Tockington Triathlon

Tockington Manor triathlon was my last tri of the year

Midsomer triathlon

7am bike racked ready for transition

Yet another Sunday morning found me in Midsomer wondering whether I'd brought enough warm clothes for the bike ride.

The swim was indoors, so that was nice and warm. It's a rather hilly cycle ride and it started to rain near the end, for some reason I stopped being able to feel my left foot and my hands started to go numb, I think it might be time to switch to full fingered gloves.

The run was uphill too! (well, half of it was) I slowed down a lot and didn't make it under 2 hours. It was fun tho'.

Turkish trousers

Mina, helping with the pleating

I attempted to make some Turkish trousers for +Kalyn Wilson using this pattern. The pattern required a certain amount of interpretation, and I annoyingly made a couple of mistakes, but I think it's at least wearable and I got a lot of practice in making pleats! I'll add some pictures of her wearing it at the 1318 LARP this weekend.

I've added a project in my sewing circle.

Yay, finished trousers.

Wood workshop

My first attempts at a dove joint. 

Swim Britain

I went to a Swim Britain event held in Blenheim Palace with Sally, Kate and Lizzie. It wasn't a huge distance to swim (4 x 250m in a rather murky lake) but it was fun and rather social. 

Westonbirt Challenge Tri

I entered the Westonbirt Challenge Triathlon, it was my longest ever tri and it was great fun :). It consisted of a 500m swim, 30k cycle and 8k run. I started feeling tired at about the 25k cycle point and was glad to reach the end of the ride. I wasn't looking forward to the run, I never do. But it was really good, I think the endorphines had kicked in at this point and I started having a really good time. It helped that the croute was a there and back so I got to grin madly at everyone who was going the other way. I came last, out of everyone but I finished and had fun :)

Granny square blanket

Caroline's having a baby soon, so I've started making a blanket.

I'm using a motif from a book and varying the colours.

My progress so far 6/8/13 :

15/08/13

I've added another Motif to add interest, and another colour.

20/01/14
I've had to rename this post as I've now adopted this blanket as my own. I've started joining up the squares.