HALF AN HOUR A CHAIR AND A 1/4" OF PAINT USED!

VALSPAR paint B&Q

FEATHER GRASS

GREEN ENERGY

CROWN OF FETHERS

OCEANARIUM

wow! the paint is going to paint a dozen chairs let alone one.....

left: has painted a chair, right: not touched yet

4 done this afternoon, about half an hour a chair with cleaning the brush between colours.

They will need a second coat and then matt varnish but loving the colours so far...

WORKSHOPS: Making great progress on work room makeover

Chair painting today and the next couple of days...8 to paint and I took 

8 SHADES OF WOOL into B&Q 

to get matched paints, close to the chosen 8 colours. 
colours like..... Warm Pink Suede, Hot Shot and Green Energy.

VALSPAR MATT INTERIOR PAINT

just a large match pot, 2 very helpful young men helped me search the hundreds of shade cards to find the best match. 
I'm hoping each pot will be enough to paint a chair, if not back for a second one and at £3 a pot with my 10% discount on Diamond Wednesday it's a great deal, even if i need a second pot for each chair.

It was far too expensive to buy 8 colours of chalk paints and have loads left over. 
So a mat varnish will be added to seal the emulsion paint.

8 of the chairs in the work room will be painted this week in readiness for the work shops.

Also found the giant floor cushion cover in one of the boxes this morning from Book 2
Granny Squares and Shapes...

 2 different colour ways one for each side

Lunch and then the chair painting will start....soon know if one match pot does the chair

NEW CROCHET FRIEND...
Had a visit from a lovely new hooker Martha, not long moved to Shropshire and only lives a few minutes away.

 I do hope we will become firm friends, she has changed my life already, telling me about decluttering and getting rid of 10 items a week to be clutter free.

I cant stop, doing 10+ items a day to kick start the declutter. I've have already done the kitchen cupboards, airing cupboard, make up draw and my tights draw...shoes and wardrobe will be getting the same treatment.

 I'm using the 15 Minute Rule to do it too so not eating into my crochet time at all, the space is amazing just by removing 10 items and the you feel, light and free each time 10+ items go. Brilliant way yo declutter.

PAINTING WORK ROOM CHAIRS OR......

SPLASH THE COLOUR AGAIN...

Paint the workroom chairs...

as they desperately need a make over....

brights?

pastels? 

lots of shades of one colour?

just one colour?

neutral?

Some beautiful chairs to be seen on 

PINTEREST click the link to see.

OR.....
 just dig out the crochet chair covers?

and splash the colour again...

its all hiding some where in this house!

WORK ROOM CLEAR UP......and cushions every where

And clear out......if you're local and want to see the yarns, then pop by.

So far i've got 3 tubs, 3 boxes and several bags all needing a new home and a bargain at 50p a ball

 From tomorrow its open house this week, then it will be off to a car boot to clear some yarn space.

someone wasn't helping but falling asleep on the only box that was empty... Thanks Mr T

 Still a mountain to climb, but at least by bedtime yesterday i could see the floor and most of the table too

 all the chairs need painting...a rainbow of colours i think?

and i've sorted the small mountain of cushions out 

and this was just a few of them i found lurking in the depths of the wool bags

Picked a few to keep,  some to finish and which to unpick....so many we're drowning in cushions

 the cushions that have survived best over the years and cats and washing are the ones made with a high % of wool or in cotton, the acrylic ones are not in as good a shape...

never again will i make an acrylic cushion 

sorted at least large blue 3 Ikea bags out this morning 

but there are still about 30 smaller bags and 20 boxes of samples to go through.....

lots better than it was before the weekend but still a long way to go

OLD PATTERN NEW TAKE...

 Caron Simply Soft Flowers [2013 pattern]

The original Pattern and sample I made in 2013, in one colour but soon tried some colour

5 colours and mesh box version.

 Works Beautifully in a 8 colour mix too..

MESH FLOWER BOX PATTERN

 DK and a 4mm hook
Aran and 5mm hook
US Terms

One finger wrap of 6 wraps

ROUND 1: 12sc into wrap, sl st, to complete round. [12sc]

ROUND 2: Att. new col. ch2 counts as first dc, 1dc in same st, then 2dc in each st, sl st to complete round. [24dc]

ROUND 3: att new col, ch4, miss 2sts, sc into next st, repeat 7 more times, sl st to complete round. [8 x ch4 loops]

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ROUND 4: att, new col, in any loop, ch2, 5dc, ch2 sl st into the same loop, sl st into the next loop and repeat in each ch4 loop, sl st to complete. [8 petals]

These flowers could be joined together as they are or add the mesh box 

MESH BOX

MESH BOX:

ROUND 5: Att, yarn in centre of any petal, ch 9,(corner) sc into middle st, of the next petal, ch5, (side) sc into the middle st, of the next petal, repeat until you have 4 corners and 4 sides, sl st to complete. [56ch]

ROUND 6: 5sc in first ch9 corner, ch2, 5sc, in same sp, [corner], sc in the next st, (sc in the top of petal),  5sc in next ch5 side sp, sc in the next st, (sc in the top of petal) repeat for all four corners and sides. sl st to complete. [17sc each side]

NOTE: Don't miss out the sc in the top of the petal, you should have 17sc sts for each side, 2ch sts in each corner.

ROUND 7: start in a corner sp, dc, ch3, dc in ch2 sp, ch1, miss a st, dc, ch1 miss a st, cont. to dc, ch1, miss a st repeat for all four corners and sides, sl st to complete round.

NOTE: you should have 10 Bars, 9 side sp, and 2 in each corner sp.

ROUND 8: sc in every st and ch1 sp, sc ch3 sc, in corners and use this as the joining round. [21sc each side]

JOIN AS YOU GO FOR SQUARES: 
After every stitch sl st, at the end of each st, to join to the matching st, of the square before.