Well, I can safely say that I will not be completing my Kaleidoscope Blanket by the end of the CAL! I’ve only done one triangle this week! Very slack. But I will get there eventually, so no worries.
I have been crocheting though, of course… I bought myself a new (to me) dress from eBay the other day and it has some lilac colours in it. I thought, hmm, I could do with a lilac cardi to go with this. So with the help of a voucher, and a 3 for 2 offer, I got an excellent bargain on WI Premium Acrylic from HobbyCraft, and found a pattern I like. The pattern I’m using is actually one for a v-neck jumper which I’d already bought, but I think it will work well as a cardi too. It’s called Reina Sweater and the pattern is by Courtney A Clark.
So how is it going so far?


Didn’t take a picture of Thursday’s progress.

The yarn is nice and soft and squishy, a pleasure to work with. The stitch used is an extended single crochet (ESC – US term) and it gives a quite close, but stretchy texture which I’m liking.
When I’ve finished this, I might well start another one in mint green as I feel the need for pastel coloured cardis!
Last week I also mentioned macrame. Over that weekend I made 3 pot holders, and I’m pretty proud of myself. They’re not using any complex knots or anything, but as I’ve never tried macrame before it before I was pretty chuffed.
Here are my happy dangling plants:



Our living room window looks lovely now 🙂

Well given the current health scare you may well have something productive to do if you are confined to barracks. Stay save and we’ll 😊
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What a great collection of plants. I used to have real plants but having given up on living indoor plants I am about to crochet some succulents.
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