Showing posts with label blanket. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blanket. Show all posts

Monday, 12 September 2011

How much knitting how little time...

The blanket is finally all in one piece and there is only the edging to pick up.  I sewed it together with mattress stitch and am now picking up and knitting the border as instructed.  I am just not used to following someone else's instructions for doing stuff like this but have decided to do so because it is good practise.

I need to get it finished so that I can finish all the other unfinished projects in my stash, and so that I can knit all the yarn I have spun plus the yarn I have bought, and the yarn I have dyed; and spin all the fibre I have bought...
crocheted reverse treble motifs.  A summer top?
My knitting group are knitting things for the Christmas stall we are having.  I meanwhile have a summer top to finish after this blanket...and I really want to finish my shawl.  Am I really going to knit Chrismas presents AND do stuff for a fundraising stall???  Well I did do two squash flower book marks, only I can't find one of them. 

I spent half of the knitting group tonight eating crisps and cucumber as a kind of belated dinner and choosing library books - very handy this meeting in the library. I am so impressed with our young knitters - we have quite a few and tonight there were four in attendance, all knitting busily whilst I was eating, choosing books and definitely doing more nattering than knitting!