Communication Breakdown

Posting at the moment has stopped due to my laptop going caput! Please bear with me and I will be back ASAP. 

In the mean time I will try and keep up with you all via phone. 

xx

Crochet Roses and a Walk Around the Garden

Hello and happy Tuesday.

Hope that I find you all well?

 First things to show you are my wedding shoes!I used one of my favourite patterns from one of my favourite books, cute and easy crochet with flowers.

I really love hooking up these lovely roses.

Being tall I always knew my shoes would have to be flat, so I picked up these white pumps and thought they could do with some crochet related jazzing up!

I used drops cotton light it was a dream to crochet with.

I'm really pleased with the look of them and think they will fit our vintage wedding theme well.

I cant believe we only have 3 months left before the big day.

Here are some photos from our garden.

1, Clematis started flowering this week.

2, Ladybirds appearing.

3,Calendular that has made it through the winter.

4, Wild garlic growing up through the bench.

5, My new bird box.

6, Allium peeping.

7, Strawberry.

8, Drying washing outside hooray!

1, Perenial cornflower.

2, Tulips outside the house.

3, View down the garden.

4, Tulips Angelic

5, Gnome home.

6, Tulip Barcelona.

7, Lilac and a bumble bee.

8, Tulips.

9, Rhubarb.

Finally I will leave you with some photographs from our local woods...

1, My daughter running wild.

2, Stone farm building.

3, Blue Bell woods.

4, Conker Tree.

5, Another one of my little girl.

6, More Blue Bells.

7, Lambs! eek how cute.

8, Fresh leaves.

9, A carpet of Blue Bells.

I hope you've enjoyed my photos. It's always lovely to see the sun and signs that summer is on its way.

Wishing you all a lovely weekend, thank you for sticking with me and leaving me such lovely comments.

xx

Cornwall, Crochet and Vintage Finds

Hello.

Hope your enjoying a relaxing Sunday what ever you may be up to.

I've had a lovely break from reality this Easter half term, spending time with family and friends.

I've hooked up a few bits and bobs.

Here is a little dachshund called sausage.

You can find the pattern in simply crochet magazine issue 17. 

In the new simply crochet magazine (issue 18) There're some wonderful patterns, I hooked up this lovely doily quickly, will need blocking.

I tried my hand at this new motif I really enjoyed the star pattern.

Here are a few photos from our week in Cornwall. 

1, Tintagel Post office 

2, Vintage signs

3, Tintagel Castle

4, A veggie version of the famous Cornish pasty for me.

5, Beach huts at Bude

6, Newquay 

7,8,9 Lost gardens 

We all had a lovely time, my first time in Cornwall I will definitely be back.

I will leave you with some little vintage finds I have acquired lately. 

I'm hoping to get back up to date with all your blogs and get back into the swing of things too.

Thank you for all your lovely comments on the post.

Hope you've all enjoyed a lovely Easter.

xx

Bonjour!

Hello and happy Monday.

I'm a little late this week with my post.

Still feeling tired but will be hopefully perking up soon with a change of iron tablets.

We've had some lovely weather today so I am not long in from the garden.

Do you like my bunny? 

He says Bonjour to you.

I found the pattern in my new mollie makes magazine (thank you eBay) 

He was an absolute pleasure to make.

He is also my first amigurumi toy that has gone right.

I'm still hooking away at my gypsy caravan blanket.

It's growing slowly but surely.

Hope you've all enjoyed a lovely weekend.

xx

Daisy Daisy x

Hello to you.

Just a super quick post today just to show you what I've been up to.

I've been so tired lately and have been feeling not very with it. So will keep it short.

Here is what I did with the crochet daisy, made a little garland. My bother's girl friend calls it seasonal bunting as I change it often. 

I now have the width of my gypsy caravan blanket and have been happily hooking up these simple colourful squares.

Sorry it's so brief should be fighting fit by next week, fingers crossed.

Thank you as always for your lovely comments.

xx

Cosy Cat and CAL

Hello to you.

Hope you're all well and enjoying a little sunshine.

I hooked up this lovely fresh daisy the other day, I think I feel some spring time bunting coming on!

I've added the the ball of wool I found in my stash, again I've left it unfinished in case I have the erge to add to it again.

I've been making granny squares and trying to be good adding them on as I go I have nearly got the right width now.

Betty appears to have claimed it already! She enjoyed finding a sunny patch and snuggling down.

She is so tame now, loving and loyal you'd never have know she was feral.

I hope you will all have a lovely weekend and fingers crossed for some decent gardening weather, my garden certainly needs some attention now. Really looking forward to sowing some seeds too!

xx

Stash busting gypsy carvan blanket CAL

Hello to you.

It's been a good week so far - the temperature has risen a little and I haven't seen rain for a few days... Woo hoo!

With the weather set to get better next week spring is certainly in the air.

I've picked up the hook again this week and have decided to take on my biggest project yet, a huge granny square blanket to go on the back of my sofa. It's also helping me do some much needed stash busting.

Oh dear I have let my stash mount up - so many opened left overs.

I've made a start making lovely circular middles and I now have 13 squares made with ends stitched in! I'm quite impressed with the progress so far. All photographed on my new coffee table, it has a very handy shelf underneath for keeping my crochet magazines...

My summer colour blanket is growing slowly...

Here are some signs of spring in my garden.

Look what I found while stash busting - a lovely new ball of matching beige yarn! So it looks like I will be growing my never-ending granny blanket a little further... Lucky I didn't fasten off properly!

I'm secretly happy to be hooking away on this relaxing project again.

Happy crocheting whatever you're making!

Thank you so much for the encouraging comments on the last post.

Until next time, have a lovely weekend. Hopefully you will enjoy signs of spring wherever you are.

xx

Linking up again with Chrissie and Marianne.