July Wool stats and finshed stuff

 Getting this in early as we have another grandchild visitation day today; just one of them and he will be wanting to play Caesar IV on my computer.

I'm aware that it's almost time to review August and I have yet to do the July post. That's not just because it doesn't make pretty reading although there might be an element of that in it. The thing is that we're very busy now that we've moved and I just don't have the same amount of time for crafting as I did. Maybe things will change in the winter months when we spend more time indoors. 

Meanwhile - yarn in 450g, yarn out 224g. The yarn in was the Little Grey Cells club that I get every quarter plus the Irish Artisan Yarn mystery bag. The LGC is half used up so that's something. Still, net increase for the month was 226, making the overall decrease for the year 5606. It doesn't help that I'm working on some time consuming projects and I don't count the yarn I use in them until they're finished. Ah well, onwards and upwards. Or, |I suppose in this instance, preferably downwards! 

After the puny effort that was finished projects in June - 1 pair of socks if you remember, I managed to double that in July and make two pairs. 

This was all yarn I bought on my Lay Family yarn retreat. The top pair are for me and used a very small part of a 100g skein plus 3 minis from a five mini set that I bought. The lower pair are for the OH; I hadn't realised when I bought this that it was a 70g sock set so I ended up playing yarn chicken. I did have some other yarn I could have used to pop in an extra stripe at the end of the foot and which wouldn't have looked out of place had I had needed to, but I was glad I didn't. Note to self; always check weight of sock yarn sets! 

I did of course make the rag wreath and I've also been doing some scrapbooking and card making so I suppose my craft time is spread more thinly over more crafts. As for the cross stitch I didn't touch the little lavender thing, with which I have got totally bored. I'm almost sure I didn't do any work on the Earth Dancer in July either. I did however look out some fabrics and threads and make a start on one of the charts I bought while I was away in Shropshire - it's  sad at my age to still be always distracted by the new shiny thing!