Daisy and Rosie

Hi everyone,

Just finished two more tea cosies. I love tea cosies.

Just started one for valentines day. Photos of that will follow when it's finished.

Thinking of selling some items on etsy. It would help fund future yarn supplies and some cosies would get good homes instead of sitting at the bottom of a drawer. Has anyone sold on etsy, any feedback would be appreciated.

Until next time,
Happy crocheting, x

Christmas gifts

Hi everyone,

Christmas gifts were all well received. Here are some pics.

There were 3 scarfs, 3 tea cosies, Cafetiere cosy and stockings.

I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas and is enjoying some quiet crafting time on these cold January days.

Till next time.
Happy crocheting, x

One week to Christmas

Hi Everyone,

Sorry I've been so terrible at posting. Weeks are just flying by. The Christmas crafting is going well. Detailed posts will follow but here's a little summary.

3 Scarfs, 1 cafetiere cosy, 3 tea cosies and 4 stockings completed. I have a bean bag cover left to sew, a tea cosy and a few more stockings left to finish.

I hope everyone's Christmas crafting is going well. Looking forward to checking out all my favorite bloggers to see what crafty goodness they've come up with this year.

Until next time, happy crocheting x

Zig zag tea cosy

Hello there,

I just finished a second zig zag/ripple tea cosy, same pattern as previous post(just jenn designs). I used a flower on top to decorate and can't decide to put a button in the center or not. Any feedback greatly appreciated.

I'm now in full christmas crafting mode, 3 tea cosies complete. I've 3 more to do, 1 cafetiere cosy, 2 scarfs, a couple of assorted felt decorations and probably more to do once I've those finished. Whether there'll be enough hours in the day to do all this remains to be seen, watch this space.

Hope your all having a lovely weekend. Happy Crocheting, x

One a day update

Hi Everyone,

Well I'm a week and a bit behind in posting. I'd noticed everyone was being struck down by nasty bugs and flu's but thought I was escaping. I didn't. Hubby got sick first, then little dude and finally me. What a rotten dose.

Most importantly though one a day is going well. I have 83 rows done now and i'm onto the third rotation of colours. I really love this blanket because it requires no concentration and i can pick it up and do a few stitches whenever i have a minute.

I had to buy another 2 packs of the stylecraft yarn to keep the project going as i was going to run out of some colours, shock horror. Luckily I had a discount code for 15% off so that took a bit of a sting out of the purchase. Hubby very kindly purchased it for me too. I know he was feeling sorry for me in my sick state, plus i burnt my arm over the steamer when i was cooking dinner and then had a picture fall on my other arm when cleaning the bookcase. I may have informed him of all these ailments more than once. Of course I wasn't complaining though :)

Here's a pic of my progress. Sorry the photo isn't great. My phone is a stone age nokia and thats the only camera I had access too.

 

I have to finish the zigzag tea cosy this week too. I just needed some buttons, which is where my mom comes in. My mom works in my grandparents shop. It used to have a very large haberdashery department but when granny retired that department retired too. Recently we've been trying to build it back up again. Anyway there is a massive stand of buttons and some are old, very old, older than me. We'll use the term vintage. Mom very kindly packed up a bag of them and sent them down to me. She sees them as a bit of a thorn in her side but i was so excited when i opened the package. I love them and have picked a few that will go perfectly on the tea cosy so no more excuses, tea cosy you will get finished.

I hope everyone elses progress is going well.  

Until next time, 

Happy Crocheting, x

Horray for Friday

Hi Everyone,

Hope you all had a good week. Things are good here. Enjoying time with my little man so not getting much done. Sorry I didn't post for the one a day. I was trying to pick my next project. I made myself a promise that everything I make this year has to be able to be entered into the agricultural shows crafts section during the summer. Having that said though I always have an overwhelming urge to make blankets, which I could enter but they rarely win. So I decided the heart must win out over the head. Therefore I've began another blanket for the one a day. I picked Lucy's Granny Stripe Blanket from Attic24 because I had the yarn and it was a pattern that I could remember easily.

I began it on Wednesday and I love it already. It's easy to follow and I don't have to spend 10 minutes trying to remember where I was when I pick it up. Just what I need at the moment.

I do have a little confession though. I justified picking this pattern because I had the yarn but I had been using some of the yarn for other projects so I may have to buy more, oops :)

I will definitely do the hexagon blanket after this one, I just needed something that didn't require alot of concentration now.

I'm still working on the tea cosy I started 2 weeks ago. I worked up both sides in a day, I just have buttons to finish it off so its sitting WIP pile. Oh and it still needs to be blocked.

Have a great weekend everyone.

Happy Crocheting, x

Tea Cosy Love

Hi Everyone,

I hope your all having a good week. I was delighted to be awarded the Versatile Blogger Award by two more lovely bloggers, Judy at Vintage Homespun and Jill at Stocki. Thank you very much to both of you, I really enjoy reading your blogs and i'm delighted that you both enjoy my blog. Its been a hectic week so far with hospital appointments for Ben but i'll try before long to think up some more random bits about myself and pass on the award to some more favourite blogs.

Once again I missed Tuesday Tallies on the One a Day. I'm still sewing in those pesky ends but i'm sooooooooooooo close to being finished.

I did finally finish a tea cosy I was making from the book Cute and Easy Crochet so I'm delighted to have a little ta-dah moment for the week. I love tea cosies, tea just tastes so much better from a tea cosy snuggled tea pot :)

This is the second tea cosy i've crocheted. I also crocheted a tea cosy from Crochet with Raymonds blog. I love both of them and I found both of them easy to make so would definitely recommend them. The tutorial for Crochet with Raymond is here.

This week was my husbands birthday so I made his favourite Lemon tart and Chocolate cake. I'll leave with a picture of the chocolate, it was yummy.

Have a great week. Until next time,
Happy Crocheting, x