WIP Wednesday

Morning! My current WIP is turning this square into a cushion cover



I've been following Bunny Mummy's tutorial for sewing a fleece cover as I am not confident at sewing at all and her tutorial has lots of pictures and makes it all look very simple.

I have already discovered that the process is so much easier if you have proper pins and sharp scissors. My next discovery was that I can still do blanket stitch the way I was taught it at school when I was about 8. My technique has about the same finesse as then too!



As long as no one looks too closely it should be fine lol. And it is for the back of the cushion anyway ;-) It's quite nice doing something other than knitting or crochet. Aside from when I accidentally stabbed myself with the needle :-S

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Lazy days

It's hard getting things done during the Summer holidays. Especially the first week or two. I find it takes my children a few days to settle into being at home and playing together again. We've been trying to go out for walks and have busy moments during the days but also having lazy moments where we all just chill out. This morning they were playing an elaborate game involving lego, brio and a jigsaw puzzle. I took advantage and sewed in a few ends



The vest is completely finished apart from the final button. I'm hoping to get some photos to show it off on Friday :-)



These squares have also had their ends sewn in. I'm trying be good this time and finish each square as I go. I need to measure the bed to work out how many I'll need per row. I like having a number to aim for.

I started working on my ironing pile this morning as we're going on holiday soon. I had to stop to make the children a drink and a snack. When I came back I found someone had made himself a comfy bed.



I left him to it and made myself a cup of tea instead ;-) Lazy days are good

FO Friday - Oh Summer and Wingspan

Wooo it's Friday! I'm so proud of these FO's, particularly the Oh Summer cardigan from Anadiomena's mystery Summer KAL. So without any more waffle, here it is:



I love how the lace in the body section opens up when it's blocked out, it's so pretty now. Both lace patterns were very simple to work although it did mean sometimes my brain would switch off and I'd forget a YO and have to tink back. I think that says more about my attention span than the pattern though



I gently blocked the body with slight points. Not sure why, I just liked the look of it!



The beads on the bow are such a pretty touch



I rather hope this pattern makes it into adult sizes, although all those double YO's might take a while lol



I promised you two FO's this week though so here's my Wingspan shawl. I knitted it on 3.25mm needles rather than the 3.5mm recommended by the pattern as I preferred the fabric. It also meant I had enough yarn to do a 9th triangle and work the border/neck bit twice as big so I could cast off with the bright green colour



Completely accidental but I really like how the colours are matching on both sides



As you can see, my model has claimed this shawl for her own. Whilst she wouldn't normally wear it over a cardigan (she refused to take it off!), I can't deny it suits her much more than me so she can have it :-)








Well that's the end of my photo filled post. Today I'm going to try to get the pockets done on the vest from yesterday but I think that's probably going to be it. It's the second day of the Summer holidays and I had a very late night last night. Spending the day in bed would be very appealing apart from the knowledge the house would be a mess thanks to the children.

As usual I'm linking in with Tami's Amis FO Friday posts. Hope you have a lovely day, thanks for dropping by. I'm looking forward to reading through other people's FO Friday posts :-)

WIP Mountain Thursday

Collar and sleeves done, just pockets left. Almost finished!

WIP Wednesday and Bloglovin

Hi fellow craft lovers! This week I've been working on reducing my mountain of WIP's . On Saturday I had 5 WIP's, I now have 3 :-D On Monday I finished my Wingspan shawl and yesterday I finished my Oh Summer mystery KAL cardigan.

I know 5 WIP's isn't a lot for many of you, but I was finding it overwhelming. My plan is to tackle them one at a time until they're all finished. Today's project is the Summer Storm mystery KAL:



As you can see, it needs a collar, sleeves and pockets. Hopefully this won't take me too long although I doubt I'll finish it today as I'm not going to have much knitting time.

I've also been a bit naughty and done a couple more squares for my new WIP, a blanket for my 4 year old. I'm using the Solid Granny Squares pattern from Tiny Tin Bird. I love how the lacey corners result in pretty diamonds :-)



I should probably get round to weaving those ends in soon too :-S

As usual I'm linking in with WIP Wednesdays at Tami's Amis. I'd also like to quickly post this link so you can Follow my blog with Bloglovin :-) If you're not on bloglovin then there are various other ways you can follow this blog listed along the right of the page. I personally use feedly but I'm finding it irritating that I can't view blog posts on my phone like I used to so might find somewhere else.

Anyways, enough waffling from me, thanks for visiting!