Between the sunshine and the very heavy rain this morning I took delivery of some lovely thing from newish company Dots & Spots.
Featuring bunting, camper vans, beach huts and hens, I am pretty sure this range will bring a smile to your face.
I'm especially looking forward to using this sticky tape. It could jazz up a whole host of things.
What's a girl to do when she can't stop crocheting granny squares?
Every one she knows has a granny square blanket. Every coaster in the house is a granny square, even the dog has a granny square blanket.
Well, this is one idea...........
Should I wear it - or have myself certified insane ???
Following our visit from local stained glass artist Nikki Coombs, last year, we were eager to have her back again. This time we thought it would be fun to make some glass bunting, threaded together with pretty ribbon. Here are a couple of pictures of how we got on.
The ladies chose their colours, cut them into triangles and wrapped the edges in copper wire. Out with the soldering iron and tah dah...........................
That was just a few of the things made. As you can see not everyone stuck to the bunting theme but everyone had a lovely day and are all keen for Nikki to return.
No one could say we've been idle at Crafty Angel this weekend. Saturday saw us run a beginners crochet class. This is such a popular craft right now and it was great to get another group of ladies able to go away knowing enough to get them up and running, finishing the face cloths they began in the class, and armed with all the info they needed to move onto bigger projects when their confidence had grown a little.
We had 7 eager to learn, and I'm pleased to say they all cracked it. Well done girls.
Pop back tomorrow to see what we got up to on Sunday.
In the July edition of Country Homes & Interiors there is a little photo of a Green gate blanket which caught my eye straight away.
I loved the colours and the idea of mixing up the crochet stitches. And so began my hunt for yarn.
It would have been easy to do it in cotton yarn as they have done, there being a huge range of colours of cotton available, but I'd got it into my head I wanted to do it in chunky yarn. Probably the weather to blame for that train of thought! It proved a lot more difficult to find shades anything like the ones pictured.
Anyway, after much hunting, taking into account cost, meter-age, wool content etc etc I decided upon King Cole Magnum Chunky. This is what it looks like so far.........
Whilst the colours are not the same I think you can still see where my inspiration came from. It should be finished about this time next year!
We are now stocking Magnum Chunky in Crafty Angel.
During our workshop on Saturday local photographer George Tucker asked if we would mind being photographed, as part of his on going project to record Hatherleigh and it's people for years to come.
We didn't mind a bit and its certainly the best photograph to have appeared on this blog!
An inspirational gift & craft shop in a pretty market town.
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