After last week’s post, where I couldn’t decide what to do about the baby blanket border, I ended up frogging it and restarting it. I did a couple of things to improve it-as the first round of border sets things out for future rounds and was worked in white like the background of the squares,…… Continue reading May 22nd Crochet chatter
Since my last post before Christmas, I’ve had my stem cell transplant and begun my recuperation. I won’t say too much about it, other than that it completely wiped me out. My actual transplant was 10 weeks ago, on January 6th and I was away from my family for 23 days. As the weeks have…… Continue reading Springing Back Into Action
I haven’t done a WIP Wednesday for ages and ages, so I thought it might be about time for me to share. Most of my craft time is used up on one project, as I’m on a serious mission to finish my daughter’s blanket. Or more to the point, she is on a serious mission…… Continue reading WIP Wednesday-15th July
Have you ever started a project, put it down and found it hard to pick up again? That’s exactly what happened to me with my daughter’s Unicorn Dreams blanket (a free pattern by cute crochet makes). I started it last summer, when, unbeknown to me at the time, I was showing symptoms of Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.…… Continue reading The Abandoned Blanket
I now have three projects on the go, and all are coming along nicely thanks to some long car journeys on holidays. I am up to the heart bobble squares on the unicorn dreams blanket. I need to make 25 and each takes quite a long time, so I might be on this stage for…… Continue reading WIP Wednesday-21st August
At the moment, I have just the one project on the go. I saw the photos of this CAL and couldn’t resist-despite my dislike of sewing in ends and joining up squares, this one was too cute to resist! It’s the Unicorn Dreams CAL by Cute Crochet Makes, and is a really fun mix of…… Continue reading WIP Wednesday-17th July
Last night, I finished my corner to corner granny blanket. It started so quickly, but when I had to frog some back because of losing terribly at yarn chicken I lost my enthusiasm a little. However, it was still only 3 weeks from start to finish with other projects in between. Once I had finished…… Continue reading If in doubt, choose shells
We are half way through the school holidays here, they are only for one week but I feel like they’ve lasted forever already! (Lots of fun and busy days, and plenty of sibling arguments, as well as a school shoe shopping trip.) One bonus is that when I’ve made the most of ‘down time’ when…… Continue reading WIP Wednesday-20th February
This time last week, I wouldn’t have thought there would be an FO Friday this week. However, last Sunday night I picked up my Coastal Crochet CAL blanket and finally started on the border. I’ve only been putting it off since September! The thought had been really daunting, knowing that there were so many stitches…… Continue reading FO Friday-25th January
This week has been a funny one with plans made and then changed and lots of family time too. I decided I needed a new project so I had to wind a skein of hand dyed yarn to start that. I’ve continued with the Coastal Crochet CAL, although my progress has been slow because I…… Continue reading WIP Wednesday-22nd August
