The perfect rose

Seldom you find a pattern that fits so well into your fingers, as if it is one you designed yourself. Searching on the net for flowers I found a rose ..... the perfect rose

I loved it ....

it must be pink ....

a wreath of pink roses

Then I had to search for the right pink to make the "perfect" roses.

One day I walked into a shop and there it was, the right pink for the perfect rose. It is Katia mississipi 3, a cotton I learned to really appreciate.

  Here it is, Above the picture of the yarn there is a link to all the colours.

Only pink roses were maybe too much, so I added red, also of Katia mississippi 3.

A mix of green yarns were chosen to cover the styrofoam circle.

At this point I was thinking of making leaves, maybe the pink will be too much, not for me though.

I was looking for roses leaves and tried a few, but eventually I wrote a pattern for myself. There are many very good patterns for rose leaves, but I needed them to fit with my roses.

The beginning of a rose wreath, not yet there but almost.

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The Perfect Rose pattern is from Kati crafts

Cross stitches

Maybe 30 years ago my great love for handcraft was cross-stitch embroidery. This piece is of Pako, my favourite make of cross stitch packets. Now my eyes can not see those little stitches anymore .... or I have to get a proper magnifying glass.

The entire thing!

Giving up on the CAL 2014

Not all my projects end up as successes, in this post I'll explain why I put a stop to this one. Not that it all is lost, no way, I have enough ideas for this yarn, it's just that I don't feel comfortable with this multicoloured blanket it is turning into, maybe I started out with too many colours.
Maybe I have crafted all my live, but it turned into this intense frenzy only about a year or so ago when I bought my first yarn online and that was a lucy packet. All this amazing colours, I couldn't believe my eyes!
But, eventually it turned out not to be my thing.  It looks great in a ripple blanket or such, but this blocks .... I don't like. I can't imagine this technicoloured bomb anywhere in my house or anywhere! I started out with too many colours. In the first block I used 13 colours!
So far I'm really, really strugling with the colours. With so many different blocks, it will look better with much less colours, at the most 5.

Week 2 Popcorn parade

Week 3 Starburst flower

Week 4 Basket of berries

What a strange stitch at the outer rim, positive thing about this, it made me realise I do understand and I can crochet these difficult stitches.

Week 5 Starfire

Week 6 Blooming lace (actually I like the way the colours came together in this block, it almost looks like I start grasping colour combinations, but this is where I stopped my blanket. I won't frog it yet)

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CAL is from a facebook group 

Official CCC Social Group 

New clothes for my doll.

Every now and then I buy a dutch magazine about Dolls and Teddy-Bears. Many artistic dolls and bears are featured. I myself like the patterns of Marianne Heijnis. She has absolutely fantastic patterns, I never have a problem with them. This is such a pattern, it fits my doll to a T. 

 When I was a child my mother taught me these embroidery stitches, they are so easy! It's lazy daisy and french knots. I wanted to add a little bit of extra colour.

 The pants were way too big for my doll and I just winged it and it came out fine. I had to add flowers and a leave, just because.

The shoes I made myself, again just winged it. 

Most of my dolls will soon have a dress of this pattern.

Here she is in all her glory, just beautiful!

and not showing her pants!

I need flowers

Flowers, I need flowers!
The daffodils looks lovely in the garden, in parks, just everywhere.
Feeling really needful for the joyous colours and sun. Sun we have, so I saw to the colours and flowers.

Sam's jacket

The ripple blanket came in handy again, when Sam needed a blanket. It matched perfectly with the jacket I've knitted him.

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For the jacket I used Bravo yarn, bought in Veritas. Lovely colours, cheap, BUT!!!! full of faults and knots.

Leona's shawl

In my street is this very nice old lady, Leona. She lived here almost forever, she's in her late 80's and lived in her house since she was a child. She loved to knit, crochet, or do all kinds of craftwork, she even loved photography which was not that evident in those days. Now she finds it too difficult to do it. I love talking to her, she can tell endless stories about the war (WW2)

She always wears these lovely colourfull shawls, she has more than one. She has shawls for during the week and one for sundays. How lovely is that!

 Leona!

 Writing me a graph to use as pattern

Holding up her shawl 

 How to make the shawl goes like this:- just knit a huge round thing.

Fold it .....

Crochet the two sides together, preferably in a lacey kind of stitch, it can be nice and warm

 Like this.....

 

Close up 

ready to wear

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Yarn used are the leftover from this handbag, I did need more than what was left

A ripple to sit on

The first posts I read on Attic 24 was about her ripple blankets, so I made one, just a small one to try out the pattern. It came out beautifully.
Very handy to take along.

Yarns used were all scraps from here and there.

Christening blanket

Belgium is at most a cold place ...... and churches are even worse, and that is all over, not only in Belgium.
With all the grandchildren getting christened, I had to crochet a blanket to match the event.
It was an incredibly easy blanket to make and I got it done on time. 

The edging is very simple, I don't think this pattern needs more than this.

Yarn used is Ideal from Berger de France

It's a boy

The christening dress had to be changed from pink to blue. It looks good!
This time it was Sam's turn to be christened in the dress.

Blue for boys, so I kept the lace only to a thin line. Or not really, I was looking for broderie anglaise, but couldn't find it.

The first dress or piece of clothing the grandmother of my son-in-law made for him, a very pretty broderie anglaise shirt and it's still beautiful after all these years. The christening dress was worn in the church and at the christening party afterwards Sam wore the shirt.