2 weeks to go

then I get to finally move down to cornwall. Looking into housing atm, check out some letting agents and find out whaty sort of placed I can afford to get. Renting is only short term, so I won't be too fussy

planning a move

I've started looking at houses in cornwall, it looks like i may be able to get something close to my dream of enough space for an orchard and livestock, kids are helping plan it all.

It will take a while though, I've got the joys of starting to talk to letting agents soon, utter parasites that they are.

and now for some more crochet

Some wool from a karma swap and some sirdar nova from the stash and I have this, another stahsbusting baby blanket. I think i should get that set of shelves cleared and moved in time for the birth after all, I'm certainly on track so far.

been away a while

Needed a bit of a break from writing stuff for a while. That dosen't mean I haven't been knitting though, and i'm learning more about crochet.

What you see above is a 3.5 foot diameter baby blanket, it's nice and thick and soft, so I think will make a great blanket for baby to lie on the floor or the grass. Took a few days to complete, but not bad for a near beginner, especially since ti's got a good 700 yards of yarn in it. I had the purple left over from making a blanket for the she-demon a couple of years ago, and the white is the same yarn, one of sirdar's cotton/wool/acrylic blends, so sticking them together to make a nice baby blanket seemed a great idea

I'll add some pictures of some of the other sutff I've een doing recently as well later, dishcloths, baby cardie, a knitted baby blanket. need to hit the WIP pile and finish some stuff there as well.

oven glove

Finished the oven glove, the first of the projects I'm making for an article about recycling felted/feltable jumpers.

today's efforts

Not much for today. I am working on another little project that is taking a little longer than expected. Should finish that tomorrow

even more blanket squares

Knit a few more of these today. Fairly sure i have over 200 of them completed now.

more blanket squares

OK, moving on from the mad sock making frenzy, I've decided i need to knit something that can be shown to be a finished item or module every day. This may be part of a WIP like a jumper sleeve, or blanket squares, or a sock or a completed item from the WIP pile.

In effect, April will be my month of finished stuff.

I want to get the WIp pile to something reasonable, and along with the great stashbusting blanket, I should be able to get all my craft kit fitting into the boxes I bought for it. This will however, be classed as a minor miracle, so don't hold your breath waiting for it.

anyway, here's a picture of some completed blanket squares for today's 'finished' effort.

progress on the giant rug

Did that and planted some more seeds last night. Feeling very productive and pleased with myself.

day off from sockknitting

I think I will scream if i don't take the occasional day off socks. So today is the day. I'm rug knitting instead, sitting up, with a nice warm cat on my feet and nearly 2 foot of the rug done. Considering this is supposed to be the project for the whole of April and use up over 3 miles of yarn, having completed nearly a third of it is looking good.

I wrote an article for downsizer as well as the knitting pattern today. This is the most formal writing I've done in a day since I last tried to write an essay. i'm feeling quite pleased with myself for this and for seemingly not completely messing up with the seedlings this year.

I've had a fair few disasters trying to grow herbs at home on windowsills from seed and this was very disheartening. Now I'm trying to grow veggies from seed to actually produce a reasonable amount of food and I keep remembering my earlier failures and worrying. Seeing stuff sprouting and then starting to set leaves really makes me feel a lot more relaxed about the whole thing.