Grrr. Lots on the go but no finishes.

I was putting off blogging in the hopes I'd maybe have a finish to show you but I seem to have lots of things almost there but not quite. Harumph. So I'll show my almost-theres in the hopes it spurs me on to get them done.

My coat! Looks quite coat-like, no? I had a sudden notion to just get it done last week and cut out the linen/wool before discovering I had nothing to mark the slippery lining with AND that I had no interfacing. Gah. Another project stepped up to fill the gap as I waited for things to arrive but last Saturday the Thunderbirds were most definitely go. I still have a cuff to sew on, topstitching to do and buttonholes to wrestle. Lots to go wrong, then. But it's looking (and fitting!) great. I hope that maybe this weekend it will be done.

This next one's a doozy. It's not even on my finish-along list coz I forgot about it! Before my quilting happened in May 2009 I had dabbled a teeny bit in knitted felted bags (I have NO photos of them and I made about 5. Rats.) and then started a shrug. And then quilting came along and it was quietly forgotten about. But when I found it a few weeks ago it didn't look far from finishing so when the coat ground to a halt waiting on supplies this filled in beautifully. For about 2 days before I ran out of yarn. Bearing in mind I bought this 7 years ago. Yikes! But the same place still had it. Yay! I'm not too worried about batch/dye lots since it's such a mixed up colourway anyway. So that's not far from finishing - next week maybe.

And while I was waiting for the shrug yarn and the coat supplies? I needed something else to be going on with so Spouse's new socks got started. I'm about to start the toe decreases on the first one and it's a nice, portable lunch-at-work friendly project so it maybe won't be long before they are finished.

I need to be getting things moving, my list of want-to makes is growing exponentially! Apart from the things on my finish-along plans I am desperate to get a Rockstar bag started although I've been restrained and am just dreaming so far. I have gone so far as to buy the pattern, print it, tape it and cut it out AND purchase the fabric for a first shirt. 

So, really, I need to get my fingers out and get these three finished. I did also find my local yarn shop has lovely King Cole cheaters Fairisle in. And a cardigan made up with it in the shop - it's such a pretty sample. What I really need is to retire.....