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My Sunday Snapshot, a Lovely Model for My Shawl

February 21, 2021 by Anne Sweet 7 Comments

This week I finished a shawl I’d been making. I’ve wanted to crochet a shawl for a long time but some of the patterns seemed incredibly complicated for something that was just basically a triangle of fabric. So I kind of followed a pattern and adjusted it to make it a little easier. In the end I think it was the wool that made the shawl stand out, I’m loving working with wool that changes colour at the moment, it’s so much easier than having to change it yourself and tie in all the loose ends. When finished I needed a model and Boo was more than willing to show it off.

She put it on at an angle and I was so tempted to straighten it up but I resisted.

Nothing to See Here

I was never very good at capturing moments on camera, maybe it’s because I grew up in a non digital age and every photo had to count because you had to wait to have them developed and pay for each one? I keep saying I will take more photos and I’ve bought so many digital cameras which are gathering dust. I know I’m not a photographer, I just don’t have the ‘eye’ to make a photo special. But, I really do need to take more photos. I look back on all the photos I took this week and, well, nothing apart from Boo modelling my shawl. I did take a photo of a pencil drawing I made but I put that directly on Instagram.

It was Graham’s birthday this week, I have no photos of his birthday cards or cake, presents, or even the lovely meal we had. I need to take more photos!!

Next week when I join up with the Sunday Snapshot linky I’m hoping to have tons of photos to choose from 🙂

My Sunday Snapshot

My Sunday Snapshot, Crochet Scarf Gift

January 17, 2021 by Anne Sweet 6 Comments

As you probably know I love to crochet and scarves and blankets are my favourite to make. I recently finished this crochet scarf to gift to my friend. It was for Christmas but as I was unable to see her and her birthday was in January, I sent her the scarf along with some chocolate for her birthday last week. I really hope she likes it as much as I liked making it. I used a lovely blue and green mixed wool and blue tassels.

Crochet Scarf

Blue/multi coloured scarf with blue tassells. — crochet scarf

I really want to make another now to go in my Etsy shop. So far I’m just featuring a few scarves that I have made and a baby blanket, but I will be crocheting like mad now to get some more items in the shop. I’m hoping to do some amigurumi too as that’s quick and easy to make and people love them. I have some pattern ideas too but it’s difficult writing patterns that others can follow. It will give me a purpose, a goal for this year.

Crochet

I mostly feature my crochet on my other blog At Home A Lot, but I have featured a few things I’ve made here too. Including my crochet mandala which I really enjoyed making and will definitely get around to making another soon. And there was my Axolotl which was featured in Simply Crochet magazine. I still have her she’s very cute.

Do you crochet or have any hobbies? Do you have an Etsy shop, let me know in the comments if you do as I feature shops over on At Home A Lot quite frequently, I’m a big Etsy fan and also an affiliate.

Linking up to Rachel for My Sunday Snapshot, click badge to see other photos linked up for this week.

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My Sunday Snapshot and Ordinary Moments, Mandala

November 22, 2020 by Anne Sweet 5 Comments

Yesterday I spent the afternoon making this mandala. I’ll be sure to be making some more of them.

My First Mandala

a ring with a crochet mandala in the colours of pink, cream, blue and green. — crochet mandala

Making the mandala has to be the most exciting thing I’ve done this week. Well, I did finish reading a rather good book, The New Girlfriend which I have reviewed here if you are interested. But it’s been a fairly quiet week.

The Bad Morning.

I had a bad morning. It started with a weird dream, but then I woke and I couldn’t move. The room was dark and I confused my son because I couldn’t speak when he came in. He did come back though and when he turned on the lamp he realised something was wrong. With his help I managed to get moving and eventually sitting on the edge of the bed where he gave me my medication. He gives me my medication every morning, today he had to put them in my mouth for me and pour the water in too so I could swallow them. I feel so sad. He’s 10 years old and these are the memories he will have of me when he grows up.

My oldest son realised something was wrong and came into help. He got me standing and helped me down the stairs. It’s days like this that I wish I’d had my lift installed. It’s so scary trying to go down the stairs when your body isn’t responding. I couldn’t even bend to go down on my bottom.

