Yarn fort

Any knitter or crocheted knows that when the going gets tough, you build a yarn fort. Retreating into the calm oasis of yarn and working on creating something lovely really does soothe the soul. Whilst today has been a good day, I'm thinking ahead to the times when a yarn fort may be a required, and I have come up with a plan. More on that later.

In the meantime, here's what I'm working on:

A lovely commission piece, a vintage sweater from the sixties, in the fabulous Mrs Moon plump dk . The yarn is 80% merino and 20% baby alpaca, and it is so soft!! I find I do need to concentrate when knitting with it though, as it's very loosely spun, so I have to watch that I don't put the needle through the yarn.  I am knitting this in the angelica colourway, which is a very pleasing shade of apple green. I have been making it for aaaaages, and am now on the final sleeve, so not long to go until it's done!

Another commission, this time a crochet blanket, the Cottage Ripple blanket by Attic 24, which you can buy as a kit from wool warehouse. I'm about two thirds of the way through this and the colours are just fabulous.

And finally, my yarn fort project. I have two boxes full of random bits of stash yarn, and this year I want to knit and crochet this down to a more manageable level (I have lots of other boxes too, I'm only talking about the little bits!). So this year I intend to make a stashbuster blanket and use up all these little bits. There's a lot more colours under those top ones!  you have any patterns to suggest, I'm all ears ...