Tuesday 16 December 2008

nice knitting...knitting with alliteration...

My darling Ms Reva fights sleep every night. I lie there beside her, wondering why the heck* this should be so, why should a tiny 6 year old who is quite clearly exhausted beyond belief both physically and mentally not fall to slumber with grace and ease. My wondering has thus far yielded no results. We have some of our oddest and most intimate conversations at this time of day. As well as some blooming irritating ones where she is obviously just racking her brains for anything to say to keep herself awake and I am like a broken record with my refrain (in increasingly stressed tone) of "no more talking now dear" (I don't really say the "dear" bit - I just put that in to make me sound nicer than I really am at that time of night after a long long day. I normally stop, sternly, after the word "now"). Anyway, I digress. One night last week it emerged that Ms Reva now knows all about alliteration, she's learned it at school. She delighted in repeating examples of said grammatical feature while I wondered about sleep deprivation and its long term effects on the under tens. And their mothers. It emerged she also knows all about similes now too. (Tautologies? no, I reckon I am safe... for now). Don't they grow up fast now though? I seem to remember learning this kind of stuff in secondary school at about twice her tender age.

So, in the spirit of alliteration, I share with you:

some fingerless mittens for Maaya (my lovely Japanese friend) who recently turned an age with a 0 on the end and threw a wonderful party


these are Evangeline (you need to be a ravelry member to access the free pattern I am afraid - another great reason to join eh?) knit in Debbie Bliss Cashmerino aran on size 5.0




and a capelet for Katy (I checked, as long as the sound is the same it counts, apparently) who is far too young and needs to celebrate a 0 laden birthday before I can possibly take her seriously^. Katy has been having a rather unpleasant time of it with a wicked teacher who ignores the needs of young children when it come to the notion of Father Christmas and so it was nice to (hopefully) cheer her up.


in Rowan Cocoon in kiwi on size 8.0

Great patterns both


I have plans for another capelet in a kind of purple, as well as some mittens for myself for those days I want to knit in the park, however I am in the throes of frantic secret gift knitting at the moment so those will have to wait...

I hope you are all bearing up well in this season of insanity (if truth be told I'm getting more manic by the day...)

*"why the heck" being Ms Bester's favourite phrase of exclamation which she reckons is just the right side of proper swearing to earn her no more than an indulgent tutting - I LOVE it!
^joke

7 comments:

Apryl said...

beautiful fingerless gloves, and lovely capelet for Katy.

I should be doing alot right now but am not quite recovered from being poorly with a bad fever and cough the last few days.. I'm not sure I will catch up with what I need to do before Christmas..

JuliaB said...

hehe! my son did the alliteration thing at about the same age and I was as bemused (?) as you!! xx

Anonymous said...

I love the caplet, lucky girl! My daughter used to fight sleep and now she's almost a teen is refusing to leave her bed (stil there now) and of-course will use the hols as an excuse to stay up late!

Aileen Clarke Crafts said...

What beautiful knitting! Found you via flickr : )

Jackie said...

Poor little thing. She should only know about plasticene and paper chains and lovely stories..although perhaps her teacher explained alliteration for the benefit of those who may unertand and she was one of those.
My son was equally averse to giving in to sleep.

Knit Sew City Girl said...

Such lovely knitting! I like the green capulet very much.

Mary

Julie said...

Love the gloves! Btw, you've been tagged! No pressure, check out my blog if you wanna play.