A yum, yum weekend

There was much to enjoy this weekend.  Gemma and Dan came home and we had a little trip on Saturday to Ulverston, which is a lovely town with some really unusual shops.  Lovely wool shop (Loop), fabric shop etc.

... and a particularly nice vegetarian, organic tea shop

.... and delicious food.

My favourite purchase was a new (old) chair which had already been uncycled and for £48 why do it yourself.  It matches my duckegg blue bedroom exactly.

I have been busy with my cross-stitch which seems to be taking for ever, but I've also been knitting .... can you guess what it is ....

.... is it a scarf, a long hat for the dogs ...  maybe this will give you a clue ...

 no it's a sock! 

Now I have to admit to being a bit sceptical about knitting socks.  Socks are so cheap to buy and I wasn't sure about how you get them to fit, and then would they fit in your shoes, but one of my resolutions this year was to have a try.  Actually it seems I was right as you can see the sock has turned out very baggy...

Now I know lots of you would just take it back and reknit it, but I hate redoing things so I will just wear the socks round the house and hope they don't drop off!  Hopefully a second sock will follow over the next week.  (The wool is the Debbie Bliss Rialto I included in my last post).

I hope you had as lovely mothers' day as I did.  First there was some sunshine (and an opportunity to wear my new cardie!)

Dan and I went to Samlesbury Hall near Preston, a 14th century building, very beautiful.

... Dan had his lessons

... and of course there was a bit of something to eat!

So a good weekend alround.  I achieved my goal to try a new recipe a month with a beetroot, pine nut and goats cheese tart

Followed by watching Argo which we really enjoyed.  Great tension so an 8/10!  And there seem to be lovely spring bulbs and flowers everywhere.

 

 

Have a lovely week and sorry if my blogs seem to be getting longer .... it's all the fun we are having!