Monday, monday...

It's Monday again.

Today wasn't so bad, I was at Ma & Pa's over the weekend with TheBoy and stayed over til this morning so work was quite short (hurray!) Ma has been knitting up some of my Stash too, which is rather fab as she knits so quick, which means I'll be able to get off my yarn-diet sooner!!

So this weekend has seen off a couple of balls at least, Ma is thoroughly enjoying getting rid of the pesky things and getting her fingers up to top speed again! (I can't believe how quick she knits and forget she has been knitting since the age of 10, hoping that I'll be as quick one day...)

Next on my list is a ball of red-ish-multi-coloured yarn, hopefully it will be a hat when I've waved my magic wand, er, needle, over it. We'll see.

I'm a Hooker... at last!

Hurray, I got crochet under my belt! Well, at least the basics, I made a flower for my felted bag which has finished it off just perfectly, poor bag has been idling in my 'not-quite-finished' area for weeks... done!

Also, I've been reducing my stash again by knitting up a couple of balls of Robin Super Chunky, that beautiful plum colour in my scarf.... that was just a swatch which against all the odds made it into 'finished!' - not sure how that happened.... anyway the main event is a poncho which hopefully will be finished later on today, watch this space.

Black; it's a girl thing...

So, I thought Black,VeryBlack was a mans scarf but it's surprised me by going all girly on me. Hubby said it needs to be longer for a bloke (men, it's all they're ever worried about!) and when I tried it on it looked just right - partly because the ends are wider, with the fuzzy wool and sort of fan out, in a very un-manly way. I can live with being wrong. Occasionally.

That's finished then, and the next thing is a big shawl/scarf made from 2 balls of very cheap and cheerful pink yarn. One is an eyelash type pink/black and the other is a velvet-y candy pink. They are both pretty yuk on their own to be honest (but they were cheap!!) but knitted garter stitch, one then the other alternatively they become transformed into some quite lovely! Pix to follow...