A Year of Projects Update - week 30

 I hope everyone has has a lovely and hopeful new year.

I have had a quiet new year with a fair bit of relaxing and crafting.

Firstly I finished Hitchenbrook.

Hitchenbrook is the brown fabric item!  It is a shawl/poncho and I think it will be amazing in early spring as it gets too cold to go out without a coat but slightly too warm to wear a big winter coat.

Also in the picture are my Windschief socks by Stephen West - and I'm making good progress down the leg.  I'm using a Yorkshire spinners Christmas colourway from several years ago.

I have also been reading.  The book that has taken my attention right now is Wilding by Isabella Tree and is the story of how her and her husband started the process of returning an area of land in Sussex to the wild.  Thd area is actually about 20 minutes from here, so when I've read it I want to visit the Knepp estate to see it today.

I have a few other plans which I will reveal as I get to them!  Firstly,  I need to find a paintbrush!

Well I hope everyone has a good week 😊

A Year of Projects Update - week 28

 I hope everyone had a lovely week. I had a really relaxing week and I've managed to get on with a few projects.

I finished my Stephen West socks.

I love them and can't believe it took so long to finish them!

I have cast on a further pair of Stephen West socks as a Christmas and New year project.

I have been continuing with Hitchenbrook and am now at 40 inches - just 23 to go!

I have also picked up mums last ptoject.  I salvaged it from her seat on the sofa months ago and have just felt able to start finishing it for her.

Here it is as I found it.

She had some squares she had done, so I have sewn those in and have started to knit more squares to finish it off.

And so that is that for this week - I hope everyone has a lovely new year and so will catch up again in  January  ✨️

A Year of Projects Update - week 27

 Oh my  - this month has been busy!  I cannot recount what I've been doing as it is just a blur, most of it being work related.   

Anyway,  we have broken up for the Christmas holiday and now I should be able to have more time for fun things!

I have done  little knitting.  I have done a little more on Hitchenbrook.   I didn't picture it well last time - it was just in a heap.  It is actually wrap, not a sweater - eventually it will be long enough to wrap round on itself and the bottom gets sewn to the edge- I will hopefully show you soon!

This is being knit from some yarn from John Arbon Textiles and  it is lovely, and I can knit it from memory now,  no need for the pattern.

I have also figured out a ptoject that was half finished in the hope that I can make a new cast on sometime in the holiday.   And that is one of my Stephen West socks.

I just have the bottom of both socks to do now and the toes and they are done.  I do really like them, I just ran out of steam!  Hopefully, by next week they will be completed.

I'm off to Somerset tomorrow to see dad before Christmas.  I'm just doing it in one day so then I have the rest of the holiday to relax.  

So, I wish everyone a lovely holiday and great Christmas if you celebrate ✨️🎉