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 10/11 hexagon a day challenge and other related yarny things

It's been another crazy couple of weeks. Last Monday saw me celebrate another birthday which still just keeps me from moving up an age bracket on surveys!
My birthday week was full of travel. I visited friends and stayed with the lovely Sam (my cousin) from the KnitRunDig podcast and went to the Knitting and Stitching Show with her on Wednesday and then on to another friend in North London.
The Knitting and Stitching Show was much improved to last year. Maybe having the West entrance of Olympia open helped separated the masses and also went straight into the yarn end of the show halls which were blissfully empty when we arrived. I purchased some needle felting roving and only a few skeins of yarn (most of which was Drops Delight) as I had been gifted a huge stash of yarn from Sam for my birthday. I am now trying to hide most of it from my eldest daughter who has decided that she rather likes making socks on a sock loom!

The spring blanket (which I shouldnt have started due to the enormous amounts of current wip) is growing well now and did travel with me down to London. I'm ahead of where the CAL currently is, but I've set myself my own deadline to have it completed by Easter.

The pattern is here if you're interested.

Even though I was travelling I still managed to keep up to date with my hexagons. I am sort of going through a bit of a wall with the project but even though my enthusiasm is less than it was at the start the reason for why I am doing it is very important and I will continue, even on the days where I feel less than inclined. I didnt get a chance to post a blog as of last week so here are weeks 10 and 11.

 Week 10

Week 11

The other project that has had some progress made in the past couple of weeks is the project that inspired the name of this blog. It has probably got to be the longest wip ever and I hope to goodness that I finish it this year. At last count I had 15 squares left to do, and about 523,972 ends left to sew in (possibly not quite that many, but I hate sewing in ends!)

The hat Boris had been sporting was also delivered to the new recipient who was thrilled. I'm hoping that the late order of a hat will mean that spring will now finally be sprung and we shall have no need for winter woolies for the foreseeable.

Finally, my craft room has had a bit of an overhaul. I bought lots of storage boxes from Ikea last week and set about organising everything into labelled boxes. I had 2 left over what I would call 'student' bookshelves, you know the ones, pine slats with very little in the way of design other than being functional. My fabulous partner has repurposed them into the supports for a sewing table for me and fixed an mdf top to them et voila! I shall aim to post pics when the craft room is fully sorted and looking lovely.

Thanks for reading x

Weeks 7,8 and 9

Oops! A couple of weeks have gone by since I last blogged. Life has been very busy!

I spent a week away staying with my friend and we knitted, crocheted, sewed and drank lots of booze together!! It was such a lovely break. My blanket didn't go with my, but the bag of scraps did. My friend also gave me some yarn scraps which I incorporated a different yarn into each new hexagon.

Since then the weather had taken a brief flirt with spring so I've been at the allotment trying to get some of the weeds under control that have come up during the winter and preparing the soil ready for planting. I've made huge progress and hope to find some time soon to upload photos to my other blog (see above for the tab leading to it).

Having promised myself that this was the year for finishing projects that were ongoing I found myself signing up to a CAL in a facebook group (yes, you can all facepalm!!) Though the project is due to run over 4 months in the group I am hoping that it will be either completed by the end of the month or that I can finish it in time for Easter and have worked it as a Lent project.

I'm not going to post individual pics of the hexagons for this blog as it will take forever and a day to upload them, so here's a look at the past 3 weeks work.

Week 7

Week 8

Week 9

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