tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24217650956855950732024-02-14T20:54:30.089+00:00hookin' A yarnGillianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13234219836891799676noreply@blogger.comBlogger141125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421765095685595073.post-28299596331556922432016-02-29T18:04:00.000+00:002016-02-29T18:04:00.144+00:00Latest News<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">I saw my GP again – a different one this time – and she wants me to have physiotherapy on my frozen shoulder and also my hip and knee. Since typing and using a mouse make my shoulder sore, I think it would be best to stop blogging until things improve. I know I haven’t done much recently but I wanted you to know the reason. It’s not just because I’ve lost interest. All the best for now and thank you all so much for reading and commenting on all my posts.</span>Gillianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13234219836891799676noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421765095685595073.post-9887346011063624392016-02-10T18:02:00.000+00:002016-02-10T18:02:03.607+00:00Adapting the Sea Glass Shawl<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First of all I have to thank you all so much for your wonderful comments about my <a href="http://hookinayarn.blogspot.com/2016/01/poncho-finito.html" target="_blank">crocheted poncho</a>. It really made me laugh to think of a 'disappearing poncho' as some of you suggested I must have been wearing in the first photo. The invisibility poncho! Absolutely hilarious. We need a new yarn to be manufactured that would allow the wearer of any garment made using said yarn to disappear.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Anyway, I love it when a pattern can be used for more than one thing. That's why I like crocheted motifs so much.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Remember I crocheted the <a href="http://hookinayarn.blogspot.com/2015/08/sea-glass-shawl-finito.html" target="_blank">Sea Glass Shawl</a> from one of the Simply Crochet magazines? Well, I had almost a full ball left of the beautiful J</span><span style="font-family: '"trebuchet ms"', sans-serif;">uniper Moon Farm Findley yarn which is 50% extra fine merino wool and 50% mulberry silk. So I decided to make a scarf using the same starfish motifs. I made the scarf using two rows of ten motifs each. I'm really pleased with how it turned out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Unfortunately I forgot to take a picture of the scarf after being blocked and before giving it to someone special. I really despair at my stupidity sometimes!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All the best for now. I hope to get reading your blogs again soon and leaving some comments. As seems to be the norm now, I haven't been able to read anyone's blog for a couple of weeks.</span>Gillianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13234219836891799676noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421765095685595073.post-35084524451523582982016-01-19T19:11:00.000+00:002016-01-19T19:11:09.007+00:00Poncho Finito<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well, my poncho is finished and I've been wearing it too. I'm really pleased with how it turned it. The husband and I were going for coffee one Saturday morning recently and I asked him to take a few photos of me wearing my poncho. Here's the first one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I really don't know what he was thinking of! Anyway, he took a few more and I'm actually in them. See how swollen the Bannn river is; we've had so much rain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You can look back <a href="http://hookinayarn.blogspot.com/2015/10/autumn-and-winter-crochet-plans.html" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://hookinayarn.blogspot.com/2015/11/autumnwinter-projects-update.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://hookinayarn.blogspot.com/2015/12/storm-desmond-edinburgh-and-lake.html" target="_blank">here</a> to see some more details about the poncho. It took a lot of work as, if you spread it out, it would be almost as big as a single bed blanket.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ha, ha!! I've just noticed how long my cardigan sleeves look! Actually, it was only because my cardigan was falling off underneath the poncho.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Let me know what you think of my poncho. I hope you like it as much as I do. Sorry about not being able to do much commenting recently. My shoulders and arms are sore so I'm trying to reduce the amount of typing I do. I didn't even realise, for a while,</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">that</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> apart from not having much time, this pain was putting me off using a keyboard except when absolutely necessary.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">By the way, have a look back<a href="http://hookinayarn.blogspot.com/2014/07/finito.html" target="_blank"> here </a>if you want to read why I say finito.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All the best for now and I hope to get reading and commenting on your blogs soon.</span>Gillianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13234219836891799676noreply@blogger.com44tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421765095685595073.post-79077373368292006532016-01-05T17:58:00.000+00:002016-01-19T14:41:56.123+00:00Chicken and Apple Cheesebake<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Happy New Year to you all! I suppose I'm a bit late but things have been very hectic so I haven't been able to blog for ages. Thank you too for all your good wishes for Christmas and your comments about the flooding in the Lake District. We've had quite a bit of flooding here in Northern Ireland recently as well. The rain seems to continue almost non-stop and, at times, is torrential.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Anyway, before Christmas, I did a post about <a href="http://hookinayarn.blogspot.com/2015/11/fried-apples.html" target="_blank">frying apples</a>. When mine were cooled, I put them in the freezer so that I could use them for a chicken and apple cheesebake. So this is how I make it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First of all cook the chicken. Normally I use roast chicken but this time I fried it. I used five chicken breast fillets cut into cubes. I used my new purple silicon slotted spoon stir it about! This was one of the few things I bought when we were on our wee pre-Christmas holiday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When the chicken was cooked I put it in an oven proof dish. Although you can't see it in the picture, the dish is also purple!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">... and then added about 270g of grated mature cheddar and stirred until it was completely melted into the sauce.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">While I was cooking I remembered my little embroidery that hangs above the Aga. It's very true.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It takes five or six apples for a cheesebake. Here I topped the cooked chicken with roughly half of the fried apple slices. Keep the best looking slices for the top.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Next I sprinkled about 90g of grated mature cheddar over the apples ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I cooked my cheesebake for about thirty minutes in the Aga roasting oven. That's a hot oven; about 250°C or<span style="background-color: white; font-size: x-small;"> </span>490°F. The chicken is already cooked so it's just heating everything up and browning the top.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Of course I forgot to take a picture when it was cooked! It tasted delicious though. You could make it with turkey instead of chicken and you could do without adding any cheese (or use less cheese) if you prefer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All the best for now. I hope to get back to reading and commenting on your blogs too.