Well, hurrah and huzzah!

That's the scarf finished, and just in time too. It went like a rocket once I got going. Apologies for photographing it on the kitchen floor - it was the only place where the light was good enough.

The question now is - what next?

Some possibilities:

1 - A toilet roll doll for my friend's five-year-old daughter. Free rein to be as silly as I like! And come to think it's her birthday soon, so it could be the silliest birthday present she gets this year.

2 - Something for me. I think I'm ready for an actual garment now. Generally I like small projects as I get bored easily, but I need and want a really nice warm cardigan. It might even be done by next winter if I start now.

3 - Yeah, I should really finish those unfinished objects shouldn't I?

4 - Seeing as my Fair Isle Beanie came out a bit small and Miss Mouse acquired it I'd really like to do another for me. No hurry for that though as winter seems to be abandoning ship now (oh noes! Did I say that?? A big temptation for fate there..)

Knitting frenzy

The Scarf has changed again - nice pattern but time consuming and the texture of the yarn didn't show the twisty rib at its best. So I frogged it on Tuesday and started my squillionth One-Row Scarf! Thankfully it's rocketing along and looking quite good now. Just as well as it needs to be finished by Friday!

The kids are at their Grandma's house tonight so we've been watching DVDs/telly and I've been knitting all evening. Saturday night eh.. wild or what?

This is clearly going to be one of those projects I Learn From.

Whether I want to or not.

As I half suspected the Summer Tweed didn't work out very well with the Swiss Cheese scarf - there's just not enough give in it for the cast-ons after the holes and it's prone to snapping under too much tension. Besides my cast-ons are horribly untidy. So I frogged it and decided to play around with the yarn and see if inspiration struck. I cast on 'some' (didn't count), stocking-stitched a few rows then tried the 'yarn round needle every stitch, drop off the excess non-stitches on the next row' approach. But the yarn isn't 'tidy' enough for that effect to work very well so I was secretly relieved when my two-year-old grabbed the needles and frogged it for me. If she hadn't I'd have felt obliged to stick with it for a few more rows to see if it grew on me!

So attempt three. I had a quick look through Rav to see what other people were making with this yarn and came across a project using Beth Collins' wiggly-waggly Rainy Day Scarf, so I thought I'd give it a try. This is going much better, I'm glad to say. It's the kind of simple but interesting, arithmetically satisfying pattern that suits me. As long as I don't knit when I'm sleepy and miscount the ribbing! On that note therefore, good night..

Oh what a tangled web

Converting hanks to balls, it is safe to say, is not my strong suit.

My yarn (Rowan Summer Tweed) arrived today for the groovy little scarf I'm going to make for the Boy's teacher who is leaving at Easter. It's going to be some form of Winnie Shih's Swiss Cheese Scarf, if I can ever get the yarn untangled. It's a metaphor for my life really - starting out with good intentions, quickly descending into chaos, but ultimately, miraculously, resolving itself into something not entirely crap. *rolls eyes*

Rainbow Baby

The rainbow baby is finished, I'm still trying to decide what length the wavy lace scarf should be, and I've got that book back out of the library. I need to sort through my knitting, it's all getting disorganised again!

The Mystery

Found the Missing Cardigan. Of course now I don't have the pattern - it was from a library book and I had to return it.

The wavy lace scarf is almost done. It's long enough really but I'm not sure how long I want it to be - long enough, a bit long, very long?

I'm almost finished the Rainbow Baby for the Boy - at the irritating embroidering stage. I've done the eyes. No wonder I've so many almost-finished projects, the little finishing touches take as long as the knitting.

Tink tink tink

World's Worst Blogger!

The Violet Green wavy lace scarf continues - I messed it up a few days ago and last night at Tchai Ovna I decided that the imperfection didn't matter and went on with it. And messed it up further. So tonight I tinked something like 6 rows - oh the tedium. But now it's right and I'm much happier with it - hurray!

The Mystery of the Missing Cardigan - still can't find either the yarn of what I've done so far of the Boy's zip-up cardigan. Where could I have put it??