A Way Hay Weekend

Way Hay!!!! my hexagon blanket is finally finished! After a Saturday evening crochet fury session my poor fingers felt like they were about to drop off, in fact by Sunday morning I wondered if they would ever bend straight again!

Here it is nearly there without the border and as beautiful as it is without a border added it does just look like a piece of crochet and not the blanket I had intended

So I added a double border of blue and violet and it just made it into a work of art. It actually looks like it was meant to. 165 beautiful, colourful little cotton hexagons. It isn't as big as I had first intended but it is so labour intensive that my mind started to wander to my next project. I snipped away all the little ends of woven in thread and this is the result.

So it was ceremoniously carried upstairs and placed in onto the foot of my bed and WOW it looked breathtakingly stunning, intact my husband commented that he thought I might faint from hyper ventilating at its beauty.

It lit up my unfinished bedroom and added a happy feeling to the room, a feeling that my youngest son also felt as when I had the entire family on parade in the bedroom to ohhhh and arhhhh at the wonder before them, Caleb said he liked it so much please could be have it in his bedroom.

So reluctantly I said that we could give it a try. I was actually quite surprised that he had taken to it so much because it does have quite a lot of pink tones in it and he is usually adamant that nothing with the slightest hint of girlyness will enter his bedroom.

We put it onto his little cast iron bed and it just looked as though it had been made for it and to see the look of delight on his face and when he threw his arms around me saying that I was the best mummy in the world a lump hit my throat and it was his. It looked splendid and enhanced by the ripple cushion I had made a few weeks before and the little banner with his name on his room looks a haven of homely snuggleness, the room of a boy who is loved and adored.

I even managed to get a photo of him all curled up before he awoke this morning, ahhhhhh

My bedroom returned to is former hand knitted blanket which I just love! There is a sense of comfort from this blanket as it weighs heavy on my feet and is such a luxury to have. 

 

I must give credit to my friend Helen for designing this blanket, she was making one for her lovely daughter Harriet and it looked so delightful I thought that I should have a go myself and how glad am I that I did! Yet another success. I am very precious about my bed, well this particular bed anyway as it was the bed that I lay on and gave birth to my 2 youngest boys and it is the bed that we all snuggle up in at the weekend and they talk to us about there week.

On Mothers Day morning I admired my flowers from the Children, added my new balls of Cotton to my stock and looked longingly at the pictures in the cookbook Elias had chosen and purchased for me with his own money. After an evening at The Greyhound with family and having eaten a meal paid for by my daughter, I  sat back at home with a glass of wine, a gift from Caleb, and I my heart swelled with happiness at having such a lovely family and marvellous friends

I think the title of this book says it all!!

 Well enough of blogging for one day, I will have a quick tidy up, sort the washing and commence battle with my new project a rainbow like stripy granny blanket for my middle sons bed!

Claire xx

A Nice Surprise

I have just arranged to go to London on Sunday evening until Monday evening with my lovely friend Helen, it was quite a surprise organised by my lovely husband! We will be travelling down 1st Class on the train and staying at The Carlton Club. Very posh so unfortunately I won't be packing my trusty jeans, not allowed I'm afraid.

So I have spent the morning browsing the internet, eating hot Marmite on toast and trying to decide where to visit.

Cath Kidston in Covent Garden is an absolute must! I was delighted today when she commented on Twitter that she loved my tapestry Union Jack Cushion that I did from her Stitch book.

I think I will be mainly looking for inspiration rather than spending up big, mind you that is what I say know, when the shops are there and all those lovely things are saying 'buy me buy me' who knows if I will be able to resist :)

I am always on the lookout for something nice to make. Below are some tea cosies I knitted the first 2 were inspired by the Crochet with Raymond blog which I adore. Although mine don't look quite the same I think they are gorgeous, and the last one was the first tea cosy I knitted and this was from Kirstie Allsopps book

Well I think my evening will be spent baking again as my beautiful little hens have laid me a lovely lot of special little eggs and I need to prepare for the weekend and to make sure that my lovely boys (and I include my husband in that) have a fully stocked cake tin to feast on whilst I'm not here. 

Claire xx