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:

February 2018

Thus far the Comfort Fade Cardi has been a struggle. I cast on, decided my gauge was too tight, so I cast on again, then I separated for the arms an it was at that point I tried it on, and it fit PERFECTLY, no sarcasm sign required, sadly the rate at which I was going there was no way on this earth it was going to be long enough. So I frogged back to the first colour and then did about 2 rows and realized I had a 4 mm needle and a 5 mm needle and I had done 2 rows when actually I needed a 4.5 mm needle. I feel cursed. The good news about this cardigan is it will use up about 6 skeins of wool, this causes me lots of joy as the yarn hoarding has become dangerous.

Sadly this project has faced a third frogging....as of February 20, 2018. Alas I again realized I would not have enough yarn, and the transition from the second colour to the third was far too dramatic, or is it? I am on the fence. Also, the third section in comparison to the rest is far too large, and now that I have more yarn coming it should all be better. Really should have just done more planning for this before I jumped in with both feet, but It will be okay I think, I hope.
Wish me luck!

Let's see if we can finished the Frog in February...the alliteration will make it all worth while. (I did!)

It was also National Cupcake day on February 26th, so here are the cupcakes I made.

I also went to wear my Midnight Shrug and it was not right at all. I tried:

•  the super stretchy bind off
• the regular bind off
• some other form of bind off, 
• it was twisted bind off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YzKPDOZrPc, it looked awful, maybe it was my lack of experience or patience with it
• and the tubular bind off. 

All with very little success. I am currently working on an i-cord bind off. So far so good, its stretchy, it could be stretchier, but blocking makes many things better. It is blocked and slightly better, it is currently just on a hanger seeing if gravity will take hold and just give it that extra stretch we have been looking for.

FO's:

1. Figario Frog
1. He is too cute for words, it is all in the toes. 
2. About 10 or 20 Be Loving hats to donate
1. That makes a total of 75 hats that I have completed this year so far. Look at them all. 

WIP's:

1. Tardis Afghan
2. Sexb-omb (name of the yarn) Socks
3. Comfort Fade Cardigan
4. Lestrange Cloak
1. I had to cast this on because I needed more yarn for my Fade Cardigan :)
5. 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. The Siren - I read this in a day! I am so proud of me. 

Colouring Book Page: