Knit a year

Tomorrow my lovely friend is casting on for her knit a year challenge at St Pancras Station in London.  She is intending to knit two rows a day for a year using upcycled or gifted ... yarn.  This is all part of the E17 art project, more details on her website.  She will keep a notebook with a scrap of each yarn used and notes which she will also blog daily.  So wishing her good luck with such a lovely art project and if anyone has any yarn to pass on then please contact her.

Inspiration

i was going to title this British museum, but my V&A are mixed in with my British Museum, such organisation!  Anyhow these are just a few (of so many) inspiring objects, i think this could be a few days of inspiration so i hope you are inspired too

there's something about the white semi circles that i love on this bird

he is just the cutest little thing i have ever seen, he reminds me of moomin characters

which makes him the second cutest!

and A and i just loved these babies they were sort of tied to her wrists a bit like mittens used to be threaded through your coat when you were little.

Oh how many miles we walked

i've always loved walking in cities, getting lost often means you find new things and so we walked and walked in London.  At the beginning there was energy, towards the end of ten days we flagged a little.

we saw familiar (but new to us) sights, the changing of the guard.  We love this picture, because the guards in grey seemed to have a different height requirement to the traditional guards in red.

we saw the familiar (even to us) but it was no less spectacular for being familiar

the children queued up to be photographed with the lions

T took unusual pictures of very familiar places

and we walked (the entire length?) the Thames

seeing incredible buildings casting amazing light into the river

and yes we visited (and revisited) Liberty's, which has to be my favourite shop in London (or is my favourite Pollock's toy shop?  i'm just not sure)

the stairs in Liberty's were only one of many many sets of stairs that we climbed (and reclimbed)

and we visited Hamleys, the children were not disappointed but i was.  In their desperation to sell sell sell the magic has disappeared

for anyone wanting a little toy magic i would definitely recommend Pollock's toy shop in Covent garden and their museum on Sala street (near Goodge st. station) which also has a shop

Now the familiar is done, tomorrow i will show the curiosities and inspiration we found in the museums

we're going on a trip

we are all rather excited, because tomorrow we are doing a house swap for ten days

we are leaving the seaside behind us (rather topsy turvy for the time of year, i know)

i am particularly excited about this...

and this...

and absolutely this which we will hopefully be visiting on my birthday!!!

and so I will be back after our adventure