One of my new Year's resolutions this year was to learn to crochet - enough to make granny squares. Well I'm getting there with that, but it's slow going. One day I'd like to make a blanket but today is not that day! However I saw this in a charity shop (labelled 'knitted baby blanket') and realised Miss Mouse would love it, so for £3.50 it was mine. So she gets (more) pink in her bedroom and I get something to aspire to!
Another half-resolution was to do more with the garden this year. I've certainly achieved more in the way of flowers, but also ta-da..!
Carrots.. little 'uns grown in a pot. What I'd forgotten until I pulled them up was that I'd planted the rather groovy not-just-boring-orange carrot seeds but er, white too. Next year I plan to grow the purple ones as well. What I'd also forgotten is how fantastic carrots taste straight from the garden!
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Hey, if you want to get together for some crocheting, give me a shout!
I really want to learn to chrochet too- I've tired teaching myself so many times, but I just get in a right muddle. Well done with the carrots! xx
Karie, it'd be great if I could pick your brains sometime - I just can't seem to follow written patterns!
Charley, I've tried a squillion times and it's only this time that it's started to click! I've got an excellent book that really helped this time, though can't think of its title offhand...
I taught myself to crochet and it took quite a few months and several books. It wasn't until I made the smallest thickest beret that only a doll could wear that I worked out what I should be doing. I reckon we all get there in the end and once you do it's a great thing to get inspired with. Good luck with it.
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Thank you Bobo Bun! Don't know how I missed your comment before, sorry! I've produced some weird contorted bits of crochet but I'm definitely getting there with the granny squares now!
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