As a blogger I offically suck...

... or at least I really am struggling with that time management thing!

Very quick update on where I'm up to with projects etc (and how they appear to be mushrooming out of all control at the moment!):

Knitting:

• Mum's shawl actually has made a lot of progress.  I've finished the L side, and am part way up the R (just past the pocket) but I've got to say I'm hating this knit.  I'm not sure what it is but Mum seems to be a curse on me knitting stuff for her.  I never get the pattern/yarn combination to work out well.  I don't know why because it's not a problem I have any other time, but this and the lace shawl I did her are less than brilliant.  Both are/will be warm and what she wants but there are few things more demoralising that spending a small fortune on yarn and a lot of time, knowing you're not going to be in love with the FO.  Ho hum I live and learn.
• In Dreams is well erm dreaming at the moment.  Leaving the house at 0730 and getting back at 2100 each day is not leaving a lot of braincells for complex lace at the moment... and this pattern needs brains!  Hopefully in some of the bank holiday weekends we have coming up I might get some more progress made on this but till then it is sadly languishing which is making me feel rather bad :(
• 3 into 2 Black Magic socks are spun up but mothballed due to other multiple WIPs being on the needles - I refuse to cast on yet another project till I've got some of these finished!
• Midnight under the Waterfall socks are again mothballed while I spin up some more yarn for them... when that's going to happen I'm not sure.  The original was spun on my IST turkish so they're probably going to wait until I've finished the Unsimple Simple Socks and can spin while commuting.
• Speaking of which, the Unsimple Simple Socks are in the final stages.  The heels have been turned and I'm just working on the legs until I get bored now.  I've got oodles of yarn so that isn't a limiting factor, my love of 2x1 rib on the other hand might be.  A good lesson in patience methinks.  Oh and beware, this pattern knits up long in the foot.  I started the increases where suggested but they're still a little long.  Hopefully they'll block/felt a little shorter :)
• My current panic though is a stole for a formal dinner on the 22nd.  What possessed me to decide to knit it with just less than two weeks to go I'm not sure but I am, and apparently I'm designing it from scratch... in a yarn I've never used before... and I've started on the knitting before I've finished the designing... what could possibly go wrong!

Spinning:

• I've got 400g of Herdwick that I'm currently spinning on my wheel to then knit into a felted bag (hopefully in time for Wonderwool!).  The first couple of skiens are done and its looking surprisingly good.  I've gone for a bulkish 7wpi 3ply that is fairly loosly spun and loosly plied.  Whilst that itself would normally impact on the strength of the yarn I'm hoping it will give me the wiggle room I need to be able to get it to felt properly.
• My tibetian is enjoying the delights of a HilltopClouds buttery yak/merino/silk batt being wrapped around it at the moment.  No 1 is spun, No 2 has just got started on my purpleheart Russian and I have no idea when I'll get round to finishing them :)  That's a nice, slow-time project as and when I get a moment... who am I kidding :)

So all in all utterly manic.  Time short, project rich and with deadlines I can't possibly meet.  Situation normal then :D