January 19th, 2011

Today I received these gorgeous squares from Barb 2 for Logans blanket and 2 for the pink/green/cream blanket, they were from a karma swap and Barb very generously sent me 4 instead of 3-Thank You so much Barb :0)

There is an elephant, a giraffe, a rose and a love heart :0)
I think they look gorgeous and will fit in with my blankets perfectly :0)

January 18th, 2011

Here is the 2nd of my blankets in progress, this one is my squared away 8 inch squares swap blanket which runs on the same principal as the square dance pink, green and white one I previously posted.

This blanket is for my son Logan and has an elephant and giraffe theme in aqua, lime and white.

I think it is starting to come together nicely :0)

January 17h, 2011

Today I started knitting this in some yarn I dyed myself :0) It is a kaia baby doll :0)

January 16th, 2011

Today I thought I would share how yarn is everywhere to tempt me, I can't even go to our local supermarket without having yarn there!
Normally my supermarket has these shelves filled with yarn and needles and pattern booklets and even some sample knits on the wire gridding at the top which you can just make out behind the plastic tubs






But because it is summer and has just been Christmas it has been moved to another aisle and cleeared out and a little packed away as well and now it only fills this small shelf which is much less tempting as they packed away all the nice stuff and left out mainly acrylics!  They even managed to pack away the new summer yarns!

And have any of you ever played yardage chicken where you go one more round and hope you will make it?

Well I lost tonight-look how close I got to finished, just a few stitches...

January 15th, 2011

I thought I would share my square dance blanket WIP :0)
This blanket is being collected up with monthly swap partners knitting 2 squares for my blanket and of course me knitting 2 for their blanket, I have also knit up a significant amount of extra squares and this blanket is really taking place now :0)  The swap runs for the duration of the financial year so I have thus far received 12 squares and knit the rest myself :0)

January 14th, 2011

 A thing of beauty in the form of a new hot water service and the knowledge I can be assured of a lovely hot shower when I wake in the morning instead of the very cold water of late.

p.s I also managed to finish off some of those wips and ufo's the 2 pairs of little red mary janes both now have buttons, the dolly soaker has elastic and is seamed shut and I even found a skirt needing elastic sewing and closing of weaistband and a dress needing buttons so all in all some good finishing time as well as finishing that square in the picture :0)  and today I finished this little vest i started last night, the colours remind me of Australian native wattle flowers :0)

January 13th, 2011

         Logan busy stomping in the puddle near the tap whilst washing his diggers after some gardening this afternoon :0)

He was attempting to dig a tunnel through to his friends house across the road

And my mission for the day to pull out and acknowledge my WIP's and UFO's

Above shows all I could find excluding blankets, I will get to them soon

These ones in the picture above are all baby/toddler projects that lost their ability to convince me to finish them

My sweaters for me WIPS, there is "whisper" in pink, "hey teach" in red at the back, "basik black" in black and "parcel" in red in the front, these ALL want to be finished yesterday

and down here is Bella's sorello, dolly undies that need elastic and a blanket square I am knitting.

Really these are all very finishable, there is nothing I really don't like much here except 1 baby item which I think needs frogging, the rest just need some attention paid to them, there are 16 items here and I think I will get to work on them again soon, perhaps pick one a month for the big ones to work on and well the elastic needed, buttons needed items are just sad so best get to them this month :0)

So how many UFO's or WIP's do you have if you go hunting through the house?  I got the idea to do this from The Yarn Harlot's secrect life of a knitter book (which I love)  Stephanie Pearl McPhee  has a knack of knowing exactly what I have lurking in my home!