Sunday 1 February 2015

A month in knitting: January 2015

All done!
Pargetry
I haven't completed much this month, but the blanket for my sister's baby is complete, and I love it! The cables came out exactly as I wanted and I'm delighted with it. It's now been wrapped and posted off, so hopefully my sister's family like it as much as I do.


Works in progress
My first socksYes, I've been banging on about them for a couple of weeks now (see here and here), but they're making pretty good progress!

That wedding blanket
Still in progress, but the main body is done! I now just need to darn in the 300+ ends and do the border.




Creative yarn accounting
In

  • 100 g sock yarn
  • 400 g aran weight yarn for a blanket for a friend's baby
  • 100 g DK weight yarn for a commission
  • 132 g acrylic yarn that was 'free' with a magazine (the magazine was an old issue, so I got it for 50p, bargain! I bought it for the yarn, but there are loads of lovely patterns inside, so it was an actual bargain!)
  • 40 g sport-weight yarn free with Knit Now. I subscribe, so totally not my fault!
  • 200 g from Devon Sun Yarns - I finally signed up for their yarn club, which accounts for 100 g, the other 100 g was some sock yarn I couldn't resist, it's beautiful! Should arrive early this month, I'm very excited about getting to squish it!
Out
  • 302 g for Pargetry (and I used the rest of the ball for swatching, so I could probably count it as more)
Total
 +670 g. Oops, so much for new year, new start.

Aims for February
  1. Finish that blanket - this is the month!
  2. Look out all the unfinished projects hiding upstairs and finish or frog them; encouraged by the Knitting for Boys group on Ravelry,* February is officially WIPs month
  3. Finish my first sock
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4 comments:

  1. Love the blanket! The cables are gorgeous!

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    1. Thank you! My sister loves it too. We'll have to wait and see what the baby thinks...

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  2. I love the baby blanket as much as I hate sewing in ends.

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    1. The baby blanket was only meant to have two ends, but there were a few knots in the ball, so I think I ended up darning in about 10 ends in the end. The giant blanket has far too many ends; they're currently staring at me from the sofa. Apparently they want darning in. I'm not so keen!

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