</span>Gillianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13234219836891799676noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421765095685595073.post-59722604338859282572015-12-23T17:26:00.000+00:002016-01-19T14:48:01.949+00:00Storm Desmond - Edinburgh and the Lake District<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One of the shops we visited was Jenners; a large department store. Most of the department stores in Northern Ireland have gone so it was lovely to go into the beautiful old building and be greeted by all the Christmas decorations. In the middle of the shop there was a huge tree that reached up to the glass roof. I would guess it was forty five feet high! The husband and I stood leaning over one of the balconies trying to work out how on earth they managed to get the tree into that position.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">After Jenners, where we bought a lovely set of white houses Christmas lights, we went for coffee. Just to Costa. At least it got us out of the rain for another wee while. We had booked to go to a concert in Greyfriars Kirk so we had to brave the elements again to try and find where to go. We knew it wasn't far away but got a bit lost before eventually coming across it. The concert was called </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>A Boy Was Born: Music for Christmas</i> performed by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra Chorus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I managed to get my feet dried while listening to the beautiful music but once the concert was over we had to head back to the hotel. Actually the rain wasn't quite so heavy by this time though it was turning to sleet and snow! Nothing too bad and by the time we got up on Friday morning the weather was fine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We started our journey to the Lake District, in Cumbria, where we were to spend the next two nights. Before booking into the hotel at Skelwith Bridge we called into Chesters, right next door, for coffee, key lime pie and chocolate cake. Our intention was to visit Chesters on each of the days we were staying there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But all our plans had to change when the rain started late on Friday afternoon, shortly after we booked into the hotel. More than a month's rain fell in about twenty four hours! Of course we didn't realise how bad it was until we were in the dining room for breakfast on Saturday morning. We could hear people talking about the flooding and roads being closed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As soon as we'd finished breakfast we got coats and boots on and went out to investigate. The hotel is beside a river though, thankfully, it is on a raised site. Chesters is also beside the river - in fact it is called Chesters by the River - and we could see that they wouldn't be opening that day. We also realised there was no way we would be able to go to the Christmas market in Hawkshead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the photo below you can just see Chesters right at the back on the right. Just below middle on the very right hand side is a picnic table. As you can see the water had risen until the top of the table was only about six inches above the water. Later on the table disappeared completely below the water when it rose about another foot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There is a lovely path the whole way from Skelwith Bridge to Elterwater but in places we had to climbed back onto the road because it was too flooded.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Swans and ducks made the most of the swollen river.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I loved the way these sheep walked single-file along the path to find a better place to graze.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is the tiny village of Elterwater.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So this was our road! There was someone canoeing on it; just because he could.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">By Monday morning we were able to get back to Cairnryan, for the ferry, by taking some very roundabout ways to get there. I was so relieved to get home again with nothing worse than a few soakings! We really enjoyed our wee break though, despite the awful weather. I feel so sorry for the poor people who live in places that are prone to flooding. I don't think I could live somewhere like that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Well, I'm sorry I haven't been able to get reading or commenting on any of your blogs for what seems like a very long time. Hopefully, after Christmas, things will get back to normal. They would need to!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I wish you all a very happy Christmas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Gillianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13234219836891799676noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421765095685595073.post-91368228223732697302015-11-27T15:36:00.000+00:002015-11-27T15:36:00.285+00:00Fried Apples<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We've had some very wet and windy days here. Look at what our poor eucalyptus tree had to try and stand up to!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Anyway, remember I told you about picking the <a href="http://hookinayarn.blogspot.com/2015/11/apple-picking-time.html" target="_blank">cooking apples</a>? They weren't the only apples we had this year. I picked lots of eating apples as well. When I couldn't store any more I left apples on the trees. So for the first time we now have some apple trees with apples and no leaves!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I love how it looks! Kind of festive and getting ready for Christmas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I picked some of the apples today so I can use them in my chicken and apple cheese bake when I next make it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First, wash and core the apples; they have to be eating apples rather than cookers. Heat about an ounce of butter in a large frying pan until hot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Slice the apples in rings about a quarter of an inch thick. Put the apples in the pan in a single layer and fry for about five minutes - until golden/brown.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now turn the apple slices and fry the other side. You're aiming for colour and softening but not apple mush. The slices should still hold their shape.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I then left the apple slices to cool and packed them in a box to store in the freezer until needed. It takes about six small apples for each bake. When I next make the chicken and apple cheese bake I'll take photos and then show you how to do it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thanks for all your comments about the Christmas pudding. I hope some of you will give it a go some time. Bye for now!</span>Gillianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13234219836891799676noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421765095685595073.post-27115747254020729092015-11-18T18:34:00.000+00:002015-11-18T18:34:00.229+00:00Christmas Pudding Recipe<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is the recipe for Christmas pudding that my mother-in-law gave me a few years ago. As you can see, there is no suet in it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The recipe didn't have any method or cooking instructions with it so I checked other recipes and came up with this way of making the puddings. This recipe is enough to make two two-pound puddings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Start by preparing the pudding bowls. I greased mine liberally with butter. Now take a piece of baking parchment and fold a pleat in it; about an inch wide. Do the same with a piece of tin foil. You'll need baking parchment and foil for each pudding bowl.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Some more preparation is helpful at this stage. Measure the flour, add in the bicarbonate of soda and spices and sift into a bowl. Leave to one side. Get two pots, each big enough to hold one of the pudding bowls and with room enough to allow you to set the bowl down into the pot (rather than just dropping in). Put an upturned saucer in the bottom of each pot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To make the pudding you will need a really big baking bowl; the biggest you can find. </span><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">Cream the margarine (actually I used butter) and sugar together. I then added the eggs, one at a time, with a heaped spoonful of the flour and spice mixture. Beat this in each time until the egg and flour is fully incorporated.