Briefly on a Sunday afternoon

It's grey and wet here, just adding to my mood as I ponder the end of the holidays and the return to work tomorrow. I know that I shouldn't complain as I've had two weeks off school, but I could quite easily get used to this not working lark, spending my days at home with yarn and fabric! It has been a lovely break, stretching over those long holiday weekends when Mr JK didn't have to work either. We quite lost track of what day it was! 

The past few days, I frogged several projects that I had fallen out of love with, as well as finishing a couple. Mr JK's Matchday socks certainly have brought Norwich City luck since I finished knitting them as they have won both their matches since! I think he will have to wear them every time they play from now on!

A post-Christmas catch up with Snoopydog brought a whole plethora of goodies - project bags, yarn, books, needles, notions and a delightful mug whose sentiments I echo entirely! Snoops and I both agreed that knitting from stash is the way forward in 2016, so it will be interesting to see who leads who astray when we are next together at a yarny event! Thank you so much for all these gorgeous gifts!

As you can see from the photo above, I was totally spoilt with knitterly goodness with all these birthday gifts from Snoops. The yarn on the right is Socks Yeah! from Rachel Coopey and I am itching to cast on with it. It's a relatively new yarn and comes in a range of gorgeous muted colours. Just a shame that I'm on a yarn diet now so I can't buy any more!!

I love this pretty project bag (you can find others here if you'd like one of your own!) and have already got a project lined up for it. Two yummy skeins and a book completed my Christmas goodies from Snoops. I find myself drawn more and more to Rachel Coopey's designs and plan on knitting some of her socks this year.

New projects have been cast on for a new knitting year. In the ThreBagFull group on Ravelry, we have a couple of fun KALs going on right now. One is a year long Sock Challenge and the other is a season of selfish knitting. So I have two pairs of socks cast on as well as a cowl. The second pair of socks are being knit in the ball of yarn that has been in my stash the longest. I had to dive deep to find that one! Take a look...

I've been indulging in a bit of early morning hooking in bed the past few days, but this morning proceedings were interrupted by Flo, who not only tried to snuggle into the blanket-in-progress, but also wanted to nuzzle against my hands. The Cosy blanket, from Attic24, is growing steadily. My aim is to have finished the next set of colours by the weekend.

I plan on carrying on improving my sewing skills this year and came across this blog today. I like the idea of sewing a block a month. It feels quite achieveable and the instructions look clear. So I reckon that I'll mull over fabric choices this week and make a start next weekend. Do you fancy joining me? Go on, it'll be fun! Catch up again soon! xxx