W.I.P. Wednesday - Progress and frogs

My teddy bear huggy blanket is still hibernating. At least until I'm done with my big secret project.
Last week I started participating in a CAL started by Stacey also known as Freshstitches. It's no secret I'm a big fan of her patterns, so of course I had to join.The goal is to crochet Jackie the Cow , one of her patterns.
You can read the start of my CAL here.
So far I've only done the body and one leg. Besides the dark pink and the white, I'm going to use a light pink.

Next is my secret project. It's coming along very nicely and I'm very close to finishing it.
I also got to make pleats for the first time when knitting, so you can say that I've learned something new.

Moving on to my frogs.
When I was looking for needles, I discovered that I have at least 3 unfinished projects lying around for myself. One is a scarf from Nicky Epstein's book Signature Scarves. It's almost done so I'm keeping it and will try to get it done in the near future.

The other projects is a dress in drops silke alpaca  , both knitted and crocheted,  and a jacket made in fabel.
I'm going to frog both these since I'm in the middle of both and my tension and gauge has changed since I started them. Yeah they have been lying around for a long time.

I'm not sure if I'll do the jacket again what do you think ?

I'm propably going to start over with the dress. The yarn is discontinued and I bought it especially for that dress.

Well enough rambling from me this sunny Wednesday.

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The cutest

grandson anyone could ever have, came to visit his grandmother.
 I don't get to see my grandson very often ,so I was very happy when my daughter and son in law asked if I would babysit for 2 days...
Those 2 days got extended to 4 days since everything went smoothly (they had stuff to take care of) , I'm a bit surprised at how smooth everything went. 10 month old and not once did he act up or seem to miss his parents.

I haven't really crochet that much in those days, but I did finally finish a dog for my youngest daughter. More about the dog here

Better late than never and I think he turned out just fine.
I made him in 100 % cotton worsted weight and a size 4 mm crochet hook.

I also made a beanie. A friend of my daughter asked if I could make one for her son when she saw  my grandson wearing his. I used  a 100 % cotton, Victoria  from Marks and Kattens. Double stranded and a size 10 mm crochet hook.

I bought the pattern at Craftsy here and it's designed by Busy Mom Designs

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There's a first time

for everything.
I finished my first pair of handknitted socks ever. YAY I'm so proud. They look great and they feel great.
I did frog a couple of times where I had to rip it up, but now they are finished.
Socks are fun to make and I suspect I will get better with practice. I just wish we could have one day with a slightly coler weather so I can wear them, it's a bit to hot to wear socks these days.

Wanna see them ?

Here they are :

What do you think about them ?

The pattern is one you get when signing up for Knit Sock Workshop here
I used Sisu from Sandnesgarn. It's a 80 % wool and 20 % nylon yarn and I knitted the socks on Double Pointed needles size 3 mm.

My next sock project is going to be a colorwork sock from the same class.

Besides knitting and crocheting I've decided to start organizing everything. Starting by making a daily schedule for myself.
Instead of making it with weekdays ,I've decided to make it with numbers from 1 to 7, that way I won't be annoyed if I have to skip a day and spend the next day thinking about all the things from the previous day I didn't get to do.

Back to organizing :
I have been following a blog called The Complete Guide to Imperfect  Homemaking by Kelly ,she has a lot of great tips.You should go check it out :)
One of her blogposts is a series of more posts called "31 days to an organized home". Reading it made me wanna try it out, but in my own extended version which means, that I'm propably going to take a lot longer than 31 days to organize everything, considering my health issues which you can read about here.
I started on day 1 which I'm halfway done with.
So that's it for me today. Time to do some crocheting in fromt of the tv. They are showing "Twilight" which is one of my favorite movies and I mnever get tired of watching it.

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