….Jasmine!!!

Yes - finally after more than a year she is finished…..so the details (if you’re interested)

Pattern - Jasmine from Rowan 39

Yarn - Rowan 4ply Cotton

Needles - 3mm needles & 3mm crochet hook

Cast on - Spring 2006

Completed - 22nd June 2007

Thanks to everyone who offered advice/help with the crochet edging, DH’s cousin was staying with us last Wednesday & Thursday and she crochets so she gave me some help as well and I did this -

I don’t know if it’s exactly what the pattern called for but I like it. I finished her on Friday evening and was so pleased as we had friends coming over on Saturday to go out for lunch. I pressed her and chose my outfit to complement her perfectly and we set out into the sunshine together. I was planning to have DH take lots of lovely photos of us in the sunshine by the river in Marlow…..then the biggest thunderstorm in memory struck and we all had to run for home …..so here are some photos taken in our garden and lounge

I was so pleased with my crochet skills that I went off looking for something else to crochet and I have discovered Amigurumi and I’m hooked (ha! no pun intended!!!!). I have bags of small oddments of yarn that I inherited from my grandmother, she used to knit toys and small items for church fetes and Amigurumis seem like a perfect way to use up these oddments - and they are just so darn cute!!!

So, here’s my first ever Amigurumi - “Usagi” (Rabbit in Japanese)

He started out as these little pieces -

The head and body I just made two spheres with increases and decreases, the ears were based on the Best Bunny pattern on the Lion Brand website. The arms were just a spiral of 6 double crochets (that’s single crochets in US). He was made with Sirdar Snuggly Chunky in cream from my stash and a 5mm crochet hook.

I’m pretty proud of him…..and he’s been checking out our house (note the new carpet on the stairs - I’m so excited about it)

What else have I been doing? Well, as you can see from the gorgeous new carpet we’ve been doing some work in the house - the stairs, landing and two spare rooms now have new carpet as well as the lovely new paint job we gave them at Easter and there are curtains on the window at the top of the stairs for the first time in the 6 years we’ve lived here! Wow, after 6 years it’s almost starting to look like a home……

I’ve also been knitting a tea-cosy, this was inspired by my visit to The Natural Dye Studio - Amanda had knit this and I fell in love with it

the yarn is Misti Alpaca DK 4 ply which I got some time ago in a swap together with a Mohair loop from Natural Dye Studio whish has been in my stash for ages - and it has about 300 beads. I’ve got a bit further but batteries have run out on the camera so I’ll have to post finished photos later this week, meantime here’s a close up of the beads

I forgot to mention when I posted about the workshop that I couldn’t resist buying some goodies whilst I was in Suffolk - as well as the tea-cosy pattern and the beads I bought some silk and a pattern for a crochet scarf -

and I bought two lots of sock wool and some beautiful soft chunky mohair

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