Tuesday Tally and 'Beautiful Bloggers Blanket of 2012' – Crochet Competition – Part Two

First up today is the Tuesday Tallies Total.. 

I popped over to Gingerbread Girl's Blog to check on everyone else's progress this week (of course I am last to post as usual)...and most of us seem to be suffering from overload.  This week I made 4 squares.. well, it has been a week to forget, and until last night I hadn't made any... zero....zilch... nada! 

I whipped these 4 up last night and they are still wet!

What a beautifully posed photo... chucked on the trolley (yep, my craft space IS a trolley)... c'est la vie... my count is now 90.

Secondly... the next part of my plan to get us all to work together on a project...did you see my button over there on the right..... read on:

Beautiful Bloggers Blanket of 2012 – Crochet Competition – Part Two

This time last year I didn’t know any of you... but I have spent 2011 learning to blog, discovering fantastic, inspiring blogs from all over the world, and finding friends who I have never met, but feel I know...Now it is time to celebrate!

This idea came to me recently when I was making my list of things to look forward to in the next year, a kind of ‘One year plan of loveliness’......

Knowing how lovely you all are, and how we ALL love a beautiful blanket and can’t EVER have enough of them....just look at Lucy’s pile here:

http://attic24.typepad.com/weblog/2009/03/hooky-business.html, 

or Heather’s pile here: 

http://www.littletinbird.co.uk/2011/09/25/gratuitous-blanket-fest/), 

or these at Serendipity Patch:

http://serendipitypatch.blogspot.com/2011/07/crochet-blankets.html 

I hope that you will want to join me in making 

The Beautiful Bloggers Blanket of 2012

Our blanket is an ethereal thing... 


No-one knows what it will look like... 


No-one knows what colour it will be....


No-one knows the pattern that will be used... 

No-one even knows how big it will be! 

But it IS coming.... 

Beautiful Blogger Blanket 2012 - A 'Make It Together' project Coming Soon!

First of all I want to say, "THANK YOU SO MUCH" to everyone who sent me such lovely messages after our little Molly passed away last week... enough said.....

I need to do something positive... something which involves thinking and planning for the future and I have come up with an idea for a Make It Together project.  

Now I don't know if anything like this has been tried before (if you know could you tell me), but I thought it would be a great way to bring us all together to do something nice for one of us over Christmas and the New Year... and that one could be any of us!  

I spent this afternoon trying to design a button for the project, and hopefully, with a little luck, this is what it looks like....

Ummm... that is meant to look like a patchwork crochet blanket! 

Watch this space for more information! 

Lovely Little Molly...

Lovely little Molly - our 12 1/2 year old black poodle passed away this morning... she was intelligent, loving, loyal, clever, playful, funny, a constant companion, wonderful substitute Mother to Fred, and most of all... 

......she was loved.....

Let's hope today isn't groundhog day!

Only a very quick update for Gingerbread Girl' s Tuesday's Tallies today, 

with a photo that looks like it was taken on a Box Brownie! 

86 squares...

Sorry- it's dark outside already and this day has been one of those you prefer not to repeat - 

I didn't get a job I wanted, and my little poodle, Molly, has gone into the vets for big surgery ...

Crochet therapy is much needed... and that is all I plan to do this evening... 

so on with the slippers, the tea is in the pot, and I am off to hooky-land... 

I'll be back with better photos I promise....

I did it... finally!

Well this may seem  like a tiny, insignificant achievement to those 

hook worn Crochet Masters amongst you... but I just made a 

chainless foundation row!  

Hurrah for me! You have no idea how much this small challenge has been annoying me - chainless faoundations are popping up in all kinds of patterns.. but thanks to Lazytcrochet and her simple explanation, I have done it... 

Here is proof:

and guess what?  It is easy peasy lemon squeesy!  

One-a-day Tuesday Tallies - Week 11?

I'm getting confused...I think this is Tuesday Tallies Week 11 on the One-a-day project... time is flying far too fast! I am usually late for the tally, but this week I am determined to be on time....My current tally is 81 squares for my Sunny Spread... I should have 76, so obviously I am still a bit too keen....now I have sewn up a big square, a middle-sized square and a baby square...

it sounds like a Goldilocks episode.  

I think I am going to aim for 4 of the big squares sewn together to achieve anywhere near the size my daughter would like... I know I'll have to stop somewhere... so I will aim for a total of 256 squares, minus the 81 I have already...oh my goodness that is another 175 to make.... if I continue making one a day I would finish on 21st May 2012!  Oh wait... the border..  I think the 'Ta-Dah' will be sometime in June 2012.  Phew... 

I have been busy looking for presents to go in the Advent Swap over at Lynda's blog: Hookinwithlaalaa... I have been paired up with Madison from Madison Makes.   I think I have 20 gifts ready to go... of course I can't show you any of them as it will spoil the surprise.. I'll give you a little peak at the one I was working on yesterday...

The idea is that I send Madison little 24 presents - one to be opened each day of Advent... and she sends me the same... It's a lovely idea isn't it.. a little bit of 'something for me' in amongst the Christmas preparations... I'm getting excited!  It is harder than I thought though...choosing presents for someone you have ever met... 


Last Saturday Hubby & I went to Blackthorpe Barn in Rougham, which is near Bury St. Edmunds.  There is a huge barn full of craft stalls.. including jewellery, china, prints, wood carving, metal work, textile art.. oh and my absolute favourite of the day.. Herbert.  Okay, this is Herbert...

Isn't he gorgeous! He was made by a lovely lady sculptor called Sally Dunham.  You should see the antics Herbert gets up to... rock climbing, shelf sitting, reading and of course...cuddling! My little Herbert has angel wings for Christmas... and the reason I find him so funny is that he reminds me of my hubby... Hmmm... must be that bald head!

Happy Tuesday everyone.. 

Don't forget to check out everyone else's progress in the One-a-Day group at Carole's blog:  Gingerbreadgirl

A smile, an 'Oooo' and a competition link

A lovely bloggy update popped into my Google reader this morning which made me giggle on this otherwise sad Armistice day... have you seen Crafts From The Cwtch yet? 


Sarah's sense of humour must be similar to mine, because her update today made me giggle so much! Go and meet 'Pixie Moon' there and see if she doesn't make you smile too? I'm sure Sarah won't mind me giving you a little peak to encourage you...

Whilst on Pinterest last night I found something that made me say, "Oooo" outload... sparking raised eyebrows from the Hubby...

This is Newspaper Yarn! I have seen paper yarns before, and love working with Katia Paper, but this article by Doug Gunzleman from the website, Green Upgrader at greenupgrader.com introduces Greetje van Tiem's tutorial: 

"With enough time, patience, and newspapers you can create newspaper yarn. From the design studios of Greetje van Tiem and her “Indruk” project she can purportedly spins 20yds of “yarn” from a sheet of old newspaper".

It looks easy! I'm dying to have a go... just need a spinner tool.......

Finally a great idea for a competition from another lovely blog:

http://elisabethandree.posterous.com/crochet-contest-part-2

There is space for 20 entrants in all and there are only 3 stitches involved! 
You need to sign up by December 10th... 

I'm in :)x