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Add the remainder of the flour (if there is any left), the breadcrumbs and the dried fruit. Give it all a bit of a stir to mix it in. Wash, peel and core the apples and then grate them into the mixture. Give it all a really good stir.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now divide the mixture between the two pudding bowls. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Smooth the top nicely; it doesn't really rise when it's cooked. I would say this is a good time to fill the kettle and put it on to boil; a full kettle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is the important part! Cover the bowl with the pleated baking parchment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now cover over the baking parchment with the tin foil. Bring the baking parchment and foil down over the sides of the pudding bowl and secure them tightly with some string. You can also make a string handle if you wish, for lifting the pudding out when it is cooked.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Unfortunately, at this stage I must have stopped taking photos! Anyway, carefully lower each pudding bowl into its pot. Fill the pot with boiling water until it comes about half way up the bowl. Since I have an Aga, steaming the puddings is really easy. First bring the water back to the boil on the boiling plate. Then transfer the pots to the simmering plate and keep them there for thirty minutes. Now the pots can go into the simmering oven where they can be left undisturbed for at least five hours and anything up to eight or nine hours. The longer you steam the pudding, the darker it gets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For a normal cooker you bring the water to the boil on a high heat. Then you have to keep the pots on a low heat so that the water is just simmering. Unlike the Aga cooking method, you have to keep checking the water level and top it up when necessary with more boiling water. Again, you need to steam the puddings for at least five hours; anything up to eight or nine hours.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When the steaming time is finished, very carefully lift the pudding bowls out of the pots.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You might need to run a knife round the inside of the pudding bowl in order to release each pudding. It should then slide out easily. Leave the puddings until they are completely cold and then wrap them twice in cling film and twice in tin foil. Christmas pudding can actually be frozen at this stage though it keeps for ages anyway. There's a lot of debate about just how long it keeps so I'm not going to give a definite time. If your family is anything like mine then it won't last too long and there'll be no need to worry if it's still alright the following Christmas!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So there you have it. Please let me know if you make some puddings. Also contact me if you have any questions and I'll try to answer them. Thanks for your great comments about my apples. And yes, I used some of them in my Christmas puddings. Bye for now.</span>Gillianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13234219836891799676noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421765095685595073.post-71311432697222915532015-11-14T12:27:00.000+00:002015-11-14T12:27:00.424+00:00Apple Picking Time<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The time had come to pick the cooking apples. We grow them espalier-fashion between the posts of the pergola.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I have rather large hands but still I could hardly hold these monster apples.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Here is the apple compared to a £1 coin. According to the Royal Mint, a pound coin has a</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">diameter of </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">22.5 mm. I weighed the apple too . It weighed a pound!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm really enjoying crocheting this poncho. I just love making the cables. Every time I come to the end of a row I can't put it down and have to do another row to see how it looks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">These pictures aren't showing the colour very well. The middle one is the best of the three.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My main problem with getting the poncho done is trying to unravel the coat that I had originally knit with the yarn. Well, it's not really the unravelling that's so hard but unpicking the seams before I can even start to unravel. The one good thing is that I don't think I'll need all the yarn from the coat to finish the poncho.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Anyway, at some point I wasn't getting too far with the seam-unpicking and knitting-unravelling so I started the Star Fruit Rug from my <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Boho-Crochet-Gloriously-Colourful-Traditional/dp/1845435621" target="_blank">Boho Crochet book</a>. I didn't use the yarn suggested in the pattern but substituted Drops Paris cotton instead.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The colours I used were as close as I could get to those used in the original design. My colours were red, orange, mustard, moss green, green, dark turquoise, denim blue, raspberry, petrol and dark purple. The Drops Paris yarn, which is Aran weight, is horrible to work with; it splits constantly. But I'm happy with the finished rug!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This one is going to the <a href="http://www.manorhealthcare.org/opencontent/default.asp?itemid=9" target="_blank">Rathfriland Manor Nursing Home</a> where I think it would be suitable for an elderly gentleman to use.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It is certainly a very warm blanket, as I know from having it across my knees when I was making it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thanks for all your comments, as usual. I'm joining with <a href="http://www.thistlebearhome.com/2015/11/winter-project-link-party.html" target="_blank">Jennifer and her Winter Project Link Party</a>.</span>Gillianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13234219836891799676noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421765095685595073.post-37810710665271486612015-11-03T19:18:00.000+00:002015-11-03T19:18:00.045+00:00Avoca<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">First of all I would like to thank you all for your congratulations to my cousin. I enjoyed reading all your lovely comments.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Following on from our </span><a href="http://hookinayarn.blogspot.com/2015/10/happy-campers.html" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" target="_blank">first camping trip</a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> in many years, we decided to do it all again at the end of September. This time we planned to spend two nights at the <a href="http://www.rivervalleypark.ie/" target="_blank">River Valley</a> campsite in County Wicklow. We drove down to the campsite on the last Friday in September and set up camp. Actually, after we were home again, we discovered that we put the tent up in the wrong part of the campsite! This is a really nice place to stay so we'll go back again some time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We were so fortunate again with the weather. It stayed dry and reasonably warm for the time of year. On the way down we stopped at the <a href="http://www.avoca.com/home/explore/stores/?id=3" target="_blank">Avoca shop in Kilmacanogue</a>. We love visiting this shop and especially the Sugar Tree Cafe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On the Saturday we took ourselves out to have a look round County Wicklow. We did the scenic drive, taking in Sally Gap in the Wicklow Mountains. We were really impressed with the beautiful scenery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When we were almost back at the campsite we headed to Avoca village where the original <a href="http://www.avoca.com/home/explore/stores/?id=2" target="_blank">Avoca Mill</a> is still operating. We really enjoyed looking round the mill and even seeing someone weaving on one of the old looms.