Lariath- Live a Little.

What is now called the Road of Remembrance was originally called Slope Road. This was the route millions of soldiers marched down on their way to Folkestone harbour, on to the trenches in France and Belgium in WW1. The community around the Church that I grew up in is joining many others in making hand knitted poppies to line the Road of Remembrance. As well as sending poppies to the Road of Remembrance St Gabriel's Church in Blackburn will be making a big poppy out of many small poppies to place outside the church on Remembrance Sunday. Here's the lady who started it all on the  BBC News . As I have never actually knitted anything, I had completely no idea how to knit, this was a big challenge for me. It took me a very very long time to get the hang of knitting. I found casting on rather easy but after that everything just went wrong. After trying again and again and getting very fed up of casting on I managed to get my knitting to actually look like knitting (I think)....

Here's a quick and cheap toy I make for Tim quite regularly. Equipment: Toilet roll tube/kitchen roll tube Natural String (important see 'Safety' below)   Scissors Hamster food/treats I save all my toilet roll tubes and kitchen roll tubes etc to make toys for Tim. This is the best toilet roll tube toy I have made so far they seem to keep Tim entertained for a while and only takes me 5 minutes to make. All I do it grab a tube fold in one end of the tube and place some food/treats in the tube.   Then I fold the other end of the tube so that the treats cannot fall out.   I then use the scissors to make two small holes as the top of the tube, thread the string through the holes and tie to the top of the cage.    Voilà! The first time I made this toy Tim ignored it completely because he couldn't smell the food that was in there. To make him more interested I pulled open one of the ends a little so that he could smell t...

I finished the Solomon's knot shawl which I think looks nice as it is but I wanted to see what it looked like with a bit of a fringe or tassels or whatever you wish to call them. The fringe was easy and quick to complete. I'm not going to try to write down how I did them just watch this Youtube Video  it will give you the right idea. I only wanted thin tassels so I used two strands of yarn for each tassel which makes 4 strand tassels. This was enough for the look I wanted. Click  Here  for shawl without the tassels and a link to the shawl pattern.  Feel free to let me know if you think the shawl looks better with or without tassels.  Enjoy this post?