Miss Millie | Monkey Maker

New York Socks

I actively avioded learning to knit socks as I'd seen more than one case of the Sock Knitting Take Over whereby a knitter can concentrate on nothing else but knitting socks and all other projects and priorities go out the window.

However, I've been travelling a lot for work and I really wanted a protable project that a. wouldn't cause security hiccups (sock monkeys needs scissors and even the smallest pair cause a drama) and b. was very self contained and didn't include too many essential peices or tools that I could lose.

So sock knitting it was and now I, very predictably, have the Sock Knitting Syndrome!

Here are my first "real" pair of socks. I started off with a couple of pairs of very plain socks but when this pattern arrived in my Knitch Yarn Club with the promise of a "simple 4 row lace" I jumped into something a bit more complex.

I've been collecting skeins of yarn on recent trips abroad so expect Frisco Socks, Denver Socks and a second pair of New York Socks in the future.

Millie x

Easter at Craft 2.0

Craft 2.0 turned 5 this year. I got to be boss of the fair for the day which included circling the stalls on regular occasions "checking if stall holders needed a break" but mostly just scoping out things I wanted for myself! I came home with new things from Madame Cake, Things Unseen, Spinning a Yarn and a little custom order in place with Threadmark.

At the end of last year I vowed to go into an unspecified period of retirement from selling at fairs but after just one fair in the sidelines I'm ready to be back in the mix!

At 2pm Craft 2.0 also played host to the first official Jam Off. Lynda Hallinan (from New Zealand Gardener) was MC for the event and well known Wellingtonians Al Brown and Kelda Hains judged the very pretty looking jam making efforts.

I have, on more than one occasion been accused of being a Lynda Hallinan groupie. But honestly, what's not to love and respect about a smart, effervescent and enterprising kiwi girl who's made a career out of gardening and general self sufficiency? She was the perfect choice as MC and I could pick a few other fans in the audience who'd obviously shown up just to see our First Lady of the Lifestyle Block!

Millie x

The cutest ATM in the world

I've recently returned from visiting my friend Laura in Colorado. I was looking through my camera this morning and came across this photo of what could quite possibly be the cutest ATM in the whole world. It's in an overall pretty cute resort town called Breckenridge.

Millie x