Happy New Year

Well I had a feeling this might happen because my patients is about as long as a caterpillar (I even stopped writing this sentance to pick at my fingernails) and I loose interest in things very quickly - it is a wonder I am still making this blanket because it will be a year come March! So yes I did expect that blogging would fall by the wayside but I suppose this is better late than never.

I have moved flats and this is very exciting because I have the sun now all day long (when it's out) and things are warm! I've seen people move into my old flat (I didn't move far at all!) and I feel sorry for how cold they will be.

Enough about that, this is the blanket so far! I'm 10 rows in so thats just over half way, cannot-believe-it! It's definitlely going to fall into March though but I guess a year isn't bad by my standards.

These flowers are making me smile too, I got the vase / jug in TKMaxx today (another impulse buy) and I couldn't be more pleased with it!

This blue and white cushion is a new addition to the already full-of-cushions sofa but I think it's quite a nice one, unlike the ugly cushion below. People seem to like it! The colours are bad. They used to be in the blanket but I decided early on to omit them (apart from the odd middle here and there) and I'm so glad I did.

Mmm blanket

I think this means I'm 1/3 of the way through - 6 out of 18 rows! Woooo!

Xmas granny stars

It would seem as long as it's granny based I can make things other than squares! I saw this on Attic 24's blog and I'm quite proud to say I manage to recreate it without a pattern (apart from only doing 3 dc for the outside when it should be 4 dc) but hey it worked well. Oh and then I found the pattern! Typical.

What the grannies are for

In my tiny window of half an hour i.e my lunch break at work, I've been putting together some of the completed squares! I am really excited, it looks so much better than I expected, but I know when I finish this row I'm going to have to go back and make more granny sqaures because they're not all finished! Here is a sneak preview

Red granny squares, all done

Finally, after months (this has been going on since April 09) all the red squares are done! Now only another 5 lots of 54 to go…

Making and Baking

We had a bit of a joke party at work recently to “celebrate” a year of a new database we use; highly exciting but an excuse for cake!

It’s halloween tomorrow so another excuse for cake and office decorating! Our office is an ex old-peoples home so it really didn’t take a lot of effort.

This is my costume for tomorrow, thank goodness for old primark jumpers and felt!

The garden centre

It’s taken two years but I finally visited the Hulme Community Garden Centre and I regret not going sooner because it’s really lovely. It’s run as a not for profit centre and as well as being a garden centre it’s a community space for people to come and garden which is great for local children.



My favourite area is pot rescue, there are probably hundreds of plastic pots, tubs, containers and troughs given away for nothing and there’s a neat little roof garden which shows what you can do with not a lot of space.



I came away with a lot of bulbs for next spring, costing something crazy like 10/15p per bulb – bargain!

September Granny Squares

With the help of Chorlton Knits and inspiration from the blogs I’ve been reading and endless blankets I come back with from Oxfam at festivals, I’ve been crocheting squares to make my own granny blanket. I made loads in a variety of colours but it just wasn’t working, so I’ve cut down from 10 to just 6 which is much better. It’s going to be 18×18 so will take a while but here’s how its shaping up so far!

September