I did well in March with only 100g of wool coming in and 547g going out. Net stash decrease for the year thus far is 3333g, which is pleasingly symmetrical or something. I would be happier if I wasn't aware that April will be - shall we say - less good?
Some of the 547g was given away, some went into a long term scrappy project and I finished three pairs of socks. Two were for me; the top pair from the Yarn Unique Degas yarn which came in January and the second pair was one of the socks sets from Stitch and the Skein's weekly advent. The bottom pair was for the OH and the wool came from what I understand is referred to as 'deep stash' i.e. it had bene kicking about for years. They are more red than the pink it shows in the photo.
It doesn't seem much for a month's work but I have been working on two other projects as well; a very lacy scarf which takes so much concentration I can only do 6 rows a day or it goes horribly wrong ( ask me how I know) and a small scarf cum shawl thing where you change colour every two rows. had I known how fiddly/irritating either of these projects would be I would not have cast them on. However the deed is now done ....
Having recently finished off and used some old, and small, cross stitch projects I picked up an old and very large one and I've been working on that too. This is slow work as I have to wear a head magnifier. Notwithstanding the fact that the optometrist told me what an excellent job the surgeons had done on my cataracts - and don't get me wrong, they did) working over 2x2 threads on 36 count linen is not something I can do with the naked eye. Twenty years ago, yes. Now, no. So that's a bit uncomfortable and I can't spend very long at a time wearing it. That said here is the piece as at the end of March
there is no point taking daily or even weekly photos of it as progress would look infinitesimal but I'm hoping if I do one at the end of each month then it will be more noticeable, and encouraging.
