Cottoning on!

It's definitely feeling like spring is in the air now. I thought about a giving the flat a good spring clean this weekend but am far too tired to be honest as I'm still not over the last bug. So I decided to chill out instead and get ahead for spring this year with the cotton knitting! I still have the clapotis to block which I'm hoping I might get to later on today. I started this cardigan last night it's Buckland by Martin Storey and is now available free from the Rowan website. I'm using an assortment of Cotton Jeans in blues and greys which I got in the John Lewis sale last summer. It's nice to knit with and will be soft and warm and ideal for summer evenings I think. I've had a quite a few knots which is a bit annoying so I'm not sure I'd pay full price for it. My guage is off and I'm still concerned about it stretching and growing so I'm doing up the 38 size and expecting it to come out nearer a 42. Let's hope I've got this right!

Springlike

Just back from a couple of days at my sister's which was lovely - what with my and hers illnesses I've not been down since Christmas which seems ages ago now! And of course I had to introduce the family to the dishcloth craze. So the two little soap filled cloths were for Mum and Sis. A pretty tricolour yellow, orange and white petal one was left draped over their kitchen tap (in a very shiny sink which I sincerely hope is going to stay that way after I shared my also new found passion for FlyLady...) The blue ballband got parcelled up and send to OH for his birthday (not sure what he'll think of that!) I couldn't resist taking a pic of a few of the cloths all together, and last but not least when the sun shines it almost seems springlike and sis had some lovely daffs on windowsill along with a little chick (which I think is really a duck) in a burst of needlefelting for Easter! ETA - check out that shiny sink of sis's!