'Breakaway' Socks and a birthday

The snow has all gone now :( But in reality it is better, because we can now get out of the house! One of the perils of living on a hill.

I have been trying to make my aunt a lavender bag for her birthday (today). It was supposed to be for Christmas, but I ran out of time then as well! I just have the sewing and stuffing to do now. Hopefully I will get it done.

I also started to make some socks. They are my 'breakaway' socks. I got stuck in a rut at the end of last week and I didn't feel much like crafting. Some stuff happened in life that made me feel rather low and I couldn't face any of my old projects, so I said to myself "Right. Start a pair of socks and pour all of the hurt and pain into the socks and then move on." It seems to have helped.

It's my first pair of socks too.

Off to sew some more!

Snoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow!!!!!!!!!!

Today it snowed!

I took these pictures earlier today ...




The snow is much thicker now, as these pictures that I have just taken prove ...



Enough of the snow pictures now though ... I think I have frostbite!

Before we were snowed in (a slight exageration), I went and got the yarn in from the shed and started on making my Irish Hiking Scarf.

That is all the progress that I have managed to make so far, I think that I may go and curl up in bed and work on it some more!!

God ... how long has it been?

I hadn't realised that it had been so long since I had last written this blog.

I wish that I could say that I have been busy, but really, I haven't been that busy!

I am still working on my projects, the duck at least. The dog is somewhere under my bed, still unfinished. I'm sure that at some point, I will dig it out again and make some more progress on it.

I have actually made an awful lot of progress on the duck, I think I just have one more "arm" to do now, which is brilliant. Then I need to make him up, but before I do I need to source some eyes (in this town, yeah right!).

Tonight, on Ravelry, I found this pattern and I think that I have the prefect yarn to make it with, but it is in the shed and as I don't feel like freezing everything off by going outside, I'll look in the morning.

I also started to make a little baby cardigan, but I have made such little progress on that, it isn't worth writing any more about! Actually, I started it in a denim blue, got bored so started again in pink. I suppose that is worth talking about!

Anyhoo, I'm off to knit some more. See ya!