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Sunday, 17 March 2013

The Princess and the Pea

Tinkerbelle is fast asleep, perched on a pile of boxes and bags ready for the loft (She climbs up the ladder steps). She is under the Princess and the Pea wall hanging that my mum made when I was about 12 and I just thought it was a similiar thing!

Happy birthday Christine - here is a card made by Ruth Zanoni Rockell which I bought at the Cat Rescue charity shop in Keighley

Apparently New York is only 56 miles away - a rather appropriate poster just down the road here!! (at the corner of the road where my DDIL took a video)

Friday, 1 March 2013

February ATCs

I thought you were supposed to forget things as you got older - well my Mum reminded ME that I hadn't put a photo of our February ATCs on the blog...... here they are..... better late than never!

The theme was pan pastels and mine is on the left and Mum's on the right - I did like the paper tearing technique mum used for the hills

Sunday, 17 February 2013

I have not been idle....

At the last beading meeting I finished these three bracelets....

..by putting the fastenings on them.

I was going to do some more of this peyote stitch flag, but didn't have the right beads with me

Tinkerbelle thought the bird food could be more interesting than her own....

I have spent the winter crocheting granny squares to make into a jumper.

there are about 120 so far.

The squares for the actual pattern were not granny squares, but these ones, which I decided were not all the same size and far too complicated to do whilst watching TV.

Sunday, 20 January 2013

Tormenting Tinkerbelle

Can you just see outside the window a little wren on the fence (bottom left of the window)? Tinkerbelle was watching out of the window and this little wren was looking at her and flitting from that fence to the other fence and on to the apple tree. He kept it up for a good ten minutes!

Not a very clear photo of him, but he's in the apple tree now - all the time looking at Tinks in the window. Actually there were two little wrens flitting about.

Mummy all the little birdies have gone now!

Altered tin made into a button box for a friend.

Saturday, 12 January 2013

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!

Sunday, 6 January 2013

ATCs are back!!!

My mum and I decided that we should make an ATC each month in 2013 - it is a few years since we made any. When we met up just before the new year we made a list of 12 techniques to use, put them in a hat and drew them out next to the months. January was Flitter Glu....... so here are our ATCs for January 2013......