Work in Progress........Pipers Journey and a pattern give-away.

Hello there, how are you all doing? I've just got back from Spain, I had a wonderful time but I didn't get to do much knitting. Since I've got back though, I have been working on my Pipers Journey which I have named "Buddies Journey" as it's part of Mel's, Buddy System KnitTogther over on Ravelry, which is running through September and October.

My buddy is Lyn, a UK lady who now lives in Canada and we are both working on Pipers Journey. It's such a great system, we quite often have a good old chin wag over PM, not just about knitting but other things too. When I got back from Spain, she messaged me to say she'd won the Pau Hana by Mel Ski Knits, one for herself and one for a friend and she has given it to me!!!!! Thank you, Lyn, maybe we can knit this together, at some point.

This is the Pau Hana jumper, isn't it pretty? Mel has kindly offered me another two Pau Hana patterns to GIVEAWAY to you!!!!! Mel has used a beautiful Space Cadet ombre yarn in pretty coral colours, if you would like to win a pattern, just leave me a comment, telling me what colour yarn you would chose to knit the Pau Hana in, I will randomly pick two winners on Monday.

I've just been working on my shawl, since I returned, I reached the required number of stitches on Monday evening and started the lace border, last night. After using the two colours to knit a stripe pattern, I'm knitting the border in the beige colour in Rowan Cashsoft DK.

Every Wednesday, I link to Ginny'sYarn Along, where we show our knitting and also what we are reading. While I was on holiday, I read three books, I finished An Absolute Scandal by Penny Vencenzi by Wednesday afternoon, then also read A Night on the Orient Express by Veronica Henry. I loved this book, it makes me want to go on the Orient Express even more now, it sounds so glamorous. The other book, which I had to read on my Kindle, as I only took the two books, was The Saturday Supper Club by Amy Bratley. The last two books were fabulous holiday reads, good old chick lits.

I've now started to read Stay Close by Harlan Corben, this a tense thriller and a much darker, grittier read than my last three books. I haven't got too far in yet, but what I have read so far, is holding my attention and I'm wanting to find out what the three main characters are hiding.

I'm also linking to Work in Progress Wednesday over on Tami's blog.

Finally, here are a few of my holiday snaps.

Penelope's our favourite bar.

A gorgeous Tapa's lunch.

Benidorm at night

Mojita's on the beach

Watching the sunset from our hotel balcony.

Thanks for stopping by.

xxxxDebxxxx