July 2018

July, good bye July.

I have got 0 Medallions completed for my quilt...
I did though finish about 4 hats, yes I am still knitting hats, goodness knows why or what for, but I am, and that is okay with me. 

I have also got my butt in gear and am making progress on the last quarter of the Hue Shift in 5 colours, so with any luck the blanket itself should be finished quite soon, and then just the boarders to put on it, and a home to find it as well.
As for August, I will be away for the first 2 weeks of august, and I am debating taking knitting with me, but I am also debating cutting out loads of fabric, and focusing solely on my EPP for 2 weeks, if I get 2 medallions done great, if I get 5 done great, but it takes up much less space than knitting, but is not as travel friendly as I can knit socks in the dark, but I cannot sew EPP in the dark. This is more for plane entertainment, or I could glue on the plane, you never know. I have no idea what I want to do.

FO's:

1. Dino Teal socks for Charlotte
2. Streckle Socks for me
3. Figarita - she is adorable

WIP's:

1. Lestrange Cloak
• I really want to say that I finished this, but I did not. 
• I soon will have 5 sleeves for this sweater not just 2 or even 3. The first one was too short, the second too are not wide enough to go around the tops of my arms, and as much as I want to just be able to fix them as they are now, that will make me unhappy. So I shall get there, but it will take me longer
• The sweater as it stands now, a sleeveless one is gorgeous and I would for sure wear it with no sleeves, but 
2. Camp-side Cardigan
1. Woops this just slipped and fell onto my needles, there was nothing I could do. 
3. Tardis Afghan
4. Hue Shift 5 colours
1. 1 quarter to go!!!
1. CO is 18 stitch maker CO 17 with a CDD (I keep forgetting what my cast on is, so here we go, never to forget)
2. Seeing as how it is now Spruce Meadows season this will be my knitting for while I am sitting in the trailer, waiting for people to give rides too :)

Languishing WIP's:

1. Illuminated Lines Blanket: Thank you Knit Picks
2. Circlet Cardigan: Thank you Knit Picks - so pretty! I cannot wait to see this finished.
• The 4 year sweater...it was cast on in January of 2014

Future Cast On's:

1. Touch the Sky Cardigan
2. Crazy Stripes Cardigan

Books:

1. Fanny Hill
2. Moll Flanders
3. Worlds of Ink and Shadow
4. DragonFly in Amber
5. Gone With the Wind
6. Curtsies and Conspiracies

Colouring Book Page:

April 2018

I am hoping that by the time this comes out I will have recorded another Podcast...we shall see what happens.

My Gold prize from Honey Bee Knits arrived for the knitting Olympics, go me. Thanks Melissa!!!!!

I also fell off a ladder, so I am laid up waiting for my ankle to fix itself. My Saturday workouts are still going really well, just need to incorporate changes into my life to compensate for the fact that I am not doing a vast quantity of cardio.

FO's:

1. 4 Hats as of 04/08/2018

I think next I will tackle the final quarter of the hue shift, as I know just getting it done will be a huge relief.

Frogged:

1. Sexb-omb (name of the yarn) Socks
1. I want to reclaim this yarn and use it for something else. I never think to wear my knitted socks. I want to put this into something I shall wear.

WIP's:

1. Lestrange Cloak
1. I am so close. The collar is 6 rows from completion, I have about a fifth of a sleeve, and just keep knitting
2. Tardis Afghan
3. The Shiver Socks
4. Hue Shift 5 colours
1. 1 quarter to go!!!
1. CO is 18 stitch maker CO 17 with a CDD (I keep forgetting what my cast on is, so here we go, never to forget)
2. The sad part about this is if I just sat down and got on with it I would have the last quarter done in a week, the edging would take a touch longer. 

Languishing WIP's:

1. Illuminated Lines Blanket: Thank you Knit Picks
2. Circlet Cardigan: Thank you Knit Picks - so pretty! I cannot wait to see this finished.
• The 4 year sweater...it was cast on in January of 2014

Future Cast On's:

1. Camp-side Cardigan
2. Touch the Sky Cardigan

Books:

1. Emma
2. Moll Flanders
3. Worlds of Ink and Shadow
4. DragonFly in Amber
5. Gone With the Wind
6. Curtsies and Conspiracies

Colouring Book Page:

I did sign an actual picture this month, so three cheers for me on that one. 

