CAL A quick Valentine Update

Hello to you...

Hope you're all well?
I'm much better now after my week of lurgy.

Its very wet and wild here at the moment and brr so cold!

Some poor people have experienced awful weather - my heart certainly goes out to them.

I thought I'd hook up a quick valentines treat for my fire place.

The pattern I used for the hearts is here from Attic24.

They were quick, easy and lots of fun to make.

In my last post I mentioned I had a few birthdays to make for this month, so I thought I'd show you what I've made...

Lily pad brooches.

A never ending Granny stripe snood...

and an alien gadget case.

Hopefully all of them will be gratefully received. We shall see.

So what else have I been doing this week? Hmm...

I know...

 I hooked up a cushion for the kitchen.

I used my Drops Paris yarn for the stripy front and Style Craft Grape for the back.

It's a lovely shot of colour for these grey days...

My garden this week...

wall flower,

catkins,

seed head,

cyclamen.

Hope that you've enjoyed a lovely week?

Now I'm off to see what everyone else has been up to this week....

 Sure Chrissie and Marianne will have lots of lovely crochet and links to others too!

xx

CAL Spring Flowers and Lurgy!

Hello to you.

By heck is it Thursday again already? Really? Where does the time go?

The up-side of time passing by quickly is that January is nearly over... hooray!

Soon, it will be February when I have six Birthdays to make and buy for... Oh well, it will keep me busy I'm sure.

I'm crocheting along again this week with lovely Marianne and Chrissie 

I've finished my patch work bag hooray!

I went off on my own once I'd got the jist of the pattern.

I lined the bag with some vintage fabric I had from a charity shop.

I'm very pleased with how it's turned out. I haven't taken it out on an outing yet but will do soon!

Also this week I have been hooking away on a scarf and come to the end of that...

This was a lovely project, made in Stylecraft pomegranate for the main part. The squares are made from Stylecraft special DK yarn, also aspen, pale rose and turquoise.

Thought I'd show you what it looks like on my dummy!

You may ask the reason, why I am not modelling the scarf? Well, I have the lurgy so I'm far too pale and coughy to put my face anywhere at the moment. I hope it clears away soon - the housework is mounting up as I type...!

I've been lucky enough to fill my house with beautiful spring flowers thanks to my partner, myself and a friend  It's been a good flower week. The tulips on the kitchen table have just got to that twisty bendy stage - I love it when they do that!

Hope you're all well and keeping germ free?

Have a lovely end to the week and weekend.

xx

Vintage Shopping and Finished Alpaca Scarf

 With my partner being roped into working another Saturday, my daughter and I headed off to see my parents for the day. I love going to my parents house it's always like going home, they still live in my childhood home. It's so nice that my daughter can see all the things that I used to when I was a child, the frog spawn in the pond, the tree my swing hung from, my favourite climbing tree and the best places to find snails!

My mum also keeps chickens my daughter really enjoys collecting the eggs and petting them. I wasn't keen on chickens but I've warmed to them slightly I wouldn't want to pick them up though!



Unlike my daughter who is much braver than me!

Another thing I like to do when I'm at my parents house is to pop over to a near by antiques shop with my Dad that sells everything from true antiques to modern day so there's a lot in between. I'm afraid I got a little snap here being full of great things to photograph.....

 One of my favourite things are vintage cases great for storing fabrics and yarns.

Beautiful old till with intricate engraved pattern so pretty a lot more attractive than modern ones.

I really want this but I cant afford it so I had to do with a picture instead! *sigh*

 Pretty parasol

 Beautifully displayed unit full of treasures

 They sell vintage books too I managed to resist this time.

retro sewing machine

Collection of knitting needles all reasonably priced.

I was very restrained and only bought one thing that I just couldn't leave behind. Sometimes you just know you'll regret it if you don't get it....so I did.

 Here it is you'll have to trust me it looks better in real life

 The idea was to photograph it on the washing line......but it's raining :(

It's a vintage shawl, but I'm thinking I might use it on my bed as long as everyone promises not to sit on it! (I'm guessing this wont happen)

The antique shop I visited

 

So on to the scarf I don't know if you remember, but I posted a photo of some new wool I'd bought on my visit to the wool shop well its been used.

It's wonderful quality yarn and very soft.

Making a start, shortly after I had added the second ball of wool/yarn I'm not sure what happened but I managed to increase the stiches to my scarf sort of ballooned out! opps!

So I had to undo a fair bit and start again which is always a bit disheartening when things like that happen but I persevered.

 Just finishing off the trim and tying off

 Here we go all finished.

I put a trim on just to neaten the edges and to add a little detail and colour.

Trying to show you what it looks like on!

Well it's certainly still cold enough for a scarf here so looks like I might get to wear it a few times before its packed away for winter.

xx