Yesterday my Bendigo Woollen Mills order appeared on the doorstep:

Yarn for Sweetheart in Domiknitrix. Unduly influenced by the Knitters with Minis group on Ravelry, I’m very tempted to substitute the ribbon on the orignal pattern with the mini logo, or a little pic of a mini. The fact that this qualifies as picture knitting scares me. But I still went ahead and bought red and white yarn just in case I crumble, since I already had to get more black.

Cotton for weaving tea towels for my Mum for Christmas.

And some Neon because… well, I sort of wanted to reward Bendy for taking less than five years to catch up on a trend. And heck, I really like this trend of slowly changing colours in yarn. Especially when the yarn is tweedy too. And I’m far more confident that Bendy’s version will not contain knots as Noro Silk Garden and Vero did. I’m tossing up between a hat or a scarf out of this.

The other day I had to stop hanging the washing out and go inside to get ear plugs, because the cicada in the overhanging tree was so loud my ears were doing a wierd whirring thing. I love cicadas. Nothing says ‘hot Aussie night’ like the ear-splitting roar they make. And they’re so pretty:

The beau and I took turns taking pics of this one. About six or seven cm long and irridescent green. It was all too keen to crawl all over me, probably thinking I was a tree and obeying an instinct to climb.

Lovely.