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There was lots of wool in the store in so many beautiful colours.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">These examples of the different fibres they use allowed us to feel what they are like.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As this sign says, there's only one Avoca Mill!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Of course they also have a cafe here and we just had to go in and have coffee and something sweet to eat. We also visited the shop (again!) and I tried on the <a href="http://www.avoca.com/home/products/?mid=2&sid=233&pid=3786" target="_blank">poncho</a> I liked just to get an idea of how it was shaped. It will help me when I come to do the shaping on the poncho I'm crocheting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I seem to be so far behind on my blogging. I have some garden photos to show you but by the time I do they will be very out of date. The thing about growing your own fruit and vegetables is that you then have to harvest them and store them, which usually involves at least some sort of preservation techniques. And it all takes time!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm really enjoying the fantastic autumn we're having. It has already made up for the disappointing summer! </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">All the best for now.</span>Gillianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13234219836891799676noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421765095685595073.post-59184797460480395392015-10-27T18:21:00.000+00:002015-10-27T18:21:00.050+00:00A Celebration<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We were invited to a special celebration on Friday past. A mainly family celebration with some special friends as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The celebration was held in <a href="http://www.montaltoestate.com/" target="_blank">Montalto House</a> in Ballynahinch. We had exclusive use of the house for the entire evening! It's such a beautiful location and the house is absolutely stunning. <span style="background-color: white;">As it says on their website: '</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">You can become the Lord or Lady of the manor with the attention of your personal butler, the scrumptious food of renowned chefs and the hands-on management of one of Ireland's most respected hospitality professionals.' This was certainly borne out to be true as the meal and the service we had was second to none. And yes, we had our very own butler! A younger and much more handsome butler than Downton Abbey's Carson! He has worked in Hillsborough Castle and attended there when the Queen was visiting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">So what were we celebrating? We were celebrating the appointment of my cousin Denise as a high court judge. She and another woman are the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-34613920" target="_blank">first women to be appointed as high court judges</a> in the history of the Northern Ireland judicial system. As you can imagine, we are all extremely happy for her as she has worked very hard. Her mother, my aunt Ruby, is ninety one years old! She broke her hip a few years ago but managed to walk into Montalto House on Friday evening with just a helping hand from her daughters. Denise is the next to youngest of eight daughters and one son. They were all there with their families on Friday, so delighted for Denise's success.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Well, this is just a very quick post without even a single picture of the event. I just wanted to enjoy it all without stopping to take photos of all that was going on.</span></span>Gillianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13234219836891799676noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421765095685595073.post-91253593027941681982015-10-22T18:42:00.000+01:002015-10-22T18:42:00.670+01:00Happy Campers<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Back at the beginning of September I told you about going to <a href="http://hookinayarn.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-sea-glass-shawl-goes-to-wedding.html" target="_blank">a wedding</a> and staying for two nights in a hotel in Bournemouth. Well, after that we drove back into Wales and spent two nights camping before heading home again. Let me explain. I know camping isn't anything strange but it's been years since we camped. In fact, the husband was clearing out the garage and issued an edict: either the camping gear is put into use or it is dumped. Of course we couldn't just dump it all so it was brought out of the garage and cleaned up ready for this short trip.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For our two nights in Wales we stayed in the <a href="https://www.nantcolwaterfalls.co.uk/" target="_blank">Nantcol Waterfalls Campsite</a> in Snowdonia. It was very good; nice, clean facilities and plenty of room to pitch the tent. It was also right beside the waterfalls and river so very picturesque.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The first place we went to visit was <a href="http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/powis-castle/" target="_blank">Powis Castle and Garden</a>. As we are National Trust members we were able to get in for free. It was a really beautiful day so, after visiting the castle, we took our time going round the magnificent gardens. I'll not tell you about all the photos (there are a lot of them) but just a comment on some. This horse's head was for sale in the castle shop. Way too expensive for our budget, unfortunately.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">These yew trees had been featured on the Country File programme a few weeks earlier, showing them being cut. They are massive!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The husband will never let me take his picture so I have to try and snap him any chance I get! Just to prove he actually <i>was</i> at Powis Castle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After a very enjoyable day out we headed back to the campsite. Thankfully the weather was so good that I was able to cook dinner outside using the two tiny gas stoves you can see in this picture. Don't know what we would have done if it had been raining!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Each pitch on the site had its own fire pit so we bought some fire wood and lit up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We lit the fire a bit too early, really.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The following day (Tuesday 8th September) we went for a drive through <a href="http://snowdonia national park authority" target="_blank">Snowdonia National Park</a>. The scenery is magnificent; in some ways a bit like the Lake District. We stopped in several of the little towns to look round craft shops and get coffee.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">After re-fuelling with our sandwiches and crisps (I very, very rarely eat crisps!) we went to visit <a href="http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/penrhyn-castle/" target="_blank">Penrhyn Castle</a>, another National Trust property.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I didn't take as many pictures at this castle (obviously!) and none at all of the <a href="http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/penrhyn-castle/things-to-see-and-do/railway-museum/" target="_blank">railway museum</a> that we also visited there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That was all we had time for on our mini holiday. We drove to Holyhead, taking our time to see as much as possible of <a href="http://www.visitanglesey.co.uk/en/about-anglesey/" target="_blank">Anglesey</a>. This is where we waited until it was time to go for the ferry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So we're back to being campers; very <i>happy</i> campers. We've been for another short trip (I'll tell you about it soon) and we've been upgrading our equipment a bit. One very important thing was to get a warmer sleeping bag for me. The husband doesn't feel the cold! The other, probably equally important thing, was to get a tent that is high enough to stand up in. We're too old to be crawling about in a tunnel tent on our hands and knees!