Productive start to the New Year

New Year’s holidays are quiet here and I have filled the hours with cooking, cleaning, reading, stitching, knitting and gardening.   That all sounds more productive than it really is but I do have some results to show.

First up a Christmas Ornament (I will be prepared early this year) in a colour way I’m not sure that I associate with the festive season.   I intend to finish this as a flat ornament - perhaps tomorrow?

Then I have started another project - from an Inspirations kit, this is a Christine Bishop design.   I started on the pincushion and now the border is done I need to learn Venetian Picot.   Just maybe not tonight.

And I signed up with Westknits for the Year of Socks in which I get a designer sock pattern each month.  The first has arrived and I will hopefully get yarn next week and get the first pair finished by the end of the month.   

However before that I decided to knit the scraps of sock yarn from the three pairs I knitted late last year, into children’s socks for Operation Coverup.   First pair now finished and my shoulders and wrist tell me I need to take a break.

So I have made a start on a cross stitch project  - Quaker Motif inspired small pocket pouch.   This is all done in one colour and as I had sufficient in stash I have opted for DMC 115.   So far so good.   The fabric is Permin 32 count linen colour cream.

And The Repair Shop is about to start on TV so farewell for now.