents also, I still feel a little overwhelmed by it!I’m going to be working on thank you cards over the next while and get them out to you all. 
I bought a gocco for my sister for her birthday last year, and I think I may try and persuade her to let me use it/help me with it to make some personal thank you cards. Failing that,(or my poor attempts at it) it will be bought ones…watch this space!

Knitting has resumed in its usual intensity/ferocity.
Lots of people, even my Mum, thought I was weird to bring knitting with me on my HONEYMOON (said in extreme horror- you’re not bringing knitting on your HONEYmoon???), but you know, you can’t do honeymoon stuff all the time, I knew that we would be spending a lot of time in Aruba either by the pool or on the beach, and what about the flying time??
At my Hen party, Isobel and Diane gave me, among other things, a ball of cotton/wool sock yarn (Lana Grossa Meilenweit Cotton Fun) so that I could knit something lacy while sitting on the beach (you see- knitters understand!!).  I looked into a lot of sock patterns before I left, and had brought a lacy sock pattern with me, from the first yarn forward magazine, and cast on en route to San Francisco on the plane. It didnt work out for me gadge wise, and I only had the one pair of needles with me in my carry on (in case they were confiscated, they weren’t good ones) so I waited until we got to SF before casting on again with a smaller size.
Fast forward to Aruba and I had knit the sock pattern short so instead of a normal size sock; it would be an ankle sock. I should have realised at the time why I did this- I really wasn’t enjoying the lace pattern OR the sock, but I soldiered on and turned the heel. It was only when I resumed the lace pattern after turning the heel that I gave in and not very reluctantly frogged the sock.

Here’s where the amazing power of Ravelry came in.

I loved this yarn, it was light and airy and lovely to knit with, but I needed a pattern to do it justice. I knew of such a pattern, it was in my projects on ravelry and I knew I could get my grubby little hands on it as the hotel we were staying in had a business centre with 3 pc’s, access to the internet 24 hours and a printer!! Yay.
My sister is expecting, and is due the end of August/start of September, and before the wedding I was itching to get stuck into some baby patterns but held off as I needed to get the honeymoon wrap finished first,

so I told myself that when I came back from honeymoon, I’d get stuck right in.
I started early…

Love this yarn.
Love this pattern (if you can look at my ravelry page, you’ll see that!).
Decided to use the cable stitch in a matching accessory.
So I designed a baby hat to go with the booties. I’m test knitting it a second time at the moment, and then a friend is going to be test knitting it from the pattern I’m writing up and then I can release it.