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hope you enjoyed the photos and didn't give up. If you're at this point then you must have stuck with me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All the best for now. I'm in the throes of ripping out my Aran coat and it's <i>not</i> going well. Worse even than I anticipated. Oh well, I just need to get enough out of it to make my <a href="http://hookinayarn.blogspot.com/2015/10/autumn-and-winter-crochet-plans.html" target="_blank">poncho</a>. And, if all else fails, I can buy more of the yarn (but don't tell anyone, please). The poncho crocheting is going <i>very</i> well except that I now need more yarn from the not-ripped-out coat. I'm enjoying the crocheted cables so, <i>so</i> much!</span>Gillianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13234219836891799676noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421765095685595073.post-583906070512829212015-10-08T17:02:00.000+01:002015-10-22T16:38:52.991+01:00Autumn and Winter Crochet Plans<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Thank you all for your comments on my cardigan. I was very pleased to read that almost all of you concur that cardigans are </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">great.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I wonder do you remember me telling you about <a href="http://hookinayarn.blogspot.com/2015/02/hows-it-going.html" target="_blank">knitting an Aran coat</a>? I think this was the last of the pictures I posted about it because when it was finished I discovered that it was huge; so huge that there was no way to correct it without ripping out and starting again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Since then I've been looking at patterns, on and off, to try and decide what to make. Eventually I've decided to make a poncho. On a recent visit to the Avoca Mill in Wicklow (I hope to post about that soon) I saw one that I really like. Coincidentally, I had also seen an item in a recent Inside Crochet<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">magazine giving details about a poncho kit that is to be available soon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is it. It looks quite easy to make so I've decided to just try and work out a pattern myself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well, sort of. In the same Inside Crochet magazine there's a pattern for this lovely jumper. I'm going to use the cable section in my poncho design. I've already made a start on it! It took a few attempts at understanding how the pattern was worded and should be executed but I've got it sussed now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It is easier on my hands to make the cables in crochet rather than knitting. Hopefully it works out as I don't want to end up with another disaster!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That's one of the projects I'll be working on this Autumn and probably into the Winter. I also am working on a rug and a blanket with plans for far too many other items.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm joining with Jennifer's <a href="http://www.thistlebearhome.com/" target="_blank">Winter Project Link </a></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.thistlebearhome.com/" target="_blank">Party</a>. Go and have a look at the projects that everyone else will be working on. This is the first link up that I've been involved in so I hope I do it right!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All the best for now. Hope you're enjoying the lovely Autumn weather we're having (or that you're getting lovely Spring weather). I have lots of pictures from when we were away at the beginning of September and again at the end but just don't seem to get time to post them. Maybe soon.</span>Gillianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13234219836891799676noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421765095685595073.post-45241029241258929372015-10-04T11:01:00.000+01:002015-10-04T11:01:00.547+01:00I Love Cardigans<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When I see a woman sashaying down the street wearing a beautiful jacket, I always think how elegant she looks. Why do I not look like that when I wear a jacket? I've tried wearing them, even casual, unstructured jackets, but I always feel restricted in some way. Of course, I <i>have</i> to wear a jacket on certain occasions but, for me, a cardigan is much more comfortable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here's a dress I bought in the summer (what summer?) and, because we didn't have much of a summer, I decided to make a cardigan to go with it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I love the little splash of coral at the back of the neck. It's on the inside so not visible when the dress is worn. It gave me an idea though! I compared the colour to yarn left over from my <a href="http://hookinayarn.blogspot.com/2015/07/crocheted-bag-finito.html" target="_blank">sister-in-law's bag</a> and, joy abounding, it matched the <a href="http://www.woolwarehouse.co.uk/cascade-ultra-pima-deep-coral-3767-100g" target="_blank">deep coral</a> perfectly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There was about 50g of the deep coral cotton left from making the bag. I convinced myself that I was just using up some of my stash by making a cardigan but, needless to say, I had to buy another two skeins. It was worth it though!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The <a href="http://www.garnstudio.com/lang/en/pattern.php?id=6467&lang=en" target="_blank">pattern </a>is from Garnstudio (DROPS Design) with a few minor tweaks from me. Mine is shorter, for a start, and with only one button at the neck.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I really enjoyed crocheting this, especially as it didn't take very long. I've worn it several times and it has been admired. In fact, one friend admired it so much that I made her one as well. For her's I used a very pale shade called <a href="http://www.woolwarehouse.co.uk/cascade-ultra-pima-white-peach-3753-100g?SID=gktb6ggqo376v86ib939921184" target="_blank">white peach</a>. Sorry, but I never thought to take a picture before I gave it to her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You'll never guess what. Actually, you probably <i>will</i> guess. There's about 50g of the white peach cotton left over!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, are you a jacket person or a cardigan person? As the title says, I <i><u>love</u></i> cardigans.</span>Gillianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13234219836891799676noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421765095685595073.post-39222010899999847882015-09-30T19:09:00.000+01:002015-09-30T19:09:00.489+01:00A Lap Blanket<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here's a little lap blanket I made recently. I used some left over Aran weight yarn and a 5mm hook to make this. The pink is 50% wool and 50% acrylic and the yellow is a Stylecraft 100% acrylic. The pattern for the motif was in a Simply Crochet magazine a few months ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Can you see where I ran out the yellow yarn and had to use pink?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Each motif was started with a yellow circle and then the pink flower part was done. So that's two motifs that just about </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">cross the middle of the picture below. I joined the motifs as I made them. There was a hole left where four motifs were joined. Yes, the blanket is full of holes, but this was a considerably big hole! So I made the yellow flower/star to fill in the gaps.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm really pleased with the results and hope that whichever elderly resident of the <a href="http://www.manorhealthcare.org/opencontent/default.asp?itemid=9&section=LOCATIONS" target="_blank">Manor Nursing Home</a> gets to use it will also be happy with it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thank you so much for the very encouraging comments about my St. Petersburg blanket. Well, I'd better hurry on as this is just a quick post to let you see what I've been crocheting. Bye for now.