Post Surgery Boredom

I had my surgery ten days ago and boredom settled in after day one. I hate sitting around doing nothing it drives me insane, yes I am in pain, no I can't move around, my body was telling me to rest, my brain on the other hand wanted me to get up and get busy. I decided I would make a list of things I could do without actually moving around.

1. Catch up reading posts of blogs I follow.

2. Catch up on emails.

3. Make a nice long list of things I can't do but can get my husband to do with me shouting downstairs every two minutes, have you finished my list yet!

4. Make my dog, Tilly, stay with me and keep me company. This one lasted about an hour, in which time she slept and snored very loudly, once she woke up she decided she had enough and walked off since I wasn't doing anything interesting or anything involving food.

5. Make a list of all the jobs I need to do in the allotment, then look outside and whinge at my husband that it's so nice outside and I can't do any of them.

6. Lots and lots of crocheting.

7. Sort my iTunes out.

8. Check out Easter sale deals. For some time now I have been coveting my mum's Tassimo coffee machine but I just couldn't bring myself around to buying one, I thought they were expensive and took up quite a bit of room, I only have a small kitchen. However, I noticed a couple of deals on Curry's and Argo's website for the Tassimo Vivy which is apparently the most compact one of them all, it cost £35 which I though was very reasonable and I also got two e-codes for £20 off my first order of coffee pods. I now drink at least three times more coffee than I used to!

9. Watch old Ealing films on YouTube.

I guess the only two things I haven't done, until today that is, was watching films and crocheting. I'm a total crochet addict but I could not seem to get my head around doing anything, my brain had gone on strike. Today is the first day I felt the slightest bit of enthusiasm to do any.

Easter has now been and gone and I noticed my tree branches in my window still had the little yellow wooden Easter eggs on it, so I decided to re-decorate it and crochet some bright flowers.

I used Patons Extra Fine DK Merino from Deramores, I just love the colour range. I have just checked the website, they are priced at £4.29 for a 50g ball and there are 45 colours to choose from. I bought mine when they had a special offer on merino wool, it's always worth checking what special offers Deramore's have as they change each week.

The pattern I used was from Attic 24 and is called a Double Flower. I didn't follow the pattern completely I did not want the top of the double flower as I wanted to put a button in the middle and thought it might look a little bit chunky if I did this.

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Spring Blossom Tree

Recently my Uncle gave me some hazel twigs that he had sprayed white, I put them in a large vase and thought they would look nice with something crocheted on them. I decided to crochet lots of small flowers in different colours using merino yarn. I definitely think it gives my room a little bit of colour?

The pattern I used for the flowers is from Attic 24.

 

 

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Crochet and Fabric Keyrings

As I mentioned in my previous post I had received two lovely presents, in return I made the two ladies crochet/fabric keyrings. As they are filled with lavender they could also be used as a pomander for your wardrobe, I have a few of these myself.

The fabric is from Harlequin, a small offcut from the Scrap Store, the lace is vintage and was made by my great great grandmother. I decided to use a mauve colour merino wool to match the flowers on the fabric. I lightly stuffed the holder and filled with english lavender which I had grown in my allotment.

The double flower pattern I have used is from Attic 24

 

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Crochet Hook Wrap and Fabric Flower Brooch

I have met so many nice people at Ulverston Scrap Store, it's always great to chat away to people who have the same craft interests, you can bounce ideas off one another.

Two members from the Scrap Store brought me gifts they had made using items from the Store, I was completely overwhelmed, it's so lovely to receive an unexpected present and I feel very lucky.

They both know that I love to crochet and made me a crochet hook wrap and a flower brooch. Very talented ladies.

So happy right now !!

 

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Crocheted Flower Pots

I love the start of Spring, all my favourite flowers start to bloom, daffodils, crocus, snowdrops. I noticed my local greengrocers have started to sell daffodils in pots, I decided to buy two. However, my pet hate is the small plastic pots they are in. To combat this I decided to crochet a couple of pot covers.

I had a look in my stash bag and noticed I had a ball of Sugar and Cream in Rose Petal, it's available at the Wool Warehouse site. I have noticed that even though the yarn is infused with the fragrance of rose petals the smell does not last long, a couple of days and then it seems to disappear, I do like the yarn though it is easy to crochet with and I like the change of pinks as I crochet along.

I didn't have a particular pattern in mind for this I just crocheted a foundation chain checked it would go around the pot and then joined it into a circle with a slip stitch. I used a double crochet stitch and worked in the round until I got to the height of the pot. I couldn't decide how to finish the top so I crocheted four chains and joined with a double stitch into the top circle, crocheted another four chains, skipped two stitches along the top circle and double crocheted in the next stitch, I carried on with this all the way around the top.

Hope you like them

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Crocheted Christmas Holly and Berry Bottle

In November I went metal detecting with my dad and one of the items I unearthed was a 1900's square gin bottle, I loved the shape and decided I wanted to do something Christmassy with it.

I selected a couple of Christmas colour yarns, Patons Merino Extrafine DK in shade 00173 green for the main part of the bottle and Millamia Natural Soft Merino in Moss for the holly leaves, Patons Merino Extrafine DK in shade 00131 red for the berries.

I didn't have a particular pattern for this I crocheted a foundation chain and joined it to make a circle. I then ensured it fit around the base of the bottle, I double crocheted around the foundation chain over and over until I got towards the top, when I then needed to reduce my stitches to ensure it would fit nice and snug around the neck of the bottle.

The pattern I used for the holly and berry leaves is from Attic 24.

My Uncle cut some of his willow for me and sprayed it white, I love the effect.

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Christmas Hares

I picked up two hares from a lovely shop called Brambles in Ulverston, I couldn't resist them. I gave them a home next to my fire and tried to explain to my dog that they were not new toys for her to play and chew. After I put my Christmas decorations up I decided they needed to be a little bit dressed up and decided to knit them some scarves.

I used Patons Merino Extra Fine DK yarn using a double crochet stitch throughout and attached them using a couple of extremely small buttons.

 

 

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