Back At Last!

I have been offline for quite a long time.   First we had a family problem which really knocked me for six, and left me feeling very tired and not very - well, bloggish.  Then when I did feel like making a comeback my pc developed a major problem and I could only get online with a tiny netbook which I wasn't comfortable writing on.  I finally tackled the issue head on and, to my immense pride, managed to fix it.  Now all I need to do is catch up on updating every damn program in my pc, fix my printer which has decided it won't put out any black ink from a nearly full HP 300XL cartridge, and then it's business as usual.  I will be uploading a pattern (I hope!) for something I've been working on while I was de-internetted - here's some piccies to whet your appetites.