The knitting's back

I love reading the comments on here, I love that people who read my blog also take time to say something.  It is even more lovely when an old friend pops up and comments, perhaps someone who has been reading and commenting ever since I began blogging several years ago.  But it occurred to me this week that a casual visitor to my blog over the last few weeks might have wondered if this is not a knitting blog at all but something about clothes, or even travel.

So I thought it was high time I put the blog back on its tracks.  This is specially important as I have been asked to join in a special blog crawl next week (do come back next Monday to see what that is all about) which has a wonderful wooly theme. The blog crawl has sheep, spinning and knitting in it with a dash of history thrown in - my all time favourite combination, But meanwhile I thought I would share a few of my projects to get us all back in the knitting frame of mind

Firstly, there is a very special event coming up in our family DD2 expects her first baby next week!! You will not be surprised to see I have made a few things

I last posted a photograph of the Vivid baby blanket (pattern by Tin Can Knits) when it was just a pile of squares

This little pink and cream cardigan has buttons from Kath Kidston

Still a work in progress this cream cardigan has a grey lace trim around the sleeves and all around the body

I am making much slower progress with things for me

I have just got as far as swatching for the vintage cardi in Sweet Georgia Tough Love Sock

I don't know what to do with this little sweater, I have picked it up an put it down so often

What do you do with a WIP that is getting to be a white elephant?  The Yarn of this little cream sweater is Angelus by Natural Dye studio.  The yarn is AMAZING and even more precious as NDS is no more. But it has been kicking around in a bag so long (and picked up and put down) that the fabric is badly uneven, I'm not even sure what size needles I was using (robbed off the cable long ago for another project)  I really think it has to be frogged, skeined, washed, wound and begun again.  But it's knitted in the round up to the armholes and the back done - that A LOT of knitting.  What would you do?

Just the toes done on these socks

I've been spinning too

200m of Wensleydale in Evil Beanwater colour-way by Porpoise fur

And some merino from Sweet Georgia Yarns nearly half done

I think that's all I have in progress at the moment.  See you on Monday with news of something rather exciting

xx

c