March 2018

Farewell March. I really am hoping to get another podcast done fairly soon. Once the fade cardi is actually finished, and perfect I might show it off.
In other news it was National cupcake day and I made these:
I also made a batch of lime marmalade.

I also think to get my reading in I need to go back to knitting while listening to an audio book. Especially while knitting hats, although all the hats were given out on march 21st, so at this point I am either working on stashing a bunch for next year, orrrr donating them to other charities. I have considered selling them, but I would need to come up with a plan of for ever 1 purchased one would get donated. But then at least they would pay for themselves.
I did have to share these fish as well, because they clearly have something more exciting in the water than just water.

Another exciting FO for the books is I finished an art piece!! I have even got the frame chosen and everything, so got me! 2 huge projects off the books.

FO's:

1. Comfort Fade Cardigan
1. So I finished it GO ME!!! However, the collar bit is too wibbly, and pointed at the front for my tastes, so I am going backwards, again. I want it perfect, and now I know, so here goes tinking with the best of them. 
2. On March 25, 2018 I finished it for the second time and it fits perfectly!!!!!!
2. 10 ish hats

I think next I will tackle the final quarter of the hue shift, as I know just getting it done will be a huge relief.

WIP's:

1. Tardis Afghan
2. Sexb-omb (name of the yarn) Socks
1. I want to reclaim this yarn and use it for something else. I never think to wear my knitted socks. I want to put this into something I shall wear.
3. Lestrange Cloak
1. I had to cast this on because I needed more yarn for my Fade Cardigan :)
4. Hue Shift 5 colours
1. 1 quarter to go!!!
1. CO is 18 stitch maker CO 17 with a CDD (I keep forgetting what my cast on is, so here we go, never to forget)
2. The sad part about this is if I just sat down and got on with it I would have the last quarter done in a week, the edging would take a touch longer. 

Languishing WIP's:

1. Illuminated Lines Blanket: Thank you Knit Picks
2. Circlet Cardigan: Thank you Knit Picks - so pretty! I cannot wait to see this finished.
• The 4 year sweater...it was cast on in January of 2014

Future Cast On's:

1. Camp-side Cardigan
2. Touch the Sky Cardigan

Books:

1. Moll Flanders
2. Worlds of Ink and Shadow
3. DragonFly in Amber
4. Gone With the Wind
5. Curtsies and Conspiracies

Colouring Book Page:

Hue Shift Afghan Progress

My hue shift afghan is coming along nicely. I stitched it together late at night a few weeks ago. It is such a perfect easy to knit blanket, albeit one sometimes gets frustrated just knitting tiny little squares, but it does one item I like to favour, you knit the squares together as you go, not sew 100 4" x 4" squares together when you are finished. So here it stands as a half a blanket.

 One of the most fascinating outcomes of this has been an impromptu study of how great two colours can look next to each other, or with each other, and how bad others can look.

I have started on the 3rd set of 25 squares and I am 8 squares in. It does take about 2 hours per square, give or take, especially depending on what I am doing, and how focused I am. I managed to get 4 squares done in one day this past weekend, and I was doing other things that day.

My next debate is what colour do I make the boarder? Black seems to harsh, and yet a perfectly sound colour choice. I was thinking maybe do 2 rows black, 2 rows colour, but that would end up being a 44 row boarder which I feel would be far too large.

I did also show this to my art teacher, who has painted versions of this all around the studio and as much as I would like to make her one, she can knit so giving her the pattern in order to make her own is a logical outcome.

-A

The pink Blanket

Well, I am alive and well. My grandmother passed away but that us life and something unpreventable so there we are. However it is due to her that I can infact knit, so I thank her for thay from the bottom of my heart. I finished the large pink blanket, I think when I cast off there were around 2000 stitches but I won't think about that because it took me a week to cast off. Now it is just waiting in its box.

Look how pretty, it is all wrapped up and ready for gifting, now I just need to see the baby girl that it is going to. I hope she gets it before she is 10 years old, which until it was actually completed I was not too sure about.

I also completed a hat which is a birthday present but I am just waiting for her to come home again. This hat is perfect for her as she has the biggest heart and this hat has four hearts on the top so it makes it ideal. Before this hat was completed I did also complete a different version of the Tardis hat.

Well that is all I know of for now, except that based on my lack of great pictures I really need to find my good camera.

Peace

-A