lo-fi, slo-fi knitting

I am making slow (and somewhat dodgey) progress on my lo-fi baby blanket based on the super easy baby blanket from Purl Bee. The blue ball took: a car trip to the snow and back, 2 episodes of Downton Abbey, Hugo on DVD, episodes of Ninjago (season 2 - yes with the boys)  and odd stolen moments from here and there to complete it (10 hours maybe?).  I cast on 150 stitches, so once I found some longer needles I did pick up the pace a bit because I wasn't trying to always squish the knitting onto the needles all the time.  I think I have to do 6 more balls, so I suppose I'm looking down the barrel of another 60 hours!??  Baby is due in early September so I should (!!!???) make it.  

I started the orange last night while watching episode 1 of Mildred Pierce so maybe I'll get quicker and shave a bit of time of that.  Now that it's olympics I should be aiming for personnel bests!!  I've made only one mistake so far... so that's where the tag will go!  Hopefully I won't make too many more otherwise it will turn into a tag blanket.

Upcoming decisions: what colours to use.. I should have thought about this earlier.. and given I don't know if she is having a boy or a girl (she already has 2 boys) this is also problematic.  I bought an orange ball as I had some crazy idea that I would do a Mark Rothko inspired blanket but that has now left me and I'm going to stick with the stripes.

Now onto far less lo-fi knitting, I bought this super cute knitted cacti from Hello Polly last week made by the very cool odds and ends.  Do yourself a favour and check them out!!  They are so fun and have some amazing things.

In SEWING news, my Banksia pattern from Megan Nielsen has arrived so might start on that soon.  The material is washed and the buttons bought, but the placket looks daunting. Eeek.