Bits and Pieces

Hello there - The weather over the last week has been beautiful and summer has at last arrived - we took a picnic to Quarr Abbey and sat in the tranquil garden enjoying the peace and quiet before taking a stroll around

 

 

...... not a cloud in the sky - beautiful

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wallowing in the mud, mud, glorious mud

 

 

Swimming in the lake

 

 

 

Then we had a paddle down the beach

 

 

 

 

 

Look at the little fish in the water

 

 

When you paddle you get the ripples in the water

and lose the fish as they swim away

 

 

Beautiful seaweed

 

 

We got a new shed - so I made some bunting to put on it

 

 

The knit n natter ladies have been busy making squares again

this time for a very special project.

A Woolly hug site asked for squares for a Jo Cox blanket,

so we made these and sent them off in the colours they asked for

 

Squares from the Medina IOW parkrun knit n natter ladies!

 

 

We did squares for Refugee blankets too

 

 

I put these on the cherry tree

 

 

I made this little sheep to send to Yarndale

 

 

I made a baby blanket

 

 

I have this for a make!

 

 

I started a sock

 

 

And made another sock

 

 

Which makes a pair of socks

 

 

With the yarn left over from the pair of socks I made this trainer sock

I have one more to make

 

 

I had all these middles of something or other hanging

 around - so I unpicked them

 

 

And made these little beauties

 

and some more

 

 

and some more

 

 

I made some more of these

 

 

 

You may be wondering about these squares! I follow some knit and crochet friends on Instagram and one of those ladies Amanda has an 18 year old daughter called Jenny.  Three years ago Jenny was diagnosed with cancer and had a brain tumour removed followed by all the treatment that goes with this horrible illness.  Jenny has been feeling a lot better and had an appointment with her specialist last week to be told that she has another brain tumour.  Kate another lady on Instagram put a shout out for squares to make a blanket for Jenny.  Kate designed the above pattern and sorted the size of the squares, what size hook to use, what wool to use and chose the colours in Jenny's favourites colours.  She had a fantastic response to her shout out and asked people to send just three squares in any colour combination that they chose and she will do the joining.  Kate has received my three squares and I am very, very proud to be part of this fantastic project

 

 #jennysblanketofhugs for dear Jenny ........

 

Sending Amanda and Jenny all the love in the world

 

Thanks for popping by

 

Xx Joy xX

Harmony Blanket

Hello there - It's been a while since I have been around so here are some catch ups.  Some time ago I started to crochet the beautiful harmony blanket designed by Lucy from Attic24.  The colours she chose were beautiful and I wanted very much to make one of these harmony blankets

 

 

cloud, lime, clematis, rose, bluebell, raspberry, 

parma violet (for joining)

petrol, lavender, storm blue, aster, violet, meadow, petrol, plum  

 

 

all joined together with parma violet

Lucy made a single bed blanket for which you needed to make 9 strips

across the bed with 14 strips down = 126 squares

I decided that I wanted to make a double bed blanket so that I could look at it

every day on my bed, so another five rows to make

 so that meant I needed another 70 squares = a total of 196 squares

 

 

and so my squares began - little piles of them

 

 

and then there were more - I needed 14 different colour combinations

 

Lucy had designed a new granny square and it was lovely to make them as

they were quite different from the classic granny squares

 

 

 

piles and piles of them all with letters on trying to keep track

of the rows I needed and whether I had enough of the

right colours for the 14 piles of 14 squares

 

Eventually I could start the joining to make the rows

 

 

Starting at the top of the row and adding down

until there were 14 squares in a row

 

 

Then to start joining on the next row

 

 

Then more

 

 

And more

 

 

Yet again more

 

 

 

 

Oooohhhh the blanket was coming together and I was lovviingggg it

 

 

Then of course there is a border of 8 rows to put around it

the first row was to be cloud then

lavender, violet, plum, raspberry, meadow, sage, storm

 

 

 

 

 

and finally 6 months later it is finished and on the bed!!

Isn't it gorgeous? 

 

 

A few weeks ago this beautiful blossom was on the cherry tree

 

 

and then it blew off and looked like pink snow

 

 

leaving the tree looking rather bare

 

 

so I crocheted some covers over some plastic balls

and hung them in the tree to give it back some colour

 

 

Yay I love it and there is more to come!!

 

Another of Lucy's patterns that I couldn't wait to do,

so once the harmony blanket was finished I starting

making some bits and pieces

 

 

Starting with covering a polystyrene ring

 

then a few of these

 

then some more

 

some of these

 



 a few of these

 



one of these

 

then some more

 

 

some of these

 

 

 one of these

 

 

and a bit more crochet in a different colour and you get

this little lady

 

 

Assemble everything you have made and you have

a lovely Autumnal wreath

 

 

a few squares joined together and there is a

cushion cover

 

 

some of the blue strips on the left

 

 

become these scanner pockets for parkruns

 

 

and the greens

 

 

become these little worms

 

 

I started to make a few hearts

 

After seven rounds and changing colours this heart is finished

 



 

and some more are finished

 

 

All done

 

 

some baby knitting

 

 

some bunting!

 

 

these few bits

 

become Peter the parrot - ready for a pirate parkrun

 

 

some shorty trainer socks

 

 

The knit n natter ladies have started some squares

for our next project

 

 

A few of these

 

 

OOOOOOooooo and what are these for??!!!

 

 

and finally this little chap

 

Thanks for popping by and hope to see you again soon

 

Xx Joy xX