Week 6 Hexagon a day project

The end of another week. It's been eventful. I found out this week that I have got more pre-cancerous cells and need to have some more treatment. It's messed with my head a lot. I was hoping the treatment I had last year would have eradicated all of them, but it seems that's not the case. A lot of the weekend I spent in tears. The meds I'm taking for bi-polar have been increased and are making me feel quite strange as they settle in.

On positive notes, we bought a new car this week. None of the kids are small anymore. My step son is taller than me and my eldest daughter is not far behind me in height (I'm 5'7) and the smallest one is catching the others up quickly. Squeezing them into the car of a 206 was getting tough. The new car has A LOT of space for all of them so they are happy. Our bank balance is crying a bit, but it will be worth it to be able to go out in comfort.

I've finished another few squares for the mosaic blanket and that is getting so much closer to being finished.

There was a stash swap at craft group last night and I managed to get rid of loads of things I've had knocking around for ages taking up space that I no longer need or think I'll use, and in the process acquired some new yarns that other people had brought in. Today's hexagon is made just of the yarn I got last night.

This coming week I am hoping that it's less eventful...

 Day 36

 Day 37

 Day 38

 Day 39

 Day 40

 Day 41

 Day 42 - all made from yarn from last night's stash swap

Week 6/52

Week 5 Hexagon a day project and mosaic blanket progress

Not missed a day yet!!

My youngest loves helping me pick out colours for each day and she seems to have a really good eye for putting together colours I wouldnt normally. They mostly seem to work, though I have had to veto a couple of choices.

I have a lot of other projects on the go at the moment. One of my definite 'I'm going to finish this this year' projects has had 4 more squares knitted for it recently. I started it in 2006 and have had problems finding a discontinued yarn. Fortunately Rowan have one very similar to that that I originally used. As it's intarsia work the difference in the yarn shouldn't be too noticeable, and I can mix and match where the squares with the new yarn go so that it's even less obvious.

The other change I may make to the pattern is not to swiss darn over all the squares that the pattern suggests should be. I'm undecided yet, but it's not something that needs a decision just now.

Here's the progress so far.

It's from Blankets and Throws to knit by Debbie Abrahams. The pattern is called Mosaic.

I started it before I really knew much about tension squares and each of my squares appears to be about 3cm larger than it should be!! Far too much completed to worry about that now, but it will hang almost to the floor on each side of the bed when fully completed hehe!!

Hitchhiker progress

I started this scarf a few months ago, primarily as I had a cone of yarn that I wasnt quite sure what to do with. To start with it grew really quickly, but now the rows are taking a REALLY long time (even longer as I had to rip back 8 rows as I'd dropped a couple of stitches and it was proving more difficult to pick them up).

It's a very simple design and I am really pleased with the results and I would recommend as to someone wanting to create an asymmetric scarf where the yarn is what is wanting to be showcased.

Currently I have 31 points and need to get to 42 for completion. Not far to go!!