Friday 1 March 2013

WOOL........

Say no more really...... A complete day off today... hoooraaah! although I don't work very much most often I do an hour or 2 most days, certainly weekdays and so a WHOLE day off is quite rare, so to put off hoovering and washing I decided to sort through my wool stash.





As you can see I have plenty of wool and what a pleasant hour or 2 passes whilst fiddling around looking at what has been forgotten at the bottom of the basket!!  I need to spend some time on Ravelery to find some more patterns.

Here is a new project I have on the go.....






It is going to be a blanket for Charlie to take  to Uni in Sept. I seem to have started a tradition of making each child a knitted blanket to take with them as a reminder of home. Charlies is the biggest so far! poor Becca has the worst deal so far as I made her a rather shabby looking thing i made when I was rediscovering knitting a few years ago. I have promised to make her a GIANT one when she gets married !!


This is the wool that I will use, its all funny old bits and pieces and I am just pulling them out at random , not really trying to match colours.

4 comments:

  1. I agree that playing with yarn is a better choice than cleaning! It's a very nice tradition you have going with knitting each of your children a blanket to take to university. I am a hopeless blanket knitter. I run out of enthusiasm about halfway through.

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  2. I can't believe after the sky scarf you can't manage a blanket...... when I made a knitted patchwork blanket for SamI got ridiculously bored with knitting small squares but once i started putting it altogether it looked so good I was inspired to keep going

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  3. Another vote here for all things yarn being preferable to housework. But you have left me acutely aware of my excessive stash which would tower over yours. I have boxes and boxes of the stuff! Is there any hope for me I wonder!

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    1. I find it so addictive, buying wool. I do it mostly online and given a quiet moment I seem to be magnetically pulled to wool website and then all is lost!!
      I have given up buying wool online for lent!!! along with meat, not sure which is more of a loss!!

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