Knitting in the sunshine

The heatwave continues.  As does the stash busting.  Using up small amounts of 4ply yarn to make a couple of Little Sister's Dresses.

And some purple aran to make a Baby Sophisticate cardigan.

And, I have cast on a blanket (reverse pinwheel).  Which I actually brought yarn for.  To try to justify buying yarn, well it was on offer...

Knitting blankets in this heat summer seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to do!  Although I have some way to go before this blanket is covering my lap.  I've just realised when uploading these photos that I seem to be having a purple knitting phase, this is not necessarily intentional! In between the knitting, I also cycled up to Loch Lomond to have a very well deserved ice-cream.

Where this black headed gull (that really has a chocolate coloured head) very kindly posed for me.

Swingy cardi & a Windfarm

On the needles is the garter stitch swingy sweater by Jenn Pellerin. Hopefully this will make a dent in the yarn mountain I currently have.
So far it is knitting pretty easily, I took advice on when to split for the sleeves from the That Girl! Summer Jacket over at Craftzine (which is currently in my ravelry queue). On Saturday we took a trip to Whitelee Windfarm, Europe's largest inshore windfarm no less. The wind turbines were quite mesmerising, and the views spectacular. Well worth a visit.