This is the year for new crafts – ideally 12, but we’ll see how I get on! You all know I can crochet, I still love crochet, I will always be crocheting, but sometimes you need to try something new too- as I think any crafter is an eternal crafter. Yep -I can’t be the… Read More A new craft – Calligraphy
So in my new year post I may have mentioned I’m a bit of a foodie. Well ok – we went to quiet a lot of restaurants last year as part of an year of celebrations at both having the same birthday with a zero at the end of it! The first one of the… Read More The Secret Foodie – Roganic
Hello, I’m back here briefly to share my blanket progress with you. Remember all those circles with 2 rounds? I wrote about them here, if you want a read. Well then I hit a stumbling block. I had it in my head I wanted no two circles with the same colours. Then I thought that… Read More Blanket progress
Happy New Year to everyone! 2018 promises to be a great year, but it’s also a time for me to sit and think about which direction I’d like my blog to go, and me for that matter! I know I wrote a similar post this time last year, and I made the decision that all… Read More New year New focus?
I’m getting a bit addicted to wreaths, or all shapes and sizes! I love the “real ones” and made one a couple of weeks ago at a great workshop which you can read about here. I made a crochet one in my first year of crocheting – a challenge to myself, but I never got… Read More A quick and easy Crochet Christmas wreath
I thought it about time that I finally posted about our completely magical trip to Lapland. We were there exactly a year ago, and it was one of the best experiences I’ve ever had. We were a little mean, and didn’t tell the pink one and the blue one until we were about to leave… Read More Lapland
I took a little time out from crochet this week to have a go at making a wreath. It was only November, but definitely time to get Festive and start thinking about all those presents I wish I’d bought already! So I went on a workshop with the very talented florist, Sarah Maylin Flowers. She’s… Read More Christmas Wreath Making
The circles are growing and are all too time consuming. A quick post for the round 2’s….. all 156 of them! I’m starting to think I may need more than I thought! Even with a change in the pattern to make the centre bigger I’m still not sure what size this blanket (yep you were… Read More More circles…..
Hello, haven’t been here for a while. Computer technical issues, don’t get me started, but no internet, then folders on the iMac not working, then photos not finding my phone, have all put paid to me posting lately. I’ve been so busy crafting there has been no time to type, but that’ll be in another… Read More Circles everywhere
Who else here enters all these competitions on social media, longing to win, but then with the other thousands of people who enter, never win anything? I enter a few , all yarn based of course……… and I got the best message ever on Friday late afternoon by a tag on Instagram. yarnandcolorsAnd the winners… Read More Yarn and Colours