An hour on the settee with a nice cup of tea which was made for me, and couple of extra, different painkillers, and I was feeling much better. I got to watch my morning Christmas movie wrapped in a blanket. The Little Man played Roblox on his laptop next to me.

I dread the time when this becomes an every day occurrence. I may have to consider that lift, or maybe even a stair lift. It’s crazy, but the occupational health team are happy to pay for a lift installation but won’t approve a stair lift because they don’t think it would be safe enough for me. A lift sounds great, but I would have to lose a large chunk of my bedroom and living room to have it installed and I really don’t want that.

Ok, I’m rambling now. Today will be okay now I can move again and the pain is under control. I may even cook the kids favourite roast chicken for dinner.

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My Sunday Photo and Ordinary Moments – Cushion

October 18, 2020 by Anne Sweet 9 Comments

I love to crochet, especially while listening to an audio book. This week I finished one of my Works In Progress, a cushion.

photo of a cushion in purple, pink and white pattern, lying on a brown settee.

I started it a while ago, the back is plain white and was very easy to make. The front consisted of three colours which were to be made in a complicated pattern. The pattern was not too bad to understand, but when you are changing four colours in each row it can be complicated and creates a lot of work on the back to sew in all the threads. I tried and gave up. I decided to use the same colours but make some squares and sew them together. I designed the pattern myself. I’m never 100% happy with what I make but I’m happy that I didn’t just give up on it. And now I have a super soft colourful cushion.

The Ordinary Moments, Some Might Say

Today’s Blogtober post is ‘Some Might Say’ and I have to say, I really don’t like Oasis. I never have, the Gallagher’s both annoy me beyond belief and I don’t like their voices. But I do like some of their songs and this is one of them. And the lyrics are quite relevant for these time don’t you think.

Some Might Say we will find a brighter day!

So many awful things that are going on in the world right now. There has to be a brighter day coming. At the moment, all I can see is division and suffering. But life goes on, and we have to think of our children. I don’t believe that there is a big plan to get us all under control. That is not possible, we have been free for too long. We can’t even follow simple instructions like not gathering in crowds and putting on masks. Its a crazy situation. Following the rules could get the pandemic under control, but if it you don’t believe there is a pandemic then you won’t follow the rules.

I can see us going around in circles for a long time over this and there will be a lot of lives lost or ruined.

Some might say that we will find a brighter day!

Let’s keep hoping they are right!

In the meantime, I’m going to keep home as much as I can and do my favourite things like read and crochet. I may even make another cushion!

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My Sunday Snapshot and Ordinary Moments – Fall Guys

September 6, 2020 by Anne Sweet 10 Comments

Fall Guys

Fall Guys Ulitmate Knockout is a fun new game on PS4 and Steam. And I love it. I think I love it more than the kids, there hasn’t been a game I’ve enjoyed so much in ages. The game is simple, you start off with a load of other fall guys and compete to finish five rounds of random games. They can be races or skill games, some are down to chance, some are skill. It’s just fun and competition in its simplest form.

Anyway. I was thrilled to find this lovely little crochet pattern on Craftfix and had to give it a go. Such a cute jelly bean guy. I want to make some more and some outfits like you can get in the game.

Ordinary Moments

This week the Little Man went back to primary school on Thursday. He’s in year 6 and it’s a good school that has taken all the precautions. They are taking the COVID19 risk seriously so I was happy to let him go back. Not only that but he needs the interaction and discipline of school. I’ve let him get far too lazy since we stopped home educating in July.

The first day went really well. As I’m clinically vulnerable the plan was for Graham to bring him home then he could get changed and wash his hands before coming in to me. But it didn’t go to plan. After school, on the way to the car, he had a big fall and hurt himself quite badly. So as soon as he got home it was straight to me for cuddles.

He hurt his knee, his wrist, his hands and his back. So it was a nasty fall. Later he also complained of headache and had an upset stomach, his eye was hurting too. I think it was a combination of the return to school and the fall, it really took it out of him. He didn’t go back on Friday as I was worried about his wrist and his back was still aching. But now, on Sunday, he’s much better. So I’ll let him go back to school tomorrow.

We didn’t even get a back to school photo because he didn’t wear his uniform on the first day and we were waiting for a uniform photo on Friday. We’ll try in the morning.

Did your kids go back to school this week?

Worst Back to School Ever 2020

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