Day 20: 13 squares

I have started making use of my time on the commute to get some square knitting done by using a tiny circular needle, and do you know what? My stitches seem to be so much more even with this needle!

So, I'm currently 7 squares behind schedule, but I'm getting faster-I've got it down to about 1 hour per square:)

Fingers crossed I get back on target or else this will be the shortest lived challenge in the history of knitting challenges!

x

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Weaving and blocking

Day 17: 12 squares complete

So as you can see I'm still behind by 5 squares but I can assure you all I spent Sunday morning sitting in the sunny garden weaving in the ends (all 44 of them!) and blocking and pinning them out. It made me realise that unless I want to go insane at the end of this project, I should weave in and block as I go:) so that's my plan!

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Rome stole my knitting

Ok, so I have an excuse for not really being on track with the knit one square per day thing - I have had a fairly stressful day flying back from Rome today, and in the process lost my luggage. Well I say 'lost' when really I know it is somewhere between Rome and London and on its way to me in the next 24 hours. The sad thing is, the only thing I am without is my knitting! I have duplicates of all my other toiletries and things, but in the interest of keeping my size 5mm needles unbroken I took my whole set of bamboo needles in the Cath Kidson case that Lewis bought me for Christmas a few years back - and they're all in transit! So my attempts at knitting one square per day have been foiled by the lovely people at BA.

So, in the absence, I have figured out the pattern from memory and looking at pictures of my squares for Pattern A and have notes this down in a chart, like for cross-stitch. I also found a sice 5mm circular needle and the extra yarn for the rest of the blanket, so I'm all ready to go...maybe tomorrow morning now seeing as, right now as I'm typing this on my lap top in the lounge, Lewis (my new husband!) has fallen asleep on the floor of the lounge and I feel quite guilty as he is 'staying up' for me until we go to sleep.

So this is me signing off for tonight, fingers crossed my luggage turns up tomorrow morning!

xvx

Day 12: 9 squares

Ok, so I'm a little behind, well 3 squares behind infact but I have good intentions to try and catch up and keep on track with completing one square per day. I have a feeling I could get a bit obsessive over this! But hey, it's all good fun and will hopefully result in a nice cozy blanket for our lounge:)

Good night from Rome!
xx

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99 squares in 99 days

I have decided to set myself the challenge of knitting 99 squares in 99 days so that I can complete my first blanket (Luna Blanket by Martin Storey) in just over 3 months. I started last Saturday18th June and have currently completed 8 squares (so I need to make 1 more today to keep on track!). Here are some squares I have already made so far:

I've been wanting to make this blanket since I first saw it published in The Knitter magazine over a year ago. I nearly went for the same yarn they used (Rowan Alpaca Cotton) but this would make it cost nearly £140 to make!! Eeek! So I decided to go for the more budget option, that I won't be too heartbroken over if it gets snagged by certain mischievous small felines that live with us. Which means, I only spent £32 on the yarn for the whole project - go me!

I decided to go with cream and brown (rather than black) as our decor is more softer browns than monochrome.

This is a challenge I really do want to stick to, so despite all my upcoming travelling for work (Rome, Milan, Madrid, Berlin) I will be using my time in my hotel room to knit rather than feel lonely and miss my husband - so it's a good plan all round!

I'll be sure to keep you updated on this project - I need to find a way to keep myself motivated and not get bored of knitting 50 squares of pattern A and 49 squares of pattern B!

Wish me luck!

Knitting in the park

I have recently taken to visiting the park near work in the morning and at lunchtimes to knit and it's lovely! I normally get to work about half an hour before I actually need to start, so as I'm not very busy at the moment, I've decided to use my extra time to get some much missed knitting done. The result: I am already turning the heel on a sock I started 5 days ago - woohoo!

After the commute into London, followed by the joys of the tube, just sitting peacefully in the park listening to the birds (with a faint background accompaniment of car engines and beeping horns) is such a nice contrast and seems to be making each day much more enjoyable:)

I love Hobbycraft!

I'm about to start a new project and realised I needed a new set of needles, so just popped over to Hobbycraft down the road and now I have everything I need:) It's so convenient having the store just over the road, although it does make things a bit more dangerous on the 'spend all our money on yarn' front!

Anyway, on to the knitting - very exciting starting a new project!