Crochet along

Oh I've been busy this week- back to work Monday to Friday and getting everything ready for when Tom leaves home next Saturday to go to University. I think the only thing that has kept me grounded this week has been sitting quietly crocheting whenever I can. It takes just enough concentration to push out the stresses, yet I can have conversations and watch TV whilst doing it- just what I need...


I'm doing a crochet along with Inner Hooker on facebook aka Scotti, see also http://oxfordfam.blogspot.com/ . We're at the end of the first two weeks. It's the first time I've joined in with anything like it and I'm loving it. 


So as to my progress- I'm pretty happy with it so far... I now need to lay them out on our bed to take a photo rather than on the settee- I know it's a strange way to mark progress- but I've never claimed to be conventional!

The Field of Flowers granny is my first ever attempt at being random and is therefore quite therapeutic.  I am struggling with the lack of a repeating pattern- it means I'm actually constantly having to think about making sure no one colour combination dominates any area- that's harder than I thought it would be- I find myself almost wanting to plan it out- aaarh!

My other granny is the opposite- just four colours and a very controlled pattern- sets of 7 hexagons which I will join with surface crochet when they are all done. I had to get more wool today and managed to match 3 of the colours but not the fourth so I have to hope I have enough... I'm sure a solution will present itself if necessary...

I have two boxes on the go, one for each granny, here's the coffee one...

... I take these wherever I want to crochet- even in the car (I can get quite a lot done whilst John gets to be my chaffeur  - hee hee). I just keep grabbing 5 minutes whenever I can and doing a little at a time...


I discovered that I like crocheting in the car in the summer. During the 6 hour drive from Bodmin to Liverpool I made the arms, legs, muzzle and ears for this little fellow...

Amazing what you can get done when you are not able to do much else!


I made another little cutie during that trip too. 

Both are based on patterns I found on Etsy by Dawn Toussaint (note - I have made changes to both patterns to make them the way I wanted).


Anyway time to crochet beckons,
So until next time
Gillian

My little phobia- bridges!

I have two things I really don't like, anything where I fear I can fall down, like steep paths or edges of cliffs, and bridges (well, you can fall off them too!).


Today we went for a river side walk and it just happened there were several bridges to cross, well actually several planks of wood across little streams. Everyone else just trotted across easy as anything but I found it a little tougher... I did it though! But perhaps it is a bit much to admit I was actually pleased with myself for managing...

This sign is from Respryn Bridge - but surely it applies to all those planks of wood we crossed!!!

This bridge is a little more reasonable.

We've played Pooh sticks here many times before...

For more photos of our walk see my other blog- Adventures in Geoland at http://adventuresingeoland.blogspot.com/2011/04/river-fowey-walk.html




And finally, proof I did cross the planks...







Until next time
Gillian