tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19086310.post-82618756716205583622008-04-07T06:20:00.003+01:002008-04-07T10:27:07.959+01:00A wild and windy couple of days - horizontal snow much of the time and gritters on all the major roads. Why do I remember getting summer clothes and sandals at Easter as a child? Is that one of those trick childhood memories that turns every Summer holiday into a <a href="http://www.enidblyton.net/famous-five/">Famous Five</a> book or is the weather really shifting so drastically?<br /><br />We walked on the beach, dressed like we were walking across Antarctica, and drove up to the <a href="http://portcities.hartlepool.gov.uk/server.php?show=ConNarrative.17&chapterId=58&outputRegister=lowhtml">Heugh Breakwater</a>, near my new school, to watch the waves in action.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_JRG_s-0s88A/R_mvUt9MPnI/AAAAAAAAAuo/dez0ZPpVwhI/s1600-h/P1010026.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_JRG_s-0s88A/R_mvUt9MPnI/AAAAAAAAAuo/dez0ZPpVwhI/s320/P1010026.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186369216362331762" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_JRG_s-0s88A/R_mvU99MPoI/AAAAAAAAAuw/457F9oI5axs/s1600-h/P1010028.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_JRG_s-0s88A/R_mvU99MPoI/AAAAAAAAAuw/457F9oI5axs/s320/P1010028.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186369220657299074" /></a><br /><br />What a person needs, when the weather is like this, is a bright, bright, bright cosy wool sweater:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_JRG_s-0s88A/R_noFN9MPpI/AAAAAAAAAu4/ouCb4FZpccU/s1600-h/P1010001.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_JRG_s-0s88A/R_noFN9MPpI/AAAAAAAAAu4/ouCb4FZpccU/s320/P1010001.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186431622237142674" /></a><br /><br />Terrible picture, but lovely sweater. This is my take on <a href="http://ahknits.typepad.com/knititude/2006/09/chinese_lace_pu.html">Chinese Lace Pullover</a> by Angela Hahn. My modifications were: longer body (about 3 inches more), merino dk instead of cotton/silk, added some rows of garter stitch around the neck as I felt the neckline was too low when I had finished it, only did 1 repeat of lace around the sleeves so they weren't too fussy.<div class="blogger-post-footer">My attempts to ravel up my life: my journeys, knitting, food and drink, gardening and life in teaching. My life with fibromyalgia.</div>Gillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05049611846718674865noreply@blogger.com