Finished Friday

I have some finishes to show you and since it is finished Friday today what better than to show off what I have done these past few weeks?

I have found my stitching bug again, yay! And I started and finished this lovely little biscornu turned into a scissor-fob which I will put in my gift-pile. 

Here is the back of the same biscornu and I finished the boy-bunny, I still have one more in this series and am contemplating wether to start it now or do it next Easter, I love having seasonal things to do in its season, but it would also be lovely to actually have a finish... 

And then there is the daffodil in the middle which I started just over Easter, that too is finally finished after I frogged the middle yellow since it was stitched in the wrong place. You would think that I learned my lesson and properly look at the chart, well, I did the same with the darkest green, stitched all the darkest green and then realised it was wrong and had to frog that too. And when it was finally done, I had lost the frame.... I was mad, but as things want to do, it turned up, the same day my beautiful pink scissors and needles set from Tulip did. That was indeed a happy day.

And I finished another bib, the bigger pink one, made a heart on the blue bib and started a third bib, this time in pale pink, but it won't have scallops I think...

And the pink thing in the background of all the pictures is my granny stripe baby-blanket which is way over half way already, just one more skein I think!

So far I have finished One whole skein of pink, but started a second.

The pink for the blanket is already up to five balls I think, but since it is not finished I will not count it.

So, 70 grams out in baby-bibs and 200 grams of scarf

and 

350 grams in these past two weeks.

So I am not doing too well on my two out one in yarn policy, but that might be because of all those half finished things, if I finish them properly I might have more success.
Hey, scratch that, I forgot I had the knitted scarf finish, I never made a proper post about it, but I did finish the blue/green scarf the other day, I will take a picture and show you later, so I think my policy is working better than I thought... Yay me.

A-Z challenge F

F is for frogging

Urban dictionary describes frogging as the sound a frog makes "rip it rip it" which sounds like the sound yarn makes when you unravel your project due to an error.

I hate frogging, I absolutely dread it and try to avoid it if I can. Usually if I make an error in something I will be so furious that I can't bear to look at my project for days, weeks and in some cases even years which has resulted in me having tons of half-finished projects languishing away in a box somewhere. If I can I work around an error, because frogging can cause several troubles, like in the cross stitch daffodil I started before Easter, I will.

It was a kit so there are only a few strands of each colour, the kit is old, discontinued and the thread is unlabelled. So I am pretty screwed if I destroy any of the strands I will try to unpick as there won't be enough left to finish. Luckily in this case I had barely enough. If I could I would have worked around my error, but it was impossible, because I had used the wrong colour in the wrong place and the flower has light yellow on top and more colourful yellow downwards so the colour defines the picture which makes it vital to use the right one. But honestly, the lightest yellow look like white, so naturally I assumed it was white and took the wrong colour... Note to self, always double check colours!

Anyway I have frogged the wrong colour, salveged the rest of the yarn and finished the portion that was wrong.

But I have more frogging to show you, you don't always frog something just because you made an error, here I had to frog an entire blanket because the yarn couldn't cope with that much weight and started drooping. So I spent three hours yesterday frogging one of the five squares I already did, I was not happy, but thinking about what I can make with this expensive soft alpaca yarn made me feel a little happier. I want to make this. I just hope the yarn can take it. Or I will just have to knit scarves and wrist warmers.

I started this blanket way back in 2011 so it is a big old wip so it is about time that I finish it. I think it is two years since I decided the yarn wasn't strong enough so that is how long it languished in a box. Poor thing.

Here is me ripping one of the five squares.

-if you turn the volume up you can almost hear the rip it- rip it sound-