Tuesday 9th April

 First of all, before I forget, this is the link for these fat quarters 

that I bought on amazon. Barbara Anne was asking about them in the comments yesterday.

Now, today... not much to say, really. I've done another three 'needle-fulls' of green thread around the various pictures on the cross stitch collaboration. 

I find it is a good idea if I thread three needles before I start stitching; that way I'm more likely to keep going! I'm just about halfway through the inner borders, and then it will be time to think about the outside one.

The baby sock, with sock yarn and 2.5mm needles is still remarkably quick to knit. I've altered the pattern slightly; because I really dislike doing knit-purl rib, I changed to stocking stitch; just knit round and round and round after just an inch of rib for the cuff.

I'd done half the cuff yesterday evening; today I did the heel flap, starting at the blue marker

and then the heel turn, (above) and the gusset. Now I'm on the homeward run, heading towards the toe.

After lunch I was feeling very restless; too much sitting indoors. The weather today was nothing like as inviting as yesterday but I braved the grey skies and gusty wind and went out into the garden for a bit. Fifteen minutes pottering around (another Crimson Flower broad bean is up!) made me feel much better. 

I want to sow some more seeds, so I made up another 40 paper pots using scrap paper. Tomorrow I shall decide what to sow...

Now it's evening TV time, and catching up with my step count time. I'm aiming for 2000 per day, and yesterday I managed to get to 3000 - hooray!