Snow, Hail, and Thunder

What a morning it has been, woken early by very loud hail storm, followed later by thunder and lightning and snow.
It was then followed by rain to clear it all away.
Luckily I did manage to get out and get some photographs of the snow earlier in the week.

I am very lucky to get to see these views each day on my way to work.
My favourite times are those when I arrive on the promenade as the sun is beginning to rise, truly stunning.

 

I have followed last weeks crochet inspiration from the Big Garden Birdwatch, with more from the African topic we have been doing at work. It's not often you get to see a giraffe in the snow.

 

 

To add to my collection I am now busy hooking up a zebra, very tempted to make a multi coloured version but stuck to black and white for now.

 

 

Hope you have a lovely weekend.

 

Kathryn x x

Big Garden Birdwatch

This weekend has been the rspb Big Garden Birdwatch. While getting ready for this I have been inspired to get out my hooks and yarn and make a few little birdies of my own.

 

 

These little lovelies are much more obliging when needing them to stay still while I try photograph them.

 

It was nice to work on a nice small project, and once I got going I kept having new ideas for more and more birds.

 

 

This little blue bird is my favourite of the flock.

 

 

 

Hello New Year

Well it has been a long time since I posted here, and I have no excuse.

So here I am, first post of the New Year and my first makes.

 

I have been loving these two projects from the issue 27 of Simply Crochet.

Sometimes you just need a project that works up quickly and is pretty. I now have myself 6 of these lovely pincushions x

 

I have also been working on one of my own patterns

 

 

I first had a go at a monkey a few months ago, but he was in pink, but this little cheeky chap is going to be part of a display where I work so I thought I should make a more 'monkey coloured' fellow.

 

 

Although I do think pink is quite fetching for a monkey.

 

Katie x x