Two days ago I was still wearing my normal cut off trousers and tops and today I'm in long skirt, jumper and (shock horror) socks !! I don't think I've worn socks for at least 3 maybe 4 months and the tan lines on my feet clearly show which sandals I've been wearing. But its raining and its the last day of September.
At the start of the first lockdown I made myself a monthly list of daily , weekly jobs so I could tick them a off and get some sort of routine established. This worked fine last year but I've got a bit lazy in the last few months, haven't picked up the mandolin to practise along with a few small chores.
So I'm back on the list ready for October.
Anyway, on with the craft.
This week I'm mainly stitching and knitting, stitching as I want to get as far as I can with the red thing before starting the black thing ( see blog 30.8 ) even though cross stitch linen and evenweave seems to be in short supply I have found a piece just big enough in my stash. I may lightly overdye with tea first,
Knitting wise I'm just knocking up a plain hat in the Ryeland spun whilst on holiday, Pig of a pattern for me simply as it has a 4x4 rib and my normal is 1x1 or 2x2. This means that I have had to make several corrections with a crochet hook due to forgetting how far to count,
update 2.10
Red thing, I've now stitched the first two pages so I may have to put it away for a week whilst I work on my other red thing :-)
the thread is 'redder' in real life (or maybe its the screen on my laptop )but you get a sense of where I am with it.
On the subject of stitching, I had my sewing machine out to quickly zigzag the edge of some fabric so I decided to finish the small sampler from earlier this year into another small pillow.
So now I have an autumn themed mini to go with my witch pillows.
The Ryeland hat is coming along nicely now and has been handy to knit during the occasional zoom meeting.
Hopefully this will be finished during the next week. I had the spinning wheel out briefly this morning and managed 60 gm of Texel and will probably spin the same tomorrow. I still have a mountain of fleece to work through plus I want to dye some yarn next week so that I have some basic hat knitting to do on our next car journey,
That's about it for this week, the weather is really wet and dreary so I won't be going far for the next few days,
Speak soon, take care xx
2 comments:
Your stitching projects all grouped like that is just spectacular!
I put on some fluffy cotton socks the other day for the first time but they came right off. It has cooled down but it's still to humid to be comfortable wearing much of anything. I hope we don't just go from summer to winter again. I miss sweater weather.
Those cushions look fabulous Sue. I've got quiet a few unfinished cross stitches on the go. Must get on with them. Can't stop knitting mittens though. 🙄. Looking forward to our meet up soon.X
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