Wool on Sunday...

Once again, the subject really should be 'Cotton on Sunday' as my projects used a cotton blend yarn.

Joining in with Janine over Here at the Rainbow Hare blog, where we show off any projects that we've been working on using yarn. Janine's post for March shows another beautiful cardigan that she has made.

In February I finished the cotton baby blanket for our new granddaughter born in January...

And we actually had one day when the weather cooled down and DD1 wrapped little C up in her new blankie.

As soon as I finished that baby gift, I started another. This time it was a pram blanket size and it was for the new baby that DD2's best friend had had in early February...

And after that, I started yet another baby blankie in cotton; rainbow colours this time. (I had planned to work out a new design of my own, but took the easy way out and used that same pattern again! )Our neighbour's daughter was expecting a baby, due in late February and a baby blanket was to be a gift for her. The baby girl was born yesterday, so I had better keep knitting. This is the progress so far...

After I finish all the baby knitting, I will get back to joining donated  squares so that there will be blankets ready to be distributed to the needy when the weather starts to cool down.

Valentine Initial swap...

Today was much cooler and I felt a lot more energetic than I have been these last few days. So it was time to actually start work on this swap project instead of just thinking about it! lol

Last week I dropped into my LYS and picked up the cotton yarn that I had ordered online. I bought some lovely 'Sugar and cream' cotton yarn to make a heart shaped knitted wash cloth. I had bought the Susan B Anderson pattern a few years as a download, thinking it would come in handy sometime :-) .

The next photo shows progress after I 'frogged' the first few centimetres and then reknitted on a size larger needles. Starting with one stitch and increasing every second row soon saw the heart grow, up to the section where the top was shaped.

But when I came to the shaping of the top part of the heart, I was completely flummoxed by the instructions for the abbreviation 'ssk'. I knew that others had posted 'cries for help' on my knitting group's forum about this abbreviation but I almost 'turned myself inside out' trying to follow the explanation in this pattern...so I 'googled' it and found some You Tube videos. As soon as I saw the process demonstrated, I was right! So sometimes, I guess I'm a 'visual learner'. In the process I've learned another way of getting a decrease sloping to the left unlike the usual k2tog.

So tonight I finished the washer with a crocheted picot edge, but I still have to weave in the ends, as well as work out how I'm going to do the initial of the recipient. I've got a few ideas but it still might be a bit of trial and error to get it just right.

But it feels good to know that it's closer to being ready to post off.;