We had a great time last night at knitting club - my daughter came along with me and we brought our spinning wheels.  Her spinning is coming along so well that I think it won't belong before I have my own little sweat shop going.

As I haven't posted pictures for a while, here are a few that have been waiting patiently in the camera.  The first is of an experimental dye lot which came good.  I was inspired by blackberry colours and as usual as I stared at the un spun wool a smell of gas look came over my face.  But lo and behold I the spun wool is lovely and was immediatley snapped up by Winnie who has gone and knitted a beautiful beret.  I will show you when I have clearance from the top levels.

Here are a few pics of the land where we're going to moor our boat. This is the proposed vegetable plot, I'm hoping that in clearing the area I can lose the pounds I've put on while being sat on my backside for the past 18 months.  My dad found out he is being made redundant this morning so I will press gang him to helping me.  I'm going to need all the encouragement I can get!

This is the view from the barge and how we will get from the water to the land.  It looks so picturesque.  Not sure how I'll feel about it in the middle of winter when I'm up to my welly tops in slutch.

And here is the view down the canal against the brooding Rufford sky.

We have had delivery of the wind turbine and also the generator for the boat which is sitting on a pallet in our drive.  So after almost two years it really feels like it's going to happen.  This is our new home.  I predict green will be the inspirational colour of the moment.

Today me and mini me will be doing some dyeing.  Now that Mimi's spinning is getting so much better, I think it will be nice for her to pick her own colours and spin them up.  Who knows, maybe she will knit it up afterwards.    Anything to get her away from the telly while she's on holiday.

First of all I would like to apologise for disappearing at the end of May. My work pattern and our other responsibilities, not least of which are moving to live from a house to a boat made it nigh on impossible to blog regularly.  Along with the extremely poor reception that we are able to get from our rented house which involved me screaming regularly at the computer and kicking the dog* meant that I lost my rag and took my ball home.

But as from yesterday I am no longer employed and can have my life back!!!!  I am more excited than you could ever know.  So I can blog from here when the signal is good and then I can nip over to Jinny's and post some pics.

We have been working as hard as we could over the last couple of months, Jinny designed and spun the silk for the Looby Loo garment which is in the lastest issue of knitonthenet.com which if you haven't looked, you really should.  I think it is the best one to date, it has summer all over it, which is a bonus because we here in the UK definately haven't.

The Looby Loo silk top is plain and simple, can be dressed up or down, which is what we wanted to achieve.  We're really proud of it so please take a look.  We're spinning the silk to order, so please email me at cathy.lazykate@gmail.com if you would like to order some.  Also, the column is there too with my fascination of Lucinda Ledgerwood shared with the world.

It'll take a week or so to get back on track with regards to www.lazykate.net but we have some great ideas and can't wait to get going and it all starts tonight with a trip to knitting club in Southport!  Man, it's good to be free!

*didn't really kick the dog, kicked the husband instead