A busy two weeks - Part 2

Finally - two minutes to catch up with the blog!  I have been a busy wee crafter over the last few weeks.

The house has been desperately needing proper curtains.  All our windows are single glazed and after the rain and snow of recent weeks, we have been feeling the cold.  I wanted to line the curtains and with the way the pattern was laid out, was going to have to join the fabric to make the right width for the window.  I was finalising my measurements to work out the hems and realised that the width of the fabric was the exact drop I needed for the windows.  I remarked to Mr H that it was a shame the pattern went the wrong way as it would make it much easier to sew.  The fabric had a leafy design and after a quick squint at the fabric we decided we liked it just fine going sideways!  So the curtains needed no joins and were much easier to make - yay!

After all that work I felt I deserved a wee treat craftwise and decided to do something frivilous.  I had long fancied making a crochet blanket for my bed and decided to try out some granny squares.  I had a few odds and ends of wool that I rescued when a friend was clearing out, so got to work on a wee blanket for baby Lollipop.

 I have no idea what kind of wool it was but the colours went quite nicely.  After making a few squares I realised I didn't have enough wool to make a blanket, so I made a wee mat for the windowsill.  It looks nice with a spring vase of flowers.

I was really pleased as the granny squares were so quick to do and decided to look for a pattern for something bigger.  A quick scout on pinterest brought a new blog for me.  According to Matt has a similar colourbase to Attic 24 and as all my walls are white, bright colours fit in quite well.

I fell in love with Matt's granny square blanket and after a few days of telling myself I had lots of other things to do.....

A parcel arrived!

Full of lovely colours!

20 of them!

I splashed out and bought the Stylecraft Special DK Colour Pack (Hunt about on google for the best prices) that Matt had used.  I also added in 3 darker colours to make the overall look a little less pastel-y.  I added green, claret and raspberry.  I'm going to try and make the blanket completely random and have decided to join as I go and will try to sew in the ends as I go too - wonder how long that will last?!

Work is progressing steadily and I've borrowed a friends yarn winder which makes the balls a little more manageable and they take up less space. 

So hopefully I'll have more pics soon, have fun, xx

Monthly make, weather and Tintin

Blistering Barnacles it's chilly!  Our house has been taken over by Tintin phrases, Mr H loves the books and for Christmas recieved this boxset.  Some of the stories are awful - I'm surprised Tintin has any brain cells left - he gets knocked unconcious at least once in every episode. It's a bit stereotypical but....

 

the little Habbies have taken to it in a big way, R watches intently and KP runs around barking like a dog everytime Snowy appears.  Ach well, it gives me 10 minutes to myself, so can't complain.

The weather here has been a little chilly over the last few days but alas no snow.  We started the week with thick fog which made for a very atmospheric walk to nursery!

 The clock tower

 The shops at the bottom of the street have disappeared into the gloom.

 The hill and woods at the end of the street seem to have vanished too.

 I happened to be out and about the evening of the day these were taken and it was very eerie walking up the lane myself with the mist swirling around!

 The next day the fog was still there but it was so cold that you could see the frost settling.  It was the oddest thing, it looked like someone had been out with a can of spray snow.

 The cobwebs were all beautifully painted - R informed me that the fairies had been busy painting them,  They looked so delicate and you could see all the ice crystals, very pretty!

 You do have to feel sorry for all the wee spiders though!   You don't realise there are so many webs around until they are all painted silver.

My first month of making in 2012 resulted in quite a number of creations - more than I thought I would manage!

 After taking down all the Christmas decorations the house looked a little bare, so I decided a chain of colourful wheels would be just the thing. Taken from Christmas Crafting in no time  Thankfully we had the birthday party which provided a nice selection of colourful paper (Mr H did laugh at me ironing a few of the more crumpled pieces, he muttered something about shirts but I pretended not to hear him!)

After visiting Aannaboos house I got this great idea for organising myself.  A peg for each day of the week, one for the 'to do' list and one for shopping.  All I need to do is find the letters 'm' and 's' and I can finish them!

I also managed the birthday cake (yep claiming that as a make!) and my curtains are ready, they just need curtain poles to attach to (Mr H take note) - I know he noseys on here to see what I'm up to.

Here's a sneaky peek at February's effort although I have already finished one make for KP.

I also managed to finish my scavenger hunt for January and will pop along to add the extra photos to the previous post.

Phew! note to self, don't leave it so long between blogs!
Keep cosy folks, spring must be on the way soon (she says sitting on the rug in front of the fire, with her thick jumper on)
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