My two new projects..

Hello lovely people. Hope you've all had a lovely day! 

Well, I'm back to tell you all about my two new projects. The only thing is, I forgot to take photos of one of them, so I'll just have to describe it untill I get the photos on here:)

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Right, the first new project is going to be my Christmas 'Granny' square 'christmas tree' skirt.

In our new bungalow this year, we're going to have a real Christmas Tree! 

Yes, a real one! LOL 



We haven't had a real one for about 18 years, and the children have never had a real one, so I'm very excited! (more so than the children!  Obviously I'm just still a child at heart! LOL)

I'm determined to have it all really nice and homemade!

So I thought I would crochet a christmas tree skirt in the style of  a poncho!

I haven't got a recipe for it, so I'm making it up as I go a long ;0)

I'm doing traditional coloured grannies, and joining as I go ...

Well, thats my first new project.

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The second project -that I don't yet have a photo for- is a new afghan.

I'm calling it my starlight afghan.

I found the recipe for this one in another old crochet magazine from the seventies.

You make a chain star in the middle in bright colours, then you crochet a granny type edging in black (again I'm joining as I go, but that bit isn't in the recipe..) then as you go along, the 'stars' shine out amongst all the beautiful black night sky! Get it?

I'm doing my stars in neon colours to add to the brightness of the stars.

The only thing I'm not sure about is it says to use a 5mm hook, but I feel that that size is too big, it makes the squares kinda floppy? Know what I mean?

But I'm going to persevere even if I don't think it looks perfect :)

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When I finish the star one, I'm going to 'tweak' it, and make a smaller blanket for a little boy I know who has epilepsy. His parents have had to make a brave decision and let him go for brain surgery next year to see if they can 'find anything' to help him. I think that's so brave of them, 'cos he's only six!

So I thought I'd make him a little 'blankie' to take with him  :)

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Anyway, as soon as I can I'll take a photo and show you what I mean.

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In the mean time, if you'd like to see some sublime crochet, and a lovely (well two actually) Etsy shop, you need to pop over and see Jennie at sosorosey .

Her crochet is amazing. And oh boy do I wish I could work as hard as her at an Etsy shop, let alone two of them!

Even though I do rag crochet, I'm going to have to buy something from her one day, just so that I can show everyone how much Jennie inspires me, and obviously so I can have one of her lovely tags that she sends out with each and every piece of work!

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I hope the link to Jennie works, I haven't done one before, so just give me a nudge if it doesn't work properly!  ;0)

Have a great weekend one and all.

Take care x