Crochet sampler blanket

Thought I would pop in and show my sampler blanket progress. 

The colour pallet I wanted was to give that vintage feel, nothing to bright and in your face.

A basket full of lovelyness, it never fails to make me smile when I 

see lots of gorgeous yummy yarn altogether.

Nearly half way  I'm doing 10 rows of 10 blocks

The different squares come from Jan Eaton's 200 crochet blocks book (fab book) and I've used

23 different patterns so it doesn't get boring. The inspiration came from Sandra over at cherry heart and I have used her pattern for joining the squares together she is so clever a trip to her blog is highly recommended.

I'm really enjoying this project.

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Bargain basket

Car booting last summer I kept an eye out for a wicker basket, I wanted one to put a project in, big enough for lots of wool so moving form room to room would be easy.

Ta-dah.   I found this for a few £'s. So I set about crocheting a liner for it.

I didn't have a set pattern, I winged it really, made it up as I went along constantly checking it was fitting ok which worked out well in the end phew!!

It's fab I love it it worked out well, it made life easy when during the lovely hot weather we had last summer I could grab and go crocheting outside making the most of the sun while it was here.

Fingers crossed for this summer

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Sunday afternoons

Is there anything better?

Kids and hubby off doing their things, and I have a few hours of me time.

Coffee

Chocolates yum!

and a bit of hooky fun.

Enjoy.

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Christmas wreath

This is what I was busy with before Christmas. I admired the wreaths Lucy had made over at Attic 24

and fancied making my own. I bought a polystyrene half ring then started the major task of making lots and lots of flowers, holly leaves and little crochet balls. 

I'll tell you now you need more flowers than you think, I made a big pile and when I came to put them on the ring it only covered just over half, boo hoo.  Eventually I had enough then came the task of arranging them into what looked pleasing to the eye, I have to admit this took me a few days of messing, having a look as I passed, moving things again and again until hubby said "OMG it fine as it is". Don't tell him but he was right.

I'd also bought a pack of glitter baubles to give it a Christmas feel then I hit on the idea of lighting it up, so I bought a set of battery powered LED lights and it finished it off perfectly, very Christmasy.

I had it hanging on the lounge door I couldn't bring myself to pack it away when Christmas went back into the boxes so it's still there.  I did buy two rings when I ordered them off eBay so I might do a spring/summery one next.  

Not yet though I hate to say this but since last week when I showed you the blanket I was making I have now started on yet another one. I couldn't resist, I saw the most gorgeous sampler blanket over at Cherry heart blog, all beautiful neutral shades and that was it, I had to have a rummage in my stash and get going. So I now have three blankets on the go and a jumper.  Ooops!

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I'm back

Hi all long time no see and a happy new year. I have decided to start my blog again, I'm still not card making, my craft cupboard door is still well and truly closed but I am loving crocheting, i've always got something on the go.

It all started the other day, hubby bought me an iPad for Christmas and I've been surfing the net as u do and decided out of the blue to look at my own blog. I have not looked at it for well over a year and scrolling through the posts I started reminiscing about things I'd made and did that I had forgotten about. It was nice to remember so I'm going to start blogging again but more for me, I suppose it's like a diary so in years to come I can look back and remember my crafty creations.

This is my latest project it's the start of a blanket the pattern is out of a book I got for my birthday It's Granny Squares by Susan Pinner. The blanket is on the front cover and the best thing is it's using up my scraps of wool although I did have to buy a few balls I was missing a few colours. It's a join as you go so it's not so daunting having to sew it altogether in one go I'm also finishing the backs off as I go as well.

I have a few projects finished and a few still in progress. A jumper I'm knitting and another crochet blanket it's the dark grey one from my Holidays are here post, i did do a bit more, then I'm ashamed to say it got left.  I will finish it though, a New Years resolution  there I've said it now out in public I will finish it before the end of the year! 

I'll show some more of my finished projects soon I need to take some photos first 

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Flower scarf Ta-dah

Hi all back again i have finally finished

 my Flower scarf.

So here it is the big

TA-DAH

 

I just love it it's so bright and

colourful i think it will bring a 

touch of brightness to those 

dark winter days.

The inspiration for the scarf came

from Lucy over at Attic 24

she makes the most wonderful things,

that's where i spotted hers.

Not being able to find a pattern for the 

flower anywhere on the Internet, (i think it's called 

a Japanese flower), i looked at a close up

of Lucy's and made my own version up.

It wasn't hard to do and i soon had

it cracked. I don't want to tread on 

anyone's toes copyright wise so I'm not going to 

publish my version, but here's a close up of

one of the flowers if you fancy 

having a go yourself.

I used Sirdar Snuggly DK yarn as it comes

in a variety of colours is reasonably priced and

is so soft to the touch.

The hook size i used was 3.75mm and each

flower came out at around 10cm wide.

I made 46 in total and had them in 4 rows of

13,12,11,10.

Woo hoo I've got the telly on 

the Olympics and we have just won

two more golds in the rowing  well done

Go Team GB.

Sorry about that i got a bit excited 

then.

Thanks for looking and have a fab

weekend

take care 

Hugs Angie x

 

Summer's here at last

Hi all hope you are well.

What a difference the sun makes, i must say

it's been quite rainy here in the north west,

but the sun has made a bit of an appearance

this last week and all the flowers love it.

They all seem to be opening  up and giving us

a blooming display.

My Lilly's have taken forever to open

but at last hurray one has finally opened and 

how gorgeous worth the wait.

  The Fuchsia Swingtime is one of my favourites

i love the big blowzy flowers and the colours are

just fantastic.

These poppies are just fabulous too and 

free. I don't know where they came from they

started to grow a few years ago and have been here

ever since. The great thing is i just leave them to 

do their thing and they self seed and come up every year.

 It's not just the flowers that have benefited

from the rain my spuds have done well.

I dug up my first batch and got 39 spuds just from

the one plant and ooh they made fab chips.

Beth's been busy too she had a baking day

and made biscuit bears and did most of it herself.

I'm not far off finishing my flower scarf.

It's has taken a bit of a back seat for a while

but I'm going to finish it before i do anything

else. I've got a long list of things i want to do.

I have finally given in and bought a copy

of this fabulous Homespun style book that

a lot of bloggers are oohing over
I now know why, it's just gorgeous.
 There are lots of fabulous photos

and bags of idea's, I'm already buttering up hubby to

make me some shelves for my kitchen for all

my nick naks I've got and yet to buy.

I may end up being cushion mad too.

I wonder if there's a cure for that?

Take care