Archie The Wonder Dog

Back in February (end of January, I'm afraid I can't remember!), I started knitting my first pair of socks.  As I can't wear wool next to my skin (it's bad enough trying to knit with it!), these were intended to be 'over my normal socks house socks' for the winter.  I put them on  this quarter's FAL list  in the hope that it would motivate me to finish the first sock, and knit the second.  At the start of the quarter, they/it looked like this: and now they look like this: A few hours after darning in the ends yesterday morning, I bought the yarn for my second pair, even though when I finished them I wasn't sure I was going to knit another pair.  Looks like I am!! Sock stats: Pattern: a mix between KnitFreedom toe up and Regia top down (for the sizing/stitch count - no link as I have a paper copy which was free many years ago with Regia sock yarn) Yarn: West Yorkshire Spinners Signature in 4ply Needles: 2.5mm dpns Pattern changes:...

I put several Lola pouches on my current FAL list  and this is the final one to be made this quarter, unless I perk up and manage to get the sewing machine out to make the final one.  (Find the others here and here .) At the start of the quarter, the fabric was a crumpled mess, but I'd picked a zip to go with it: A bit of cutting, fusing, quilting and sewing later and I had a (hard-to-photograph-it-looks-much-better-in-real-life) pouch for my small knitting projects: I used the subtly variegated (very pale to pale pink) thread I'd used on my niece's fairy quilt  to add some interest.  Both sides are the same so it could be that these two photos show different sides, I wouldn't be able to tell!  As I said, the pouch is quite hard for me and my camera (or, more likely, me!) to photograph and get it looking anything like, so here's another attempt, which is a little better but not much: This is my (I think) third finish this quarter and I have ...

I think we're around halfway through the first quarter of this year's FAL , so I thought I'd write a bit of a progress report on my list, which you'll find here .  I'm just going to share the projects where I've either made progress or have finished and blogged about them, so if an item isn't here then it's either finished and awaiting its moment of glory or, more likely, hasn't been touched. The big blue and white quilt (which I'm making for Mam's spare bed), has been machine quilted.  Here's how it looked at the start of the quarter: And this is how it looks now: I added an awful lot more lines than I thought I would.  I originally planned to do the vertical and horizontal ditches between the blocks and then across each diagonal on the nine patches, but when I'd done that, it didn't look finished and the ditches of the snowballs weren't quilted.  I decided to add four more lines per block and get a four patc...