Socs for Anna

Yesterday I just had to start knitting Anna some socks. The oldest 2 had gotten some socks recently and Anna doesn't have a lot of socks any more, so I started with the yarn I bought

Yarn

On Tuesday I drove to the Coop Bau und Hobby and bought yarn for 80 franks. I really couldn't resist. There are such nice types of sock yarn, so I bought 6 different ones and will start using them to have all kids several pairs of sock by next winter :-)

Shaker style throw - damaged

During our move from the UK to Switzerland my throw got damaged. 2 of the blocks are torn quite heavily, which has made me consider reknitting them completely, as repairing will be a tricky one I am sure *snif*

Scandinavian throw

Today I am trying to finish the last square that I have received of the Scandinavian throw, its a square that you knit from one corner to the other, which gives diagonal stripes, pretty neat to see.
After that I will probably not be doing much knitting for a bit, as we are about to do an international move.
Above you will see what its going to look like :-)

Finished the Shaker Style Throw

Last night I finished the last rim of crocheting around the Shaker Style throw.
The pattern said to crochet 2 rounds, first one in the colour red and the second in the colour blue. We decided that it was more fun to do red-white-blue as this is also the Dutch flag and I must say, it looks really nice.
I had not made anything like that before, because its a large project and I prefer doing projects that I can oversee better, but it was lots of fun and it is simply totally finished and laying on our couch now as you can see above. I am pleased!
Please do click on the photograph to see the whole throw, as you only see one side of it now :-)

Scandinavian throw

The next throw that the art of knitting is publishing is in scandinavian style. I didn't really know whether I wanted to make that one as well initially, but I do like the colours and I like the majority of the squares, so I decided to go for it. The first square I knit last Saturday. It was a nice cabled one, hope the rest is pretty much similarly interesting to knit.

Shaker style throw

This throw from the art of knitting is very very simple to knit, no challenges in that. I have been knitting it slowly but carefully and in the meantime I am to the level of only needing to knit 2 more squares and sewing it together, some bits of the sewing together have been done already.
I would like to finish it within the next 3 weeks as this means it will be ready to take in the car with us on our massive move. The kids would love it, as its very warm and with this it would be a very nice thing to sleep under in the 10+ hour car journey.