This week....

...lots of candles have been lit around the house as almost every day has been dark and cold....

...we have been enjoying eating the lemon curd which G made.  It is so delicious spread on crusty bread or swirled into Greek yoghurt. Yum...

...there have been pretty pink roses brightening up the living room window sill...

...Miss M and I went to a really lovely Christmas fayre one evening. It was so nice and made us both feel all festive and excited! I bought a tiny little glass angel...she is so pretty and delicate...

... I bought some new yarn! To make yet another blanket!  I love these colours together and I'm so looking forward to starting this one...

It has also been a week for Christmas shopping, school concerts and work!  I managed to finish the blanket I was working on and I'm so happy with how it has turned out, hopefully I will get a chance to photograph it this week to show you. 

It's been a busy week but an enjoyable one! Hope yours has been a good one too...

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Blanket ❤️

I enjoy everything about making blankets from planning and choosing the pattern and colours, the excitement of starting a new blanket and of course I enjoy the actual crocheting! I love putting it all together (apart from sewing in the ends, I would be fibbing if I said I enjoyed that part!) and making a pretty border to finish it all off. 

I love the fact that the blankets I have made for our house actually get used...especially now the weather is colder. Miss M loves to snuggle under a blanket whilst she reads or watches television in the evenings. They are also used a lot for den building when she has friends over! I love the extra warmth of having a blanket on my bed at night too...and actually G has admitted that he appreciates this too. Surely this is him secretly saying go ahead and make plenty more blankets as they are so cosy and useful?!

My blankets are always made using DK yarn usually a mix of Stylecraft Special and Sirdar Snuggly as I love the colours available in these ranges, they are soft and wash really well too. 

My latest blanket which you can see in the last photograph in this post, is almost finished and I am currently double crocheting all the squares together. This blanket will be a Christmas gift for a special work friend. I really hope she likes it. 

I have 2 more blankets that I want to make now and am just waiting on a yarn delivery so that I can make a start on one of them. I can't wait!

Do you love making blankets too?

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November

Another month has passed already! I can hardly believe that today is the last day of November.

It's been a good month for us with lots going on...autumn walks, Remembrance Day with my brownie group, garden flowers, baking, sewing and crochet and a nice weekend in Edinburgh for G and I while Miss M stayed with my parents.  We had a lovely Thai meal, drinks and went to see the musical Wicked at the Playhouse. We are just home now after spending a lovely sunny morning in beautiful Edinburgh. 

So I have enjoyed November but I'm really looking forward to December now. I love all the festivities and the seasonal making, baking and decorating.

Hope November was good for you too. 

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Stars & Stripes Baby Blanket

I've just finished making a wee blanket for a new baby boy. 

I find it really difficult to chose colours when making things for boys, maybe because I don't have any boys of my own and I seem to be drawn towards really feminine colours and pastels. I went for a sort of nautical colour scheme in the end with blue, red and white stripes. I added the little stars in the corners so it then became the Stars and Stripes blanket as named by my daughter!

This was a fairly quick make although I must  admit that I didn't particularly enjoy making this one...I'm sure it was all the white that put me off a bit!  Using lots of pretty colours is what I enjoy most about blanket making.

I started off with a foundation chain of 120 + 2 for turning and then worked 72 rows of half double trebles. I worked 5 rows of white then a row of either dark blue, red or pale blue. The border is a simple shell border. The pattern for the little stars on each corner is by Lucy of Attic 24, (I'm sorry I still haven't worked out how to link when blogging from my phone! ) and is a lovely, simple pattern to follow. Thank you Lucy.

Hope you are all having a good week so far? I am on annual leave from work this week and I am enjoying every minute...finishing off projects (and starting new ones!), cooking, pottering and meeting friends.  It has been lovely. 

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This week

I finished crocheting my cowl. I love it, it's so snuggly and warm. I used Stylecraft Weekender and I can really recommend this yarn, it's gorgeously soft...

I was so happy and surprised this week to see these pretty daisies still growing in the garden. So I picked some to have in the house in a little jar...

Miss M made another really pretty decoration at school this week. I think this one looks like a house covered in sweeties...

I have started another big blanket. This is going to be a gift for a really lovely lady I work with. Hopefully I will have it finished in time for Christmas. I'm using Cath Kidston inspired colours (again!) and the pattern is from Granny Squares by Susan  Pinner...

So the weekend is here again and I'm looking forward to a nice relaxing one with my wee family.  Wishing you all a really lovely weekend too.

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Three good things

A quick and simple crochet project...

Pretty pink roses in my living room...

A sweet little hanging decoration made for me by my Miss M at school this week. I think it's actually a Christmas decoration (very early though!) but it's too pretty to put away until then. I just love it...

What has been making you smile this week?

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October

A day late with my little round up of October but here it is....

....autumn walks...seasonal flowers...tea...baking....and lots and lots of crochet!

Hope October was a good month for you too?

I'm now looking forward to what November might bring...

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