Just a quickie...

My total sum  of crochet today is non existent today. Well not really non existent just minuscule. 

I have been busy but also feeling tired so all I have done is this 

 

The good thing is I met a couple of ladies who work for Harris hospice care whilst crocheting in the car.. I was charging my phone so thought may as well crochet whilst I a wait... Anyway this unknown blanket which I am already imagining looking amazing will be passed to them for a fundraising raffle once it is done. Expected size will be big enough to cover a double bed comfortably. Total number of squares ....250 is the number that keep coming into my head. 

Onwards with better drive

Greetings I cannot believe that I have not posted since January especially when blogging has been simplified😳 

I am well and the knitting fever has disappeared for now. Before it did I managed to make a few hats 

and socks.

Fell in love with knitting socks. I had always thought that it was a hard thing to make but it turned out that they are extremely easy.

I also started a cardigan for my niece 

But I am now back to crochet. I have a drive to clear as much of my yarn stash as I can in this year. To achieve this I have been making and gifting afghans. I started with my nieces and nephews 

My aim has been to try maintaining the yarn colours used for each family 

The above were completed by Christmas. The next 2 were completed by the end of march 

This blanket was an absolute pleasure to make and the recipient one of my many nephews was extremely pleased with it. He insisted on his mother covering him with it the very night he had received it. It is a woven stitch found online via google search.

Prior to this I completed a blanket which I gifted to my older sister. It was made from yarn I had bought from Lidl. 

I am continuing with the making and gifting to my sisters. Once I'm done with them I will have to decide who I gift to next:) I have an idea but I would like to keep it secret. 

Here is a corner to corner also made for another of my sisters

The decision of who an afghan goes to is unknown to me when I start a project the idea tends to come to me as I sit there lost in the crochet rhythms. Suddenly it will come to me exactly who the afghan wants to go to and once that decision is made the process becomes more feverish and it becomes the case that I think of that person more when I am working on something for them. 

My favourite part of this afghan was the border. Love love love it very much. My sister tells me that every time she covers herself with it whilst watching tv, she ends up falling asleep because it is socomfortable  and warm.. 😂😂😂 made me laugh

This is not my most successful blogging but I will do better when I update you regarding other things I have been crocheting. I leave you with another picture of my corner to corner 

Starting mid sentence

I don't know what to say. I feel I am starting mid sentence because, my plans for the new year were for me to start with a crochet blog but what happens? It is going to be a knit one!!!! I don't know what has gotten into me!! I have been busy making plenty of lovely crochet stuff such as ...

And

Or maybe

But oh no I have been getting urges to make myself some fingerless mittens. I happened to see some knitted ones that looked so pretty I just had to give it a go. Before you ask, yes I can knit and no I don't like knitting - it's too slow for me :)D 

But I went bought some double pointed needles and pulled out some variegated yarn. I have looked up plenty of patterns but none seem to make sense so I decided to just go with the flow. No I have never successfully used double pointed needles. I have never shaped fingers and thumbs. Oh well.. Let the experiment begin.. 

This is what I have so far

As I work away I am thinking it needs a hat!!!! NOOOOOooooo!!!!!! Save me from myself!!!!!

I have a Facebook CAL that I have joined and I have an item to complete by the end of the month. Each row is taking ages!!! That is cause it is big. Maybe that is why I am procrastinating with knitting 

Before I get back to it, check out my current CAL. From the stitch along with us Facebook group. They are lovely in the group you should join us with your projects if you wish

It is a drop in the pond afghan which is proving to be massive. Will tell u more in a separate blog next week.

Have a lovely week