Update: knitting and bubs

Managed to get some serious knitting done on the first day of the year (so an excellent start). My everything has been aching, so ended up confining myself to the sofa. Thankfully bubs decided to behave this morning and we didn't need the monitoring appointment - so I cancelled that so someone else could use it. We have a scan tomorrow morning, so hopefully we'll understand more about what bubs is doing then.

Knitting summary for Yesterday: 

Diagonal square: white

This was surprisingly a really simple pattern to knit. You need to follow the pattern really carefully, but other than that was just variations of k3,p3 pattern. So this was a super quick knit :)

Baby Blanket

Managed to get another 3 colour rows worked yesterday. It only adds about 5/6cm to the length. But it is starting to look a lot more substantial now. Obviously knitting this as quickly as possible at the moment - we are seriously running out of time!!

The Plan for today

Having had a really chilled out day yesterday, I actually have a serious burst of energy for today and just want to get a load of jobs ticked off the list.

We went out for breakfast this morning at the local premier inn. The hubby goes back to work tomorrow, so it was nice to chill out together. We then followed that up with a Pokemon Go themed walk down at the local park. The weather was absolutely beautiful - just a bit chilly! I also managed to catch a few Pokemon I needed and gain some distance on some eggs I am trying to hatch.

The plan for the afternoon is as follows:

• Edit and update a spreadsheet for a mate (I am a bit of a fan on Excel - so feel free to ping me any questions if you have any)
• Make a start on my Daily Greatness Journal - new year, new me (and mini me)
• Start reading through the collection of blogging books I've brought to help grow this blog
• Take down my Christmas decs - otherwise bubs will turn up and it just won't happen!
• Catch up on clothes washing - again when bubs appears there will be a lot!
• Tidy up my lounge - it looks like it's been attacked after a week of both of us being in the house.
• Knitting - Complete the last Diagonal Stripe Square.
• Knitting - work 2 colour rows of the baby blanket
• Schedule/draft blog articles - with the theory that with bubs I am not going to have a lot of time!

So fingers crossed for a productive afternoon!

Happy knitting all!

Baby Brain Signing off!

MrsKirstyHoll

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Week 39: WIPs, Bubs and Post Holiday Update

Hello all!

I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and New Year. As I’m sure many of you have done, I had planned to use this week to get on with some serious knitting! That lull between Christmas and New Year always seems to offer me a curious lull where knitting can happen at some serious pace during the Christmas TV screenings/catching up on series while both my husband and I have time off work.

Obviously, this year, my time off will last a while longer while we wait for bubs to make an appearence! I’ll be off work now until the beginning of April. I can’t guarantee much blogging will get done in that time, but I will try to keep you lovely lot somewhat updated – just with less regular or predictable postings!

So that plan did sound beautiful. Bubs however has other ideas….. From boxing day I’ve been having very irregular contractions. Resulting in me being very uncomfortable and very tired for now nearlly a week. 

We’ve been down the hospital twice this week because bubs decided to not move much for a few hours. The very lovely midwifes in my local NHS hospital have been very patient and bubs has thankfully been ok once the machine was hooked up. So this week we have another monitoring appointment booked for tomorrow (incase bubs plays silly buggers again tomorrow) and a scan on Tuesday to check everything is actually fine! So a busy couple of days ahead…

 Finished Squares 
Moss Stitch Zig Zag square = 1 white. This isn’t a quick knit and I seriously don’t think I could cope with this on a larger project scale. But I love the effect it creates!

Current W.I.P:

Diagonal stripe square = 1 grey and 1 white

Still Left on the Complex List:
Zigzag stripe square = 2 grey and 1 white

Ridged striped with bobbles square = 1 teal

Diamond Seed Stitch Square = 1 grey and 1 navy

Moss Stitch Diagonal stripes = 1 grey and 1 white

Baby Blanket!

I’m seriously still in love with this project. It’s a beautiful effect that it’s creating and I love watching it come together.Now I’m just looking forward to seeing it finished and bubs using it 

Baby brain signing off

MrsKirstyHoll

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