New addition

There'll be a new addition to the family in 7 weeks. Mini the miniature schnauzer. She's 2 weeks old at the moment

27th May

My last post was the 9th March- nearly 3 months have passed, god knows where.
Flat out busy at work and tired all the time. My hex is nearly finished- I have 4 hexs to go and then a border.
The wool took eons to come. Have started another blankie which is on hold until I finish my hex.
And in other news. We saw the Imperial Ice Stars perform Sleeping Beauty on Ice- what a treat. Am so impressed I've booked to go see them in Cardiff in November.

Foundationless chain

Am very impressed that I've managed this today after weeks of trying

Bit peeved

My hex has come to a standstill. I have some of the joining wool on order and it's out of stock at where I ordered it. I could have canceled and ordered somewhere else but we all thought any day, any day.

In the meantime I've finished this:

Waiting now for the red to arrive. I am loathe to start another one with this:

for the simple reason that I won't want to go back to the hexagon if I'm hooky hooky on my next project.

In other news I have a new car, Ian's going to have my old one.

Also selling Dora- we need the money for the extension.

10 to go

Only 10 circles to go and then I've sewn the ends in on 120. I need to crochet the rest of them, hopefully I can get started tomorrow night.
Work is hectic. Be back soon

Sewing in

Gah. I've made 120 circles ready to convert into hexagons. I need another 120 circles before I start the blankie itself but I've run out of wool. I placed an order for some more and also some white to do the actual hexagon bit and also am planning on joining as I go. In the meantime I have 120x 4 ends to sew in and trim. I really should have sewed them in as I finished a group of 20.

This will be the final shape although I'm going to do the hex bit in white I think. Am also only half way through my circles. It generally takes a day to do 20 circles although that also involves lots of other things happening during the day like cooking, cleaning and entertaining the kids. I find that i don't get much done when I'm at work so next week production slows right down.

This is all I have left of my Artesano Superwash Merino- I ordered 4 balls in each colour. I've also got loads of other paler colours and had thought to make a blankie with all the colours but decided against that afetr all. I'll see how the white goes with the joining. It'll either make the jewel colours 'pop' or be horrific

What to do?

James Brett merino. Took hours to make. Can't unpick to resew so need a motif or something in the middle of each triangle