</span>Gillianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13234219836891799676noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421765095685595073.post-81954847986490401112015-09-26T11:39:00.000+01:002015-09-26T11:39:00.818+01:00St. Petersburg Blanket - Finito<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">The St. Petersburg blanket was started last May when we were on our Baltic </span></span><span style="line-height: 19px;">cruise, which</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 19px;"> included a two day visit to St. Petersburg. There have been many breaks from crocheting this blanket but I've always loved to get back to it and do a bit more. Now, finally, it is finished. R</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">eady to put on our king sized bed just in time for the cooler weather.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">The first mention of my cotton blanket was in my <a href="http://hookinayarn.blogspot.com/2014/05/my-first.html" target="_blank">very first post</a>. The yarn I chose was Sirdar Cotton DK and used two balls of each of the colours </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Vanilla, Seersucker, Light Taupe, Toasted, Sundance, Honeysuckle, Tranquil, Bluebird, Sailor Blue, French Navy, Darling Bud, Hot Pink, Black Violet, Larkin and Cottonfield. The plan was to make 144 different 6" squares from the <i>200 Crochet Blocks for Blankets, Throws and Afghans</i> book by Jan Eaton. I worked it all out in advance and drew up a chart with the number of each block and where it was to be placed. However, once I started crocheting, I quickly realised that I didn't like the mix of blocks worked round and round with blocks worked back and forth. So I changed to make all the blocks of the round and round type. Now there were also some of the blocks in the book that I just didn't like the look of so, in the end, I had to repeat some of the blocks but using different colours. I suppose it's a sort of sampler blanket.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The square below is called St. Petersburg. Well, I had to include it, didn't I? In fact, I crocheted it while we were docked in St. Petersburg! You can just spot a little bit of the border below the St. Petersburg square. I did eight rows of griddle stitch in different colours. Look at <a href="http://hookinayarn.blogspot.com/2015/07/dishcloth-pattern-and-framed-quaker.html" target="_blank">this post</a> for an explanation of how to work griddle stitch.</span><br />
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<br />Gillianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13234219836891799676noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421765095685595073.post-18265274633156033092015-09-23T20:45:00.000+01:002015-09-23T20:45:00.544+01:00There's No Time Like the Present<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">First of all I'd like to thank you for the very lovely comments you left about my shawl and outfit for the wedding. Only that I had said I would show you what it was like, I think I probably wouldn't have bothered posting my photos! I really don't like seeing myself but in the end I just went ahead and did the post.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well, I'm delighted to have been nominated for another Liebster award, this time by Jodie of <a href="http://lupeyloops.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Lupey Loops</a> blog. I really enjoy reading Jodie's blog which is very interesting and informative. There's no time like <i>right now</i> to just go ahead and answer my questions.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Lina has gone back to writing <a href="http://photo.knit.dog/">Photo.Knit.Dog</a></span></span><br />
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Gillianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13234219836891799676noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421765095685595073.post-26148841375191607932015-09-17T19:08:00.000+01:002015-09-17T19:08:00.432+01:00The Sea Glass Shawl Goes to a Wedding<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On Friday the 4th of September we headed off early to board the ferry from Dublin to Holyhead. The crossing was very calm and we arrived about lunch time in Wales. We t</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">hen</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> started our drive across Wales and into England, right down to Bournemouth, on the south coast, where we planned to stay.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The traffic was really heavy so the journey took a long time. We were so hungry when we arrived that we decided to eat in the hotel bar rather than trying to find somewhere in Bournemouth. The food was very nice; we had a sharing platter. The waiter exclaimed that we were the first couple he'd ever come across who managed to finish everything!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On the following day we drove to Salisbury for the wedding of a dear friend. That's him with the white hair in the middle of the picture. And that's his very beautiful bride. The wedding ceremony was really special.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> This is it; the sea glass shawl and the rest of the ensemble.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The reception meal was delicious and we got a chance to talk to lots of the guests and some friends. It was all quite a relaxed affair and very enjoyable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Afterwards we headed back to Bournemouth for a walk along the sea front. A lovely way to end our day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If you haven't already read about me making the sea glass shawl then have a look <a href="http://hookinayarn.blogspot.com/2015/07/starting-sea-glass-shawl.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://hookinayarn.blogspot.com/2015/08/sea-glass-shawl-finito.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm sorry that time is being squeezed yet again and I haven't had time to comment on your blogs for a while. Hopefully I'll get it done soon. Thanks for reading my blog and leaving your comments. It's the comments that make it all worthwhile. Bye for now.</span>Gillianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13234219836891799676noreply@blogger.com31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421765095685595073.post-73407401406836230232015-09-02T21:34:00.000+01:002015-09-02T21:34:00.190+01:00Lavender and Plums<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A few weeks ago I decided it was time for the annual refresh of the lavender in my flowerstone. If you look back <a href="http://hookinayarn.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-flowerstone.html" target="_blank">here</a> you can see last year's.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's great for attracting bees and sometimes it seems like the whole lavender bed is buzzing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I just fill the holes in the flowerstone with the lavender stems.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Several stems in the bigger holes so there's plenty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And here it is sitting on the kitchen windowsill.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We have a few others pieces from this <a href="http://www.uigpottery.co.uk/9-blue-clematis?n=50&id_category=9" target="_blank">Blue Clematis range of Uig pottery</a>; three jugs, a garlic pot, a jam pot and a large oven dish. Looks like some of these are discontinued.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Summer isn't officially over just yet but I'm so glad that the Autumn is very nearly here. I'm relieved to just stop waiting for the good weather to come and enjoy the beauty that comes with Autumn. Last year we had a very plentiful plum harvest that you can read about <a href="http://hookinayarn.blogspot.com/2014/08/plums-and-pasta-sauce.html" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://hookinayarn.blogspot.com/2014/08/plum-rush.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://hookinayarn.blogspot.com/2014/09/what-i-did-with-all-those-plums.html" target="_blank">here</a></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">. This year's harvest has already been picked and eaten; all three plums! Actually there's a fourth plum but it's too high to pick so it's still on the tree.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm sorry I haven't had much time to read all your blogs and leave comments. Hopefully I'll soon get there. Thanks for the comments you leave on my posts. As always, I really enjoy reading them.