I won a competition!

mags — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:01:43 +0000

Whooo hooooo – I won a competition. Thank you so much Crafts Beautiful for giving me the chance to win this great prize. This prize looks really great and will be used to decorate when we celebrate jubilee – perhaps at the Children’s centre where I work.

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Treacle

mags — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:10:08 +0000

Well, after having cost us so much (not only in money), but in anguish and concern for her, our cat Treacle seems quite happy and content in herself now.

The vet (lovely lady called maddi) at the Pakefield Vet centre, says we should really just concentrate on making her feel happy and comfortable. She certainly looks comfy here – where she can sit and keep an eye on what I am doing!

Treacle

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Crocheted UK Flag

mags — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:59:50 +0000

Well, I am still not sure why, but for some unknown reason, I said I would crochet a UK Flag which could be put up on the railings where I work.

This first picture shows the chaos of threads after the first line …..

Crochet UK Flag

At my Thursday afternoon crochet group, the crochet UK flag was brought out, not really much achieved but you can see the colours coming together nicely.

Crochet UK Flag

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CAL #1c – Crochet Runner, Complete

mags — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:42:00 +0000

I finished the vintage 1935 crochet table runner as found on Ravelry: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/lacet-table-runner

I have not yet blocked it, but you can see its going to be just great! …. I love this runner – don’t you?

Lacet Table Runner

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Why Spam?

mags — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 16:21:07 +0000

/Gets on soap box and starts rant

Why do spammers spam?

Every single day I go through the comments waiting to be added to this blog site, and end up deleting all of them – why? Because I am not sure which ones are real and which ones are not.

So please, just quit posting your spammy links / comments so I can start adding the real ones … you are just tiresome!

/gets off soap box to delete the next batch of “comments”

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Yarn bombing

mags — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 15:46:45 +0000

Here are some pictures that were taken at the centre where I work – some yarn bombing was allowed …. small steps first heh!

Wool can be an inexpensive but interesting way of brightening up a venue, putting a smile on peoples faces. Call it yarn bombing, yarn storming or graffitti yarning – its bright, its colourful and makes a lot of people happy.

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Cherries in the Garden – part 2

mags — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 15:28:39 +0000

Cherries in the Garden – see my previous post (last year) <>

Last year we purchased what looked like a twig from Aldi (see above link) it said on the packaging that it was a cherry tree … I took a picture of it again last week. I wonder if we will get any cherries from our cherry tree this year – those buds look quite promising!

Garden Cherry Tree - Spring 2012

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CAL #1b – Runner Crochet Along

mags — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:02:40 +0000

Would you believe it? Already a blog update to my first crochet CAL project – the vintage 1935 table runner.

Here is a picture of the project so far – this is my second attempt at this pattern. The cotton I purchased is a Wendy dk cotton from QD (£3.99 a ball). I had initially used a size 4 mm crochet hook but when I got to row 4 and realised just how the pattern worked, I decided I would prefer to have the stitches tighter and that I would like the runner itself to be longer – so I then frogged the work and started again.

For those of you who also would like to add length to this crochet table runner, you must add multiples of 11 chain to your foundation row.

I am really enjoying working with this cotton ….. I wonder how the others are doing on this Crochet Along.

Table Runner

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CAL #1a – Runner Crochet Along

mags — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 10:01:22 +0000

How excited am I?

In a word: Very

A wee group of us are all crocheting the same pattern Lacet table runner

Its my very first Crochet Along! In the group yesterday, another member and myself tried to crochet a daffodil pattern from a book – major disaster really as neither of us, even working together, could understand the pattern. But despite that failure, it was good working with somebody else on the same project. So I came up with the idea of doing this CAL as it (I thought) might be something a few of us might enjoy doing,

A lovely vintage 1935 table runner.

: My First CAL Project

Only last weekend I sorted out my HUGE stash of wool and asked Dave to stop me buying any more wool until a lot of my stash had been used. Ooops … I need cotton for my table runner and that is something I don’t have a lot of in my stash …

Shall we go shopping today dear?

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Small crochet flowers on a vine

mags — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 19:51:08 +0000

How exciting is this … approved yarn bombing!

I have made lots of small flowers (mostly 5 petals). The small flowers are very quick to make up in the different bright colours. I have just started to crochet a green vine and will be adding the flowers to the vine. These should look really colourful when complete …

I will be placing these colourful, creeping vines on the dull railings at work (together with some crochet bunting) on March 1st …. (Book day). Look out for the pictures of the finished vines!

What to do with all these flowers

I will also be making a large spider web and spider – Book day related post to be made later this week.

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