Project 1, 2 and 3

Hello, so nice of you to stop and see what I've been up to. I have a question: Do you take your camera to work with you? I don't know about you but I am fortunate to work in the Community and so I travel around my patch of the East Sussex a bit, this is a huge bonus to my NHS job as I love that I can experience the elements in my job rather than being closed up in a hospital as I once did many moons ago. Since blogging I've started carrying my camera to work...am I woman possessed? I just get mad if I see something beautiful and cannot capture it in my lens. On Wednesday i had to go up to our local Hospital to a team meeting and parked near these beautiful trees and couldn't resist a 30 second stop to capture these pretty berries whilst crunching on acorns underfoot and smelling burning wood from a nearby house. Lucky me being able to have a sensory delight before focusing on work ;0)


Ok, on with today's story, it's a WIP and ta-dah story. Do you remember I mentioned I had a little crochet idea floating in my grey matter a week or so ago, well it's come to fruition and even more exciting I found this beautiful etsy shop here which added to my inspiration. Do have a look around Rachel's shop it's stunning! 


So here is what materialised...

Two very sweet rosette's one for E and one for P who are getting married next Saturday! I'm so excited about giving these to E, I hope she will like them. I'm not much of an embroiderer and these are not shop worthy as such but I am not a perfectionist and each and every stitch is made with love and joy. Oh happy day for E and P next Saturday, many blessings for your beautiful union and life together!


I sewed a pin on the back of both of them so they can either wear them or pop them on a pin board or wherever they want to.

E is a Speech and Language Therapy colleague of mine and she has been planning her wedding for a while now and will be wearing a vintage inspired dress. Oh, I do love a wedding! here's one more photo just because I'm so excited for her...

These really are sooooo easy to hook up if you are familiar with very basic crochet stitches. I'll give you a little pattern I made up if you'd like?


We have been having glorious Autumnal days, blazing sunshine, blue skies and fresh chilled air. Loving it I am.

Yes, the evenings are drawing in earlier, darkness is not always fun but I am enjoying the beautiful sunsets we have been having.

The chills in the air have pleasantly coincided with me finishing my cowl/snood as mentioned in this post. So here she is, all 100% malabrigo which is super warm, snug and soft (no scratches on my skin please)

It's long enough to pull up over my head to make it into a snood to cover my ears when the wind howls through my bones in deepest darkest winter.

I love it, all electric and blue.


We have been having some work done on Alice's room this week (thanks Alan) and there is stuff everywhere, surprisingly I am remaining calm about this. It's been a good excuse to have a sort out and recycle, charity shop donate and skip dump, very cathartic indeed. In amongst this I found this WIP which I had completely forgotten about. How spoilt am I to be able to make more than one thing at a time, so it's got a little more attention this week and I plan to give this to J for her birthday at the end of November.

It's one of the two crochet patterns in Jane Brocket's beautiful book The gentle art of knitting {which is now selling for half price on Amazon}. I love everything about this book and pattern.

It's a real pleasure to make this blanket, it's not going to be huge but something small and cosy for couch snuggling.


I've also been a naughty girl and have bought some more yarn for my chevron blanket I plan to crochet in Jane Brocket's book.

I've never seen rooster yarn before, I found it hard to choose colours but wanted a retro / art deco look to my chevron blanket. I think I might throw a dark grey in too, we'll see.

Rightee-ho I must a-go as Alice is chomping at the bit to make some vintage cup candles as was promised last night. 

Happy, sweet times to you and yours this weekend.