It's been an odd old week so far. I worked last weekend, which means that my days all merge into one when it gets to next Wednesday. Is it really Wednesday already? good golly.

(In fact, while it is very nearly Wednesday, it is actually Tuesday Quite Late. We should savour these last few minutes of Tuesdayness, I say!)

Time to consider the works we have on the go and in progress.

My biggest project by far is the unpacking of household items and general goods. It's been three weeks since we've moved into our lovely new home in London. We're slowly unpacking when we find time - usually only after eating which, lately, is about 9.30pm. On weekends, when we're not out attending birthdays, dinners or drinks (is it everyone's birthday now?). Occasionally, very occasionally, early in the morning after a cup of tea but before the commute at 8am.

And so, all of my works in progress are temporarily on hold until I find all the missing bits. Until then...

Finding glittered flowers on a gift bag I kept from two years ago.

First, my Wednesday WIP: the Olive Shawlette. I have a love/hate relationship with this bit of the project. I was watching a movie last weekend and merrily knitting away, and I didn't notice that my very last lace repeat didn't match up. Not at all.

I had to go back and unknit five rows. Five mega rows. Over 300 stitches per row. Yes, I could have pulled the stitches out and tried to pick them up, but with twists and turns and slipped stitches and loops and yarn overs, well. It just wasn't worth the risk.

And just one more. A lovely friend of mine sent me this beautiful rose quartz necklace all the way from South Africa. It came with a whole box of goodies. You know when someone just gets you? THAT.

You know that yarn you buy because it's oh so beautiful, and then you stash it away until a rainy day? The yarn you absolutely had to have because the colourway was just perfect and it would have made the most beautiful little shawl?

I've been stitching up some more HSTs for my quilt, which has now been named the Gypsy Blue Quilt. It's blue. It's made from FQs of Valori Wells's Karavan which full of fun and a bit of magic. The name seems right.

I've gathered all my bits of woolfelt. There's just enough of each colour to make a new Miss Maggie in grey, blue sage or haybale brown, or to cobble a pair of boots in every colour. I rather like the olive-coloured felt - it would make a grand Robin Hood-esque hat.

It's very nearly - almost - spring. The skies are a bit gloomy, but every now and then a beam of sunlight breaks through and you have to resist the urge to stretch out and nap in the yellow warmth.

Miss Maggie Rabbit is skipping along. We're nearly there, in fact.


She has whiskers and rosy cheeks.

She has a set of laced-up boots, perfect for a-walking. Incidentally, she doesn't quite stand on her own, so all a-walking needs to be done accompanied by my vase, it seems.

There seems to be an awful lot of knitting going on here. It must be because it's still snowing out (it's March, and there's SNOW) and I like to think of knitting as my "winter sport". Because really, we all need to keep active, don't we?

This is my latest WIP - James C. Brett's creatively-named JB153. It's a chunky-weight cardi that is designed to layer up in the cold. Do you remember the line in Shrek when he's trying to explain to Donkey that Ogres have layers? Like Onions? Whenever I hear the word "layers," that runs through my mind. Onions have layers.

That's why this is the Onion Cardi.

This week, I've been a bit consumed by the stamp-carving bug. I have the crazy idea that I'd love to stamp and paint wood (wood?! There aren't heaps of that lying around here in London!) and so have been working on some "natural" stamps that might go nicely with that kind of project: a mushroom, a flower wreath, a typewriter (?).

Do you remember the Jane Austen Knits Summer Pelisse? Well, I ran out of yarn.

I knew I would, but I still waited until the very last stitch to admit that I had to buy another ball.

Finally, it arrived by post, and I was able to finish off the last few rows on the sleeves.

It's been a while since I last had a project to post about in my Wednesday WIP series! With so many new things on the go, there hasn't been a lot of works in progress. Must. Finish. Something.

This past week I managed to find a little time to finally finish stitching on the binding to my Garden Party Quilt.

There hasn't been a whole lot of crafting this week.