I’ve been a faery kind of person for quite a while now, I just love the world of Faerie. I was surprised that there weren’t all that many faerie patterns on Ravelry, so I also included some gnome and pixie inspired stuff.

First off, hats. Hats are perhaps the easiest way to get your inner faerie out in day to day life without looking totally weird when your going about your normal daily activities. I’ll start with little heads, too. A baby gnome hat… This is just ridiculously cute. What I love most about baby patterns on Ravelry are all the cute little babies modelling their mama’s/papa’s/grandmother’s/grandfather’s/aunt’s/uncle’s knitted creations. Here is a Flower Fairy hat for babies, a very cute pattern I have to say. Now for some big-head patterns. A Pixie Beret for adults, such a pretty design, and a gnome hat for adults, this one can be felted, too, which is great. It would be a definite ‘around the house’ sort of thing, but I’d love a felted one of these for myself.

Now for some faerie inspired clothing! Here is a cardigan by the name of Faery Ring that I have always thought was fantastic! After I knit up my current project, I’ll be making one of these. Now, this is a little dress called Flora, and is for little girls. It’s very pretty, and I’ve even thought of adding in extra ‘petals’ to make it for adults. This pattern here is for Woodland Fairy Wings, and I think it’s just a lovely idea. This is another one I’d love to see knitted larger for adults… specifically, for this adult.

Lastly here are some odds and ends. A pillow by the name of Fairy Squares, which has some nice faerie silhouettes worked on it, and a very cute knitted faerie doll called Sally the Eco Fairy.

I hope some of these patterns are picked up by my readers and used, I think knitting and faeries are two topics that should be brought together more!

I’ve found a few places on the internet to keep an eye on things of this nature. I am going to this site here to find out about property prices, and the BBC News has a groovy page that you can check house prices in different areas. Of course, I will also be keeping an eye on property news and such.

I know there are also real estate forums, but I can’t really bring myself to read through that sort of thing. I just want the news, rather than personal opinion. I’m really not interested in any of those quick house sale things, they don’t seem on the up and up! It should be interesting to see where the market goes from here though, I mean, everything has been so changeable since the financial crisis really hit.

Now on to today’s knitting pattern. As I’ve mentioned before, I love faeries, and as this entry here is on houses, why not a knitted house for faeries!? Technically this is a felted bird house handbag, but I think it looks more like a faerie house! I don’t actually like handbags – I know that’s strange for a woman – so I have a leather back pack that I am hoping will carry me through to at least sixty years of age, but I would like to knit this little house up as a box to keep little bits and bobs in, like bobbins, stitch counters and stitch markers.

I love to play computer games, but generally only the really good ones. I love to play LOTRO, and play a Minstrel with my fiancé’s Guardian and it is so much fun! We never seem to find much time for it though, so I am still a really low level. The highest I have ever gotten was level 35, and I can’t wait to get into the Mines of Moria! LOTRO is a game I am proud to play… unlike Faerie Solitaire which was a demo I downloaded from the Virgin Media site. I didn’t pay for it, that’s how I justify playing it for an hour… that’s how long the demo is, an hour of play, and in the span of about a day, I managed to rack up an hour on that silly game. It was sort of… no was completely mindless, so I don’t really know why I played it… I think just because I like faeries. And not stinking Disney Tinkerbell faeries, real earthy faeries like the ones you find in Brian Froud’s work.

Anyway, the reason I was on the site is because I want to get all those new digital TV channels. See, my fiancé and I bought a television a few months back that can supposedly pick these things up. No need for a set top box. What I didn’t realise, is that I would still need a satellite or digital aerial of some sort… I don’t really know what I need, exactly, in spite of trying to figure it out for the last few hours. I hope it isn’t a satellite, because I would need help if that was the case. I was hoping to be able to get all this stuff set up and surprise my fiancé with my ingenuity.

I think I need some sort of equipment to pick the channels up, and from what I am reading, I think that particular item could be a Eurovox. I have seen the boxes for those things in electronics stores, but didn’t pay much attention. It could also be a Dreambox, that might work the same way, but I am not sure. I am not as interested in Sky and all that kind of stuff, as I don’t want to pay for TV just yet, I just want the shiny new digital channels. I do want cable TV at some point, just focusing on the other side of it for the moment.

Anyway, my last meal is threatening to make a repeat show, so I am going to go lay down, but before I do… Today’s knitting pattern!!! All this talk of television got me to thinking of this pattern, the Mrs Darcy cardigan. It’s been such a long time since I saw Pride and Prejudice on TV, that was a fun series. Anyway, this is a really pretty pattern, have a go!