The Blog Post of Shame... Current Projects Part 2!

 Hello again!

I've been putting this post off - my list of current crochet projects on the go.  In fact, I said to a friend of mine I might skip this one and move onto quilting projects, until she pointed out on my last post I had promised to show and tell crochet projects next...  So here goes...

All of these projects are quite elderly now, as I seem to have gravitated to knitting lately.  The most recent, and one that really isn't included in the list of shame is my Friendship Blanket.  This is, by design, a lengthy project, as it is the second blanket I am making using leftover bits of 4ply sock yarn, this time all donated by my lovely friends.  I love it more and more as it grows and I think of my knitty friends every time I take it out to add a few more blocks (which are solid granny squares, instructions by my friend, Lucy -Attic24)

The next project is so nearly finished it's embarrassing it's on this list!  It's an adaptation of a vintage waistcoat pattern that I have made before, but this time I am making it in Rowan Lima, more of an Aran weight, instead of the DK the pattern calls for.  I was after a long, relaxed look, and I think this will meet that brief.  All I have left to do is sew up the side seams and finish the armholes!  Why haven't I done this????  I will definitely get this finished.

The next is a cardigan I fell in love with - A Good Vintage Cardigan - which I purchased from Ravelry.  I was going along so well with this, but then discovered the sleeves were nowhere near long enough for me, so I had to order some more yarn.  By the time it had arrived I had started something else.  Then I discovered the ends to sew in.  Oh, the ends!  However, my good friend, J, gently enquires after this cardigan every so often, so yesterday I surprised her by bringing it along to our get together and sewing in the last of the ends.  J, I promise it will be finished sooon(ish!)

Next there is a summer top in the making that I don't think I will really wear once it is finished.  I have made one before and wore it quite a bit but now I find it just too warm to wear.  So I have decided to pull it back and reuse the lovely Rowan 'Siena' 4ply cotton for something else that I will wear.  I was inspired to do this by the very lovely Emma Varnham, who I met with recently, and who dismantled a finished article to make something she now loves.  It was just the nudge I needed and the yarn will (eventually) be made into something I am sure I will love more.  Thank you, Emma!

The final (thank goodness!) WIP of shame I can date precisely, as I found a blog post about it here!  October 15th 2018!  Mystical Lanerns, by Jane Crowfoot.

I have actually finished all the lanterns, and am in the process of edging each one in a cream wool, and joining them together.  Or maybe I should say 'was', as not much has happened on this for well over a year.  

So there you have it.  I have come clean and revealed all!  I am going to finish the cardigan first.  In fact, I might get a few rows in before bed!

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Donna xx