A Story or Two....

.......or is that a stoyteller or two.

Thought I'd practise putting on some photos. This is me trying to tell to School of the Air students through the Longreach School of the Air.

Look mum no hands!!! You guess it! It is hard to tell stories to a computer screen.

For the techno minded, the gadget in my left hand hand allows me to switch between speakers, so I could allow the voice of the child from Muttaburra to be broadcast to the rest of the class!

Picture Plus

Well today I push myself a little further, looking for images that portray a couple of my common loves, storytelling and the new found Knitting group fad. Naomi calls us the Nitwits. Our blanket is growing and should be a great "Mondrian" if I can work out how to get it together. Watch for the photo to come out soon!

May be true for her but I'm only half the person she is so am I a halfwit?

Anyway back to the job at hand to get a photo that links this two skills. I rather like this little one, wonder if I can knit something like this to take to Kids Big Day Out Storytelling at Mt Coot-tha next week

Thanks blossombird for her photo found at the supplied linkhttp://www.flickr.com/search/?q=+knitting+stories&m=text

Squared

How exciting. I now know how we can all have the same sized squares using different sized needles, different tensions and different ply wool.

Here's the pattern

Cast on 3 stitches
1st Row: k1 inc 1 K1
At the beginning of the next row and every row K1 inc. in next st knit to end of row
When side measures 20cm begin to decrease as follows:
K1 K2tog knit to end of row
Repeat till 4sts remain then K1 K2tog K1
cast off 3 stitches.

Good luck with your squares, you'll find that this gives a lovely diagonal pattern that can be adapted and used to create lots of interesting combinations when joined together.

Whoa..... what next. On line and afraid

Well it has finally come to this - a blogspot. An insignifcant start to a long and fruitful correspondence. But who with I wonder and about what?

From my heading you will see that I am concentrating on my storytelling and our "Knitting for the Homeless" knitting group.

In future I will keep you up to speed on just where these two projects are going.

For those not in the know I currently have one of my stories shortlisted in a competition. No mean feat. I am hopeing this leads onto bigger and better things. Who knows one day children will be writing to to me asking my thoughts on earth's sustainabilty and the position of finances in American Banks. Or maybe not!

As for the knitting/crochet group. My place next Tuesday 23/9/08
Cheers for now
myn