Very wet and windy Friday

I bet you thought that I had forgotten all about this blog again but I haven't I have been about. I really wanted to do a blog all about my WIP's and some FO's but the whether has been nasty for days now( I have never seen it so bad for so long) that taking any kind of decent picture is impossible.

I am thinking of taking part in this it is knitting the alphabet so 26 pairs of socks in a year, probably madness as I have never taken part in anything like this and have only ever completed a few pairs of basic socks but its worth a try. I have already missed the cast on date for A and B. I will decide over the next couple of days weather to cast on for C or just to wait until D socks. I need to get the pair of socks I am working on finished and the shawl for my Aunts birthday finished.

I have lost 3lb since the last time I posted which is now 1st 3.5lb.

Hopefully the weather will improve and I can get some photos for you. So until next time please take care.

Crazy Hair Day

Today in my world the twins had Crazy hair day, for a small fee they could go to school with their hair all crazy. So with P I spiked his hair and my neighbour had a littleblue hair dye. With E I put about 10 pig tails in her hair at all strange angles then I pleated some fancy yarns into her hair and some glitter. The results were great and the cost nothing apart from a little time.

Finally finished my pink socks. I started these early last year but they kept getting put to the side for other things.

They are made of Zig Zag sock yarn the pattern was the pattern you get free with the yarn.

I took some progress pictures of my main WIP its a very large Crochet bead spread done in a ripple. The pattern is from Attic24 tutorials. Trying to use up stash (you would never guess my favourite colour was purple) I selected as much purple from stash but each ripple takes 25g of yarn so I have been buying lots of different shades of purple in DK C. Considering I have only been Hooking for a couple of months its going quite quickly.

Casted on for something else but I think more about that another day when I get a chance to take photos and it is a bit further on. I also have another major WIP that again I will get photos of and will Blog about.

On a personal level My weigh in was on Thursday and that was another 4lb off so that 1st 1lb in 2 weeks as you can inagine its a wonderful feeling.

Please take care until next time.

New Year new start

Hello, well did I not get a shock when I looked back on here, I have been such a bad blogger it has been nearly 2 years since the last time I have blogged so I have given the blog a new name a new look and its a new me.

I do have an excuse for my bad behaviour as 14 months ago I had little Sarah my fourth child so as you can imagine she has kept me pretty busy.

The hat she is wearing is actually for me it is made from Robin Picasso Chunky which I received through a Secret Santa swap with the forum I am involved with FEKERS. The pattern is from this book which I love and have so far made quite a few of the patterns from it.

I am also working on a lot of things after learning to Crochet properly throws are the in thing just now. I am also knitting more socks as my supply of hand knitted socks are starting to look rather holy and worn. More about my WIP's soon.

I have promised myself 3 things for this year;

1) To keep this Blog up.

2) To lose weight (joined Weight Watchers)

3) T knit something for Christmas gifts every month from next month so I don't have the mad rush in December.

Hoping to look at this next year at this time and see if any of it has actually happened.

So until next time take care.

Why oh why?

I sat last night and knitted a little pair of bootees for my freind at work to give to her freind who is pregnant. I knitted them and thought at the time they were a bit small and couldn't see how they were suppossed to go together but I kept on and cast off and put them together once I had done the first one I looked at it and thought no its not right went back to the pattern and guess what I had left out a whole section of the pattern.
I can only blame it on the fact that I haven't really knitted a lot of baby things and didn't see that I had missed a vital part i.e the sole and my own stupidity at not at missing a whole part of the pattern. At least ellie will end up with a pair of bootees for one of her dolls as I start again.

My camara is still broken so have not been able to take any photos of Fo's but hopefully the beginning of the week and pictures of finished botees too.

Bright socks and scarfs

Thought I had better tell you what I have been up to first off I finished my bright socks which someone at work has so kindly renamed clown socks I can see why.

They are done in Kingcole ZigZag sock yarn and the pattern is from violet greens sight and is http://violetgreen.co.uk/wavingnotdrowningsocks.php. It was really easy one to do for first time at a lace pattern on socks just 4 easy rows to remember.

Then last weekend Adventure Ted came home with us he is the nurseries teddy and every so often we have him home with us and I have to write a story about what Adventure Ted has been up to well when we got him home this was what the weather was like it was snowing very unusual for around here.

So we decided Adventure Ted just had to have a scarf to keep him warm so next thing the twins had me getting my needles out and some scrap yarn out and was knitting a trendy scarf for this teddy.

I have been up to a lot more but when I went to take the photos I discovered that the batteries are dead on my camara so they will need to wait until I can get some.

I have finished the Thomas jumper for Paul and started another pair of socks for me and a Vest and also a jumper for me. Ok Ok I know I normally only knit things in January for me but I got some other things done so I am extending it this year to Febuary and maybe beyond I like this knitting for myself just wish I wasn't so big and it didn't take so much yarn and time.

Will drive me nuts...

First things first I must apolagise for not keeping this blog up to date as mauch as I should but the truth is there has not been anything very exciting to write about unless you find gumpy customers at my work ( their seemed to be a few this weekend) or the fact I had two floods to deal with or I had to pick up a full bowl of Rice crispies off the floor ( they get absolutely everywhere) exciting.

But amongst all this I have managed to get a bit of knitting done. First of all Ellie is modelling a scarf which I have knitted for myself, Ellie loves to be photograped so she thought it was great that she could take part. I managed to knit the scarf to a decent length without getting too bored with it and put on fringes which is the first time I have put fringes on anything and really pleased with how they turned out and the fringes didn't take too long either.

Next I managed to knit a dolls blanket for my niece who asked for one ever so nicely as she said her dolls were cold in their cot and she really needed a blanket for them so I knitted her one to my own design and will give her it for her Birthday in Febuary and for once I am actually ahead with presents not like normally when I am still trying to knit them at two in the morning the day before. May it continue until the end of the year but knowing me probably not.

I have just cast on a jumper for Paul he needs one but would not appreciate just a plain jumper it has to have something on it and that has to be Thomas the Tank engine of course. Not managed to get very far with it yet. I just know its going to drive me absolutely insane but what his Lordship wants he gets. As this blog goes on you will realise that it is usually Ellie that gets because their so many lovely girls things out there an she really loves anything and everything that you knit for her as for my oldest one he is so big at 12 he is 5 foot 9 inches and size 9 feet so unfortunetly he misses out a bit and he has hit teenager early so doesn't really wnat handknits anymore their lame.

I have also managed to get a few rounds on my socks done but not enough to photograph them maybe be further on next time especially if the Thomas jumper drives me nuts.

I am sitting here just now chuckling away to myself, when I was trying to bring Ellie back from nursery she decided to run to the front door but forgot to stop at the door and run right into it.

It was one of those motherly moments when your full of concern about the massive lump on her head but trying not to laugh because it was funny.

Right back to knitting finished my hat last night it is quite slochy even with all my hair at the back I think its time to go back to a pleat in my hair to make it fit properly.

And another image froma different angel.

I do apologise for my photo taking I will get there but don't the twins look cute they were only 13 months old then Robert is in the middle but you can't see him.

I have cast on my scarf to go with the hat.

Not very exciting I know but I wanted it to match the hat in texture as well as colour I will add fringes and I want to make it as long as possible but I know what I am like with scarfs get so fed up with the m after a while that as soon as they fit round the neck thats it but I will make it long.

The socks are no further on but maybe on the bus tonight on my way to work.