Another favour

The cot blanket present is complete - a chevron stripe ...

... with a shell edging ...

... backed with a grey fleece.

A Tunisian stripe cot blanket has now been started so I can give our friend a choice of blankets for her new baby, who is not due until later on in the year. This Tunisian one is similar to the one I made for her first baby.

My other Tunisian creations are here. My stash is slowly going down.

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Bright ideas

... is overflowing just like basket number 1. In an effort to get rid of the very, very large balls of yarn I decided to crochet a granny zigzag blanket with random sized stripes. 

I didn't get very far, did I?

This fluffy baby cot blanket has been around for 36 years! It was for my first born but I ran out of the white, fluffy wool. Maybe it's time I finished it.

I made scrubbies out of these netting strips and I still use them. More of these are now on my list of things to finish off.

These Tunisian crochet strips are for another cot blanket. It should be a riot of colour because I'm (I was) using up all the yarn oddments.

A colleague of mine said she wanted to pass the time knitting so I suggested knitting squares that could be sewn together and I duly did a few for her. She never did put wool to needles, having bright ideas but not carrying them through so these squares will be unravelled and the yarn used for the Tunisian blanket.

Well that's that blanket sorted. I'm going to be kept very busy this year. There's still another basket to go. Oh my! I remind myself of a colleague of mine.

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By the seaside

My deckchair stripe cot blanket is finally finished. It's taken me an age.

The yarn is from my stash and is mainly made up of cooler colours with pops of bright green and red.

The backing is a recycled again fleece which began its life here.

I find Tunisian stitch quite calming to do and each strip was crocheted individually with all the stripes joined together at the end. It's similar to my other Tunisian blanket but a little larger at 36 inches square.

The edging I started as a dc followed by 2 chain and then I found this tutorial for a polka dot edging which is formed on this first simple row. This is a brilliant edging and grows really quickly.

DS and his wife are visiting with babes later in the summer and I wanted it finished before then.

It's quite thick and warm on both sides.

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I'm only practising ...

... not actually starting a new project,

... just practising a new way of crocheting called Tunisian Crochet. (Look it up on Youtube.)

I was reading Apple Blossom Dreams and liked the look of her Rockman Afghan. I also liked this image of a small blanket.

I just thought I'd like a little go at creating a stripe and found it quite enjoyable. My work has never looked so neat!

I also looked up entrelac which seemed an unusual way of crocheting Tunisian squares.

This video helps get you started. There are more videos in the series.

So I'm not really breaking a New Year Resolution, am I?

Close ups

My cover the shopping trolley idea is shelved for the moment as I feel that the deckchair strip Tunisian stitch would be better suited to another cot blanket.

My dress of choice today is living in the hopes that summer will come soon.

My Kindle cover is blossoming.

I keep my wools in my hen basket - school domestic science lessons always spring to mind when I carry this about. I blame them all on my wonderful cr** culinary skills today.

I can't throw away present bags. This one is being used as a waste paper basket in the hobby room.

More lines!

The cushion door stop is blooming too, so perhaps it is summer in this room.

The sun is shining but the wind is cold. I'll stay cocooned in this room for a while longer.

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I never know how it will turn out.

Well it started out as a Tunisian crochet stripe for another cot quilty blanket and ended up as a Filofax purse. The colour of the wool toned in very well with the raspberry colour of the Filofax. I'd done a long strip and then just doubled it over and added a zip.

More pics over on the Filofax Blog.

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Just finished ...

... my small lapghan sized Tunisian stitch quilt. The idea for this quilt came from here.

The edge is one round UK double, one round treble and one round reverse double.

I recycled some Yip, yip fleece for the back of the blanket.

Puss cat likes fleece!

So does the other one.

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To have or not to have? - that is the question

And what's that?

New Year Resolutions of course. Last year I took up some resolutions made by other bloggers and here's how I got on.

Fix things - I can't remember fixing anything apart from a few sewing repairs. DH is the main 'fixer' in this house.

Read at least one book a month - done! In fact I read more. You can see them all on my bookshelf at the side.

Have fresh flowers in the house - most weeks I had fresh flowers but not that many picked from the garden.

Don't start new projects until current ones have been completed - I have finished quite a few things - the 2012 blanket that turned into about 4 different blankets, a Tunisian stitch cot blanket, the Advent Calendar, Christmas bells, Poinsettia wreaths, handkerchief case, book mark, handkerchief edging, beer glass cosies, 2 cat baskets, iPod case, a few India cot blankets and a Christmas bauble. Didn't do too badly there but there are still some projects hanging around which may not get finished at all.

I think I'll just have one general resolution this year and that is to

write down, record and plan

in the hopes that those jottings will enable me to be more organised. (I bought myself a Filofax for Christmas.)

Mind you, I don't particularly like being too organised as I enjoy 'going with the flow' which is much more spontaneous, inspiring and creative.

Oh dear, to have or not to have? - that is the question.

Done and Dusted Ditty

To the tune of - When the roll is called up yonder.

Chorus

When a favour's called upon me,

When a favour's called upon me,

When a favour's called upon me,

When a favour's called upon me I'll be there.

Verse

When friends of Darling Son are wed and baby's on the scene,

And the time has come to take a present there.

When said friends admired the blanket made for DG number 1

Then another of the same we'd like to share.

This is my first Tunisian crochet blanket made for DG
(darling grand-daughter).

Here is the one for DS and DD-in-Law's friends.

Chorus

When a favour's called upon me,

When a favour's called upon me,

When a favour's called upon me,

When a favour's called upon me I'll be there.

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