Tangled up in blue

Are you having a lovely weekend so far? I'm snuggling up on my own this grey Saturday afternoon whilst Alice is playing at a friend's and Andy is out with a couple of his friends from Brighton. He's taken them out to see this amazing exhibition:

I'm not sure if you are a fan or not of Mr. Warhol but we certainly are and got so excited at out pretty little seaside town exhibiting so many of his paintings, print and photography. It's a real treat being able to walk 5 minutes to the sea front and have this free exhibition on our door step. I will dedicate a separate post to the exhibition because it certainly deserves a whole post of it's own.


I, on the other hand am curled up on the couch in our dining room having cups of tea whist listening to some of our CD's I sorted out the other day after Andy eventually put up some 1960's Danish designed shelves he purchased in the summer. Living in a terraced Victorian house you can appreciate that floor space is at a premium and it's good to get more things onto the walls despite it being 8 years long overdue!

Did you notice the Mau Tse Tung cards from the exhibition that Alice decided to come home with when we came home from seeing the exhibition a week or so ago. She is hoping to get some inspiration from them as she's one lucky girl to have a place in a 3 day {8-12yrs old} workshop in the October school half term. Boy, how I wish I had had such opportunities when I was growing up!


It's fab to get old CD's out and enjoy some music from my university and early 20's that I loved to listen to {Also can't get enough of Camera Obscura, especially this track here}. My beautiful Andy has a rather large LP collection going on and we listen to records a whole lot in this house. I love that crackle that LP's and the needle make, something very comforting and nostalgic about it I think. Some of his collection is hidden under the African print fabric covering a huge cabinet seen in the above photo. It would look far too busy in our wee house if we had them all exposed...well that's what I keep telling him ;0)

Whilst taking a happy trip down memory lane I am knitting up some of the gorgeous malabringo yarn I bought when I went to Sweden in early September. I've been inspired by Penny on Planet Penny to make a cowl/snood with this stunning yarn. I could only afford 2 skeins and so needed to find a small but significant project to use this yarn for. Such an easy peasy pattern and you can see where Penny has put the pattern details on Ravelry here.


So that's me tangled up in blue this afternoon, just how I like it. Thanks also to all those lovelies that commented about my one pound wonder, I have a hooky idea floating in my brain at the moment and hope to make something fun in the next few days. 

Please could Julie, Vicki, Jackie, Helen, Karisma please email me at violetsandvelvet@gmail.com with your postal addresses so I can send you the recycled crochet hook you requested from my previous post. Thanks so much.

Sending you birdy love this weekend, over the past few years birds have become more and more of an obsession for me, wearing them, sewing them, drawing them, colouring them in, finding vintage books on them, watching them. 

Are you a birdy girl or not? I'd love to know.

xox