crochet blanket

Here is a bit of crochet that I am currently doing, I was trying to do a ripple blanket however couldn't get the hang of it on a practice run on a quite night in work so began to make a circle blanket instead.  Started it a week before Christmas and didn't get very far so will have to be used for 2014 instead!  There’s a few mistakes in it but I think it just add to all the charm! Will post more as it comes further to completion. 

this is the beginning of the ripple

and then the circle blanket, been making the pattern up as i go along!

color change

current size, using up scraps of thread and should be about single bed size when finished. aiming for a Christmas theme blanket! currently acting as a good distraction from some university work i have to get done! 

hope you all had an amazing Christmas. 

happy bags

this post is to celebrate raising over £100 [+gift aid] pounds on Happy bags. 

YAY

these are part of my fundraising ideas and are sold to raise money for child-flight, which if you regularly read the blog will have heard me talk about it before.  

they cost £2.50 each and £2 goes straight to the charity, so that means over 50 have so far been bought through Ebay and to friends and family. 

the most popular version is the nurse shift survival bag, with the genetic happy bag a close second.  they have a little poem in each one and contain every item on that poem, making a great little keep sake and gift for all occasions, also have Christmas bags and birthday bags for sale. 

more details can be found over on Ebay 

and the just giving page to go with the fundraising can be found here

thank-you to all who have supported this so far! 

snowman crochet

Christmas is coming and beginning on this theme as the majority of the post on the run up is going to be here is a little crochet snowman. one of my first attempts of a pattern. quite impressed with end results. 

body = 6sc into a magic circle and then increased by 6 on each row at even intervals,  when got to 30 stitches, sc around then decreased by 6 and sc around evenly till down to 6 stitches. stuffed it and added nose eyes ect.

hat = magic circle with 6sc and then dc x 2 in each sc to create 12 st then fastened off. 

scarf =  chain to 15, chain 1, turn, sc 15 fasten off and tie around snowman neck.   

add accessories to make it into a decoration, keying, brooch etc... end result about 7cm by 4cm at largest points. 

Hama Beads - Autism pins

Hama Beads.

I have always loved Hama beads, over the years making all sort of designs however mainly following board shapes and filling them randomly.  This week I was looking at crocheting some puzzle pieces to raise money for autism awareness [if anyone has a pattern it would be very welcome] and started to mess with my hama beads again. End results = these.

 

I also ended up melting one of the boards I was using with a hot iron.. Although rather melt a board than myself.   Im currently selling this brooch’s on eBay with profits going to the national autism society. Please check it out and support if able.