Life has been a bit tough lately though I am sure you don’t want to know why. But one thing that has kept me going is my blanket(s). There is still plenty to share about my holiday but that will have to wait on more energy. I suppose it is a sort of Chronic Fatigue… Read More Blankets are so Wonderful
Only one piece of crochet this month: a couple of spiral coasters I mad for a present. This is because I am working on my blanket and have decided not to share any more photographs until it is finished or almost finished. Lots of photographs though. I have shared some photographs of things I saw… Read More Monthly Montage – July
Life feels very tough at present so I didn’t take my camera when I went walking on The Common today and I came home early but I couldn’t resist making the effort to take a few photographs of a duck with a flotilla of eight tiny ducklings. This seems late in the season but still… Read More Friday Fotos
It is a long time since I have been doing serious photography and this holiday even less so. I took my camera but I felt that first and foremost this should be a restful, reflective time without any pressure. So I didn’t even take any photographs to start with but gradually, I pointed my camera… Read More A Little Bit of Nature
I know it will be a small sample but I am very interested in any comments you may have about Whether you think one way of doing things is more correct? Whether you find one way of doing things more to your taste? Does inconsistency, like that below, in patterns really bug you? This applies… Read More To Gap or Not to Gap
I have just come back from a holiday in St David’s Pembrokeshire, Wales. I will be putting together some posts of my various activities over the next few weeks but I thought that today I would show you some of my beach finds. I have always been fascinated by interesting stones, even in the garden,… Read More Beach Treasures
Just a short post to show you what I made for a friends birthday recently. The spiral on the card was a piece of paper someone gave to me when looking through the stuff they had collected for the collage session, with a small ‘jewel’ from a Mother’s Day card and some gold string (don’t… Read More Birthday Spirals
This last month I continued with ‘Friday Fotos’. There was even a photograph of myself, I was happy with. Lots of flowers and babies this time of year. All crochet making: finished the baby blanket and showed you how far I had got with the knot blanket. There was also a brief diversion with a… Read More Monthly Montage – June
Rainbow week this week. For red I found these markers on different bits of tree. The orange berries on the rowan tree didn’t make much of a picture so I photographed this day lily nearer to home. I would have liked to have had more time photographing the buttercups. I only took this photo. Somehow… Read More Friday Fotos
I started my latest blanket a couple of weeks ago. You know this one. After I had finished the first five rows I worked up this comparison between the plan and the actual crocheted squares.Since then I have finished sixthen seven rows I think you can see the knot beginning to take shape. In terms… Read More My New Blanket – charting progress
Now that I am getting into making patterns for complete blankets with a border. (Post on the beginnings of the one I previewed earlier on Monday). I thought that it might be worth publishing the details of how to make my Spectrum blanket on Ravelry. Stylecraft still have the same colours, so no need for… Read More My Spectrum blanket
Today is Baby Week. I remembered to take my camera so I was able to get much better photographs. On the boating lake we discovered that all of the six coot babies were still alive. I didn’t manage to take a photograph of all of them but here are three with a parent. Further round… Read More Friday Fotos
I receive emails from the Council and they often have what look like fun art activities in the half terms but of course those are for children. In a recent email however they had some for adults. Some of the things were rather expensive but ‘The Art Club for Adults’ sessions at the Art Gallery… Read More Saturday Art Club
Another day when I forgot my camera. Two many other things to remember like putting on sun block and taking water bottle. Yes it has been hot and sunny today.Only three of us.Of course I am here behind the phone! The family of coots were out on the boating lake.The council very kindly let this… Read More Friday Fotos
I have finally finished the baby blanket complete with border. I finished the central part a few days ago. But then I had to decide whether to add a border or not. This was the basic design and was quite attractive, I thought, as it was but maybe it needed a soft edge. Something… Read More The Baby Blanket is finished
Remembered to take the camera but forgot to put the SD card in so was only able to take a few photographs. Made me a bit quirky. It was a lovely day though and only got better as the time went on. While I waited for my friends, I enjoyed these shadows. I just love… Read More Friday Fotos
This month, I started by sharing some pictures of the Tunisian crochet coat I made for my daughter. it has in fact been all crochet, as I wrote two posts about my progress on a Celtic Knot baby blanket, another on some fun spiral coasters and another two posts about developing a new Celtic Knot… Read More Monthly Montage – May
If I hadn’t had the virus I might have almost finished the blanket by now. Still it did mean that I got around to publishing the bookmark pattern; so that is a plus. The baby the blanket is meant for has been born. She is called Eliza Coco. Here is how far I have got… Read More Blanket update
I have just published my bookmark pattern. Been working hard on it for the last week. Here is the description:- This pattern makes a bookmark based on the Josephine knot (named for Napoleon’s Josephine but much older originally). Unlike my Celtic bookmark which starts with almost 400 chain, this comes in three parts and the… Read More Bookmark Pattern Published
After not getting out last Friday I was determined to have some photographs to share this week, especially as the weather forecast was good. However I forgot to take my regular camera and was left with my phone that was behaving in a very strange way. The extremely bright light was probably not helping either.… Read More Friday Fotos
I’ve spent the last week feeling ill. Not Covid but seems like some sort of cold virus. Hence no repeat of my Friday Fotos. However feeling so under weather and needing to take things easy has meant that I have got ahead on some things that would otherwise have been neglected. I have two waist… Read More A Bit of a Bookmark Byway
Been trying our some new coaster patterns lately. Found the pattern for these on YouTube and made two. and Then as I had the cotton out. I used some Scheepjes Cahlista that is an Aran/worsted weigh cotton. I tried working our how to make this. which is about the same size as my Celtic Coaster… Read More New Coasters
I am not sure how much of a regular feature this will be but now summer is almost here and going out with a camera is easier since it is less likely to get wet; I thought it would be interesting to document what is happening on Southampton Common. Five photographs and you get this.… Read More Friday Fotos
I think I mentioned a baby blanket somewhere. Well I have got far enough that it is worth showing you how far I have come. It is a rainbow Celtic Knot design that I was quite taken with. I offered it to a friend’s son who is about to become a father for the first… Read More A Rainbow Baby blanket
Finally my daughter has found time to come and collect the coat I made for her and we went for a photo shoot on Southampton Common. The coat pattern came from Regina of Morale Fiber Isn’t this fun? There’s the back, so lovely! and the front. It has a hood. This is great. So colourful.… Read More A Magical Coat
I know I have not been feeling at my best lately but I find it hard to believe that I never created a monthly montage post for March. However such it is. March was fun too. I had a rare outing. I went with friends to Hillier Gardens and took lots of photos of flowers… Read More Monthly Montage – March & April
I finally managed to finish the cushion cover. Do you remember? This is when you last saw it. It has taken so long because I discovered that what with the wool being a bit thin and fluffy and the red looking much darker in artificial light that it was very hard to make the squares… Read More Cushion Cover Finished
You may have noticed that I am someone who is very fascinated by crochet methods that create different effects while being ostensibly the same. Like my investigation of the four way you can work into a chain. [HERE] Such recently has been by interest in the Join-As-You-Go method of joining Granny Squares. I shared with… Read More A Fourth Type of Join-As-You-Go?
A Happy Easter to you all. As you can see this year I have a piece of a real tree on which to hang my crochet eggs. I have a friend who was looking for something similar last Friday and so I was looking too and I found this lying on the ground. When I… Read More Happy Easter
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