</span>Gillianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13234219836891799676noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421765095685595073.post-83585667634998822072015-08-28T09:34:00.000+01:002015-09-01T09:24:32.312+01:00Collecting the Honey<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Last weekend we robbed the bees of their honey. About a month ago the husband could see that there was a lot of honey to be harvested but the weather wasn't good in July so the bees ate quite a bit of the honey themselves. So we didn't get as much as we thought we were going to but, nevertheless, it's just great having our own honey.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here are some of the frames before the honey was extracted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This year we bottled some of the honey in these hexagonal jars. They hold about three quarters of a pound. The other jars that we use hold a full pound.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You can look back at last year's post about <a href="http://hookinayarn.blogspot.com/2014/08/honey-harvest.html" target="_blank">harvesting honey</a> to get some more information.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The weather has improved slightly this month over July. We get some nice sunny, even warm, days but also so much rain. Everywhere is starting to feel and look autumnal. A couple of weeks ago I took these pictures of our holly; berries already. Lots of the trees have their berries too. Some of the leaves are turning colour and starting to fall. It's been a very strange summer!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Remember I told you about the field next to us being used as a <a href="http://hookinayarn.blogspot.com/2015/08/a-little-bit-of-this-little-bit-of-that.html" target="_blank">'maternity' field</a>? Well, there ended up being three calves and their mothers. Here they are all together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">These two are very alike. You'd almost think they are twins but they're not.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">They've all been moved to another field now, a bit further away. Some day the calves will be separated from their mothers and we'll have to listen to them lamenting over their loss. It's so pitiful.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thank you all for your lovely comments about the sea glass shawl. My big blanket is finished too but I still need to block it. The thing is, I don't really know how I'm going to manage it; the blanket is enormous! Maybe this evening. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Anyway, it didn't take long to get all the motifs crocheted and joined. They're actually joined as you go, on the last round. At this point I needed to consult the pattern to see how to work the edging. Now in my first post about starting the shawl, I said that I was using a 3.5 mm hook. And in <a href="http://hookinayarn.blogspot.com/2015/08/a-little-bit-of-this-little-bit-of-that.html" target="_blank">this post</a> I said that I'd made a mistake and should have been using a 3.25 mm hook. When I consulted the pattern about the edging, I discovered that I had been right all along; it says to use a 3.5 mm hook. It's bad enough to think you've been mistaken but to realise that you've mistakenly thought you were mistaken is a little worrying!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What a difference blocking makes to lace work especially. It really opens out the design and makes it, well, lacy. This is the dress I'll be wearing with the shawl to the wedding. It has lots of beading at the neck so I didn't do any beading on the shawl.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">These pictures were taken this morning when it was nice and sunny. We've actually had some better weather recently. But it is getting cloudy now, we've had a few showers and it's <i>very</i> windy. Hopefully it doesn't knock the power off again. Our power was out for several hours last night even though there was no apparent reason for it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I always thought that starfish had five legs but it's not uncommon for them to have six. In fact, they've been known to have just about any number of legs up to twenty-three!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Please let me know what you think of my shawl. I love reading your comments. Thanks for them all and a big welcome, too, to my new followers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If you don't already know, have a look to see why I say <a href="http://hookinayarn.blogspot.com/2014/07/finito.html" target="_blank">finito</a></span>.</i></span>Gillianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13234219836891799676noreply@blogger.com35tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421765095685595073.post-38686304601579207172015-08-12T19:02:00.000+01:002015-08-12T19:02:00.135+01:00Aren't Giveaways Just Great?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In October last year I won Jo's giveaway of a packet of <a href="http://hookinayarn.blogspot.com/2014/10/heading-south.html" target="_blank">Mini Munch cucumber seeds</a>. Jo writes <a href="http://jo-thegoodlife.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">The Good Life</a> blog where she has recently shown us the start of her mini munch cucumber harvest. We planted our seeds in the greenhouse and are now starting to harvest the cucumbers. Thanks again Jo for having the giveaway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yesterday I received a lovely parcel of goodies from Una. I was the winner of Una's recent birthday giveaway on her <a href="http://bagsofwool.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Great Balls of Wool</a> blog; something I never expected! There's a 50g ball of Jaeger Spiral-spun pure wool in a gorgeous heather shade, a Cath Kidston notebook, buttons covered with Fair Trade fabric, a cute owl keyring from Oxfam (supporting independent artisans in India) and a very useful button tin. It came in this lovely cotton bag, too. I can think of lots of ways to use it! Thank you very much Una and I hope you have (or possibly already have had) a great 60th birthday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I should think about having another giveaway, I suppose. Just not sure what to offer as a prize! Here's a picture of one of the flower beds that I snapped very quickly at the weekend. Even though we haven't had good weather this summer, it's still possible to tell that the season is moving on and heading, eventually, into Autumn.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Bye for now.</span>Gillianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13234219836891799676noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421765095685595073.post-63204441643441334912015-08-06T18:56:00.000+01:002015-08-27T15:32:55.190+01:00A little bit of this, a little bit of that<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Welcome back and a special welcome to some new followers. It's been a bit of a hectic week. Problems with broadband and problems with drains. All sorted now, thankfully.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I forgot to show you my second dishcloth that I made recently (pattern <a href="http://hookinayarn.blogspot.com/2015/07/dishcloth-pattern-and-framed-quaker.html" target="_blank">here</a>). Here it is with our new, very miniature, rose. More about roses later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Our neighbour does a bit of farming and for the past few weeks the field beside us has become the 'maternity field'. This was the first calf to be born. The picture was taken the day after it was born.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mummy cow kept a close watch on her new baby.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In another field close by is the boy I would be pretty sure is the daddy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Anyway, back to the garden now. The husband made this willow construction months ago (see <a href="http://hookinayarn.blogspot.com/2015/02/an-update-and-liebster-award.html" target="_blank">here</a>) for growing sweet pea. We've had such awful weather this summer with so much wind and rain. In fact, it is now official that we've had the coldest July in twenty years. The result is a slightly skewed willow frame and sweet peas that haven't quite reached their full potential. But they're not bad!