Looking Back At The Year Of The Sock

 I try not to set myself resolutions or targets when it comes to a New Year, I used to and I would get very stressed when I wasn't able to meet them, now I have learnt to do what I can and be thankful for what I have achieved. Last year I did set myself a target to make four pairs of socks for my Lip reading group as you can see in this post here. 

I was convinced that I would manage that easily but when I set that challenge for myself I was in the sock making mode and had already made a pair for Kevin..

Kevin's socks came first, for his birthday in February

I didn't really enjoy making stripy socks and was looking forward to making a straightforward pair for my lip reading teacher Anne, that's when I went out and bought four balls of lovely sock yarn

Anne's Socks were ready by April..

I didn't really enjoy making these either because they were a large size and it took me while to discover that I had the wrong number of stitches on the needle and I had to start all over again, it seemed to take me ages to finish them, the finished result was worth it though because they turned out really well. I knew that the next pair would be more fun to make because the colours were so bright and cheerful and they were a smaller size ...

LIz's Socks were finished in May...

As I thought, these were a pleasure to make and didn't take me too long at all. So two pairs down and just two to go but by this time I was really fed up with sock making and decided to have a break..

Maria's socks were finished in September

 I didn't enjoy making Maria's socks they seemed to take forever, it looked like my sock making mojo had well and truly gone and I still had Cecily's socks to make, I really couldn't do it and I felt really bad that I didn't have a pair of socks to gift to Cecily at Christmas, I don't think that she's that bothered I didn't make any promises and I did give her something else instead, but that ball of yarn looks at me accusingly, it's willing me to pick it up and get those socks underway, I still can't, and if I'm not in the mood there's no use me even trying, I'm happy that I managed to make four pairs of socks last year and I can't wait to meet up with the Lip Reading group to see if they liked them. 

This year I'm just going to go with the flow and make whatever appeals to me, crafting is supposed to be fun right?

Have you made any resolutions this year?

Thank you for all the good wishes for the birth of little Sophie, she is two weeks old already and she says hi 💖

A Good Start To The New Year!

 Happy New Year everyone, I hope that you all had a great Christmas and that you enjoyed your New Year Celebrations. 

My Christmas was very hectic and extremity tiring, like I said in my last post I was hosting this year and if you are the one preparing the lunch I don't think you can enjoy it yourself, you're too busy making sure that everything comes together at the same time and the food is served hot. When you tell your family to be here at 1pm and one half come at two and the other half at three that doesn't help either especially as I had the food ready by 1 30. I can't even remember what my meal tasted like I gulped it down so quickly, but the family enjoyed it and Mikey enjoyed the scavenger hunt I'd planned for him and my eldest son enjoyed his birthday cake so that's all that matters. I had son number two and family on boxing day but thankfully that was a more laid back affair.

It's all forgotten because it's now in the past and we move on to this New Year and on New Years Day my first little granddaughter was born, how special is that! My son and daughter in law decided that it would be better for the baby to be born in her Mothers country South Korea as they were so impressed with the health care there,  my son will stay till the end of the month before going back to Qatar, and Minju will follow him when the babies a little bit older. He is besotted with her already it's going to be so hard for him to leave her.

The care she is receiving is amazing, following the birth she and my son have gone into a postpartum care centre for two weeks where they are given  guidance on how to look after the baby and the Mother is closely monitored to make sure she is recovering well from the birth. 

Meet little Sophie

Welcome to the world little one 😊

I just want to give her a cuddle but unfortunately it will be a while before I get to meet her in person.

More coming later have a great week ahead. 

Happy Christmas!

 

Wishing all of  my lovely blogging friends a very happy and peaceful Christmas, xx