Diversions

Not a lot of crochet has been done this past week.  I have been lured away from it by the garden and the urge to do spring cleaning, which in turn has led me to change around my lounge!  

The plants are growing so fast and there is so much to do in the vegetable garden that I have been outside whenever the changeable spring weather allows.  Also for some reason  I had the urge to give the house a purge of clutter and that leads to cleaning and now I have all rooms sparkling clean except for the laundry which I hope to do today.  The lounge I decided to change around and have also decided that it needs the walls painted so yesterday I got some test pots and now have patches of different colours on the walls! I have decided on a warm light grey.  I probably wont get to painting it  for a few weeks as a friend will help me and she's not free for a few weeks. Meanwhile I will do all the preparation, washing down the walls and sanding the woodwork and any undercoat.

I do have a finish to show you the Wispweave by Julia Hart.

 I did start another doily, this time one by Grace Fearon called Orion, I splashed out and bought an e-book of seven of her designs.  I love her designs as they are heavily textured. 

 I am using Scheepjes Sugar Rush, normally I would use a size 1.75mm hook but I had to change it up to size 2mm hook as my work was too tight. I hope to finish it this week as I find that a round can be accomplished while I am having a coffee break. So I need 15 coffee breaks, LOL.

I only manage a couple of rounds of Sacred Space and  a few rounds of B(lu)e  Happy cal. Looking out the window (its 7.30am Monday morning as I write this post) the weather looks very murky, so I have decided to devote today to crochet. and I think Wednesday is meant to be raining too.  So some crochet will be done without the garden calling out to me.

I have just taken a photo of the view I look at when I am sitting at my work table.  That is another diversion, I am surrounded my so many trees that I while away a lot of time by watching the birds, so very fortunate that I have a lot of native birds (Tui, Wax Eyes, Fantails) as well as the usual Garden birds.  

 Don't worry about the spots, its not snow, it that I need to clean my windows!

Well that is it for another week, this post is linked to the Year of Projects group  on Ravelry, click on image below to visit other yarnies.

Slowly But Surely

Hello everyone, hope you have had a great week! I have spent most of it in the garden, Spring has truly sprung.  Weeds and grass are growing at a great rate!

I have managed to get some crochet time in and I am making progress with the Sacred Space Afghan, I am behind by 2 weeks in the CAL, but there is no hurry as the blanket wont be needed till next winter.

Sacred Place

 

It is getting quite large, and is about to be  turned in to a square, which will be fun as each corner is done separately.

Summer months for me is cotton time as I find acrylic and wool sticky to work with in the hot hot weather. Doing small squares is not too bad though.  I have seen a Cal by Cherry Heart that looks interesting.  It starts October I think.

I discovered a cute square by Julia Hart of Draigona  called Wispweave, there is a whole series circle, hexagon, octagon and a triangle.  So pretty.....

The square just took me an afternoon, it was complicated, so repeats will be quicker I think.  I am thinking of making a runner.

Wispweave Square

 I used Scheepjes Maxi Sugar Rush, equivalent to size 10 thread and used a 1.75mm hook, the square is about 4 inches (10cm).

I couldn't help myself and started on the circle tonight.  The centre is the same as the square so that saved a bit of time. It will make a nice small doily.

Wispweave

 I hope to do some work on Eves Sunflowers this week as well as Sacred  Space.  I also want to make some washcloths as I seem to have depleted my stash.

I am joining Ravelry Yoppers group for this post, why not head over there and see what other yarnies have accomplished this week.

Thanks for visiting and have a lovely week.

A Finish

At long last I have been able get back to my beloved doilies.  For the last couple of years they have been neglect because my eye sight was not good enough.  However a few months back I had cataract ops in both eyes and I can see!  The surgeon said I could have been  registered as partially sighted!  It was a complete success I have 20/20 vision now, awesome.  So I pulled out some old wip's and finished one, frogged another and started an entirely new project. 

This one, a wip from a couple of years ago I got a chart from pinterest and looked on Ravelry but it is not on the data base.  It is done with no.10 cotton and  1.50 hook.

 This I had to frog back 10 rounds as I had made several mistakes, I have done three rounds and have about 10 to do, the pattern is from an English Womans Weekly circa March 1 1952!  It is a set and looks so pretty.

The other thread project I started yesterday - a table cloth.

 I am using 2 ply cotton in a ecru shade. I have about 4 more rounds in the motif.  The pattern is from a magazine called Crochet Fantasy No.1 this will be a long term project, lol.

A New Cal 

I dont really need a new cal, but this is special, an afghan called Fairytale and is based around fairytales, each round relates to the fairytale for that part.  Part one was the Little Match Girl. It is a leisurely cal as the parts are released every two weeks.

 I have been plodding away on my other projects and will update them  next week.

I have started another drawing from a photo I took of some flowers that were given to me last summer,and it is quite scary, as I want it to be hyper realistic, so   I squared it up in Photoshop and segment by segment I will work on it, in the photo you can see I hav e just started.

 After a beautiful start to Spring the weather has turned bitter and snow has come down to 500 metres on the Tararua ranges.  So it is snuggle up time and hunkering down in front of the fire with the kitties and crochet. 

 Ambrose has picked up this last week, and is gaining strength day by day.

Well that is all for this week.

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Yarn Chicken, Doilies and Spring.

I have been playing yarn chicken this weekend, I wanted to deliver a pile of children’s jackets I have crocheted recently to a local charity.  I am not good at the finishing touches such as sewing the pieces together and adding buttons etc etc.  For my charity knitting and crochet I use odd balls in my stash or what I find in bargain bins at our local yarn stores.  The only problem with that is if I run out I am stuck.  With the little jacket above I still need to crochet the collar after sewing it up and add an edge for the buttons.  I think I am going to have to leave out the collar and just carry the edge around the neck. I also have another jacket that I was going to turn into a hoodie, but for the life of me I can’t find the needed ball of wool to do this, I am sure I had one, must have used it for a beanie…... I am beginning to see why people list their stash! 

During the week I finished the blue Grace Fearon doily.

Started another, and finished it this morning, it is a doily from the Lacey Crochet Blog by Olga Poltava.  It is called Dreaming of Spring.  Makes me think of the pink Camellias in my garden. I would have photographed them with the doily, but we had a heavy frost this morning and they are a rather sad brown now!  So, they are dreaming of spring!

My plum tree is under the impression that it spring and is scattering its petals around like confetti at a spring wedding.

I couldn’t resist picking a sprig and bring it indoors!

Hope you all have had a crafty week and are looking forward to lots of finishes! 

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