I'm making progress!

I wanted to record where I was up to with my Advanced Studies projects.

This first part of my Detention OWL were the Slytherin knee socks and the next project I wanted to complete was my cotton blanket that I've been working on since early 2009.  I've done all the panels and just need to seam the ends.  I'm really close now.

The third project I want to finish is my 'Red Coat' (also called 'Hey there' for obvious reasons)

I'm about halfway through the hood and then just need to tidy it up.

The last project I'm doing for my Detention OWL is my Snowmelt shawl.  The main problem I have with this is that I don't know for the life of me what I've done with my next ball of yarn. I remember seeing it back in December but now can't find the relevant tub.  If all else fails I'll get another skein and then dye the whole thing.  I'd prefer not to have to do that as I can just about guarantee that I'll find the missing ball immediately afterwards.

Being on the needles at the moment it looks like a definite blob but progress has been made.  At the beginning of January I was down at the gold lifeline.  I've definitely got a fair bit to go but as soon as I finish my other two projects I can focus on this pretty much exclusively (well as soon as I find that yarn anyway)

For my Order Mission I'm making  cardigan, matching hat and a doily.  I haven't locked down the pattern for the latter as I want to make my final decision when I know how much time I've got to play with.  I've got my eye on something so we'll have to see.

I'm still making my way down the back of the cardigan and haven't started the hat or doily.  Time will tell with this one.

Catching up (again!!)

And once again despite the best of intentions I haven't updated this for a while.

I mentioned that I was close to completing some socks.  I did finish them and the only thing I regret is that the weather's so wam at the moment that I don't have a good reason to wear them in the near future.  This was my first pair of knee socks (well the first pair I started anyway.  I've started and finished another pair in the interim) and I'm so glad they're now done.

When I was planning for these I wanted some 'Slytherin socks' but didn't necessarily want the 'school girl look' so these looked perfect for the purpose.

I'm planning on a striped pair in the near future but they're going to be more 'fiery'

I've been wanting to play with double knitting using more than 2 colours for a while now.  I originally tried doing it with four colours but there were too many tangles for my peace of mind (I'll have to work something out before I do that again).  Three colours worked just fine though.

 I'll be adding this square to my pile of 'playing' that I'll seam together when I've got enough.

Then I felt in the need for something else cute (I just can't help myself) so I decided on a snake.  This was the first time I've picked up crochet stitches in the body of the work rather than the edge.  It wasn't as hard as I thought but I want to do a bit more practise when I can

I also squeezed in another hat.  I'm not sure what I'll do with it (but I'm sure I'll think of something)

It's a nice warm hat but I prefer something a bit slouchier if possible.  This was for a speed challenge and I wanted to ensure I got the maximum possible points so I started decreasing a little bit earlier.

I also did some work on my OWL and Order Mission projects but I don't have good photos of them at present so I'll do another post for them.