On Thursday night Peeve dragged me along to a craft night. (Okay, I didn’t take much dragging. I’ve been to just enough s’n’b events and meets to crave more social crafty stuff, but have been frustrated by there being no of local meets outside work hours.)

It was a lot of fun. Peeve’s friends are a friendly, artistic bunch. There are a lot of people they know that I know. It never surprises me when that happens these days. I’m sure the degrees of separation in Australia are more like three than six.

The range of creative activities ranged from knitting, crochet and tapestry (?) to painting and sudoko. Aside from knitting, I took the Knitter’s Loom along – which was the first time I’d tested it’s portability. It’s not quite comfortable for my cranky neck to have it sitting on my lap, so I’m wondering if I can rig up some sort of stand for it.

Yesterday I found the Spring issue of Interweave Knits in a newsagent. The last article in the magazine made me think about having a basket or chest in my lounge filled with hats, gloves and scarves that my friends had rifle through and take. I like making them, but hold back because I suffer from the knitterly anxiety about gift recipients not liking what I make them. How much better if they could just take what they liked?

Finally, here’s the last sunset I picked out from my collection for blogging:

Not as pretty a photo as the others, but it shows the view of the city from my house in FTG. A couple of times I was lucky enough to see the sun set directly behind the city.