Twelfth Night.

On Sunday, Epiphany, the Christmas cards were taken down, we tuck them in with the books in our hallway so they don’t blow away, no fixings are needed with a wall of festive arms. the tree, wreath and lights were safely ensconced in their garage home on Saturday. Before Christmas I meant to write letters to send with cards, or email a newsy letter to friends where we don’t do cards anymore. Letters were never done, we were too busy with preparations for Christmas, DS, DiL and the two grandchildren stayed for 6 days, afterwards it has taken us much time to recover, the last laundry bedding run was completed yesterday. When we had our downstairs cloakroom converted into a shower room, the plumbing changes in our utility room meant there was just not quite enough space for a tumbler dryer. As normally there is just the two of us it doesn’t matter, stuff goes on airers, banisters and hangers in winter and out on the whirly in the better weather.

Meant to post this,  so will update this Tuesday morning, just after breakfast, have to go to the dentist today, a shock to the system as I’ve hardly been out since before Christmas. Had a trip to DS and his family on the South Coast, a Pilates class and that is it. Fortunately I don’t get cabin fever, love our home and would be happy to stay in and complete projects all the time.

This plant was quite tiny when we bought it at church, plants, veggies and produce are sold as a fundraiser, it has grown so tall that I’m reminded of Jack and the Beanstalk, the position in our east facing dining room seems to be just right, in this house it is difficult to find homes for houseplants, windowcills are too cold or other places don’t have enough light. This fits, makes me feel happy, especially now the ghastly cold is going away as the antibiotics have kicked in. 

My aim for today is to finish the double crochet row of the sweet pea blanket and commence work on the proper pattern, just Trust I have the right number of stitches, much discussion about it all on FB and Lucy24’s blog. 

Cough, cough!

For the last couple of days at least DH and I have been suffering colds, it is a long while since we’ve been so afflicted and drained of energy.

This morning at 9am the instructions for crocheting a Sweet Pea blanket had been released by Lucy of Attic24 fame, each Friday there will be more guidance released. It is the first time I have attempted a CAL, Crochet Along whereby hundreds of crafters are attempting the same trellis pattern. I have kept to the rules, made a swatch and to my surprise discovered my tension is tight so am on 3rd swatch and hoping that a 5mm hook will work this time. Maybe that is why the Moorland blanket looks a bit narrow, may have to work a wider border when I reach that stage.

Whilst working on this swatch DH and I played Scrabble, very close match, I won by 8 points!

Not very clear, the yarn colour is not part of the sweet pea pack, same Stylecraft Special double knitting so good for practicing.

Another try.

Well, didn’t post yesterday as we had a long day, drove 50 miles to son,  daughter-in-law and grandchildren, left home before 7.30 so we could leave before daylight fades. Even managed to crochet whilst DH driving along A3, no turn offs, no navigation with which to assist but the work went away once we were joining M27, as it is not easy to determine in which lane one needs to be.

The crochet is a late Christmas gift, I managed to keep it a secret until then, but that meant only working on it when DH wasn’t around, which isn’t often. The scarf is from Red Nose Day Comic Relief MollieMakes magazine published in 2017, the pattern is designed by Lucy of Attic24, I have kept the length but made the scarf wider. My local Stylecraft didn’t have all the colours in the pattern so I have substituted some and added two extra colours.

Tomorrow I’m joining in a world wide Crochet Along to make a sweet pea blanket for us, hope I can keep up whilst finishing the scarf and the Moorland blanket being made for DiL

The scarf pattern is from this magazine. 

The scarf in progress, in the background is the Crochet book DS gave me for Christmas. 

The start of the Attic24 Moorland blanket, have done a lot more, will try and photograph the more recent progress.

New attempts

It is recently I realised how much I missed my blog as a diary or a point of reference so I typed out an entry, added photos of the most important event of last year, attempted to post on Wordpress but nothing appeared so have returned here hoping Blogger and iPad have settled their difficulties

The most important event from last year was the marriage of our lovely daughter, Martha to Jeremy six years almost to the day they met. The weather was perfect, we had a boat trip across Poole Bay after the ceremony at Poole Register Office, the MoG and MoB were witnesses.

Moved again.

Hi everyone,

Found myself not posting a blog very much so like many others have started putting a picture on Instagram and chatting about it, if you are interested in my ramblings slide over to Instagram, find me at  “ thepixiemum “ .

Today’s chat is about a spelling error on the Royal Academy’s wall.

Still posting

Just popped in here to say I am still posting and putting up photographs on the Wordpress site, had hoped that readers here would migrate across a bit more. About ten days ago I replaced my ten year old laptop with a shiny new model with Windows 10 and Blogger that I am trusting will work my main  Blog will remain with Wordpress now. It is early days with the new toy, it has a big screen yet the page on which I'm typing seems smaller than on my iPad, much easier to touch type here.

The blog is still mundane, domestic and I try not to be too controversial so no politics for example but knitting and crochet feature, changes to our home are recorded, for example we've had new parquet laid in our dining room and the old parquet in the hall restored, mention of our travels after we have returned to Pixie Towers, I would never announce on the web that I'm not at home.

Don't have any recent pictures on this machine, for lots of pictures, including some of our grandchildren you will have to go to the dark side.

So see you at pixiemumblog.wordpress.com, a reminder that approval by me for you to comment appears to be a one off event.

https://pixiemumblog.wordpress.com/

Just saying, the new blog seems to be working, meant to put links in, will try to do better but there are photographs now. 

Please come and join me at https://pixiemumblog.wordpress.com/ just for fun and enjoyment. 

Will keep this Blogger account open, one day the app may be supported, plus it is interesting to look back, I have used it to check when we had work done on Pixie Towers.