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Year of Projects–Week 22

 

22 weeks in already! This year is just flying by isn’t it. Very scary in it’s own way; but nearing my summer holiday in just 5 weeks time!

This week I’ve been working on;

Circles for my nephews blanket. I worked on this yesterday at my old LYS; they had some new colours in, including the yellow which I felt really lifts the whole thing up. I now have 12 more circles to crochet before I start making them into squares, joining and adding the border.

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The new thing I mentioned last week is that I’ve started on my Saxon; and it is going to be a rainbow one! Working on this makes me so happy, even if it is 10 strands at a time. My mother causally mentioned wanting a scarf version. If she does still want that; I’m going to buy one of those hand crank i-cord machines and do it with that instead. There’s no way I’m knitting 10 scarf length strips; sorry mam! I’m starting to wish my way towards the end a bit when the exciting bit happens! Make 10 strips, 10 stitches wide and 170 rows long sounds easy, until you actually realise that 100 stitches x 170 rows and by knitting them all at once unless you are careful you’ll end up in a taffle.

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I slipped and fell yesterday when I went back to the LYS in Gloucester and as well as the yellow and a spare ball of blue for the edging for the circle blanket I ended up with these goodies.

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I was looking at the mens patterns and immediately thought of my Dad when I saw this. Seeing how much he likes his knitted socks I thought that he’d like this too. The yarn in Woolcraft Linen Dream; mostly acrylic with a bit of wool and a bit of Linen in it. Looks like it will knit up very nicely. I’m planning on taking this with me as holiday knitting next month. I’ll probably adapt it to knit the front and back at the same time up to the arm holes because that will avoid a large amount of seaming.

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I couldn’t resist this handspun yarn. It’s from Squash Blossom Fibres a local spinner and dyer. 100% merino, I’d say approximately D.K weight (a little thick and thin in places- as the best handspun is!) and is 100% merino. There’s about 174 yards on this skein so I’m thinking a feather and fan cowl.

 

Anyway, off to wizz through a few more rows; finding it goes much quicker if there’s a good movie on. Tonight I’m watching The Princess Bride again <3

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