Happy New Year!

Happy new year everyone!  Hope 2012 is a good one for you all.  Things have slowed down here on the crafting front in anticipation of my big move (8 days to go).  Because I've been starting to pack, that means about half my craft stuff is packed away.  I only have a few projects out (tricky since trying to decide what projects can be packed up and what should stay out until the last minute changes based on mood).

One thing I have managed to do is finish Queen Anne's Curse.  I had thought the curse would be over once I cast off, and I'd managed to catch a few stitches on the last few rounds that inexplicably jumped off the needles to sit, lurking, waiting for the moment to run away, giggling evilly.  I finished the last stitch on Christmas day and could finally spread out my work to happily gloat over.

Queen Anne's Curse, still with the life lines in

But then I pulled out the two lifelines that kept it in a sort of blobby mass.  Spreading it out for the first time I looked in horror....

The ruddy thing is way too small!  I was expecting it to be much bigger for some reason.  It is about 84 cm in diameter laid out on my bed.  And given it is made of cotton, I'm not sure if it will stretch at all by washing and blocking it (if anything, the cotton might shrink- eek!)

And if that wasn't enough, clearly one of the balls of cotton I used, despite being the same brand, dye (well, white) and type, clearly had a different colour/ thickness? than the rest.  That ring around the half way point is not a design feature- well it wasn't originally, it is now!

It is now packed it a bag to await my big move before I even think about trying to block it   Still, that was 2011.  Onward to 2012, where nothing can possibly go wrong.  Right?  Right?!