Weaving - An Update

Hallo Friends, hope you had a wonderful weekend! Mine was pretty busy, but very nice. The only thing that put me a bit of kilter was the time change. I really dislike that time change, as I feel like I am off for a week or more. Wish they would do away with it.

On to other things. Well I finally finished my four place mats on the Weaver. They are made out of cotton thread, woven, washed and sewn. The colors I picked to correspond with my coca-cola collection in red, white and black. I think they came out pretty good for my first attempt.

Forgive the pictures. They are not as good as I would like. Living in an apartment has its limitations and I also don't have a big dinning room table, so a little one I have had to do.

I think they might also look better with white dishes.

What do you think?

Also made a little dishcloth with the same colors,

but instead of weaving with the black thread

I wove with the red.

Isn't it interesting how different something can look?

A bit of greenery can add a little 

touch as well.

And finally after a week of Ice and Snow,

we can see some Spring arriving around here as well.

The first flowers are popping their 

little heads out of the ground.

What a lovely site.

Wishing you all a lovely day from

my neck of the woods!

Till next time....

52 Week Crochet Challenge - Week 1 & a Giveaway

Week 1: How Do You Celebrate National Crochet Month?

Well the first thing I did is to join this lovely 1 year, 52 week challenge into the world of crochet. It is a wonderful challenge and I am looking forward to learning something new every week, to challenge myself to doing new things and last but not least to meet other like minded friends along the way. I think that is a great way to celebrate National Crochet Month. What do you think?

The challenge is being hosted by Julie and her blog Red Berry Crochet . Here is the link to the challenge. There is also a Ravelry link to the group. Come and join us in this year long challenge. 

This morning I also got a little excited. You wonder why? Well let me tell you. I came ready to post this morning and what do I see? Yes, I have 100 Followers. What a lovely surprise and thank you to all who let me share my little woolly experiences with you. Hope I get to share many new things with you in the future. Now I had promised myself, that if I reached 100 I would have a little giveaway and here it is. I am giving away 5 skeins of Malva, which is a ribbon yarn in multiple colors. It can be used for many pretty projects. Anybody can join. The only thing I am asking you to do is, please leave a comment with a link to your blog or and email address, to let me know you would like to participate. So what are you waiting for?

Till next time my friends!

A Burst of Color

Friends, all I want to know is, will this winter ever end? Enough already. This last Sunday we had quite the ice storm around here. For 7 hours we watched nothing but ice dropping out of the sky, about 6 inches worth, than 2 inches of snow on top of that overnight. For our neck of the woods nothing good. It once again brought everything to a standstill. Even today on Tuesday, the major roads are still a mess, not to speak of the side roads. It was quite the fun ride up the hills to get to work, or should I say slide. By the coming weekend we are supposed to be back up to the 60's F and I really, really hope this was the last blast of winter. Ok, rant over.

Over this last week I continued with my quest for color, something to cheer up my boring walls and also me. I decided to make a cheerful Bunting, as the English say. The pattern for it I found on the oh so talented Lucy's blog Attic 24. Here is the link. She has a wonderful easy to follow tutorial on them and many other wonderful items.

This is my pile before sewing in all the strings

Followed by pinning and steaming, so they 

lay nice and flat

I made a few just solid colors

And the rest real good and colorful.

Something to cheer me up.

Than I laid them out on a table

to see in which order I wanted to

string them together.

Than I hung them on a blank wall.

I wish you all could see better how really cheerful this really

looks on the wall, but it doesn't show as good as

I would like. The problem is, the light in my apartment is not

very good.

But the colors so cheer me up.

"Color Happiness"

Now I am trying to see what else I want to do to cheer

up the walls some more. It really needs something else.

Thought I would leave you all with a couple of more pictures of winter in our neck of the woods

and wish you all a wonderful rest of the week!

Till next time!