....Photo friday....

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.....A desperate need to.......

.....crochet.....

.....I haven't picked up my crochet hook for some time, well, quite a while actually, i have been more in love my knitting needles of late, happily clickety clacking away , and then all of a sudden i had this desperate need to crochet some Grannies.......

.....one minute clicketing and then the next hooking !.....

 

....not sure what happened there.....i have a theory though, anyone who has a love of yarn instantaneously enrols (unknowingly) into the granny gang......you can be quietly crafting away in your favourite crafty corner in your favourite cosie armchair, and then, a small voice starts to call you.......'graaaaannyyy.....graaaannyyy'......they call to you grannies,,,,,or is this just me!....

 

 

.....so down went the needles and up went the hook and of i went on a granny excursion.....

 

 

.....and at the end i had made.....a.....

 

 

 

 

......a rather lovely 'scrummy feather squishy' cushion.....

 

.....and i just love it.....

 

 

....its double sided, so i made 48 granny squares in all, then added my own wavy trim....

 

.....the trim could probably do with a little bit of blocking, but i just got too excited about getting it finished and stuffed with a feather cushion pad...........

 

 

 

.....so i feel much better now, the voices have stopped in my head and i can once again resume my knitting........until the next calling...

 

 

 

....and once again a finished piece of work is covered in cat.....

 

 

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48 grannies

size 3.5 hook

wendy merino yarn in lots of scrummy colours

scallop edging........1 double , 1 half treble, 1 treble, 2 double trebles, 1 treble, 1 half treble, 1 double

 

Hugs my lovelies

pixie

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....photo friday....

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.....photo friday.....

 

                                                                         

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....A walk by the lakes....

.....one of my favourite places to go, when at times things in life just get too stressful, is a walk by the lakes.....

.....i have to escape from to time to time to a place of peace and solitude, i don't cope very well with the noise created by modern living, and at times i need the sounds of birds and nature to bring me back to myself....

 

 

....we rested here for a little while to eat our salad rolls and just sit in silence, listening to the gentle lapping water....

 

 

 

....there was the occasional glug on the water surface as a pike came up for a look....

 

....it was a very very hot day, and we just strolled slowly and aimlessly along winding paths.....

 

 

 

 

....out the corner of your eye you could just see electric blue and green dragonflies flitting about....

 

 

....this little dragonfly agreed to have its photo taken, though as a rule they don't like to be photographed........there quite shy....

 

 

 

.....then we wandered onwards back along the path, we both had need of a cold beer at a local pub on our minds....

 

 

 

.....thats better....

 

 

 

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....Photo friday.....x

....Its the little things that make me happy....

.....and one of those little things is a new magazine discovery.....

 

.....in fact i stumbled on this new magazine a few months ago in one of my favourite little shops in London, 'Jessie Chorleys' beautiful shop in Columbia road, and i had meant to get one then but of course i got so involved in all the other wondrous crafty goodies in the shop that i left without it....

....but now i have a copy via 'Etsy, which did seem to take a bloomin' long time to come through my letter box, but now i have it, and i love it.......off course i cant understand a blinking word as its all in Japanese, but the eye candy is so incredibly inspiring the not being able to read it thing doesn't seem to matter....

...check it out...

 

....whats even more fun with this magazine is you read it back to front, so you actually start from the back page........odd!

 

 

....lovely pictures of Mr Finch's work....

 

 

 

 

....and at the back there's even a pop up...

 

 

 

.....Pixie....