Happy New Year's Eve, Everyone...

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Here's the latest kniting effort. It's actually all sewn together now, but sadly it's a bit small. I'm going to try to block it with steam to make it a little larger...it's my first time knitting with cotton, using Rowan Cotton Glace. Pretty color, though, don't you think? And it's not a Partridge in a Pear Tree, but how about this cheeky visitor to the apple tree outside our bedroom window a couple of days ago? In the few minutes I watched him, he devoured about 15 little apples! There are flocks of these sulphur-crested cockatoos that swoop into the trees in the yard here...very beautiful, raucous birds that can inflict a LOT of damage!
It's New Year's Eve in Exeter, and we'll probably do our usual: in bed by 9:30PM after a glass of champagne! I tellya, we're real ragers around here!

Hope you all have a safe and sane New Year's Eve. Here's wishing you all the best of all good things for 2008.

Comments

Patti said…
Wishing you a marvelous happy quilty new year also. And a remodeling that's finished in time with no major problems!
8:08 AM
Libby said…
Happy New Year! All you folks in Oz can't cheat like the rest of us . . . we plan to celebrate at 3 p.m. local time when it will be the New Year for The Princess in Germany. That will allow us to go to bed early and guilt free *s*
11:34 AM
Tonya Ricucci said…
I watched the Sydney fireworks celebrating the new year there. Very beautiful. We popped the champaign at 8am and were in bed long before midnight. Beautiful cockatoo - are the cats fascinated by him or terrified?
11:49 PM
Rian said…
Oh, so that's how you make those sweaters!

Happy new year
3:12 PM
Mary Johnson said…
Happy New Dianne! We were in by 10:15PM and I woke Keith up at midnight (he promptly fell back asleep!)
10:28 AM
Christine Thresh said…
Are sulphur-crested cockatoos native Australians? Your bird is beautiful, but I guess he is a loud pest. His behavior doesn't match his beauty.
9:55 PM
Anonymous said…
We stayed up to see both the French and UK New Year in - I'm still recovering! Saw the Sydney fireworks - they were brilliant.

Happy New Year to you. Hope you can get back into your new house soon. I'd love an outside kitchen!
5:21 AM
Tracey @ozcountryquiltingmum said…
House and knitting coming along nicely....happy New year, Tracey
6:54 PM
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