How are you doing so far this year? Are you on track with any New Years resolutions or have you, like me, already slipped from your aims before the end of the first month? Actually, I didn't really have any hard and fast resolutions for the new year, just a general aim to be a bit more organised on all fronts and more tidy around the house. I started out quite well, targeting the kitchen and clearing out cupboards of anything that is no longer in regular use. A day of sorting, cleaning and trip to the charity shop made things feel brighter and tidier in the kitchen.
But now I seem to have stalled. What really needs tackling is my yarn stash which has got out of hand and spilled out from it's allotted areas to take over most of the living room. The problem is it's hard to tear myself away from knitting but even that lacks order at the moment. Where I really should be buckling down and getting on with the next pattern, instead I am flitting about knitting a new tea cosy or fiddling about with blankety ideas (I keep trying to shake the urge to start a new crochet blanket but it won't quite leave me alone). I am pleased with my new tea cosy though. Knitted in charcoal grey Alafoss Lopi from Meadow Yarn from a Churchmouse yarns pattern, details on ravelry.
Anyway, there is productive knitting going on and that is good at least for reducing my stash - the more I knit the smaller it will get so perhaps I should feel completely justified in knitting instead of getting on with cleaning out the cupboard under the stairs. I would much rather be playing around with yarn, especially bunny knitting in ash grey and lingerie pink which is a colour combination that just sings to me at the moment. I finished off some Quince and Co sparrow linen dresses (one of the patterns in my seasonal dresses collection)...
And I started a couple of bunnies...
Do you love the little hangers and the cups and cake in the top right hand corner? I fell in love with them as they're perfect sized bunny accessories (made by Maileg and I got mine from Bijou).
The third dress I've made in this yarn (Rowan Cotton 4ply which is my favourite ever yarn for knitting bunny clothes from but is sadly discontinued) just needs an animal to wear it - I'm leaning towards a grey cat at the moment but there's a mouse and an elephant in the running too. I'll have to decide before I can knit up the body...
At least the lovely new basket I bought with money I was given for Christmas is helping keep my work-in-progress neat and tidy and it's big enough to fit in all of my knitting essentials (basket from Injabulo). Well, I'm off to my cosy corner to knit a bit more - it's important work this stash reducing ;)
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