A Year of Projects Update - Week 6

We made our way home from mum and dads yesterday.  We took a little detour down to Southampton to see my friend for the christening of her little boy and had a lovely, if not long, day.
I did do a fair bit of knitting this week, but finished nothing!
I made progress on Rhombing Around - I have now got the back onto waste yarn.

 I have also made some progress on the mystery socks (Curiosa), but am still plowing through clue 2.  I will get there!!

This week, I have purchased all of the snuggly snowflake to make Daniel a rainbow hat - so I shall work on that as well and I may make a start on some newborn sets that I want to make for the stall.

I shall leave you with some highlights from our trip.

 Setting off!

 Beside the steam train that took us to the beach.

 On the beach

And me in my Megan - Not the best picture of me but I love the dress!

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Yarn Along - visiting grandparents

Me and the boys have travelled West to visit the grandparents this week!  We have been shopping this morning to buy school shoes and I have spent far too much money.
I have been making progress on both projects that I have brought with me - the purple is Rhombing Around (love this stitch - it is the seersucker stitch pattern) and the blue is my curiosa socks by Rachel Coopey.

The yarn is Mellifera yarn merino sport, which is so lovely and soft it is a delight to knit with.  The yellow is waste yarn as a provisional cast on.  The blue is splendid and is also a Mellifera yarn, this time a cash twist that is also great to knit with.

I have started The Seas, but have only managed about 4 pages while the boys were in the park playing in the sand this morning.

Linking with Nicole and Ginny.

                                                                                                                                                         

A Year of Projects Update - week 5

Well, it's been a week of 2 steps forward, 3 steps back!  I finished a cuddly hat for the stall modelled here by Daniel.  Now he wants one, in the colours of the rainbow no less!

I made progress on my Vianne, but I don't like the first sleeve, so when I have modified the second, I shall frog the first and start again!

In spending time on that, I have done very little to my curiosa socks - I am still stuck on clue two.
I have found time to make Thomas a pencil case and PE bag for school.  I have also sewn a PE bag for a friend of Thomas and Daniel.

This next week sees us in Somerset with my mum and dad, I'm taking the socks and Rhombing around, which I hope to make great progress on!
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