getting stuff done...

So you know how it is, something needs to be finished and you look at it day in day out until finally you say 'enough is enough'.  Less than an hour later of this thought the dress that had been started before Christmas and sat waiting for nearly three months to be finished... well it got finished...This is my second attempt at the JANE AUSTIN dress designed by the fabulous Mason and Dixon girls.  Its just the prettiest girlie dress.  Knitting and sewing combined, just my kinda thing.  With no girlie's of my own, what am I to do?  Its a good job I know some pretty special little girls... and this will be winging its way to one of them later this week...
Its a swishy swirly dress, ideal for dressing up play, party wear or even wearing over a tee and jeans for a more trendy look...
Now often its hard to get a child to wear something that has been handmade, my usual trick, especially for the boys, is to add in a pocket and put something in it... for the dress maybe a little knitted heart to match the outfit perhaps, for the boys its usually a bit of Lego...
So with this project finally getting finished and parcelled up I have had time to get on with 'my' new project, my tweed yarn is slowly being knitted up in to the most gorgeous tactile fabric...
Feeling a little under the weather at the moment, I have lost my voice, anyone that knows me will know how serious I think this is, others may see it as a nice rest for their ears!!!  So I am sat sitting in silence, its amazing how much more I get done when I am not out being social or chatting on the phone.

Hopefully, all being well, we are off beachwards this weekend, its starting to happen, the promise of brighter things to come, was it really three months ago I sat in front of the fire, thick snow on the ground longing for the summer, complaining that it seemed so far away and now it feels like a real possibility.

Have a great weekend, keep well and enjoy what you do.  Just made myself a cup of coffee and the pattern on the top is a beautiful perfect little heart... like the Starbucks ones... surly is a good sign...