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is inside the frame where there are poppies growing as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This rose was planted last year and isn't doing too badly. A lot of the roses in the garden haven't done well at all this year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This rose seems to do very well every year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The first of the tomatoes this year. There is going to be a really big crop but that's because they're in the greenhouse. They are very slow to ripen so I pick them as soon as they show signs of starting to ripen and bring them into the house. For some reason they then ripen almost overnight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Some of the blackcurrants that have been picked. I have washed and frozen over twenty two pounds so far and there's more to come! Later in the year I'll make blackcurrant cordial and probably some jelly too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The strawberries weren't as good as we'd hoped because of the bad weather. We managed to get plenty to eat with ice-cream but not enough to freeze any.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've finished crocheting the <a href="http://hookinayarn.blogspot.com/2015/07/crochet-progress-and-using-wool.html" target="_blank">king sized blanket</a> and have started sewing in the ends. It's therapeutic!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Did any of you spot my <strike>deliberate</strike> mistake in my last post about the <a href="http://hookinayarn.blogspot.com/2015/07/starting-sea-glass-shawl.html" target="_blank">sea glass shawl</a>? I said the shawl is made up of three rows of motifs but it is actually constructed using four rows. The first has ten motifs, then nine, eight and finally seven, making a total of thirty four motifs. Also, I mentioned in the comments that I am using a 3.5 mm hook. Well, yes, I am. When I checked the pattern again (after having made fourteen motifs) I discovered that I should have been using a 3.25 mm hook. To be honest, I think the 3.5 mm hook is perfect so I'm glad I made that mistake! I've now finished the first two rows and am really loving it. Thanks for your lovely comments about the shawl, by the way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well, that's it for now. A little bit of this and a little bit of that. I have some news about giveaways that I've won but that will wait for another time.</span>Gillianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13234219836891799676noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421765095685595073.post-47361078617129791882015-07-30T18:59:00.000+01:002015-08-06T14:24:39.753+01:00Starting the Sea Glass Shawl<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Have you seen the Sea Glass shawl pattern in the Simply Crochet issue 33 magazine? I know Daisy has already started one of these shawls and it is looking really gorgeous so far. You can see hers <a href="http://www.lazydaisyjones.com/2015/07/progress-on-my-sea-glass-lace-crochet.html#.Vbdph0jbpLk.google_plusone_share" target="_blank">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It just so happens that I've also started crocheting one of these shawls. Well look at it! It's so, so beautiful, who could resist making it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Fortunately I even have a very good reason for making mine; we're going to a wedding at the beginning of September and this is what I intend to wear with my dress.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Lace weight yarn had to be purchased. I picked the colour to match my new shoes. It was tricky to match the colour as I had to buy the yarn online from the Wool Warehouse. Picture me at a screen, new shoe in hand, trying to match the colour to various yarns. This is what I finally decided was the best match and, now that it has arrived and I can see it in real life, is actually a perfect match. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's Juniper Moon Farm Findley yarn which is 50% extra fine merino wool and 50% mulberry silk. It feels so soft. So very, very soft.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The pattern looks difficult but it is easy enough to follow. The shawl is made up of thirty four starfish motifs, joined as you go, arranged in three rows; ten motifs in the top row, nine motifs in the middle row and eight in the bottom row. After the first two starfish motifs I was able to continue without needing to refer to the pattern.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is the first row complete with two motifs of the middle row also done. The colour isn't quite as dark as this really.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A bit closer so you can see more detail. This is much closer to the true colour.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Actually, as a matter of interest, the colour is called </span><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #393939; line-height: 14.300000190734863px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Rappahannock. I have to admit that this meant nothing to me until I checked it out on the internet.</span></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22px;">The </span><span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22px;">Rappahannock River</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22px;"> is in eastern </span><span style="line-height: 22px;">Virginia</span> and<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;"> traverses the entire northern part of the state, from the </span><span style="line-height: 22px;">Blue Ridge Mountains</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;"> in the west, across the </span><span style="line-height: 22px;">Piedmont</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">, to the </span><span style="line-height: 22px;">Chesapeake Bay</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">, south of the </span><span style="line-height: 22px;">Potomac River</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">. That explains why the name has been used for this shade of blue!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The dress with which I will be wearing the sea glass shawl has a lot of beading at the neckline so I won't be doing any beading on the shawl. When it's finished I'll let you see it (it will improve immensely after being blocked). I'll also let you see the dress and shoes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Thank you all so much for your lovely comments on my crocheted top. I've also done a wee cardigan which I'll have to let you see. Work continues on the big blanket!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">All the best for now.</span>Gillianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13234219836891799676noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421765095685595073.post-89295436057641172402015-07-25T16:01:00.000+01:002015-07-25T16:01:00.137+01:00My Crocheted Top<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Before we go any further, let me assure you that at no time did I intend to wear this top as it is worn by the model.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The pattern worked up so quickly. The back was done in no time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And here it is, finished and being modelled by me. Sorry, the pattern model was unavailable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I just knew that yarn would be a perfect match for this scarf.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Some of these foxgloves are actually taller than me. I had to crop the picture because I didn't dare let you see any more of me!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This was the first of the sweet pea to be cut.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've been able to cut lots more since then. The sweet pea was late starting to flower but going well now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is just a bunch of flowers cut from the garden. They are sitting out in the garage hence the random items in the background like a toolbox!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">All the best everyone.</span>Gillianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13234219836891799676noreply@blogger.com32