WOYWW 636 Squares and hexagons

Hi all, 

Back for our weekly blog hop via Julia at the Stamping Ground (click on the WOYWW to the right to find out more.) 

As well as making more crochet squares, I’ve been trying out another hexagonal Jamie Crow pattern, Delft, which is available on Ravelry. Delft blanket  I’m thinking of using it for a cardigan. 

I don’t know if it’s me or if it’s because I decided I wanted to make it in cotton mix, but it’s a bit messy at present. 

The charity likes textured squares as well as ones with appliqué. 

sorry I didn’t do much visiting last week; I had a week of cluster headaches. Better now. 

That’s why it might be my inexactitude with the complicated pattern at fault. With these though I know it’s best to keep going and see if it looks better at the end. 

Cats

Bella and Gracie have got us well trained already. They have enormous energy and chase each other up and down the stairs, before collapsing for a nap. 

We started showing Bella (the more adventurous of the two) the garden today. More work needed there to make sure they know how to get in via the cat flaps. 

They occasionally allow us a bit of the bed 😻

And finally….

Take care and keep crafting!

Hugs

Lynnecrafts 

WOYWW 635 the hare and the moon in dragon vein

Hi, this week I can finally show you a pendant I made for Jan’s birthday. 

I saw this Dragon’s vein agate crescent and it called out to me to combine it with a silver hare. It’s not a stone I’d heard of but I couldn’t resist it. 

I’ve made a few more squares and have been playing a bit with Tunisian crochet. It makes a dense, textured fabric, with little stretch.

I like the shading effect, but it curls terribly.

For comparison, here’s the same combination in linen stitch. Boring but well- behaved! 

 I’m not sure what I’d use the Tunisian crochet for, maybe a cardigan button band? 

I did a couple more blanket squares as well. 

I’m waiting for the yarn to arrive for a new project. More about that next week. 

In the meantime my recovery role continues to be that of cat cushion to this delightful pair, Gracie and Bella. 

And finally

1.For Susan Renshaw…

2…..

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Stay safe and keep on crafting!

Hugs

Lynnecrafts 

WOYWW 634 cats and squares

Hi there! I'm back for our weekly blog hop, peeking into each others craft workspaces courtesy of Julia at the Stamping Ground. Click on the WOYWW to find out more.

Here's my crafting for this week. I'm making 6inch squares for a charity called Hug a Blanket, which makes special blankets for children with severe or life-limiting illnesses. For the moment, as I slowly recover from my lung problems. it's interesting enough without being too taxing.  

And of course, I have a new job - as cat cushion!

This sums me up.  or two.... 

Bella and Gracie are an absolute delight. 

Gracie was so timid in the cattery, hiding behind the basket, but she's blossomed here. 

She jumps up on my lap, head butts me, licks my nose and likes a fuss. She will stare into my eyes for minutes at a time.

 

Bella is so energetic, I wondered if she has some Bengali ancestry as she surfed down a shelf of DVDs this morning. Here she's found a local OS map. I wonder if she's plotting adventures? We're keeping them in for a couple of weeks but I'm sure  they’ll enjoy the garden.

I found the earrings below from a promotion on our local NextDoor app. Carrie, A Folkestone woman, who  is too ill to work, has set up an Etsy shop, making polymer jewellery. I bought the ones below to hang off my sleepers. Very nice quality, dramatic and good value.

Her shop is here Simply Pretty Craft Well worth a look.

She even sent me a 2nd pair for free! I'm going to put them on silver sleepers, but this gives you an idea.

We had tickets for the Rude Mechanicals Theatre Company, who come and do an outside performance of Commedia dell'Arte on our village green, the Tayne Field, every summer. Brian took chairs and blankets across, then came back for me. My legs were like jelly but it was a really good show, "Little Lily Harley," about Charlie Chaplin's childhood.  They're touring the South of England - well worth seeing if you can. Tickets and schedule here: Little Lily Harley

They have a Death character who did a wonderful Dead tango - I want that for my funeral!

And finally....

Stay safe and keep on crafting!

Hugs

Lynnecrafts

WOYWW 633 Cats

Hi, a little crafting work in progress this week. 

There’s a Facebook group (Hug a blanket) that makes blankets in squares for kids with life limiting illnesses. 

