The Knitting Noras on You Tube

Bev has put the video of our Channel M slot on You Tube. When I watched it I was stunned. Not by Lisa and Bev who were extremely eloquent on it but by myself. To quote the words of Robert Burns - O would some Power, the gift to give us. To see ourselves as others see us.

I knew, of course, that I had put on a lot of weight but since I retired, and more so since my spinal op, I live in sweat pants and loose tops and glance at myself in the mirror merely to brush my hair or occasionally put on some make up. When I was working I always gave myself the once over in the full length mirror before leaving the house. I did get a big clue this week when I tried on most of my "best" wardrobe and hardly anything fitted.

After seeing myself on You Tube I have come to the conclusion that everyone who is gaining weight should be videoed by their doctor who then plays it back to them. If that doesn't bring them to their senses then nothing will. It was an eye opening shock for me and from now on I shall be taking my diet far more seriously. I will also be seeing my doc again about my cough after hearing my croaky voice in the video. I lost my voice for a couple of weeks but I hadn't realised just how deep and rough is still sounds. I sound like a hardened smoker and I have never smoked. I think a another trip to the ENT is next on the agenda.

The Tall Latte crochet sweater has grown a little since the photo above and I have decided to use the two other colours pictured to devise some way of making the sleeves and body longer as I have no desire to unravel it and make something else. I did some work on the sleeves last night and am quite pleased with the result so tonight I will work on the rest.

I have a lot of housework to do today as my house is looking untidy even to my eyes and I know my son is coming on Sunday for Mother's day and possibly bringing my great grand babies so I had better make sure nothing lethal to children is lying about. Put away my sharp pointy sticks, scissors and stitch markers etc before little fingers get stabbed or stitch markers get swallowed.

By the way you can view the You Tube video. I did try to add it to my blog title as a link but Blogger didn't like it. I am rubbish at posting links as you know so you will probably have to cut and paste to be able to view it.

http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=d0wzyHg7FIc

I shall hide away doing my housework in my over sized sweat pants whilst you watch.

The Knitting Noras were on Channel M News today

Today I had an early start. I was so afraid of over sleeping and missing the alarm that I kept waking up all through the night. I met up with Lisa, Bev and Eadaoin in Manchester as we were being interviewed by Channel M News. Channel M is Manchester's local TV channel and they wanted to interview 3 of the Noras about the Naked Knitting Calendar. It was all very tranquil and not at all scary but I still managed to be the fat one looking scared (or should that be scary one) on the end of the sofa. They say TV puts pounds on you but when I caught sight of myself out of the corner of my eye on the screen I think it put 2 stones on me. No wait a minute, that really is the way I look. Memo to self must stay on my diet!!!

We just had to sit on a sofa and be interviewed. Luckily they only asked me one question but Lisa was animated as usual and managed chat away to the presenters without any signs of nerves at all. Bev and Lisa managed to get most of the details about the calendar across and thankfully the interviewers didn't dwell too much on the naked aspect and make fun of us. They dealt with us very professionally.

Bev had brought sock monkey with her and he was on the table whilst we sat on the sofa being interviewed. He stole the closing shots as the camera gave him his big close up. Sock Monkey is something that Ravelry started. Apparently people knit a sock monkey and post it off and it stays with it's new owner for a month whilst you knit it a set of clothes and then pass it on. Bev's sock monkey is in New York at the moment. The sock monkey we had today was knitted by a lady in Ireland. I think in the end you get your own sock monkey back again but I am not sure about that so I must ask Bev.

Eadaoin came with us and has taken some more photos of us whilst we were in the studio. Hopefully I can post more on here later. The top that I finished up wearing had rather a low neck and so I was wearing the necklace and bracelet that Eadaoin made for my birthday. Now Eadaoin can put "as seen on TV" on her Etsy site (link is on my favourites) The photo of the four of us outside Channel M was taken by Lisa's son. He did well. Most children his age would have chopped all of our heads off!

Bev is going to see if she can post a video of our interview on You Tube later. I will post the link tomorrow if she managed to do that.

My knitting and crochet has rather been over looked this last few days so now the excitement is over and my five minutes of fame have gone I shall have to settle down to a bit of normality.

I need a lie down now as my knee is aching with the walking about in Manchester. I hope that they manage to fix it for me next week. It makes a change from saying my thumb is hurting. That will be when I start crocheting later. I still haven't decided what to do with the sweater to make it longer as I will have to introduce another colour to eke the wool out. I got the wool in a sale ages ago and so cannot get any more.