and the winner is ……………

Happy Monday I hope you all enjoyed your weekend and mums in the UK I hope you had a fun Mothers day yesterday, I felt very cherished by my three lovely daughters.

But back to the job in hand I’m sure you can’t wait for my prize draw. My giveaway ended last night and I have been overwhelmed by your lovely messages about my new blog, it feels very exciting to be part of something new.

I didn’t make it easy for myself, maybe next time I will try to figure out how to use one of the number generator tools. I counted, checked and double checked and then went back through my Instagram feed to capture all the extra entries for tagging friends in – so now for the drum roll – and the lucky winner is “themessybrunette”

Maura congratulations it would be lovely if you could send me an email with your contact details, then I will package up 5 balls of the lovely Catona 25g cotton yarn for you – I’m happy for you to choose your own colour combination or I can do a little pick and mix for you.

I hope you have a nice day planned, the sun is trying to shine here today which is making me feel very Springlike. It’s my Crochet club tonight so I’m preparing a little Easter themed evening. Hopefully we can crochet up some little Easter treats – I’ve just found these that I made last year which has given me some inspiration for this evening.

Talk soon

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Just because it’s Thursday

Happy Thursday everyone thank you so much for supporting me I have been overwhelmed by the number of lovely comments I have received. It’s been such an amazing and positive start to my new Blog. I want to use my blog as a sort of diary to share my day to day happenings some ups hopefully but inevitably some downs as well which is just how life is. It definitely feels like an up day today and it’s nice to have my blogging head on.

I like to look back over each month by sharing a monthly collage I’m going to carry on creating my little montages. I often feel that I don’t achieve very much but when I look back at my collages I’m always astonished at how much I have actually achieved, which encourages me to be even more creative.

I know that it’s March but I didn’t want to exclude the collages I’ve already created so I have included January and February’s below, it will be nice to look back at them all at the end of the year

January 2016

February 2016

I’m really pleased with my collages so far  and hope March will inspire me as much.

Today I am having a home day, one of my close friends called for a coffee this morning which was great as we haven’t caught up for a while. Then during the afternoon I have a couple of  yarn orders to sort out, my new Scheepjes yarn is becoming very popular.

I’ve also got to finish planning this Saturday’s Amigurumi workshop which always takes me much more time than I think it will

 

and then if time permits I want to start writing up a little house pattern I’m working on.

 

I had better get back to work otherwise nothing will get done

talk soon x

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New beginnings

Good afternoon everyone I hope you are having a happy March 1st, it’s nearly Spring. I am so excited today and also full of fear and trepidation – if this sounds over dramatic it’s because it is such a big thing for me as I’ve left my old blog  behind and moved over to WordPress. I’m suddenly out of my comfort area, I could navigate confidently around blogger but sadly I couldn’t find a way to add new features. This transition to WordPress has been made easy as my good friend Anna has been leading the way, holding my hand and if I’m totally honest doing all the hard work and setting my blog up for me.

I’m so pleased with the finished product and with Anna’s help I think I can take baby steps forward on my own.

The new format enables me to share information about my crochet workshops and yarn but keeps my Blog on a separate page which is what I wanted. It will take a little time for me to populate everything and I’m sure I will have a few teething problems along the way. I’ve been experimenting with some pattern writing and also have the facility to share these with you.

To celebrate my new blog I’m going to have a little give away. I thought I would share a little parcel of some beautiful Scheepjes Catona yarn. It comes in the cutest mini 25 g balls.

If you would like to receive 5 mini balls of this adorable yarn it’s so easy to enter just leave me a comment and I will draw the winner on Sunday March 6th – so exciting.

I hope you will call by again and follow my new blogging journey, promise to post more frequently.

talk soon

Hugo – sweet and simple amigurumi

Hugo

A simple amigurumi pattern which I created for my Amigurumi Workshop, I’m happy for you to make and even sell little Hugo’s but please link the pattern back to my blog.

Please don’t reproduce or sell this pattern.