Ireland trip

Well we had the Ireland trip and whilst it was lovely to see Rebecca and Patrick, it has reaffirmed that we definitely don’t want children!

Andrew’s sister seemed to appreciate the dragon scarf (which I finished just as we entered the airport car park having spent all morning working on it) but George wasn’t that fussed!  Daisy liked her pencil case although did automatically assume it was a sheep and we didn’t correct her.  The scarf and Fatty seemed to go down well.  The problem with handmade gifts is that they aren’t appreciated in relation to how much time goes into them – I guess there is only so much appreciation you can give a scarf but still!

 

I'm really happy with it and think it came out really well.

I managed to get all the squares done for Sam’s birthday bag and they are all sewn together. I ran out of black wool doing the final edging which was annoying but I have been to the Tiptree shop and bought another ball.  Luckily I’m not seeing Sam this week so I should be able to get her bag finished at the weekend.  I also bought some very boring black fabric to line her bag with – I did think that it might be more fun to have a pop of colour but decided to play it safe instead.  Hopefully she will like it!

I had yesterday off work (to recover from the weekend – lovely idea although slightly spoilt by having to be out of the house all morning so didn’t see the cleaner!) I did a 2 hour cardio work out at the gym (and nearly died!) and then was very tired when I finally got home so I took it easy and got on with my blanket.  I did think about starting Fiona’s baby blanket but I really should get the bunnies done for Easter first and the hearts for Mothers Day so decided to just stay with my blanket. 

I am on the 6^th colour of the 3^rd repetition so its getting very close to being finished now – yay!  (I did think that with all the wool I have left over it would probably make a baby blanket but nevermind have bought the wool already for Fiona’s baby blanket!)  The end is finally in sight with the blanket although I shouldn’t get too happy as it will still take some time to finish it off.  I spent all afternoon and evening working on it (as well finally spending some time sorting out the craft room – yay!) and I did 5 rows!  Each row is so long that it takes forever to do one but it is super easy work and I love doing it when I am tired as you cant really go wrong!  I should have timed how long each row took me but it must be about an hour and there are another 33 more rows to go……  Its going to be such a lovely blanket once its finished – it will weigh 2,200 grams as it has taken 22 balls of wool.  I have finally stopped worrying it about it being long enough – yay!  Although if I could buy more of the same wool then I probably would!