Tuesday, 5 December 2017

VERY SUCCESSFUL PATTERN CLUB COMES TO A CLOSE FOR 2017

Well today i posted the last Pattern club pattern, a very snuggly poncho. Its been a great year of patterns and i hope all who joined the fun have enjoyed all the patterns in the club
Hoping to do another pattern club next year but as with 2017 it wont start in January but a couple if months into 2018...give me a bit of time to get ahead.

HUGE THANK YOU TO ALL WHO JOINED UP IN 2017
Look forward to you all joining again in 2018
Details to come 


UPDATE ON SHOPPING FOR BEDROOM MAKE OVER

Managed to find 2 mirrors in a sale similar to the ones I had seen in my inspirational picture collection on Pinterest to go over the bedroom chests of drawers.....

They are already hung and i'm very happy with them, just waiting for carpets and the new chests of draws to arrive and i need to finish painting the doors in Winter Grey Chalk PAINT

to be hung landscape over the chests of drawers each side of the bed, like this inspirational picture......

I think i need two new lights and something like 2 small trays to protect the wooden tops on the chests of drawers from glasses of wine and
 cups of coffee

Wouldn't a real silver tray each side look fabulous? Iol, I wish! 
Just like this....beautiful solid silver tray

may be it might be too much?

Good job 'cos i can't afford one silver tray, let alone 2!
Might have managed the price of this one......pity its out of stock and not silver 

or maybe a perfume bottle, would look good...


or a vase or two...



lots of affordable nick nacks about, but playtime after the big pieces are all together is best.

Thanks again to all who joined Sue Pinner's 2017 pattern club 
Loved every minute of it xxx






Monday, 4 December 2017

Decorating Diary Update....so I know when it happened.

Having hurt my wrist a couple of weeks ago, it's on the mend now, thanks for all the good wishes. Sorry this posts is more of a diary entry so i know when i did all this.

I was left with a wrist i'm going to have to watch for ever. 

All sorts of thoughts come into your head about ageing, when some thing like this happens. All I did was fold a heavy vintage quilt as we were trying to clear bedrooms for a complete federation and make over.

It has really held us up, I had to cancel the carpet laying for 2 weeks....but I'm on the mend and have managed to help with the decorating  New carpets now booked for the 16th Dec. 2017. 
now looking for two mirrors like this to go over the chests of draws 
inspirational picture for new look bedroom


New chests of draws to arrive on the 19th Dec. cutting it all really fine for Christmas. 
Nothing is in its right place at the moment and we can hardly move in some rooms and others are almost empty.....but its looking good so far, love that it is all  clean and even love the smell of paint as you go up the stairs.

I had decided it would be the very last time i would be doing decorating on this scale with new furniture, so good quality carpets and underlay going down and solid wood furniture this time around....its been slow going, painting with my left hand, but we can see the light at the end of the tunnel now.

New carpets will be dark grey with 9mm underlay very squishy. 

The old carpets had been down a very long time, we inherited them when we bought the house over 6years ago. Found this written on the back of the old carpets....not too sure if its 02.1980 or 02.1989? which ever it is, it really was time for a change. 

New chests of draws are from Cotswold Company and in a pale grey with wood tops to go with the new grey and ochre colour scheme  in our bedroom. 

lets hope everything will fit in these big boys.

Feature wall and doors are mid grey [mixed it our selves to get the right shade]
with white emulsion everywhere else, gloss white on the wood work, door frames etc. 

and some new pillow cases from the Elements Sunflower range below, to go with a set of Grey Tartan bedlinen i have already.


Still to paint the light fitting black in a hammered look paint..hope that works.

Very happy with our room so far....

Second bedroom, well the jury is out I'm afraid, it is finished but...
 I painted over the wallpaper and then regretted it so might need to strip and re do,
 but with what? 

I'm still thinking, but i will need to get it finished before the 16th Dec. 
My problem is i love all the shades of grey and cant decide on anything other than another shade of grey.....Too much grey or am i coordinating the whole house? 

A new tin of Chalk paint it waiting for me....doors to finish painting today
same as the double doors in the kitchen
you can just see the Winter Grey in this picture.....also want to finish this blanket to go on the bed too.

CHRISTMAS STAR WRAP PATTERN


Circle Star Wrap

Behind the large Mandala Motif

This cute little star could be made into all sorts of projects...
Made in several shades of blue, green and purple Malabar Cotton/silk or pure cotton or even in dk Merino
4mm hook.

CIRCLE STAR WRAP
make 70+ for a wrap

US Terms and UK Terms in brackets
Malabar cotton silk Yarn
or Cotton yarn
4mm hook


JOIN AS YOU GO
Use round 3 as the join as you go into the tiny ch3 loops at each point, and the second ch st as a sl st into the first star.

This simple little motif can be made in Cotton yarns too as a collar make 20 

 as a scarf make a long row of the Circle Stars

MOTIF PATTERN in US and [UK Terms] 
A one finger wrap of 4 wraps or ch8, sl st into a circle.
Round 1: ch 2 counts as first dc [tr], 17dc [17tr], into circle, sl st to complete

Round 2: Attach second colour yarn in any st, ch5 miss two sts, sc [dc], into next st, repeat until you have 6 x ch5 loops. sl st to complete

Round 3: 4sc [4dc], ch3, 4sc[4dc], into the first loop, repeat 4sc [4dc], 3ch, 4sc [4dc] in every ch5 loop, sl st to complete.

Make as many motifs as you require and join as you go in the corners only, to make a long wrap or a shoulder shawl 

Saturday, 2 December 2017

INSPIRED BY FABRIC PATTERN

Flower Inspired from Fabric
US Terms
DK, 4mm hook


PICTURE TUTORIAL FOR THIS FLOWER PATTERN 

Originally designed from a piece of fabric I bought.
this sample was made in bamboo/cotton 4mm hook
USA Terms
Happy hooking

Thursday, 30 November 2017

5th New Star of 6 for 2017


5: CLUSTER STAR

finger wrap of 10 wraps
ROUND 1: 12sc, into circle, sl st, to complete. [12sc]
ROUND 2: ch2, dc in first st, 2dc in every st to end sl st, to complete, [24dc]
ROUND 3: Att. yarn in sp between pairs of dc, cluster of 3dc, [ch2, half make 2dc, pull yarn though all 3sts, ch5, cluster of 2dc in next sp, ch2, sl stinto same st,  sl st to next sp, repeat sl st to complete. [12clusters x 3dc]



All Star Patterns
US Terms
4mm hook

CHANGE COLOUR EVERY ROUND.

YARNS USED FOR STARS:


YARN: stone washed yarns and Marble Yarns 
Designer Yarns

Best Selection of Marble dk Cols:
mt1 grey shades,
mt2 blue shades,
mt3 pale aqua shades
mt19 lime shades,
mt20 bale blue shades
mt24 beige grey
mt41 blue/teal.turquoise
mt47 pale grey shades

OR 
Use your stash

Next week i will post all 6 stars in one post for you