Princess Pram blanket

I am nine squares in on this baby blanket and show no signs of slowing down. There is something satisfying about making square after square. I'll be stopping at 12, mainly because I'll run out of yarn. A little bit because I feel like a baby blanket shouldn't be too enormous.

Princess Pram cover

Bees

Princess Highway stickers

My first steeking

 I'm pretty sure this is the first time I've cut my knitting. Nothing bad happened, the pattern worked. It was great. I might try it again.




















 
 I used Cat Bordhi's Warm all Winter (fudged a little bit to suit yarn and head size). It was such a great pattern and I learned two new knitting things, which was fun. The yarn is Manos silk blend that I bought at Daybreak on Papa Westray in the Orkneys.

Workspace

I've staked a claim on a surface (separate to the craft/stuffing around on the internet/watching movies surface). I move to it when it is 'work time' and I only do work there. The desk belonged to one of my grandmas and my other grandma is there in the photo with me. I've read lots of things that say you shouldn't think you need 'special conditions' to write, but having a dedicated space is working out for me at the moment.

Warm All Winter (I hope)

Cat Bordhi's Warm All Winter



















A made up cardigan using up my DiC stash and leftovers.

Fetching

I have been spending some time tidying things, getting rid of stuff, finishing things off. This mitts have been all done but a thumb for over a year. So I sat down and did the 8 rows on 16 stitches and wove in the ends. In plenty of time for winter!

Willy wagtail and lupins

 I seemed to have switched crafts again. Which unfortunately adds fuel to my urge to never throw anything away. The willy wagtail chart is from 2011. I first started it on 28ct evenweave over one stitch. It was almost impossible to see, and super easy to make mistakes. I started again on 14ct aida, and it has been going very well.




















I've also been working on a kit I bought as a souvenir in Prince Edward Island. Was that 2008? I loved the lupins, almost as much as I love willy wagtails. I started it ages ago, but I made a mistake down in the leaves, which meant everything was off by one stitch. At the time I gave up because I couldn't work out where I'd made a mistake to go back and fix it. When I took it up again this summer, I just fudged that bit.