50 projects finished in 6 months

Made it.......you can see them at ravelry...user name CoppaTop

Left some at my ruffle scarves at my massage therapist office as she offered to display and try and sell them, I thought $20 was reasonable, but apparently it's expensive and one person commented they got one for $5, would even cover the cost of the yarn in most cases, so only 1 sold.  Perhaps I am better concentrating on cute hats for babies :-/

Two Done

A challenge to myself

At the beginning of the year I had 52 projects on Ravelry, I now have 98 so the challenge can I complete 50 projects by June 30, have 3 unfinished so that's 4 more in to complete in 8 days. The latest pictured above and an Ice Tango scarf, another type of ruffle yarn.

Cupcake

Bit proud worked the top half, worked it out for myself , wanted the swirly icing effect, and this yarn in the stash was made for it with flecks of colour to represent sprinkles, just working out a cherry on top

What to do

Have been in that place "what do I start next" , with thousands of things going through my mind. Been thinking of what to do for an old family friends daughter who has now got some very long awaited twins. so cupcake hats , strawberry hats , pumpkin hats etc etc. The house has reflected the confusion with me going through my stashes to get ideas and sorting yarn into piles for different project ideas. Have spent heaps of time of Ravelry researching

I gave a ruffle scarf to my Daughter's dance teacher for her birthday a few weeks ago , it was done length ways as I wanted to have it two tone but lengthwise in her studio colours, so cast about 128 stitches and only had to do 8 rows. She like the effect so asked me to do something similar thing for an end of year costume. So have 5 shorter ones to do as a kind of  bussell/ruffle on a leotard. Have completed 2 and a half but ran out of black yarn so waiting on the order to arrive, along with some other type of ruffle yarn I haven't tried yet and some yarn to make my daughter a CPH.

In the meantime I have made my husband a knee warmer in Patonyle. Last weekend going through the craftroom's cupboards, hubby came in and said when are you going to finish my cross stitch (think I started about 10 years ago) so have done a bit more on it, mostly white on white to do now , so not very exciting and lots of one off colour stitches (my fault I made the pattern from a photo and wanted it as realistic as possible).
If you go back a few years in the you'll see a few months where I worked on it everyday in an attempt to get it finished for Mark Scaife's retirement, got enough done for it to be autographed, but once that was done put it down again.

Then on Friday night the dance teacher, ordered some more socks for her boy as has grown out of last years I gave her, he's four and in a size ten shoe! So the pair after this I'll probably have to make the same size as what I do for myself.

So friday night , cast on a sock and a cupcake hat, don't normally more than one at a time, since having this blog has mostly cured my UFO problem (knitting not cross stitch unfortunately). Sock is going a lot faster than the hat, but it's OK.

Picked up some new glasses today, my first try at multi-focal, might be able to see the TV and knit now.