A month in knitting: June 2015

It's been a while, sorry! Being back at work has completely thrown me. I've been doing lots of swatching for submissions, and ploughing on with baby blankets, but once I've spent half a day at a computer for work, and the other half of the day trying to keep the family and house in order I barely have time to breathe, let alone blog. So here, belatedly, is my yarny summary for June.

Finished

Hitchhiker

A very enjoyable project, perfect for a single skein of pretty sock yarn.

 

Dinosaur blanket

A present for a friend's new baby. I finished it about half an hour after the baby arrived. And I've left writing this post so long that I can even show you a picture as I have met the lovely little baby and he has recieved the blanket.

 

WIPs

Hermione's everyday socks

The socks of the broken needles. I cast these on for May's SKA Sockdown challenge and have obviously failed to finish them on time.

Whale blanket

I might be up to about five squares now. The baby is due at the end of July, so I'd better get knitting.

Socks for my husband

They have heels, but the feet are taking ages!

Charity mitred blanket

Using up the leftovers from the dinosaur blanket (I over-bought by a bit. Quite a bit).

A cardigan for my daughter

A new pattern I'm working on. It's looking pretty so far.

Ruffle skirt for a friend's daughter

The second one of these that I've made, it'll be going to a friend's daughter for her third birthday. I thought it was finally time to use up some of the ruffle yarn from the stash.

Yarn in

200g Doctor Who yarn from The Yarn Tree

A little disappointing as yarn parcels go

 

400g sock yarn from eBay

Lovely stripy sock yarn, and it's thicker than usual, so I should be able to make some slightly speedier socks than sometimes

150g 4ply for swatching for a submission

50g more 4ply for a swatching for a submission when I decided the original colour wasn't quite right!

And I ran out of time to make the actual swatch...

100g to swatch another idea

Thicker yarn, so I got this swatch done!

200g ruffle yarn

No, I don't learn!

Yarn out

119g Hitchhiker

564g dinosaur blanket

 

+367g. I don't learn, do I?

Plans for July

Get the WIP list down a bit. Six projects on the go is too many.