Well my lovelies, the observant among you might have noticed that I haven’t been here in blogland in a long, long, l-o-n-g time. I have decided to close my blog; for a number of reasons which all make a lot of sense to me. When I close my blog, hopefully, it won’t disappear, so you’ll be able to look back at my journey. I not stopping crocheting, makings, workshopping or designing, and you will still be able to follow my journey: I really hope you will.
It is a beautiful world. Today frost has taken hold and made the world shiny and sparkly! I love this time of the year. All of the photos that I am about to share with you, were taken by the River Ouse in York. All of the photos that I am about to share with you, were taken within twenty minutes’ walk of my front door. I don’t have the words to express how blessed I feel. I don’t have the words to express the emotions that I was feeling as I took a walk this morning. Despite all the bad that it going on in the world today, it is still a very beautiful place to be…
Hello! It has been a while! I’ve been busy, busy, busy working in my real-life job and lots and lots of making: I’ve been making flowers for a lovely lady’s bridesmaids! The wedding is tomorrow: so I’ll share some pictures of those makes very soon. I’ve also been working on something for you! As the weather, here is York, is turning distinctly chilly I thought I’d crochet a scarf and share the pattern with you. It’s a short scarf (although you clever people can easily make it longer) perfect for chilly evenings and under jackets…
I’ve used some beautiful camel sock yarn (50% silk and 50% baby camel) from Truly Hooked and used a 4mm hook for a loose open feel. The scarf used all of one 100g/400m skein, so if you decide to make the scarf longer, you will need more than one skein…
[instructions without pictures can be found at the end of this post]
Row one: ch 270. Turn…
Row two: dc in 2nd ch from hook, dc into each st. Turn...
HINT: I would suggest working into the ch as in the image below, for a really neat foundation…
Row three: 3ch, 1tr in next st, *1ch, skip st, 1tr in next 2 sts**…
Repeat *-* to end. Turn…
Row four: 3ch, 1tr in next st. **2tr in ch sp, 1ch, 2tr in ch sp*. Repeat ** - ** to end. Turn…
Repeat row three and four, until the scarf is the width you would like. When crocheting the last row, don’t do a chain between the trebles.
Last row: 1ch, dc in ch sp, dc in tr, dc between each ch…
Where do you get the inspiration for your makes? Like a lot of you, I get a lot of my inspiration from plants, flowers and Mother Nature. Often, my inspiration is found just a few feet from my backdoor! At the moment, I live in a small terrace house a stones-throw from the centre of York, with a lovely, lovely, garden. Purists would say that, technically, my garden is a yard, and I guess it is…but to me it is my small, perfectly-formed, garden. My garden is my place of calm, green-ness and inspiration. I love it…
Lavender welcomes you in to my home…
Along with a colourful, hanging basket (if any of you know the name of this plant, please let me know)…
More hanging baskets and pots in the back…
Tomatoes…
Lettuce and rocket and other green leaves…
More pots...
All, no more than 30 seconds from my door! I hope that you have your own green space?
I’d love to see pictures of them. Why not tag them to my Facebook page HERE of Instagram HERE
I’ve not been here in blog-land for a while, because Si and I popped up to Northumberland for a few days holiday. We were really lucky to have lots of lovey sunshine and I am happy to report that we did nothing, expect walk and walk and walk along the sea-shore and in beautiful gardens…
Yay! Busy back with crochet! I’m busy getting ready for my next crochet workshop. On 21st May I’ll be running a crochet workshop for some lovely people at The Silver Thimble, just outside York. This will be the second crochet workshop that I have run, in the last couple of months; this one will focus on crocheting granny squares and crocheting them into something fabulous. I’ve designed the workshop so anyone can join, anyone: those with no crochet experience, those with lots of crochet experience – there will be something for everyone. All are welcome! If you'd love to come and crochet yourself a granny square, joining details are at the bottom of this post...
The workshop is £20.00 and runs from 10:00 – 14:00. If you are interested in coming to this crochet workshop then either message me, via my Facebook page HERE or contact Kath at The Silver Thimble.
Wow! It has been a whole month since I was here in blogland: I think that it the longest I’ve been away since I came here. March was a strange month: I had a nasty bug that really wiped me out, I had to deal with a few family things and my day job is crazy-busy at the moment. Now, it is time for me to reconnect with my making: I plan to take this reconnection slowly, slowly with the aim of normality resuming by the end of April. Spring is the season of new starts. Right? My reconnection is starting with me looking over past projects, spending time looking at inspiring books and in inspiring places. And dear-readers, I’m taking you along on this journey. So we are starting with some past projects…
Spring, a time for new starts…
Roses, (one of) the loveliest of flowers…
Sunflowers, (one of the) happiest of flowers…
Old for new, updating clothes…
Pretty Primulas…
Happy Hellebores…
Spring garlands…
A bit reflective, I know: it is helping with the reconnection. See you next week, lovelies….
Happy St. David’s day! Today, the first day of March, the weather in York has taken a turn back towards Winter. This is in complete contrast with the last few days which have been absolutely gorgeous, with a real hint of Spring in the air. Perhaps March is coming in like a lion, so she leaves like a lamb? On a grey day like today I thought that I’d try to cheer us all up, sharing the pictures that I have taken over the last few days. Ready? Good…
I think that today, I’ll get my Spring wreath out of the cupboard and put it up in anticipation…
I’ll write up the Daffodil crochet pattern, very soon, so that you can crochet yourself a little bit of Spring…
I am so very sorry that I have been so quiet here in blogland: I have been very busy. I’ve been working hard in my real life job and on a very exciting project in my creative life: I’m looking forward to sharing this with you very, very soon! Hopefully over the next few days and weeks, something like normality will return and I’ll be back here in blogland every week. Promise!
For now, here is the second part of my inspiration for 2016, which I started in in my last post.
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