More nesting less making!

I haven't posted for a few weeks, the reason is that the madhouse has been more mad than usual. As well as clearing up from Christmas and putting  the house back in order, my dad has been building a big new wardrobe and storge space in our bedroom. This has been followed by moving everything up stairs around then around, then around again. I have been able to have a big clear out though and sort out all the children s clothes. and with less than 4 weeks till baby number 4 arrives i have only just got round to the task of bringing out all the baby things and setting it all up. I have now finally been through everything and brought the very few bits and pieces that i needed. All to do now is finish the mammoth loads of washing and ironing that this has created.

With all this goig on i havn't had that much time for making. I have started a stripy blanket that was a crochet along from last year, but the website that did it have now put full instructions together, so its now my main at home project and is alot bigger than it should be as it will adorn my bed next winter ( hopefully!)

This is the start of it, If anybody else wanted to start it as well, you can find the instructions on http://notyouraveragecrochet.com/as-we-go-stripey-blanket/

There are a few other websites that have links as well and its also on Ravelry.

I have also started a challenge for myself, now that i have started selling my hats, i am going to do a hat a week. People keep asking me if i can do this or that so by making up a hat a week i should have a good selection for people to see and choose from, also it will double as stock as i plan to start attending fairs this year. 

So my first hat is .....

The hungry caterpillar!!

I did nearly finish a new little jumper for Fred but unfortunately it will now be way to small as i started it months ago (oops!) but i will stitch it together and i am sure next winter it will fit the newbie!

Best be off now xxx

Baby Star Afghan Ta-dah!

This week the tree came down and i decided that i needed to get ready for baby number four,s arrival in just six weeks (hopefully unless i go overdue!) So i made the most of the chaos of packing away the decorations to bring down the baby things. It was really nice actually to have something so near to look forward to. usually when the decorations come down everything feels i little miserable and depressing, i miss the twinkly lights, bright colors and clutter that come with Christmas. This year though i have thrown myself into washing baby clothes and putting up the crib and generally getting everything together.

With no big projects on the go i decided to start a blanket for baby, i have more blankets than i will ever need , but i wanted him to have a special one just for him, like i have done with the others so i decided on the Baby Star Blanket http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/beths-little-star-afghan that i got from this address. Its been a really cosy, easy project that's been really comforting to do as my part of the world has been hit by storms for the last week, so with the kids still at home and nothing better to do than let them play with there new toys and we all ate more chocolate than we probably should, i could get comfy on the couch and get to work on it.

I love the colors it really brightened things up after taking the tree down and the fact that this is what i was looking out on most days

Even the kids were imerced in crafting with there new makey makey box full of craft supplies from Father Christmas

Yes they took over most of my kitchen, so it was just as well i stayed in the lounge so i didn't end up stressing at the mess they made, but i have to say they did do a great job of tiding up after themselves.

And so Ta-dah!  the blanket got finished

One little mistake, i used some yarn that i had in my box and they were not full balls, but i thought its ok i am only doing 4 rows in each color and didn't take into account that the outside rows are bigger than the inside rows....duh so i had to do a 3 and 2 row, but it still looks good and its plenty big enough.

off to work on a row for my stripy CAL blanket

Bye xxx