SELF-HELP #22

And still rising 🌨🌨🌨

I have never been keen on the name Dennis but gone off it even more since they have named a storm with it.

The river has risen again! !!

I have got a bit of clearing up to do when it goes down 😣

And the river is still rising. Happily the house is quite high up and there are good flood defences here but my heart goes out to those who aren’t as lucky as us.

Keeping warm and dry☔

Woolly wishes,

Jane ♡♡♡

STASH-BUSTING #20

Baby Guernsey finished 🎁

My sister is off to visit baby O on Tuesday so I have had to finish the baby Guernsey that I have been on about for weeks…

I love the therapeutic action of knitting and keeping to a pattern but hate the tedium of blocking and sewing up so have a nasty habit of just leaving it 🤔🤔🤔

So will brave the weather 🌪☔🌪 and pop it round later.

Woolly wishes,

Jane ♡♡♡

STASH-BUSTING #19

Hearts and roses 🌹❤🌹

With Valentine’s Day coming up I have made some red mittens.

*Never get on very well taking pictures one-handed!*

50gr of red stash yarn 🎈🎈🎈

Just need to get a manicure so that my hands show them off appropriately 😆

Anyone else got any Valentine’s Day projects on the go?

Woolly wishes,

Jane ❤

JANUARY ROUND-UP

Woolly bits and pieces 🐏🐏🐏

So quite a sense of achievement for January. Admittedly a number of my completed items are for babies so don’t take that long. All yarn used is from my stash 🎈🎈🎈

Baby booties, mitts and hat ready for baby shower next month.

Blue booties and hat for gift next month.

Woolly pom pom hat started just before Christmas.

Scarf made from the Aldi stash, started September, finished yesterday.

WIPS

– wavy jumper

– baby Guernsey

– baby blanket

And the knit goes on!

Woolly wishes ♡♡♡

STASH-BUSTING #18

These boots were made for walkin’ 👣👣👣

*For a little boy and a little girl ♡♡♡*

Baby booties ready for my gifting commitments in February.

This year I am planning to do a round up at the end of each month. I will have a few items to show at the end of January 😊 Admittedly they are for tiny people so don’t take much knitting but hey ho!!!

Woolly wishes,

Jane ♡

STASH-BUSTING #17

To frog or not to frog 🐸🐸🐸

I have picked up the wavy jumper I started last year. I completed the back just before Christmas but put it down as I raced to finish Christmas gifts. I picked it back up a few days ago and started the front.

Sadly I didn’t read the instructions and went at it like a bull in a China shop. I had read the pattern back when I started but that was weeks ago so I had forgotten wave sequence was slightly different on the front. When I realised I was so annoyed with myself and questioned should I just leave it and carry on regardless or undo it???

The jumper is for me but I would know and it would annoy me so I have spent the morning frogging and picking up stitches 😕

*The completed back and the remains of the front!*

*All picked up and correct sequence set!*

Hopefully no more dramas!

RANDOM THOUGHTS

Kids TV favourites…

Having read Jackie’s post on Stitches by the Sea I thought I would share a couple of my favourites from way back when.

1. Playschool – aimed at preschool kids, a couple of grown-ups and some toys (Humpty, Hamble, Jemima, Big Ted and Little Ted)

2. Blue Peter (still running today)

Now the reason I liked both of these programmes was they made things. In fact when I was 8 or 9 my ambition was to be a Play School presenter. I didn’t think I would be able to hack it as a Blue Peter presenter – all that climbing and jumping out of things was not for me. However, telling stories to the toys and making things would have been right up my street.

My dream never happened, when I left big school I was directed towards a nice little secretarial course.

📚📚📚

SELF-HELP #20

Lists in January… ✏

My first post of the year. I have been doing a bit of procrastination – always a bit like that after the fun and frolics of Christmas and New Year! Well to be honest I really like everything going back to normal. I am a creature of habit and really like routine!

I have given up making resolutions as I never stick to them so why set myself up to fail?

However, while waiting for my son to come out of school yesterday I did make a few lists :

*My crafting intentions on scraps of paper!*

WIPS:

– wavy jumper

– baby blanket

– baby jumper

CHARITY

– Age UK Big Knit

– Shoe Box Appeal

– Cardies for premature babies

BABY KNITTING

– Gift for a little boy (mid Feb)

– Baby Shower (end Feb)

CHRISTMAS CRAFT STALLS

– aim items that can be given as gifts

SKILLS TO LEARN/IMPROVE

– Macrame

– Felting

– Crochet

Strangely I have not listed anything about losing weight or getting fitter. As I said earlier why set myself up to fail, especially this early in the year.

Now the party’s over…

Back to normal…

I was back at work yesterday and have a night shift tonight so only mocktails for me tonight 🍸

The Christmas break was pretty frenzied – all that cooking and washing up, visiting family and friends. I feel I am going back to work for a rest!!

I haven’t done any crafting over the festive season but have had a couple of crafty presents. Vouchers to put towards a course working with pewter – jolly exciting.

And a Moomin craft book.