Wednesday 25 January 2012

Basically not a lot ...

It is W.I.P. Wednesday, and what do I have to report - basically not a lot... On the positive side, I am making progress with the Happiness project - started running again, my house is getting more organised, I am sort of keeping to the Weight Watchers plan - and we have started our Britain in our kitchen blog (our 2012 challenge of eating only British food at home). I have also attempted to do some felting - with a varying degree of success (same wool, same temperature, definitely not the same result).


I was hoping to make a pouch out of those but the texture is so different, I may have to rethink this. I saw a patchwork felted blanket on pinterest... I may get tempted (although this project involves having many more jumpers).

I have also received my new Echo, Lotta Jansdotter, fabric which I love - this is
the colour scheme of my parents' new kitchen, and I am thinking of making some table mats for them (any interesting pattern out there? or inspiration?).


I also really really want to make a sewing machine cover - I do have a pattern in mind, so now it is a case of sitting down and getting on with it. And the small spring buds in grey (the right hand-side fabric) would be perfect!

As far as the knitting is concerned Winnowing is still going - hmmm -, and this weekend I had the joy of having to unstitch 3 entire rows - brilliant. I did make it good
- started the last part of the chart pattern - and then stopped. I will go back to it! I have now seen more Winnowing finished and it is really a beautiful garment, worth the 500+ stitches I am going to end up with at the end of the chart pattern.

Hopefully over at Freshly Pieced people will have more to report and get me inspired!



4 comments:

  1. I've been thinking what I would miss most with "Britain in the Kitchen"......tinned tomatoes is all I could think of...and I guess if I was organised and had a bigger freezer I could use fresh British toms. Good luck as it must be even harder trying to combine it with W.W.

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  2. I love the happiness project, I found that book and blog so inspiring! I just recently heard about best in Britain, which I think is utterly brilliant- eating local is definitely the way to go!

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  3. Glad the Happiness Project is going well - not long until the end of the month! Interested in hearing about your eating British food at home... :)

    Emma xx

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  4. It sounds like you've been really busy! I'm going to check out the 'Britain in our kitchen' blog straight after this comment :). Good luck with making the sewing machine cover :). xo

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