Crochet hiatus..

Have you ever had one? A crochet hiatus that is.. When nothing you want to make seems right; you start a project only to frog it; You look at your pattern books looking for inspiration but find nothing... What do you do in such a situation?

I made a lovely circular ripple blanket

and it appears to have taken all my inspiration or is it the baby blanket I made for a work colleagues granddaughter?

Or maybe the rushed little bag i just had to make the day I finished the blanket. Simply because I just had to feel that pattern flow through my fingers.

I know not, from whence the stagnation comes. All I know is that it is. I am now going to try and work out how to get over it. I have plenty of yarn..

For those who read my blog you may have seen how much yarn i have. If I did not blog about it let me know and I will enlighten you. 

So if yarn is not the issue what is? I recently discovered walking.??

Moves is an absolutely wonderful free iphone app that is helping me fulfil my 10,000 steps a day 

I am spending so much time in my head space surrounded by beautiful scenery

my creative side should be full of inspiration but oh no...nothing is good enough. I sit, I wait, I hope and I look for inspiration hopefully it will come soon.  In the mean time I will browse some of my crochet books looking for inspiration...

Here is to hoping that my inspiration will return. I yearn to create; to express; to share; I shall. Most definitely I will.

The Secret and crochet

Well I am currently working on improving my positive outlook to life in general. As part of that, I am going through life with daily guidance from the secret. One main message within it is to be positive. I take that as not only looking at everything in a positive way but also acknowledging and being thankful for my achievements. Today I am thankful for all I have achieved in terms of crochet. I managed to finish a shrug a baby hat and baby cardigan. Although beige and brown aren't really my colours I learnt that you cannot judge a book by its cover. I had little joy in the process but once I put it over my shoulders it was transformed into a thing of beauty. I am thankful that I persevered with it. I think that translates in other areas of our lives. It is easy to give up before we achieve our goals because the journey can be so hard... It can be filled with pain, internal turmoil boredom and what can appear to be self denial; but if we persevere, we often find the outcome to be absolutely amazing!!! What positive things have happened in your day?

Where to start

When one has been away from blog land for a while, it can be difficult to know where to start. So much I want to tell you and yet I don't want to bore you. As a crochet blog surfer, I like to see some information about each project from its conception to completion but, I don't like to see too much. Getting that balance right is a difficult art indeed. So what have I been up to? In the upcoming blogs I will just pick any project and tell you about it. They won't be in order of creation. Today, we will look at:
My scrappy step afghan
I made this using the tutorial by Bethinx on you tube. Watch the video and the rest is history :)D the yarn I used came from America curtesy of my sister. There were a variety of colours which made deciding on a project more difficult. Lots of colour choice but limited yarn amounts.
The Scrappy Step Afghan is a very forgiving project. I would recommend it to anyone with loads of different coloured yarn odds and ends with limited amounts of each colour.
This afghan can be classified as easy to make. It grew at an amazingly fast rate and the constant changes of colour kept you interested. I think it was done at the end of 3 weeks of evening and weekend crochet. As it neared completion I decided on its recipient; my older daughter. It was with trepidation that I laid it out on her bed whilst she was out. I then waited to see if it would be loved or hated.... Well it was an instant success. It is dragged round the house and it is always on the bed.
No she is not 5; she is going to be 16 this year. Those of you with teenagers will understand what a compliment it is to see an open display of love. But then she is a sweet girl with a sweet heart :)D

I am back :-)D

Greetings to you all. I have been on a major blog holiday no reason for it just that had a heavy Christmas period followed by great focus on my 30 day green smoothie challenge. I continued to crochet whilst I was absent in face I would say i was quite prolific. Enjoy the pictures of what I have been up to. I give more details of each project a little bit at a time. Thank you to those of you who have continued to check in for new posts.