Crochet

I have been REAL busy crocheting lately and our blanket is close to the "finished" status - something I'm really looking forward to. I bought a lovely book (will share sometime soon) with 500 crochet pieces and have been trying out different stitches and patterns for our blanket. It will be a real patchwork/quilt/blanket/piece of art, hehehe....

So far I've made 70 blocks and have about another 30 to go, phew! What do you think?

Happy day!

Crochet bunting

I finally "got around" to finishing this crochet bunting which was a project I started last year (yikes, I know!) and intended to give to my friend who was having a baby. Well, little Sarah is eight (!!!) months already and I was very pleased to finally give it to her yesterday. She's started sleeping in her own room and the bunting came as a perfect gift to celebrate the occasion. I'll take some pictures of her room to show for another time. I had to drape these over the cupboards in the kitchen to get the "feel" for what it will look like, since it's so long and I had nowhere else to do so.

I like these so much, that I've decided to make a whole bunch to sell at a market. Will keep you posted on that too.

Happy day!

I'm back!!

Okay, so after a long (enough) absence I'm back. My computer is fixed and only some emails were lost; I had a "fresh" backup of everything else (phew!!).

Been busy with lots of different stuff including helping the Captain with the building of our kitchen (photo's to follow when it's at least half done...).

Crochet is still one of my favourite hobbies (of the moment) and I've come across a wonderful blog for crochet patterns/ideas, called Olav's World. It is jam-packed with fabulous patterns for smaller projects. I'm a sucker for "instant results gratification" which is why I like to crochet so much.

This is one of them I've done from so far.....

Crochet rose in the making....

Progress....

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ta daaaa!!!!!

This flower pattern I got from here. It is super easy to make and doesn't take all that long; give it a try - you'll be hooked!!