January is CROCHET month!

I am determined to get my stash of double knitting  yarn down to a sensible level before I buy any more!  So I decided that I should crochet pet blankets for the RSPCA.  Well here are my first three!

Tinkerbelle is learning how to crochet - she likes to help with the yarn

One of the girls at Crochet club was making something using long stitch crochet and I remembered I had a jumper pattern from many years ago made with this stitch and had a go on this little blankie.

I used lots of small balls of yarn for this blankie and a ball of green for around the edge.

Close up

This is my favourite - same stitch as the first one I showed you, it is apparently called spike stitch and there are tutorials on line.  I decided to used white (as I seemed to have a lot of white yarn) with a different colour for each other row.  I did approximately pastel and bright on alternate rows, with a white border.

close up

even closer... actually this is far too nice to be a pet blanket and I might keep it to snuggle under myself!

And I STILL have a lot of double knitting yarn left - watch this space!

Christmas cards and other stuff

Mum and I made some cards using a technique with Pan Pastels in Craft stamper mag

Mum used the deer stamps she had got from her Grandson and Grand Daughter in Law

I used some of the free stamps mum had got with a recent magazine

Here is South Square's BIG DRAW which was the whole of Thornton on the wall of the gallery and everyone could draw or paint something that shows what Thornton means to them.  And here is TINKERBELLE drawn by a little girl who strokes her every morning on the way to school!

Made a little box from a DVD mum had got free with a magazine

So cute I made two!!

Oliver chases mice