I thought I’d try a cat or two….

Thank you all for your good wishes last week. I’m out of hospital and trying to recover from a partially collapsed lung. 

Our local hospital is due to reply by Wednesday night to my complaint about being kept next to covid positive patients. If not it will be made formal, with copies to the CQC, the CEO and the press. 

Of course I’m staying at home now. On steroids I have no immunity and those stupid di**heads in power are making an even worse mess of it than ever. 

Someone had a sense of humour on the ward. They gave me my drink in this cup. I liked it so much I asked to bring it home. 

People have been asking how I’m managing with my breathing in the heat. I’ve just realised why the room is cooler than usual. 

Builders were supposed to be coming to redo the rendering on the front of the house, which faces south. They’ve put up the scaffolding and then haven’t yet come back so it’s a bit like a verandah. 

I must get B to look up the recipe for mint julep🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸All I can say is “Peel me a grape, Beulah”.😎

I hope they don’t come banging when the cats have just arrived. 

We’re due to pick up Bella and Gracie at the end of this week. Till then….

And finally…

Stay safe and happy crafting 

Hugs

Lynnecrafts 

WOYWW 632

Hi all, not a lot to report craft wise this week as I’m in hospital with lung problems. On O2 and meds. 

Picking up my linen stitch cardigan again, when I get chance. 

You know, the person who invents a non painful way of taking blood pressure will have to be crowned world president or something or at least get 2 dozen Nobel prizes. 😉 

Lots of arguments necessary to stop them putting me, an immuno-suppressed shielder, in a ward next to patients who’ve tested positive for covid. Formal complaint sent. I’m now in a single bed side room, guardians with crossed swords at the door to ward off the demands of the dreaded bed manager.

This diet notice, still on the wall for a former patient, intrigues me. It’s right in my eye line. What are Thai bran flakes? Is that all the poor man was eating? 

After all that, the night shift nurse came in and we recognised each other. She worked at my Mum’s last nursing home near Ashford two years ago and remembers both her and me. She’s one of the excellent Nepalis locally. We’re lucky to have them here. 

We had a nice chat. She even rremembered Brian’s Welsh cakes he always baked my Mum.  I showed her my favourite photo of my Mum end she remembered it being in the room. I liked to show who she was before the cruelty of dementia. 

Update: heart rate is down and my oxygen saturation levels are up, yay! I tell my night nurse Nepalese friend it’s her effect! They’ll be chucking me out as soon as they can as I’m trouble. Hee hee😻😻

We’re due to pick up this pretty pair next week. This first one was called Daisy but I won’t stick to that as it was the name of next door’s tabby who was run over. I struggled to find a name that would fit and have settled for Gracie. Do you think it suits her?

Bella has always been Bella but she might get called Bellissima at times, and occasionally Miss Greedy 😻

And finally…

Take care and keep crafting!

Hugs

Lynnecrafts 

WOYWW 631 Getting ready to be adopted

Hi all, back again for our weekly blog hop. 

I’m still very sad about Thea but we are getting ready to be adopted by two new ladies. 

I am crocheting a cushion cover. It grows quickly in C2c stitch, from this:

To this. 

It is in these quiet colours to make a cushion to go inside the base of this:

The ladies who will be adopting us are Bella (aged 4)

And Casey (aged7). 

We’re not sure of the familial relationship, but they came together to the rescue shelter. Bella is confident but Casey is timid yet so we’ll need to take it slowly with her. She might appreciate a hidey hole, hence the cat tree. 

They can’t come to us until about 20 July when they’ll have had their 2nd vaccine so I go up to see them most days, give them treats and read to them from Old Possums Book of practical cats. Bella looks at me eyes wide when I tell her of Mephistopheles and Macavity!

We also had the finale of the Lyminge festival last weekend. There was a great quilting show, a report of which can be found via this link. 

Ethelburgas-quilt-show-in-lyminge

Our friend Liz is the organiser and made many of the quilts. I adore this silk cushion she made

We also had displays of Anglo Saxon crafts, a ship and battles though we missed them as we went for our (very nice) wedding anniversary lunch. The rope making was interesting and the dyeing techniques. 

And finally…

Stay safe and happy crafting!

Hugs

Lynnecrafts