This morning i have mostly been...

UNTANGLING! >:o(


Somehow or another my big ball had become several smaller, knotty balls and rather than struggle on while knitting it i decided to tackle it!

I would have liked to have only cut it once but unfortunately i had to cut it twice... still, i now have a nice tidy ball to knit from and the ends are being knitted in as i go, i already have one sorted ;o)

Now that i am past the dividing bit i really am a lot happier with the jumper, it was just getting impossibly big for me! Bearing in mind i tend to stick to hats and socks there has been a lot of knitting going into this!
It's daft though, cos i have knitted blankets and shawls in the past and there are probably no more stitches on the needle that there have been for them, it just seems huge!

It's all worth it though! I have what resembles a rather full sleeved shrug at the moment. The pattern says to knit straight for 6" and then do the waist shaping, but having tried it on this morning a couple of inches should do it, i don't really have much of a waist really so might not bother with them at all and just knit it staight... we'll see ;o)

YAY! YAY! And thrice i say YAY!

I have just done the dividing row on my BPT!! :oD

I have to say, it has been a slog and a half to get there but i feel so much better now it's done!
I now have two sleeves on holders and one body ready for some straight knitting, no increases just a few cables (did i mention that i love cables?) and in about 4 inches i can do some decreases :oD

The joy of dividing my BPT is somewhat taking the sting out of losing my beloved sock... i have still had no joy from phoning the pub, tried 4 times again today but to no avail, it is constantly engaged! GRRRRRR!! I did completely forget to phone Tramlink though so that is a must for tomorrow morning before i head off for a Natural History adventure :oD
For those that don't know... you mean you haven't heard? I took my lovely Rattlesnake sock out for a show off on Thursday and i am now unable to find it! My poor gorgeous sock, left to defend for itself out in the wilds of Croydon... if it dropped out of my bag on the tram it might even have ended up in Wimbledon... oh the shame! :o(

I will get round to blogging more holiday piccies but i keep putting it off and now my memory of holiday events is blurring ::ooooops::: but i must do it or else i will forget completely!!

Happy Tuesday!

Well, here we are, still no pc, but i have dug the laptop out of retirement and am willing to ignore the slowness and tiny keboard in favour of being able to get online whenever i want :oD

So, anyway... knitting news...
Absolutely no progress on the SKP socks :o(
Only 4 rounds of knittingto go on the Lavender Blankie and then it's two rounds of crochet casting off! YIPPEE!! I have to say that altjhough i have really enjoyed knitting it and wathing the feather and fan unfold i am getting a bit bored with it and i am glad that i am soon to be done :oD
No more progress on the BPT yet either. We had company this weekend so not much knitting was done at all! Once the Blankie is done i shall concentrate on the socks and get them finished and then i want to finish my hoodie!
We are off to a VW show this weekend with camping on Saturday night and i am quite looking forward to it. It's one of the shows we went to last year and although it was only a small local show it was a lot of fun and the camping was lovely and relaxed and that was the show that we were visited by a local cat! It was quite bizarre!

One of my friend's is in desperate need of a hat, she has very curly hair and tends to wear a manky old fleece hat when she's camping but it's really horrible so after some research ihave promised to make her this rather fetching cowboy hat and i am very excited at the prospect of ordering some New Lanark wool to make it in YAY!
Of course, all we have to do now is narrow down the colour choices... we are down to four ::lol::

progress report

I shall be taking photos just as soon as i find the camera - i believe it is still int he camper where it stayed all weekend! We got a compact camera especially for camping trips and yet we still don't get it out and take photos, nightmare!
Annnnyway! My main three projects on the go at the moment are:

• BPT - i am on row 42 of the yoke with 36 to go until i divide for the arms and body :o)

• Lavender Blankie - i am on round 96 with 13 rounds to go until the two cast off rounds :o)

• Jacobean Socks - not much progress :o( I am halfway through the second diamond of the first foot, i am not knitting on them for 15 minutes a day as i had hoped :o(

I plan to rectify the soc situation today and will work on it exclusively for a whole hour! I need to get the pair finished by the end of April as that is when the new pattern comes out!

My computer is still dead. I have a couple of things left to try before it goes off to an expert but it's a bit tedious fiddling with the pc when i know i could be using the time to knit! ::lol::

Happy April Fool's day by the way - did anyone get you good?

I have succumbed!

and cast on for my BPT ;o)

I am knitting it in Sirdar Bonus Aran, i have three 400g balls so i should have plenty! I will be modifying the sleeves á la knitosaurus cos i love long sleeves and thumbholes :o)
I got a bit confused for absolutely no reason when i was working out my cable rounds and increases and things - i need a cheat sheet as i find it impossible to count rows and keep track of where i am so i just have a little list so i can tick off each row when it's done :o)

The Lavender blankie has 20 rounds to completion, but i have over 450 stitches per round now and can only manage one pattern repeat before i get mind numbingly bored of working on it ::blushing:: I have a very short attention span, what can i say!

The Jacobean socks are making progress, i have one and a half pattern repeats done now and am trying to work on them for 15 minutes a day just so i can make some progress on them.

I'm feeling much better now, thankyou for your support and kind words. My chest has eased off and i am having far less coughing fits than i was at the weekend, which is just as well because tomorrow afternoon we are off camping! YAY! My first camping trip of the year and the first of MANY camping trips we have planned for this year! The van is ready to go, i just need to go to the supermarket tomorrow for sausages and bread and rolls and maybe some cake ;o)
Oh, and milk! Mustn't forget the milk! ;o)