Missing in Action May

 Over half way through May and I haven’t blogged at all until now.

This is my monthly marker for this month, a portion of knitting of a sock.  I now have a pair 👏.

And with 53 grams of yarn left I started on a pair of fingerless gloves using my favourite pattern, Fingerless or Not by Snapper Knits. With no matching of stripes I should get that done easily.  The sock is a plain one but using the Hobbity Sock pattern by Kay Jones for the heel and toe shaping.  You will see from the photo above that I twisted the stitches in the rib, which I’ve also done for the gloves. This was the last photo of the first glove, which has now progressed to the finger section, but I left my knitting bag at my daughter’s house. I’ll get that back next week.

The end of last week until halfway through this one I’ve been laid low by a virus, which started with a sore throat and cough at the beginning of last week.  I tested and it wasn’t Covid, fortunately but it was still pretty horrible. 

On Monday I was still feeling a little tired but went along to Dorset Creative Embroiderers, which I always look forward to and this time it was a lot of hand stitching.  This was based on an embroidery one of our members sewn over 20 years ago and is based on a picture from an old Inspirations magazine from 1999 (another member of the group had the magazine). 

Below is a photo of the bag she had sewn

This is what I’ve sewn so far. I think I have a little way to go, but it is a project that can easily be picked up and worked on whenever. There’s a heck of a lot of French Knots in the Delphinium! When made up it will become a pouch with the embroidery on the flap.

Going back to the beginning of May (sorry it’s in the wrong order) I visited Wimborne Model Town with some of the ladies from Townswomen’s Guild.  We had tea and cake (of course) followed by a wander around the model town. I’ve been there many times before, but this time there were a couple of new sections.  It is 1/10 scale of the town set in the 1950’s. A lot of the businesses have gone, but some are still there and it was easy to recognise what was there and what is there now.  Along with the model town are models of the model of the model, in even smaller scales.

There are also indoor displays of a model railway, older toys and the Wareham Bears (though I didn’t take a photo of them) who live in a dolls house setting. So below is the railway which is behind glass and controlled by waving your hand over the sensor in front.

There was another room with old toys on display which was called life before Lego.   I think there used to be a small toy museum at Arne, near Wareham so I’m wondering if the display came from there.  It’s not long before you spot “I used to have that when I was young “ and for my this was the Airfix building blocks version of Lego, called Betta Bilda.  Although next to that was some early Lego sets.

After that we went across town to enjoy a small pasta lunch at the local Italian.

So that’s been my May so far.