WIP Wednesday - Week 8

I got my phone to upload and backup.  So I'm not as stressed.  However it doesn't have any sound. I am missing calls left, right and centre!!!!

I have been invited to another knitting group, I am super excited.  I couldn't make this mornings meeting as it started at 09:00 on the other side of town and that involves major planning on my behalf, which unfortunately didn't happen.  But will make a serious attempt next week.

Well Bank Manager was really annoyed with me for stuffing up my phone, called a contact and I am to go pick up my new IPhone 4 this morning, so as much ranting and raving I got last night, he still cares enough that my phone bill is going to be huge if I have to keep phoning everyone back.  Oh wait a minute, that hurts his pocket!

My shoulder is so much better today and it is stunning weather.  I am going to fetch my phone but until then am going to sit outside in the glorious sun with Take My Time and crochet some ripples.

Oh and if my list isn't long enough, I have joined the One A Day group hosted by Gingerbread Girl (Carole)!  It starts on the 6th of September!!  Plate full or what?

Enjoy the day, and don't forget to go back to Tami Ami's and see the WIP's.

What a Day

Yesturday after posting my row goal for the week, I was a like a woman possessed.  I finished Ice Cream.  So not only did I do what I had planned to do in two days in one.  But that also left me with a sore shoulder from too much crochet and a need to get back to two needles.

I have cast on Ribby which is a pullover for Pudding.  Now to the reason for no pictures.  I am too lazy to go and fetch my camera every time I want to take pictures so I have been using my IPhone, which you can get great pictures on.

The boys were not at school today as they go to a multi-religion private school and today was Eid.  I was sitting on the couch with my coffee in one hand and reading my emails on my phone on the other and yes you guessed it fate stepped in and my phone landed up in my coffee.  It's not working so well at the moment.  I have apparently fried the bottom half of the phone.

The very sad thing is that I have taken photos of Ice Cream and Ribby on the phone and haven't been able to upload them yet.

Tomorrow for WIP Wednesday I will haul out the camera and take pictures of Ribby but I don't have any for FO Friday of Ice Cream.

We had a fantastic day off, and with another Monday tomorrow it's going to be a short and different week.

Goal Monday

I miss knitting but have too much crocheting on the go to actually justify a knitting project.  So my plan is to list how much of each of the crochet projects I either have to do to get it finished or to reach a certain point in a week.

Ice Cream - Baby Granny Stripe Blanket
26  rows of the pattern
1    row of single crochet
2    rounds of single crochet

Take My Time - Neat Ripple Stripe Blanket
26  rows of the pattern

I am putting this out there so that now I can be held to it next week Monday.  I want and need Ice Cream to be finished tomorrow in order for this to work.  Also I NEED to have it finished so that I will have a FO for Friday and it can be given as a present.

Take My Time, well I'm actually bad at letting projects fester, I have a NEED to get them done and out of the way and move on to something else.  I said that I have going to do one repeat of the 9 colours every week but I am already two weeks behind on that due to the Baby Bundles needing to be done to a deadline. 

So actually this week I should be doing 44 rows of the repeat, I just don't see that happening and don't want an epic fail on my first public goal announcement.

Year of Projects - Week 8

The only project that actually should be shown here is Take My Time, I have done 8 rows on it this week!  I have also go to the sewing stage of Red Butler. 

I have worked out this week I want to have completed 26 rows on the Take My Time and 38 rows on the Ice Cream and the 2 rounds of the border.  Cause next week I want to knit Ribby for Pudding. 

When I am knitting, I miss crochet, when I am crochet, I miss knitting, I can't win!

Have a good week everyone!

Ice Cream

I am at a crossroads, I am busy with Take My Time but also not really into to getting it done, I know it's because of the colours.  I have done 6 more rows of it this week.

The weather has been spectacular, I know that because I said that it will now get cold again!

I am also determined that one of my YOP blankets is going to be the granny stripe.  I also felt really bad about the Baby Bundle 2 Blanket being so little.  It's perfect for new borns and to have for the Snug 'n Safe but once the baby is over 3 months, it's going to be too small.  I did say I would make a bigger one.  I got out the Ice Cream colours I had left over and started a chain, to be honest I lost count as I was watching the BLUE BULLS beat the Leopards. 

I hoped and prayed that I did in multiples of 3, then to top it all off I was too lazy to go to the computer and read the pattern online, so I made it up.  Now the first row I remembered was single crochet (or double crochet in UK) then I think it was a group of 3 double crochet (treble crochet in UK) and then skip 2, and  so on and so on.  I am now pretty sure that's wrong, but I can fix it when I do the border as I have a lopsided first row of groups.  Anyway not to worry I think so far it looks STUNNING! 

I have a cunning plan, I have a few stitch patterns I would like to try out and am planning on making baby blankets with all of them first out of my left overs and then if I am happy turn them into big blankets.

The reason for all this experimentation and not committing to anything is that the RWC starts in 13 days I have my RWC blanket to start.  I am itching to knit however, so might make a pullover for Pudding while I'm waiting.  13 days is such a long time.

FO Friday - Week 7

Happy dance it's Friday!!!

Red Butler won't be shown today as the knitting is finished but I haven't sewed the ribbon band onto it yet.

BUT I still have FO's the baby bundle 2.

So now I have shared.  I am going to pop over to Tami Ami's site and see all your fantastic FO Friday's. 

See you soon. 

And have a spectacular weekend. 

Mine will not have so much Rugby but at least there is Currie Cup. 
GO BULLS!  My blood is blue!  Give it horns.

Why I don't sew

I was so excited this morning, got dressed, cleared the dining room table, and set out my beautiful cotton.  Cut out the pattern pieces, cut out the fabric, so far so easy!  Sewed up the sides of the skirt.  Added the zip, which admittdly took me two attempts as I my brain wasn't working and had the foot on the wrong way!! 

Then the waistband.  That's where the wheels fell off.  I stuffed it up so royally.  I tried then to fix it and made it worse.  I unpicked it all, tried agan and it still was shocking.  I tried it on and it was huge.  Now to explain this mistake, I didn't want the skirt so short, and as I am tall, nearly 6" I made it a size bigger to wear on my hips which I am so used to doing, in order to get anything to fit me properly.  This made the skirt the right length but too big to sit on my hips.  So I unpicked the zip, and sewed up the side and the band.  Then added elastic to the sides to pull in. 

I tried it on, and yes it fitted, but hell, did it look UGLY.  I walked into the kitchen opened the dustbin and threw it away.  Packed up the sewing machine and put it back in my cupboard.  I am giving it a time out.  I am not sure when I will release it again.  Yes I know it wasn't the machines fault, but I can't punish myself.

That means the Red Butler will have to get the beautiful ribbon sewed on by hand.  I am not going to attempt to use the machine.