Welcome to the new house-elf site.
Relax like a greyhound. A sketch of Squeak.
I’m so glad to see you here. It is using WordPress instead of my old blogger site so things are a bit different.
First a Craft Olympic round-up. Above is the Granny Square Crochet Blanket. It is my 1st entry for the “New” category hosted by Sylvia.
A stitchery mini quilt called “Betsy’s Closet is my 1st entry in the “Special” category.
This drop stitch knitted scarf in a merino yarn is my 2nd finish in the “New” category.
So now for some new things:
I made my 1st crochet bag from some Kotina yarn I bought with Ulla in Finland.
The round base and flower details came from Attic 24s blog tutorials.
I did extra rows at the join of the base and sides to give it a bit more structure. As you can see, it is possible to fit many balls of wool in it. I was impressed!
Bungle is photo bombing again!
Thank you Lynn for the wonderful birthday presents.
The Mary Engelbreit is gorgeous, as are the FQs, lavender pincushion, and craft papers.
I thought you would like to see the wool felt mat on the little dresser. It is so cute! Thank you.
Thank you Deb for this bundle of marvellousness. The wall hanging is now up in here and the magazine read. Thank you also for the fabric, tea towel and pattern booklet, raspberry body mousse, cards, charm pack and the wonderful shade of red book to write in.
I told Deb that the book was the perfect shade of red to gate crash a wedding wearing, complete with mysterious dark glasses and sit at the back of the church. 🙂 People would always wonder… giggle.
Ok now to see if this has worked and to get links to your blogs up here somehow.
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The day was very wet.
Bluebells are starting to come out.
And forget-me-nots.
Over-all though the colours were bland with dabs of colour.
Bungle decided to share a nose with a squirrel sculpture.
Rhodedendron in bud.
Magnolia in flower.
We gave the hounds a little walk but they made it clear that they weren’t impressed with the weather.
That is one of the problems wit greyhounds- they don’t want to be out walking in rain, snow, sleet, hail, strong winds etc.
So we cut the walk short going up and over the Observatory hill.
Then the weather changed and we had a few days of Spring.
Trumpton the Pigeon has adopted us for twice a day. Love his pink and green chest and neck.
I think he is much more handsome than the ones we see in town.
He has kept us amused with his antics on the bird feeders in the cherry tree.
This shot is of his trying to hang upside down to get at the feeder with nuts in.
He wasn’t very dignified. 🙂
I gave him some of my brick like bread from the breadmaker machine.
Thankfully he liked it so there is no evidence of my epic failure.
I had over ordered so I began this which said 200g. I had 250g but it still wasn’t enough. I ordered another ball to finish this tiny jumper.
With that I was able to finish the tiny jumper and make a matching 2×2 rib hat.
The yarn was lovely to knit with but where 2 strands of colour were intertwined, you couldn’t get the same colours as a repeat to match arms or body. It was a nice effect though.
Now for a Craft Olympic New finish. This scarf is made from the Merino wool Araucania yarn from Chile which Ulla gave me for my birthday.
I haven’t knitted in a drop stitch pattern like this before so it is a “new to me” design.
In the garden the flowering cherry tree started looking gorgeous.
We bought some new fence panels for the front garden
and painted them forget-me-not blue.
I think it looks good against the green.
Next time we have a long Winter, at least I will have a bit of bright blue outside.
Not all the weeding is done yet but the back garden is starting to look better.
Purple flowers of Chinese Lanterns (Physalis), Yellow of Forsythia flowers and
Philadelphus aureus, Blue of bluebells under the Pink flowering cherry tree.
Now it is raining again and the wind is jostling the trees.
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