Equilibrium? no, more UFOs than before

Since my last post, I've completed two UFOs, started AND finished two more items... but added three...

Travelling gave me time to complete a scarf from the UFOs, and crochet another beret - this is the smallest one I've done so far and actually fits my small head, so I shall be keeping it instead of putting it in a church sale (that's where the scarf will go, though).

The finished block

The second UFO finished was the block I was making for the London craft group I belong to - but as we had just 8 blocks on the go and needed 9 for our project, I found myself volunteering to do another... sometimes I completely forget that I went on an "assertiveness" training course years ago - to learn how to say "no"! Not only did I not say "no", I actually volunteered to do it. I'm travelling from London to the south of France very soon by train, so that may give me chance to do the embroidery on the next one (I've got the appliqué pieces ready).

The other project started - and finished - over the last couple of weeks came about because I was browsing the "crochet along" site from which I made a blanket last year. There's a new CAL about to start on that page - which I'm NOT intending to do! - but as an intro a pattern was published for a "project bag" to hold all  the yarn for the new project. I repeat, I'm NOT going to do the new blanket - but the pattern for the bag looked so interesting I couldn't resist. I didn't buy a scrap to make it either, just used the nearest colours from my stash to those from the pattern, and recycled fabrics for the linings and inside pockets. It was designed to be made using chunky yarn - mine is a mixture of chunky yarn, aran, DK and 4-ply used together, 3 strands of 4-ply used together - you name it, I tried it! It all came together in the end - but the bag is so big I don't know what I will use it for now it's done.

Finally - the biggest mistake: I'm a bellringer, and last weekend I was in the Foundry Museum shop in Loughborough... there were two embroidery kits on sale there... "Bells of London" and "Ringers' Rules"... I bought them both!