Crocheting and flowers

Even though I haven't been doing much crocheting, my granny stripe blanket is now taking shape. I'm pleased with how it's coming on and I'm excited to see how it will look once its finished, that might be a long way off though!

Here is my progress so far.

The pink lupin in the rockery is flowering now and looks lovely.

I don't know what has happened to the red lupin though! It went a bit funny after I bought it but it seems to be perking up a little bit now.

The foxglove isn't flowering yet but seems to be doing well.

I haven't seen any ladybirds yet this year, which is unusual. Last year it was about April when I first saw them and we had quite a few around the garden. I guess it's the late Spring making them later. I haven't seen many butterflies either, just the Large Whites.

I have been busy uploading my mums photos to Flickr now that you get 1 terabyte of storage and unlimited uploads, it's nice to look through the old photos. I will be packing tomorrow to go on holiday on Friday, hopefully I will get to do some posts while I'm away.

Hope you all have a great week!

 

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Miserable weather

Well, what miserable weather we're having, I don't mind the rain but it would be nice to have some warmer weather now! I'm hoping it's nicer when I go away and I've found a nice beach to visit at Sea Palling.

I haven't taken many photos this week but I did get one of these two tone tulips, which I love.

My granny stripe blanket is coming on nicely, I've nearly finished the second colour. I've just been doing a bit here and there when I get the chance.

I'm watching One Foot in the Grave while I'm waiting for a delivery, it's one of my favourite sitcoms.

 

 

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Crochet update

Just a quick post today. I started my granny stripe blanket on Wednesday and have been doing a bit here and there, I'm not very quick at crocheting! I found the first two rows quite fiddly so it took a while to do. I'm following this pattern from Attic24. As I'm away next week I won't get any more done until I'm back.

I saw this blossom tree down my road, it's one tree but with two colours of blossom. I've never seen this before, has anyone else?

Well, I better get packing for my holiday!

 

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Such a busy week...

This week has been so busy and I haven't had time to write until now. I have been helping out with my niece and nephew and the new arrival for most of the week. We had my nieces birthday party here yesterday so it was a long day but I didn't get a chance to take any photos of the party.

Although it was a busy week I did manage to get to hobbycraft and buy some wool and it was on a 3 for 2 offer. I haven't been able to do any crocheting this week but I'm hoping to do a granny stripe blanket like this one from BunnyMummy and I have ten colours of wool.

 

I will post an update when I get started!

I have enjoyed seeing the garden come to life this week, with the arrival of lots of tulips and the flowers blooming in the rockery. I bought some flowers from the garden centre on Friday and I'm hoping to pot them up later on today. I will try to remember to take some photos to put into my next post.

I have got another busy week coming up with visiting friends, helping with the children and we are going to Legoland tomorrow for my nieces birthday!

 

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New arrival...

I woke up this morning to a text message from my sister, saying she had had a baby boy in the early hours of the morning! I'm now officially an Aunty to three and unofficially an Aunty to two!

I gave my pink practice crochet square to my niece, she said she wanted it for her doll, it must be a small doll!
Here is my practice granny stripe, it looks ok but a bit messy at the corners and I ran out of wool. 

I have started a blue practice square now, I think I will carry on with this for a bit and then maybe start on a granny stripe blanket. 

The 19th April was primrose day, my nan says she has never planted any primroses in the garden but we have a few of patches of them dotted around. 

I keep messing about with layout of this blog, changing colours and photos but I'm still not 100% happy with it but it will do for now. 

My week so far

It's been a pretty quite week so far. On Monday I saw a slow worm while picking my niece up from play group, it's the first one I've seen for ages.

We also took some pictures of blossom and a yellow flower, I'm not sure of the name. The two close ups of the blossom are a bit blurred as I used my phone camera.

Yesterday I made some cakes to use up some out of date eggs. They are yummy!

I saw a new flower in the garden at the weekend, I wasn't sure what it was but on the BunnyMummy blog there is a similar one.

My crochet practice is coming on well! My square is getting a bit bigger but still looks lopsided! I have started practicing granny stripe too, I'm following the pattern from the Attic24 blog. Eventually I would like to be able to make a granny stripe blanket, like this one from BunnyMummy. I'm still finding it hard to hold the crochet hook properly but guess it just takes practice to get it right.

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