{"id":222,"date":"2013-03-26T16:43:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T16:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aliceinknittingland.wordpress.com\/?p=222"},"modified":"2013-03-26T16:43:04","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T16:43:04","slug":"hexagons-and-spindles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/?p=222","title":{"rendered":"Hexagons and Spindles…"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week, I am determined to advance some of the projects I already have on the go. I am itching to start several other things, but I must<\/em> exercise some self-discipline or my house will be taken over in the messiest and least intentional yarn-bomb catastrophe known to man (or woman, for that matter).<\/p>\n

So, with that in mind, I went back to my hexagon blanket today. I’m using Rowan’s Kaffe Fassett Colourscape: a gorgeous woollen yarn whose colours melt effortlessly into one another. All the hexagons below are from the same skein. I have already got 30 made, and some already joined up, but I decided I needed a more methodical approach. So my mission today was to edge all the motifs I already have:<\/p>\n

\"Edging<\/a>
Edging the hexagons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But then I got bored. I’d edged maybe five or six, so I decided to join them to the piece I already had. I now have around 17 joined together and I totally love the look (though it needs blocking, the ends weaving in etc) and working with it in this unseasonally snowy weather was lovely and snuggly warm, too.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The hexagonal story so far, with, in the background, my toddler whose favourite place is on top of the coffee table \ud83d\ude42<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The post brought a rather exciting parcel, too… My spindle! I now have some fibre (and more on the way), a spindle, YouTube and am just waiting till all my little darlings are in bed, my lovely man cooking – how glad am I that he’s in the kitchen tonight!? – and I’ll give it a whirl. (No pun intended) \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\"Spindle<\/a>
Spindle and fibre<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And finally, my little number four son, aged 6, has been suffering from a lack of attention lately. It’s tough being number four of five. Actually, it’s tricky getting enough attention being any<\/em> one of five (and I speak from experience) especially when you have a mother who is constantly buried under a mountain of yarn, and is off in a world of ‘what shall I make next’…?<\/p>\n

\"attention\"<\/a>I had a rare insight into his world outside home yesterday, when his teacher told me how proud he is to come to school in something I’ve made for him. I do sometimes worry about the potential therapy sessions when they’re grown up and have left home: “All the other kids had this really cool kit, but my<\/em> mum made me wear all this\u00a0homemade\u00a0<\/em>stuff…!” After all, I’m not sure my 13 year old would be remotely happy about leaving the house in something I’d knitted \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

So I’m off to spend some time with my little fella, and I’ve promised him that the very next project I start will be a knitted crocodile for him<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week, I am determined to advance some of the projects I already have on the go. I am itching to start several other things, but I must exercise some self-discipline or my house will be taken over in the messiest and least intentional yarn-bomb catastrophe known to man (or woman, for that matter). So, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,32],"tags":[48,80,136,138,210,230,234,282,414,415,474,480],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-news","tag-alice-in-knittingland","tag-blankets","tag-crafts","tag-crochet","tag-granny-squares","tag-hexagon-blanket","tag-homemade","tag-knittingland","tag-spindle","tag-spinning","tag-wool","tag-yarn"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}