Week 22 hexagon a day project

Eeek! It's been 11 weeks since I posted and update on this project. There are reasons. My own health hasn't been the greatest, and unfortunately (but not unexpectedly) my grandmother passed away 2 weeks ago.

I have been working on a number of personal projects and am currently in the process of writing some fair isle and intarsia workshops; the first swatch of these was knitted up this morning. I am going to also write a colour work class or two for crochet.

Even though life has been challenging recently the hex a day project is still up to date, though the one a day nature of it has been slightly compromised. I plan to get this back in check as the original reasons behind the project are still just as valid, if not more so now.

I shall add some of the other projects I have been working on in another post soon, but for now I shall leave you with where the hex a day is up to.

Thanks for reading x

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!!

Retro blanket

I started this project in October 2011 *blush*

I had completed quite a lot of it, but was finding difficult to get motivated to complete it as knitting in the cottons I was using was just proving painful. Never have I had so much crafter's tourettes as I did when it came to making this, primarily due to the yarn not the pattern; but it is finally FINISHED. Hooray!!

My youngest daughter is thrilled as it was made for her and she has been gently nagging me over the past couple of months that she would like it finished.

Part of my mission for 2014 was to complete some of the incomplete projects I have on the go, and this is the first one ticked off the list.

The blanket uses the blocks from the 'Retro' design in Debbie Abrahams 'more blankets and throws' - C&B crafts.

Queen of Hearts

I started this project on March 17th 2011 and completed on 30th October 2011. It was taken from the book Blankets and Throws to Knit by Debbie Abrahams.

I used cotton DK yarn, not as specified in the pattern. Mostly it was easy to knit, but I probably made it harder for myself and not using beads as specified and knitting the colour instead of placing beads. As it was for my eldest daughter's bed I didnt use the full amount of squares as she only has a single bed. I love the finished blanket.

Mosaic Blanket

This was started in 2006. It was the first project I tried intarsia. It is about two thirds completed but has remained untouched for years. I will at some point pick it back up again, but what I have already stitched together I want to redo as I'm not happy with the stitching I've done and the yarn used can be clearly seen in places and it annoys me.