FO Friday 52: A Year Completed

Ha Ha ! I've made it to Friday ! and I'm still in one piece - all appointments kept, all unexpected flies in the ointment dealt with (requesting that the child who has a history of trying to bully Mini Diva is moved so that he is no longer sitting right next to her) and only some normal stuff left to deal with today: a bit of housework, and some soapy stuff - cutting and curing, a couple of new batches to make (most likely cedarwood-patchouli and cool citrus basil). And dinner. I feel like cooking dinner - of course, the drugs may wear off in the interim and I return to my normal stove-avoiding state.

I finished the scarf for UberCool Brother and mailed it off to him on Tuesday. He called me Thursday and proved himself knitworthy by the rave review he gave it; the rave review a friend of his gave my soap was also fantastic to hear ...

Here are nice photos of the blocked scarf:


Unfortunately, the scarlet runner beans aren't ours, but our neighbor's, climbing over to our side of the fence. Ours .... died.




It was made from Skein Queen 'Squash' 4ply/fingering 100% merino in the colorway 'Aunt Betty's Pond'. The stitch pattern is German Herringbone Rib.

More yumminess can be seen - as usual - over at Tami's Amis, where we are all celebrating a year of FOs ....

WIP Wednesday 52: I Haz ....

....motivational Fail. The weather is fabulous this week, hot and sunny; they threaten that it will break tomorrow, with thunderous downpours that may cause flooding.

I have motivational fail when the weather is great, as it's too good to waste being indoors doing housework, plus the kids are playing outside with water and are in and out every 3 seconds tracking dust and other assorted muck across the floors. Plus I like to snooze in the sun.

I have motivational fail when it's cold and raining because ... well, because on a day like that ? why even bother to get out of bed. And of course, if you don't get out of bed then you can't see the housework that needs to be done. This is what's known as a win/I need Kim & Aggie situation.

Uber-cool Brother's reception of his scarf has confirmed his Knitworthy status, although the color was not quite right; so he selected, and Belo paid for, this:


100g/400m of Squash 4ply sock yarn by The Skein Queen, in the colorway 'Aunt Betty's Pond'; which I found at The Yarn Cafe, who had it at my door in 2 days, along with some Haribo sweeties and a sachet of cappuccino mix - a lovely touch, and quirkily appropriate for a 'Cafe'. All I need to do now is find a suitable stitch pattern: not full-on lace, but maybe a few holes would be OK; I like the idea of some kind of scroll pattern - I liked the Flame Chevron, but I don't feel the need to repeat its use so soon. Suggestions, please ....

And my main WIPs are progressing; we luffs the blue one (although it looks odd here as I took the photo under thunderclouds this evening): chunky wool on 6 1/2mm needles, it knits up fast ....


And we quite likes the lilac one, having got to grips with the user-unfriendly way that the pattern's written; please don't notice the goof where Transformers 2 was getting too exciting ...


And this WIP ... all I can say about him is that it's bluddy lucky he's so good-looking.


I can almost guarantee that you'll see motivational Wins over at Tami's Amis, celebrating one year of WIP Wednesdays already !