All is Quiet on the Eastern Front

Hello All, long time no blog post.  Wish I had a really fun excuse to relate, like I inherited a chunk of cash and ran away to join the circus.  Sparkly leotards at last! Instead my May has contained a heap load of pattern testing related sewing, combined with more than the usual amount of weekends way from the sewing sweatshop. Usual being zero, hermits gonna stay close to the old hermitage else some other hermit takes over your turf. "I'm the hermit in these parts, See!"  While I'm super happy to be on the pattern testing circuit, it does make for a lack of bloggy content in the short term. I've tried to talk Froggie into sewing some outfits for me, but he seems content to nap in a fabric box instead. Guess that's what you get when you pay in M&M's.

However, I do have a knitting related FO to show off, it's the Ukrainian Tiles Afghan. - Rav pattern link for those of you who also knit.

This baby sat in the UFO pile for years cause I hate knitting seed stitch.  LOVE looking at it, but hate, hate hate knitting it. Guess what all those borders are?  Yup seed stitch and that really annoying color work that doesn't make a pattern.

Past me had actually done a pretty good job motoring through the first couple sides. All that remained was the final short end to knit.  It was time to buckle down, put on a few episode of  "Fringe" and crank this baby out. Good old Walter kept me amused and the blanket was finished just before the warm weather broke. Thank the lord, cause I don't consider sweating under a half knitted blanket a character building experience

The yarn used is Berroco "Comfort" Chunky weight, which is a fairly nice Acrylic/Nylon blend. The hand of this stuff is soft, without that annoying squeakiness of cheap Acrylic yarn.  While wool will always be my favorite fiber, sometimes it's nice to have something you can just throw in the washer. Say if your toddler decides to wipe 2 T worth of peanut butter over the sofa instead of eating it. Not that I would know what's that like or anything.  So hooray for finally finishing old UFO's that were wasting away in a dark corner of some room. Now I can throw another box of fabric there....I kid, I kid...maybe.

Some of my super secret sewing was for 2 new Bluegingerdoll patterns which will be released this coming Monday the 26th.  Soon I'll have some pretty new garments to show you soon.  Huzzah!

Now excuse me, I gotta hide this afghan where husband can't find it. Otherwise it will join all the other hand knit afghans as padding for the futon.  Sniff, sniff, can't I just keep one for my knees in the depths of winter?