Melbourne Part 3

Last week our couch arrived. Yay! for somewhere to sit. :)


Since then, I've been busily knitting, hoping to get some cushions made asap.

So here's a photo of my cushion knitting; on the new couch and all! It's Zara yarn in a delicious warm mid brown, purchased from the Wondoflex store, which is just along the road. Daggy name, lovely shop. :)

And it's a simple knit2, purl3, offet so it makes a chunky diagonal textured rib. It would be easy, if I didn't keep falling into k2p2 or k3p3 all the time and having to undo. heh.

Melbourne Part 2

Not so hot today. :) The floor in the bedroom is still really warm though, as Javi has discovered. He's asleep under the bed, sprawled out and a bit zonked fom being toasted.

Meanwhile, I have all the windows open regulation width, and a lovely breeze is in the flat, sun streaming in the windows, and I have a sore throat. Meh. but I started work on the dream-designed pendant piece last night. Here it is in progress: (excuse the over-exposed paper, tis a bit bright in here. :)





























Yo can juuuuust see the design on the graph paper near the black thread. I'm using delicas in sparkly crimson, matte black, matte white and a lustrous silver grey I just love. Will be finished tonight I hope. :)

Designing

After dragging out some of my beadwork necklaces and earrings to put up on my Etsy site, I got all inspired and started back into beadworkery again. :)

I was never really happy with this necklace: I tried too hard to out-clever myself. It's a geometric interleaving pattern I designed myself, but I chose such subtle colours, you can't see the strong geometric design.

Ok so I got to doodling. The design for this necklace is the criss-crossy square in the middlish of my doodles. I really liked the colours I sketched it out in, so I decided to use those colours to make another, less subtle pendant.


















Well, this took a few attempts, as I wasn't happy with the greens I choose at first:















In the end I chose colours I pretty much always end up selecting, but I'm happy with the finished product:















The doodle also shows the design for a multi-panel necklace I made. The spirally designs across the top of the graph paper came out as a black and iris necklace:




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I'm not sure if I'll sell or keep these two creations yet.

But as I fell asleep last night I had one of those designs that POPs into the front of your mind as you drift away. I was sure I'd forget it, but no, I still have it. So time to make another interleaving pendant, and not be too clever about the

Melbourne Part 1

It's hot again.

It's not that hot outside, it's been raining on and off all morning, so it's cool and breezy. But it's hot in the flat.

The AirCon for the whole block of flats has a huge duct under our bedroom. I discovered a couple of weeks ago that the floor in our bedroom and the end of the hallway is hot. And the hotter the weather is outside, the hotter our floor gets, as the AirCon works harder to keep the empty hallways cool. :( So at nights when it can be 20 ish outside, its 30 in our unwanted-floor-heating-bedroom. So as it was hot yesterday, our bedroom is still hot.

I've opened all the windows a bit. (Where 'a bit' is defined as 60% of Javi's width, so he can't jump out and escape. He does love to escape.) But small window gaps don't really cool the place unless there's a strong wind. And there isn't. Just a cool breezy, rainy draught.