The start of another crazy week!
Taking a quick moment to sit and relax. Baked two banana tea loaves last night - delish (having a slice with a cuppa!). I will share the recipe with you later today - would like to take some photo's too though there is not much left!! (Edit: You can find the recipe HERE)
We have had a very mild winter here in Johannesburg with a lot of lovely sunny days. Friday and Saturday were really rather gloomy though - dull grey skies and relatively cold - we spent most of the time indoors. I thought winter had finally arrived but we awoke to wonderful sunshine again yesterday and today!
I finished pruning the last of the roses on Tuesday (I don't allow anyone else to touch the Roses - did all the pruning myself so my hands are quite sore! - not to mention my back!) I am thinking that I might have pruned a bit too early as I see my favorite Rose Farm is only starting their pruning today!
Finished up the two baby blankets I have been working on in lovely creams, blues, lilacs and greys:
I used about 75g of each of cream, lilac, light grey and cornflower blue DK and about 100g of baby blue. Also used about 50g of Elle Marble in the palest blue - unfortunately there was none left for the photo!
I wanted to use a "continuous" pattern for this blanket but it needed to be a bit "MORE" than a giant granny square! Decided that a Block Stitch Baby Blanket would be perfect! A very quick and easy pattern - works up very soft too:
The above photo's were taken of another project (a cushion cover) - but you can see how easy it is to get this going! Play around with colours for different effects.
I made mine as follows:
Cream centre
Cornflower Blue for the sc, 3ch rows
Alternating single cluster rows of baby blue, light grey, cream lilac
Repeat for 42 rows ending with a baby blue cluster row
Then pale blue Elle Marble for the sc, 3ch rows
Cluster rows in baby blue
Repeat for 11 rows ending with a sc, 3ch row in Elle Marble
Then 1 cluster row in Elle Marble
Then two rows of 1sc; 4ch
I used a "running chain" in lilac to finish it off!
And VOILA!!
Off to do some chores (YAY!) and then I will try to post the banana tea loaf recipe!
Until then ............
Taking a quick moment to sit and relax. Baked two banana tea loaves last night - delish (having a slice with a cuppa!). I will share the recipe with you later today - would like to take some photo's too though there is not much left!! (Edit: You can find the recipe HERE)
We have had a very mild winter here in Johannesburg with a lot of lovely sunny days. Friday and Saturday were really rather gloomy though - dull grey skies and relatively cold - we spent most of the time indoors. I thought winter had finally arrived but we awoke to wonderful sunshine again yesterday and today!
I finished pruning the last of the roses on Tuesday (I don't allow anyone else to touch the Roses - did all the pruning myself so my hands are quite sore! - not to mention my back!) I am thinking that I might have pruned a bit too early as I see my favorite Rose Farm is only starting their pruning today!
Finished up the two baby blankets I have been working on in lovely creams, blues, lilacs and greys:
I used about 75g of each of cream, lilac, light grey and cornflower blue DK and about 100g of baby blue. Also used about 50g of Elle Marble in the palest blue - unfortunately there was none left for the photo!
I wanted to use a "continuous" pattern for this blanket but it needed to be a bit "MORE" than a giant granny square! Decided that a Block Stitch Baby Blanket would be perfect! A very quick and easy pattern - works up very soft too:
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| 4ch, ss to close; 3ch, 2dc, 2ch; *3dc, 2ch* rep *to* 3x ss to close |
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| Join new colour . In cnr sps; *1sc 3ch 1sc 3ch* - rep 4x; ss to join |
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| Join new colour - a row of basic granny clusters into the 3ch sps |
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| And then another row of sc, 3ch - rep alt rows of clusters & sc,3ch |
The above photo's were taken of another project (a cushion cover) - but you can see how easy it is to get this going! Play around with colours for different effects.
I made mine as follows:
Cream centre
Cornflower Blue for the sc, 3ch rows
Alternating single cluster rows of baby blue, light grey, cream lilac
Repeat for 42 rows ending with a baby blue cluster row
Then pale blue Elle Marble for the sc, 3ch rows
Cluster rows in baby blue
Repeat for 11 rows ending with a sc, 3ch row in Elle Marble
Then 1 cluster row in Elle Marble
Then two rows of 1sc; 4ch
I used a "running chain" in lilac to finish it off!
And VOILA!!
Off to do some chores (YAY!) and then I will try to post the banana tea loaf recipe!
Until then ............