Wednesday WIPs - 29.04.2015

I feel like I have been a little more productive this week. I have worked on most of my projects and even managed to get something finished. Here are the WIPs that I have worked on this week.

Moogly CAL Square #9

I managed to finish this square except for sewing in the ends.

Tablet Carry Bag 

I finished one side and started on the other. I decided to change the font on the second side.

Double Knit Butterfly square - side one 

Double Knit Butterfly square - side two 

I found time to do a few more rows on this.

Shy Butterfly Baby Jacket 

I finally managed to start the first sleeve on this one.

Tunisian Spiral Blanket 

This morning we needed to go to the pathologist for blood tests so I dragged out my usual waiting room project and managed to get another colour change done.

That's it for my projects, and now for Sue's.

Sue's Tablet Bag 

Sue is making good progress on the second side of her bag.

Well, that's all from me for now, be sure to check back on Friday to see what I have finished. In the meantime, check out the links in the sidebar to see what other people have been working on.

Richard.

Wednesday WIPs - 08.04.2015

I'm still concentrating on getting drink bottle cosies and beanies in sports colours done but I have managed to work on other things as well. Here are the items that I have worked on this week that are still WIPs.

Moogly CAL Square #7 - Smooth Fox's Amethyst Square

This isn't the square that was actually chosen as #7 for the Moogly CAL but I didn't particularly like the one that was so I chose from one of the alternatives. I quite like the look of this one and it fits better with what I wanted to do with my blanket.

Moogly CAL Squares so far

These are all the squares that I have completed to date in some semblance of the positions that they will be in in the finished blanket. This placement may change as more squares are completed. Some observant people might notice that there are 8 squares here even though we're only up to square 7. I did 2 of square 1 because I wanted 25 squares instead of the 24 that are planned but didn't realise at the time that there were alternative that I could chose from for the extra one that I needed.

Tablet Carry Bag

I have been debating what I should put on the sides of this bag and ended up choosing to include my name. I'm not sure about this font as some of the letters look a little odd but it does look decorative.

Shy Butterfly Baby Jacket

I was a little surprised to see the colours in the sleeves match as I hadn't really tried to start the second sleeve at the same point in the colour repeat. Probably looks better than have mismatched sleeves though so I'm glad it worked out.

Trauma Teddy to be

I still haven't got the makings of the the last 3 Trauma Teddies back from the lady that is adding the sash to them and I haven't heard is she still wants me to give them to her flat. I guess I will keep doing them this way until I here otherwise.

Sue has decided that she was getting a ltiile bored with working in the same colour all the time so she started a second bag, this time in the colours of the Murray of Athol tartan.

Tartan Bag

One of these day Sue will actually get around to finishing one of the many projects that she has started unless I get sick of seeing them around the place and decide to have a go at finishing them myself (not that I don't have enough WIPs to work on at the moment).

Thinking about tartans, it's almost cool enough to think about getting the rug back out and finishing it off.

That's it from me for now. Be sure to check back on Friday to see my finished objects. In the meantime, be sure to check out the links in the sidebar and see what other people have been making.

Richard.

Wednesday WIPs - 01.04.2015

This week I have had my schedule interrupted by a death in the family. As a result, things that I had hoped to get done just didn't get done as we needed to get to Sydney yesterday. That meant getting on a train at 11:25 pm on Monday night, arriving in Sydney at about 7:00 am on Tuesday, spending the day with family and friends and getting another train at 8:30 pm that night, arriving back home at about 4:30 am this morning. It was a long day!

We also have an issue with our garage door which, if I hadn't been so tired this morning when I parked the car, I might have thought a bit more about and wouldn't have effectively locked the car in the garage. Hopefully the guys that fitted the remote control system will be able to help tomorrow.

In the meantime, here are this week's WIPs.

Tablet Carry Bag

I have made a bit more progress on the carry bag for the tablet that we currently have on lay-by.

Woollen Baby Blanket - motifs from Ellen Gormley's book

I managed to most of the last row of squares. This one will probably hibernate for a few weeks as crochet class is having a break.

Knitted Scarf

Just one more repeat of the pattern and I will be ready to cast off on this one and then start looking to start my next knit project.

Tunisian Spiral Blanket

While I was on the train back from Sydney I had a bit of time to sort out the yarn in my bag and do a bit more on this before lights out.

That's it from me for this week. I hope you all have had a better week than me. Check back on Friday to see what I have completed since last Friday. As usual, there are links in the sidebar you can use to see what other people are making.

Richard.

Wednesday WIPs - 25.03.2015

It has been another busy week here at Rose Manor and, while not all projects have been worked on (it's still too warm for at least one of my projects), progress has been made on most of them.

Here are the WIPs that I have worked on this week.

Shy Butterfly Baby Jacket in 8 ply

I finished the first sleeve and started the second. It shouldn't be too long now before I have this finished.

Woollen Baby Blanket - motifs from Ellen Gormley's book

 Almost finished the penultimate row of octagons on this one.

Knitted Scarf

This one is getting close to being finished. Just another couple of repeats of the pattern and it will be as long as I am tall (which is how I measure scarfs).

Koala

This is another item that I have almost finish. I actually ran out of the grey I was using so the ears are a slightly different shade, and I was sure I had made the nose but I can't find it now so I will have to make another one. I think I will have this finished by next week.

Moogly CAL Square # 6

I decided that I should do more 2 colour squares because my first square was done in 2 colours.

Trauma Teddy # 11 for 2015

We're still working out whether it's going to be easier to sew tags on these while they're flat compared to when they have been made up. I'm sure I will get to finish some soon.

My Tablet Carry Bag

Since we're getting new tablets soon (they're currently on lay-by) we thought we would need a better way to carry them around so we each decided to make something that would be quite robust with room for more than just the tablet. I think this one will be big enough to take my music books and some other paraphernalia.

Sue has decided not to join the pieces of her bag until after she has cross-stitched over the rest of it first.

Half of Sue's Tablet Bag

Sue has also made more progress than me because she has been spending all her time on this and not working on all her other projects.

That's it from us for this week. I will have something to show on Friday so be sure to check back then. In the meantime, check out the links in the sidebar to see what other people have been working on.

Richard.