So what have I been up to?

Well I think I made a slight mistake in the fact that every time that the youngest has had 3 birthdays for a school friends then I have made a knitted item (cats for girls and dinosaurs for boys, I know I'm going with stereotypes but it seemed like I could do those projects) anyway, it came to a head where I had the deadline coming ever closer, and I have never been very good at those! but the good news was that they got finished on time, yay for me :D so I'm a little bemused but chuffed that I have and now feel more invigorated to finish mt waist coat that I said that I was talking a break form because it was doing my nut in.

Current projects:

Monster eye slippers

These are going well although I have stumbled on the pattern a little.

Another dinosaur

To be done for two weeks time

Griffindor blanket

It's been reminded about, and I am still on my first row of squares!

Grenada Blanket

It should be finished by now!

Crofter Socks

Still on the first one but I have a plan for when it's time to do the toe, I will put the first sock onto a stitch holder then do the second sock so when it's time to finish off the second sock I will be able to do them together - genius.

Finishing off the fronts of my waistcoat, I think I'm going to be using basket stitch if I can work out how many stitches I need :)

Finished projects:

DS Case

2 cats

2 dinosaur

And since I have last posted, it has been another birthday for me, luckily I have been lucky to get going to a Glee concert in Manchester, which means I get to tart myself up and feel like a teenager, even though I never felt like that then ;) and different books, (which I have linked to at the bottom), a sponsor a sheep, smellies and Pirates of the Caribbean Lego :D

Learning something new is always good :)

I have only a few more squares to go and I was meandering around the internet...okay, I was at Ravelry again and getting sidetracked with all the yarns, patterns and what people have made....anyway, in the main part under crochet corner they had and they a tutorial about how not to have curling edges by making two rows in one, now I didn't think about it at the time I was making the blanket because as I was putting it together it flattened itself out while I was doing it, so when I  thought I would actually do the tutorial and see what happened , this was the result. Even though it is not completely straight, it looks a lot better than before and I guess it will be a little easier if you are blocking, so thank you Ravelry for teaching me something new, I look forward to learning more things that I didn't know.

So now that I have learnt how to do that, I have said that I will make a lapghan for Nanna, for her birthday in July, so feeling adventurous, I though that I would do ripples or waves, or something like that, so I went in search for a pattern that I would be able to read easily and relatively easy to do as I still consider my self an amateur, would you like to see my attempt? you will think it quite good...ermmm, yes, it didn't quite turn out to how I actually had it in my head but I guess it would look nice as a shawl in that stitch! Better luck next time......

Now in other news, I got really frustrated with my sock, so in a bid not to just end up with one sock I have started the other one and hope I have the courage to attempt kitchener stitch again. I bought more wool from the Wool Baa (I should really look more, they sell Cascade 220, that's the Dr Who scarf sorted out, I just need the money for it!!), the prper sized needles for hubby and his cable scarf and popped over to John Lewis's - they are so expensive but I got a pattern for making pygama bottoms and an Pony # 4mm crochet hook to replace the one that I lost at the surgery - well I think it was there. I'm still hoping to try the ergonomic crochet hooks, I did see double ended hooks from Hamanaka Japan, which would be great for travelling &  paper wool, well not quite, yarn with a percentage of paper in it, which would be nice to try - anyone going to Japan?!
And on the subject of Japanese things, yet again I am neglecting my anime, I still have to finish my Love Hina Box set, let's hope I can, I also finished reading Dead Until Dark, Charlaine Harris, the first book in the Sookie Stackhouse series and looking forward to the rest of them and considering no bothering with the show, having said that I wouldn't be able to see Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis), he doesn't really feature a lot in the first book _ arrrg, I'm torn!! Now, I thought I would try and read
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde again, last time I stopped half way through.