I couldn't resist being cheerful

Thank you Sweeties for all your lovely comments about my socks, I'm still being a little secretive-smiley about wearing them and knowing I made them with my very own hands. OK enough smug, more humble please!


I know that at this time of the year here in the Northern hemisphere it's easy for us all to lean into the "January Blues" and even easier to find little to feel cheerful about so if you are feeling somewhat blue why not try and take part or have a look at Penny's Reasons to be cheerful and it might {or I hope it will} make your week a little lighter. So here goes my reasons...

I have decided to make progress with my hexagon paper pierced hand stitched quilt for our girly Alice. I am really loving the therapeutic sewing, so soothing and a little addictive. I plan to work on this for months and months and have made Alice promise me that she will stamp her feet and yell like a wild feral thing if I decide to give in and make it small in view of my impatience.

Fabric source: Old, new, vintage, tea cloths, sheets, pillow cases, shweshwe, Alice's old clothes and anywhere I can find a scrap or two.

Who can complain that this fabric is not cheerful? Bought from here last Summer. The fact that I've retrieved it from the attic is progress in the right direction. I might just have that dress I'm dreaming of this Summer.

A little February something to look forward. This was my little Christmas present to myself {do you do that? Not sure where this little "tradition" of mine started but it sure as polar bears is not going to stop!}. I spotted the CK workshops advertised in the December copy of my Country Living Mag {which is actually the January issue} and thought for £16, a 2hour patchwork workshop in the Tunbridge Wells CK store and a copy of the book...Why not? Did I get a subliminal message when I booked this to get cracking on the hexagon patchwork? Hhhmmm!

  

My cheerful ADDICTION of needles and yarn... what more can I say? I am using up all scrapy left overs as Alice did here when she made the loveliest waste-not want-not vest. I'm knitting a little Pebble Vest that Alice has also so beautifully knitted too. 

And, last but not least a little Noro sock yarn to cheer the soul. I am hoping that little Miss. Alice will like this and allow me to grace her feet with some very old fashioned hand  knitted socks. I think I will add a little Alice in Wonderland twist to this yarn to encourage her to choose it, as it invokes thoughts of what kind of rabbit hole I would have liked to fall down and hopefully she'll agree? {we are going through an interesting exerting her independence phase at the moment, all good but a little challenging at times!} 

So to end off today some encouraging words;

If it’s snowing or it’s hailing,
Or late winter checks the spring –
If the northern wind is wailing,

Still this heart of mine will sing. 

                                                                                                             (sorry I can't remember where I scribbled this down)

Hope you have found this a little cheery too xox