Ta-dah!

At last a completed project after quite a few months. It turned out to be easier than expected although not sure if it needs something to cover the back but that would make it quite bulky. Need to find time to start another book then I can use it.

I am going to finish something!

This has been my holiday sewing -  a small kit my husband bought me on a trip to a National Trust place a few years ago - Devon I think. The only thing left to do is to finish it off - but every time I decide to finish it I realise needs pressing and the ironing board is never out. Well today since I took this photo I have pressed it, although from a different angle you can still see the folds.
Tickets are now booked for the K&S Show at Harrogate so I really did ought to finish a few projects before then and it is ages ago since I posted a finished item, so off to do just that :-)

Progress ..... at last

Eventually after weeks of being stuck, the back of my jumper is finished - all but casting off. The armhole shaping was a challenge - I was trying to work the pattern out mathematically as I decreased stitches and it never seemed right. In the end I had to work out by eye where the pattern should fit and forget about the mathS, which has messed with my mind no end I can tell you. Anyway that is one piece down and three to go :-) Pity it is a spring/summer type yarn - still not finished yet though so that may not matter :-)
Progress has also been made this week on sorting out our visit to the Knitting and Stitching Show at Harrogate, which is almost as complicated as this knitting!
Feeling inspired to get on with the knitting though now, especially as the vote is coming along nicely for the Christmas project and I shall be wanting to start that soon. :-)

New Project

Testing something out here - a poll for my lovely readers to vote on! I have wasted 40 minutes trying to do this and in the end it is really quite simple - provided it works.

Ok I have been given permission by Lady R to do a Christmas project provided I stick to it and it is completed by this Christmas - hmm suddenly it is less appealing.

Ok need to take photos of what is on offer and see which people prefer - of course I reserve the right to ignore the results!!!!! :-)

So here are the two projects - a cross-stitch at the top (you know who you are won't can't tell the difference!!) and a knitted garland. Sorry about the poor quality but taken in poor light with a flash. Now I have found the cross-stitch pattern it makes me think that I also have another pattern by the same designer - for Christmas - but no idea where that is!! Ok feel free to vote.

Don't Talk to me Knitting

This knitting has been on the go for over 2years! It is eventually going to be a shawl with a lovely lacy pattern that I found somewhere on the internet. I bought this wool a few years ago from a knitting and stitching show but I don't remember which one now. It came with a free pattern which was abandoned after a few attempts at knitting hexagons only to find that at the end with a few dropped stitches it all unraveled :-(

This pattern is not really any easier - I find that I can knit one row and then unpick three - including ones which had previously been right - I am now learning that is the nature of lacy knitting - easy to drop the yrn and yfwd so you end up with the wrong number of stitches. Not much has been done on this shawl as I find I cannot knit it when the TV is on, the light is poor or as the title says - anyone is talking to me.

Sadly that seems to be the way it is with my knitting at the moment - just knitted two rows of the jumper and having to unpick those too.

Still never mind - hopefully this time next week some progress will have been made.

Result!

 

Here is the jigsaw finished at last. I thoroughly enjoyed doing this - lovely interesting picture that was tricky but not impossible such that it was hanging around for months, unlike some jigsaws. In a way I am sad it is finished but it means that normal service can be resumed - i.e. housework!!!!

Alas, still not much progress made on any of the projects - they are all stuck or approaching being stuck - I have emailed about the jumper that is missing some instructions but not had a reply although my email has been read.

I have had one success this week and that is getting more than one picture on a posting on this blog - always had problems before. I am saying that, but I am not sure what will happen when I publish this!

And here is another Corner by the Sofa - which inspired the name of this blog. Here is where I keep all my work in progress projects, plus a few other things like fleecy blankets and soft cushions for curling up on the sofa with. I took this picture a few weeks ago when I was tidying the lounge - before and after pictures. I am trying to declutter - ha ha  - inspired by margorganizes.com - I did tidy the lounge and then it got messy again, but at no point did it lead to decluttering the corner! Heaven forbid. It does look at bit different from this photo - not vastly different, just rearranged as I was looking for something and unless progress is made soon, that might be the desperate subject of another posting.

Chilling

Still not finished anything because I have been distracted by this fabulous jigsaw. A dear friend gave me this to do and now it is on the table I can't leave it alone. It is such a distraction that almost no ironing has been done for  two weeks! Or much else for that matter. It has reached the point now where not a great deal will be done until it is finished and the only thing stopping me completing it is the lack of daylight. And work!