Cold Hands Warm Heart

Hi ladies, alas I have no cowboy boots to share (no Rose, I have not overcome my 'thrift town induced' jealousy) but I have been doing some making. Here is a broach I made for my friend's birthday...
Here's some wrist warmers (or 'wriztletz') my mum told me how to make...

And finally, my new favourite things in the world, mittens with fleece lining!! I had to start them 5 times to get it right but it was worth it!

They kept me mighty warm this morning, they are wonderful and brown so you look like a bear (or at least Rachel does when she tries to type in them). Rose I can't wait to hear more about your Amercian adventures (although I'm not sure I'll believe you as I like to pretend you're still in Bermondsey and just choosing not to spend time with me), I was with you in spirit in Thrift Town. I think you may have been with me in the animal charity shop in le Corn as well, the wedding dress was still there (a bargain at £30)! Love you Rose you thrifty b*tch x x x

Kiwi Kookie Kutters

I got these for Christmas, we used them to make the Cheeseboard kiwi, and then I made gingernuts.

Xmas Gloves

These are the fingerless mittens made for Claire for Christmas. Not much good when it is so cold here! You need finger-full mittens, ay Flair!?
I am jealous of your dresses Rose, take a pic of you wearing them, I bet you look awesome.

Thrift Town and other Frisco Thrift Shops

Thrift Shops in the USA are amazing. They are enormous - big barns on highways, not little high street shops like in the UK.

One of the best we went to was Thrift Town in San Francisco. Thanks so much Flair for your tip. I hope you can get over your jealousy of my trip there and find it in your heart to still like me!

It was an amazing shop, on two floors with all the clothes organised in colour order. (That's my perferred method of Thrift shop organisation by the way!) Thrift Town is on Mission, a really old part of San Francisco, near the beautiful old Spanish church and mission buildings. Its an area where loads of Mexicans live now as well as lots of hipsters so we fitted in just fine!

I bought two blue green dresses in San Francisco - my favourite is the silk one, from Thrift Town - it was $5.

You'll be pleased to know there are three excellent "Op Shops" in Otaki. Two of them are closed until the 11th of January for summer holidays but you can be sure we'll become regulars once they open again.

Hope you guys are having some fruitful charity shopping expeditions over the winter. Miss you xxx

Cowboy Boots Y'all

I wanted to show y'all the Cowboy boots I bought in Houston, Texas yesterday.

I think this is appropriate for our "knitting" blog, considering the activities of our "knitting" circle were varied!

So, I really wanted some Cowboy boots. We saw this Boot Barn off the freeway after we had been to the Houston Space Center. Everyone who worked there wore either check shirts tied around their waists or big ten gallon hats.

Robert spent a long time looking at the expensive belt buckles and I tried on lots of boots. I hope you like these ones - they are super comfortable. I do worry that the style in general doesn't do much for ankles but I think they work pretty well so far.

We also went to the most amazing charity shop today: it was enormous and everything colour coded. (My personal favourite arrangement for charity shops). It was super cheap and all the dresses were $9.00. I tried on a few and looked at all the denim skirts but because we have to watch our pennies we just bought a $1.00 softball for throwing hard at each other.

The Black Wolf Knitters. Rowan, Anh, Flair, Rose (Steph was photographer)

Hat hat hat