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Year of Projects–Week 2.

 

So what I said about being a good blogger and trying to update once a week or so? Obviously gone out of the window.

The other half has been off work this week, and even though I’ve been back it’s been very busy. Our living room is divided into two halves and we’ve painted the second half of the room this week.

 

 

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Please ignore the bareness of it all- The bookcase needs to go up and the rug needs to be put back. I also have the task of hanging some pictures up before too long. Now we have the proper nails….

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Someone *cough Rhys* felt that these would be great for hanging pictures with. A+ if we lived in the Giants house at the top of the beanstalk. They’ve been returned and more appropriate nails since acquired; and my belief that children should be taught basic DIY before leaving home has also been cemented since then! Thank you Dad for teaching me how to hammer straight and thank you mum for showing me how to paint a room. I honestly can’t say it's a perfect paint job but there’s plenty of people we know who hire people to do this kind of thing and spend a fortune on it.

Knitting wise I have 2 F.O’s already!

One from the List-

From Norway with Love

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And one not.

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Both of these are done with Stylecraft DK for the lighter colour, the contrast for the hearts is Twileys Freedom Spirit. 4.00mm Knit Pro Symphonie tips. The fingerless mittens are from the February issue of Knit Today which I picked up when on holiday- Crazy how they came into my life just after I finished a hat that would match.

Since I’ve finished these I’ve started some socks. Then broke my sock needles. I LOVE the KnitPro Symphonies (wooden ones) but they don’t love me in the smaller sizes. This is the umpteenth small diameter one I’ve broken. I’ve made the decision now that anything smaller than 4.0mm needs to be done on a metal or other needle. Lucky for me that I have the full set of needles in both they Synphonie (wood) Specrta (plastic) *and* the Nova (metal) – the latter being a wonderful gift when I left the shop. All I have to do is get my trusty fixed 2.5mm circs.

While I’m waiting for those to arrive I’ve taken back out my stashbuster Granny Square blanket. Frogged it and I’m doing a Granny stripe now instead. Hope to get some decent pictures of that one for WIP Wednesday for you guys.

Bye for now

Hannah.

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