friendship......

true friendship is one of the most precious things I can think of......

you can be miles apart - thousands of miles infact -

and friendship can remain strong and sweet.....

it doesn't come to an end just because you're not in the same neighbourhood...

some of my friendships go 'way back' to childhood -

some only go back a year or so -

but I treasure the friendships I have made over the years

even if I don't get to see those friends as often as I would like

{that is one of the tricky things about having friends in all sorts of far flung places.....}

one of my precious home-ed friends moved to the USA a few

years ago and so I don't get to see much of her these days.....

thanks to whizzy technology though we can still have a good chat every now and again

and catch up on all the latest news - even share a coffee over cyberspace if the mood takes us....

we were chatting earlier on in the year and she asked if I would be

up for knitting her cafetiere a little cosy to keep her morning coffee warm as

it was cooling down quicker than she was able to drink it.....

{that sounds like a dreadful situation and calls for immediate attention}

and so I set about finding a pattern and wool colour that she would like.....

now Claire also has two amazing daughters

{and a fabulous son as well}

and she had a couple of ideas for gifts that they might like too......

so, with my knitting needles clickety clacking, I got busy and was able

 to post a little package off to her a couple of weeks ago.....

I remembered to take a photo of the little woodland creatures

I knitted for Mathilda......

here they are {I have shared this photo before, you'll have to forgive the repetition.....} 

sooooo cute and a brilliant pattern made them very straightforward to make.....

but I forgot to take photos of the other goodies before I posted them,

I was just so excited to have finished them that I popped them into a postal

envelope lickety split before even realising that I didn't have a photo to share.....

fortunately Claire took some photos of the knitted goods 'in action'

so I can still share them with you......

this cafetiere cosy was adapted from a pattern I found on ravelry.....

{it had a non-identical twin..... the other one was grey.....}

and the pattern for these simple socks started life as two different sock patterns

on ravelry which I 'merged' to make my own version of the

simple-top-down-short-row-heel-sock.....

with love, dear friend..... xx