Knitting

Joining with Ginny (Small things) for this weeks knitalong.  I have started something new this week and something for me.

This is Cobalt by Kim Hargreaves from her latest book Indigo.  


Reading wise has been a bit slow of late. I seem to only read when I go to bed otherwise it is maybe a magazine.  Far too much gardening to do at the moment while the weather has been good.  This is one I picked up this morning at the supermarket when I was doing my weekly shopping.


Hope you all have a good week.
Morag x

This past week

Just a few images from the past week.  The weather has been so good we have been spending a lot of time outside in the garden and going for walks in the fields close to our house.  The paddling pool has been out.  We went to watch the Olympic flame pass nearby.  The flowers are blooming.  And someone has been wearing his pirate hat he made at preschool.

Knit a Long

I can't believe another week has gone by.  I have hardly done any reading this week as the weather has been so nice and we have been trying to get on top of the garden which means less time to read and knit.  Talking of knitting I have been doing a little bit in the evenings - I am making a jumper for a friend's baby - Mickey by Kim Hargreaves.  I hope to get this done by the end of the week and then start something for me next week.

Morag x

This Moment

{this moment}

A Friday ritual. A few photos- capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. 

along with SouleMama

Knitalong

Knitting has been moving along slowly this week.  I have finished knitting Poppy now and she has a dress unlike in the pictures I have on my camera so far (must take some more with her clothes on).  I have also been trying to catch up a little on the Debbie Abrahams Mystery Blanket - almost completed February's squares.

 

As regards reading I am still reading my way through the Adele Parks book I was reading last week.  It is an easy read and something I can read when in bed just before going to sleep.

Plans for knitting this week are hopefully to start something new - a friend has just had a little boy so I hope to make something I can gift to them, just need to find a pattern now.

Morag x

Knit a long

Joining with Ginny (Small things) for this weeks knitalong.  Since last week I have hibernated the jumper I was working on last week and am knitting Poppy from Whimsical Little Knits by Ysolda Teague.  I have made a little progress on this since I blogged about it yesterday.  She now has two legs!  I also hope to make a start on a jumper for the little man using some stash wool but need to have a sit down and look at some patterns.  I have just started reading About last night by Adele Parks.  It is a read that I don't really have to concentrate too hard on which is quite good when I seem to only read when I go to bed at the moment.

Hopefully she will have some arms, hair and clothes by next week.

Morag x

Quiet weekend

This last weekend was a bank holiday weekend  and we had a really quiet weekend, well as quiet a weekend as you can have with a 3 year old. (House building with the clothes airer and some blankets, generally lots of toys all over the place!)  With daddy around it did mean I got a bit more knitting done than usual.  And this is what I decided to make over the weekend.

This is Poppy from Whimsical Little Knits by Ysolda Teague.  I wanted to make something that I didn't
have to concentrate too much on.

Last week I was working on my Warriston jumper and after joining the sleeves have decided they are going to be too short (argh !!!!!) so I am going to have to rip it back a few rows  and add some more length to the sleeves but I hate doing this so it has ended up being put to one side for the moment.  I know I shouldn't do this and it will remain untouched until it will eat away at me but for now it is just out of sight, out of mind.

Hope you had a lovely bank holiday weekend.

Morag x

This moment

{this moment}

A Friday ritual. A few photos- capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. 

along with SouleMama

Knitting

Still working on Warriston but have finally done the stocking stitch body.  Boy was there lots of stocking stitch and now started on the sleeves.  The egg cosies were just some knitting I did over the weekend when we had a craft get together on Saturday at church.  (They are from Debbie Bliss' book - the Knitters' Year)

I am still reading the same book as last week but have also been reading back copies of Green Parent Magazine.  The book is a little bit slow going so may have to find something else to read at the same time.  Suggestions welcome.