As promised, I am back with a pattern for you all! You may remember me showing this off to you all last December. At the time it was really too late to release it as a pattern, but I promised I would remember in time for this year, and here it is! I genuinely adore … More Nativity Set
This last week or so, I have distracted myself from granny squares by…..making different granny squares! Yeah, the logic escapes me too. However, I shall attempt to explain. I had a good week of doing squares for my Around the World quilt, plodding on with the different colour sets, and then I had a day … More Grannies, grannies everywhere…
I have finished my Sophie’s Universe, woohoo! I say ‘my’ Sophie’s Universe, but it is of course actually intended as a wedding present for one of my carers, carer J, who is engaged but with no date set. I very much wanted to make her a special blanket for her wedding, but I also didn’t … More Ta da! Sophie’s Universe
I have spent weeks telling myself to just get on with it and write a blog post. In fact, I’ve spent an entire week tinkering and tapping and trying to get words down for this post. Obviously it hasn’t happened sooner, or easily! I hate starting these by apologising for being absent, because I’m hardly … More Trundling along
Well, one week into recreating my beloved blanket, I have made 69 of the total 729 squares. Just under 10%, or roughly 10 squares a day. It’s actually more squares per day, and less days worked, which pleases me, because I remember, when I was making the original, that I could achieve 20 a day … More ‘Around the World’ progress
So, following on from my post last week, I have gathered together my yarn to re-do my Around the World quilt. And let me tell you, it’s fascinating to realise how far I’ve come as a crocheter in the past nine years (I made the blanket in 2013). Specifically? OMG my tension!!!! Because of the … More Doing a time warp…
I am a firm believer in owning up to my crochet mistakes. I can’t deny I love showing off a finished, perfect project – who doesn’t? I’m proud of my successes and I enjoy sharing them with you all. But as a more experienced crocheter, I also feel it’s good to share the mistakes, the … More Mistakes
After six very long, very exhausting weeks, my house has finally been rewired. I am somehow still standing. Though not very steadily standing!! Gosh, it’s been so tiring, I can’t tell you. Every single room has been disturbed, to a greater or lesser extent. The dust. Three of the four kitchen walls ended up needing … More I’m alive, really I am.
Have you all been following the Stylecraft Blogstars Garden Party? It’s been so much fun to take part in this. It’s always great working in tandem with the other blogstars, and it’s so interesting to see how we all took the same starting point (garden party and ‘pastel colours’) and came up with different things. … More Paja’s Party
Would you like to meet my new chickens? Yes, of course you would! So a few weeks ago, one of my older ladies, Gabby, died rather suddenly. She’d laid me an egg two days before, so I wasn’t expecting it, but it happens. That left me with four: Gertie , who hasn’t laid in god … More New hens
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