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

 

 

Here comes Halloween

Wow, this year seems to be flying by. Summer has gone, Autumn has created some beautiful photographic opportunities and now the clocks have gone back bringing early dark nights.

 

I am hoping for some nice weather this week so I can get out with my camera while I have some time off work. Unfortunately watching the weather forecast is not making me hopeful for this.

 

However, no matter what the weather decides to do I can still pick up my hook and work some of my own magic ready for Halloween.

 

 

Love these little ghosts I hooked up last night. They will look great strung up on invisible thread and hanging in the trees. Wondering if I can find some glow in the dark yarn to make a few more.

 

If you would like to make your own cheeky ghost, here is my pattern.

 

 

Dk yarn

3.5 mm hook

 

Make a magic ring, 6dc into the ring

1) 2 dc into each   (12st)

2) 1 dc, dc inc, repeat around    (18st)

3) 1 dc x 2 dc inc, repeat around   (24st)

4) 1 dc x 3 dc inc, repeat around   (30st)

5 - 11) 1 dc in each

12) 1 dc x 4, dc inc, repeat around   (36st)

13 - 16) 1 dc in each

17) 1 dc, 1 tr, 2 dtr, 2 dtr, 1 tr, 1 dc, repeat 5 times, slst to finish.

Weave in ends and add features.

 

 

Now I just have to get the fairies sorted out with their Halloween costumes.

 

 



 

Sunny Days

For most people I am quite sure the thought of getting outside to get some crafting done is a lovely idea, and for me, well it starts that way but I get distracted very easily!

 

I always start out with great intentions, then I start to spot the butterflies that are visiting and I just have to get my camera and start taking pictures.

 

 

First to be spotted today was this lovely peacock butterfly getting some sun.

Then more and more began to arrive.

 

 

I am lucky to have two beautiful buddleia bushes that attract lots of beautiful wildlife into my garden.

 

 

 

However my favourite of all the picture I took today was from when I was looking up at the clouds and spotted one that to me looked like a giant fairy.

Take a look and see what you think x

 

 

 

 

 

 

Playing with fairies

I don't know if you are anything like me when you are being creative, but I have a little problem of getting fixated on something I like. If I make something and I think 'wow' then I find myself making more and more very similar items.

At the moment my fixation is fairies!

 

I have always loved fairies. When my children were small I used to love taking them to the types of place where you could imagine fairies would live and get them to try to find them.

 

 

Each of the fairies have a name and they now have there own blog where you can follow their wanderings http://awanderwiththefairies.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/meet-fairies.html.

 

 

 

I wonder what other friends the fairies might find x x

 

Time for a holiday

Here we are half way through the half term holidays (yes I get a whole two weeks off - yippee) the weather has been a bit of a mixed bag, but I am not one to let a little rain spoil my time off - well we're not made of sherbet!

 

 

For a while my best friend and I had been promising our children to go on a ghost walk in York, so we packed our bags and headed of for a little trip to my favourite city.

 

 

I recommend that anyone visiting York should go on the ghost walk, not just for the stories but to hear the history that goes with the buildings of this beautiful place. 

 

 

 

It's lovely to take some time to get away and have some fun.

We had a lovely walk through the gardens. My daughter has got past the age were she will spend hours looking for fairies amongst the flowers, although we did spot one mythical creature.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Once I got home I set to work on the pattern for this little lovely who I am sure would feel right at home playing among the flowers.

 

 

 

Along with her sister fairy who was more inspired by the rain clouds.

 

 

 

And now I have another week off for playing with the fairies and designing some new patterns.