Before you embark on reading this post, I must warn you that it is full of pictures of things that aren't finished. I have a timescale, but it has been and gone...and am feeling a little like I am swimming against the tide. I shall keep going, but I am sure that there is something else waiting around the corner for me to start any day now and I am beginning to panic....
It all began when, at 10pm last night, I decided to have a clear out of the shelf(s) where the cookery books were precariously balanced. By midnight, I had cleaned the whole room and, were it not for the fact that my family had gone to bed, I would have carried on and done the entire house through the night. You know the feeling when you get the cleaning bug, you have to make the most of it because if you stop, it might not reappear again for a long time...
Anyway, I did go to bed, and woke up early with THE VERY SAME BUG. Now, nearly all of the rooms in my house are done and I went to start on the work room, when I spied the pile.....Hmmm, I thought, if I take pictures, that will stave off the need to tidy. It was then I knew..... THE BUG had gone.
I give you the list of "stuff in progress".... goodbye cleaning bug, please come back soon, but not too soon.....
This is the Phildar swing jacket. The back is finished and the right front is about a third done.
I love the pocket...
This is the Flo cardigan. You knit the whole thing in one and the hole is the sleeve opening. I've gone off this a bit, but I think it might be nice to wear on chilly summer evenings, so I'll persevere (at some point).
This quilt needs to get finished over the weekend as it's for my spare room and I have visitors next week. That's the plan for it anyway!
This is the noni bobbles bag. I love this, but you see those bobbles on the left, well, they start off like the squares on the right, and believe me, they are complete pain to do, and SOOOOO tedious. You have to make 12 squares in three sizes in a load of different colours. It's cascade 220 yarn, ok to work with, but believe me, it's a whole LOT of bobbles. I must get on with it though. I am putting it off as well because I am scared that when I felt it in the machine, the brown of the bag will run into the pinkness of the bobbles and ruin all my hard work. Any advice on this gratefully received...
This is a big quilt that, I have to admit, has been a wip for a couple of years. Enough said.
This one is a version of the green Debbie Bliss bag I knitted and felted, but I am experimenting with longer straps and a slightly bigger bag. It's not an exact science as felting in a machine is a bit hit and miss, but we'll see...
And finally, a photo of my work room. As you can see, it was really the only room in the whole house that didn't get tidied up. I'll just have to convince myself and my family that you need mess to be creative, you need mess to.........
