This beautiful dark purple and lime green hellebore caught my eye. Spring is in the air although we are surrounded by flood warnings for the River Severn and the River Wye. There have been evacuations and some people have lost a lot. I am thankful that we live up in the forest.
This blanket began with me just crocheting up the odd bits of sock yarns. Then donated yarn was added until it became a usable size for charity.
This Christmas beauty wasn't for charity however.
Son's computer chair seat had worn out so I made him a leather one which should last a lot longer.
Socks perfect for brown or grey jeggings.
The seating area got gravelled so looks a lot tidier.
Edward lear got his own snuggle blanket from leftovers as he enjoyed whatever I was knitting.
A bag for daughter which leaves her arm free for her walking stick and dog lead.
Baby blanket from donated yarn with a crochet trim.
Socks for me to wear with grey or black jeggings. Yes I live in jeggings!
A couple of blankets from donated yarn. a lady gave the above squares in crochet and knitting to daughter. I made one more and a trim so it was cot sized. The one below is the same size.
A couple of friends are keen gardeners. I made one a blue version of this denim gardening apron and forgot to take a pic, and the other this one with a coral theme. I had seen designs with all sorts of complications impossible to use with muddy hands or gloves so kept it simple with a bigger pocket and a smaller pocket.
Daughter didn't want a cardigan or jumper for Christmas but did want a throw. This one has rings of hexagons in 3 different designs from
this book. Leonie Morgan's books are easy to follow and give a picture of the crochet design as well as photos of the finished block and a row by row instruction list.
Daughter said she would sew the ends in this chunky scarf from the donated yarn. I was calling all this yarn the Rumplestiltskin Pile as I needed to make profitable things from the odd assortments of ends of balls of yarn with no labels. currently it all fits in one box so it's less intimidating.
This probably looks odd to mark just 3 stitches in this way but Granny had a little go with my knitting when I was visiting her at the care home. The cataracts make seeing things hard for her, and the dementia has robbed her of so many recent memories, but she CAN still knit! I don't remember her sitting down without knitting in her hands when I was little. She told me that the one time she bought school jumpers and cardigans for her 4 children they fell to pieces in no time so thereafter they always had hand knitted. She was so good too. I had to ask her to make a pattern I was struggling with when I had my first baby with its shell design. She managed it but said she wouldn't make it again. lol So those are 3 very precious stitches for me half way up the back of the cardigan below. They needed marking.
I had a sew along sewing machine cover make in February. I made the pink blossom cover for the cabinet where the machine is partly sunk into it. The taller nasturtium fabric is the other machine cover. I made a pouch for its pedal and another for its accessories which sits in the pocket of the pedal pouch.
It fits at the back of the machine when the cover goes over.
So this is my organised colour coordinated collection now for craft tools. The jolly colours make me smile. I think I inherited my love of colour from Granny.
I have another collection- a lavender hedge in the making. I potted the bargain lavenders on which I have been buying here and there. When the awful neighbour moves out, these will go at the front of the house. I've avoided gardening there as he is an aggressive bully who we have had to report to the police. When we were away someone broke the glass on his front door, so I don't think we are the only people he has been harassing. He put his house up for sale after that and it is saying sold at the moment, so I am praying for someone normal and that it all goes ahead. It feels like a huge depressing weight is slowly lifting from my head.
On the 21st February, Son came over and removed a section of the wonky crumbling path. My shoulder needs a minor operation so I can't use the heavy tools at the moment.
The builder's yard was able to deliver immediately, so a sack of gravel arrived to match the seating area gravel and pathway. This area feels so much better and bigger now being a uniform colour. (It will be when the new stuff dries like the older stuff. )
I was in the local yarn shop buying something sensible when a ball of sock yarn caught my eye. Oh wowee! Love how these turned out. I wear them with any jeggings!
3 car loads later to the recycling centre and this heap of cuttings from the monster hedge has gone! Slowly the monster hedge is being controlled.
The charity shop chair had the bucket chair teapot tapestry repaired and made into a seat cover for it. The jade of the teapot is picked up by the surrounding fabric I added to the edges. If I find a ric rac in that shade of pink (DMC 3731) I will add it where the green meets the wood.
In Ross on Wye the sandbags were still outside the lower lying properties near Aldi.
I would need a snorkel and wet suit for my riverside walk there.
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