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