Stealth Knitting Sessions

I've been to my Mam's this weekend. The drive up on Friday evening was hellish, unsurprisingly and took me nearly four hours to crawl over the M62 and up the A1. Actually, after I looked at the clock and realised it had taken one hour to go 30 miles from Manchester to Hart's Head Services, I headed off at Bradford to dash across the A roads... only to end up in a 5mile an hour convoy all the way to flippin' Harrogate.

All that wasted knitting time.

Still, this weekend, I've finished the socks for my MIL.



(This picture doesn't really show how vibrant the colours are - very bright primaries, plus lots of splashes of green).

I smuggled the yarns for the BF's jumper and socks out of my house, so I've finished a third of one sock, while babysitting my niece with my Mam, who had to read all six books of the "Dr Suess" collection that I bought her for Christmas. Apparently Lois been fixated on these for the last two weeks. She was fighting sleep and I was providing my Mam with encouragement: "One more page. She's nearly off. One more page."

I've also started the second sleeve on "Saranac". The BF is off to his sister's for three days in two weeks - plenty of knitting time.



And this is a fab cardigan that my Mam has been knitting - the stitches are really neat. She doesn't like sewing up set-in sleeves, so I agreed to sew them up...

I've also started the socks for Dale ("Regia - Polar") He's the same size shoe as the BF. This could get confusing!