Sucrette

27 Jan

colors and yarns, Crochet mood blanket 2014, Crocheted blankets, Crocheted cushion, filofax, granny squares, Patchwork crocheted squares, poncho, wips

crochet love

Good morning sweeties,

I’ve been crocheting a lot…a really lot these days…It seems like the hook is burning in my hands and yarn is flying everywhere around me 🙂 A lot of creative ideas are melting in my head and I feel every night that I am running out of time to make all I want to make and I wish that the days were longer (a 48h day is good for me 😉 )

I am working on more than 4 wips at the same time…Yes, each day I am picking 3 different hook sizes and working with them… crochet crochet crochet every second of my free time 🙂

Here are some…yes some of my wips of the moment…

* My poncho: The front is done…All the circles of the back are done too…Still have to join them and sew the front and the back together and decide on an edging 🙂 So, a tadaaa post very soon 😉

* The crochet mood blanket… January 25… 25 squares done so far…I am adoring this project 🙂 and how the squares of my moody days are coming along together beautifully…

* A new granny cushion with the wonderful mirage yarn 🙂 I love the colors of the mirage range but it is a thinner yarn worked with a 3.25 mm hook so small projects are done with it (You see I am not so patient to work a blanket with this yarn 🙂 )

* A new secret project with a chunky yarn will be revealed to you very soon I hope 😉

Blogging about my wips is a way for me to stay focused on them and remember to finish some before beginning others. That don’t always work … but I am trying my best 😉

Wishing you a wonderful creative week!

Kisses from the bottom of my heart

Sucrette

21 Jan

colors and yarns, Corners of my home, Crocheted blankets, fabric cushions, paintings, poncho, wips

Colors make me happy

*A new corner for homeworks, drawings and crafts 🙂

*A lot of colouring in the new corner 🙂

*New colorful cushions 🙂

*My colorful happy spot

*Colorful and cosy blankets to snuggle under

*Colors on the mantel too 😉

*64 colorful circles to add to my poncho in progress 🙂

Yes, colors make me happy! It helps me forget and not think about the uglyness and black reality out there…

Stay happy my friend! Surround yourself with colors 🙂

Sending your way a rainbow of love and kisses

Sucrette

17 Jan

Crochet mood blanket 2014, filofax, poncho, wips

A hooky update

Good morning sweeties

How are you?

A quick update today… hooky wise 🙂

My crochet mood blanket 2014… 15 days already (I took these pics yesterday morning)… You can not imagine how much I am enjoying this project…

Sometimes I feel like I am so busy here at home that I don’t have much time for crochet…but I pick my hook on the evening and make my square…and this gives me a lot of pleasure …

I pick a color that reflects my mood of the day even though the color itself don’t reflect “this particular mood” … Am I talking chineese to you? Well… I am sure you understand me 🙂

And I am loving too much this blanket… I am loving how I am slowly crocheting it (it is my very first slow project)… I am loving the fact that I don’t crochet more than one square per day even though sometimes I make efforts to do so…

I am loving the first 15 days and their colors… I am loving how when I look at them I remember how I was feeling each day… I don’t know if at the end of the year I’ll still remember but that is ok because it will be a blanket close to my heart…

And I am loving that many of you joined me and are hooking one square per day too…You know something I think about you while crocheting…yes, you, in the other corner of this planet 🙂

And I am also loving my poncho in progress… How the black makes the colors pop up 🙂

and I am loving my aqua malden filofax and how everything is organised and planned inside its pages… I call it “my brain” and it makes my children laugh 😀

So a last picture of my brain before leaving you today…

Isn’t it gorgeous? 😉

Well… sweeties…

Enjoy the little every day pleasures…

Have a wonderful hooky time…

Stay warm (if it is cold in your part of the world)

and remember that life is beautiful 🙂

Kisses

Sucrette

07 Jan

Crochet mood blanket 2014

Crochet Mood Blanket 2014 (2)

Good morning!

How are you? I am still very excited about the Crochet Mood blanket project and I’m very happy that many of you joined me 🙂 Welcome! We will surely have fun 😉

This is the first week of January …

A week full of good and bad moods 🙁

January1: Light purple: Sleepy

January2: Yellow: Full of energy

January3: blue: Feeling blue and dreaming about the blue sea and vacations

January 4 and 5: Red and grey-beige: Angry and very sad about my country

January6: Green: Trying to stay positive and think about spring and green grass (drink plenty of green tea too ;))

January7: Purple: Feeling lonely and alone (the children are back to school) and trying to remain positive 🙂

So that was my weekly moods so far… Please no more bombs and blood so this blanket will become a happy piece 🙂

We, sometimes, make our best to stay happy, calm and feeling good but it is not always possible 🙂

Some of you asked about the pattern of these simple squares. It is a chain of 12. Followed by 5 rows of 12dc each. And a last round all around the square of 1sc-3ch-1sc (and in the 4 corners too). This last round is for joining the squares together (like in the pic above)

Very simple…but I love it 🙂 It reminds me of patchwork quilts and there is something about them I cherish 🙂

I’m still working on my poncho and I’ve made some real progress I will show you next time!

Until then please stay warm and safe, pray for peace, and remember to be thankful for the little things in life!

Love

Sucrette

03 Jan

Crochet mood blanket 2014, filofax

Crochet mood blanket 2014 (1)

Good morning my friend!

A new start of the year with a new project…

You can nerver guess how much I am excited by this project!!

Let me tell you all about it so maybe you join me…

A lovely Instagram friend (Mummy_Stacey) is behind this project. She suggested to make 1 square per day or 1 square per week during 2014 depending on your mood…

If you make 1 square per day you’ll have end2014 a blanket with a total of 365 squares.

If you make 1 square per week (and here you can crochet a bigger square) you’ll end up with a blanket of 52 squares.

You choose each day (or week) a color to crochet your square with and this color must reflect the mood you are in…

You can have more details and info on Mummy-Stacey instagram here.

There is a facebook group too for all the members. And a ravelry group.

I decided to join the fun and make a square/day. I chose carefully the design of my square. It is a very simple one. 5 rows of 12 treble each and a last round of 1sc-3ch-1sc around the square to join it to the others as I go…

january1

January 1 : light purple: Feeling very sleepy all day long

Here are my squares joined -as-I-go so far:

January 2: Yellow: The energy is back and I felt in a very happy and full of energy mood 🙂

January3: Turquoise: I was thinking about vacations and was feeling a little blue…

Did you noticed how I joined my squares?

I joined them after a 90deg rotation of each one… I love the idea of having a patchwork of crochet in the end 😉

I prepared a sheet and decided to make a blanket of 360 squares like you can see on this paper:

I will crochet 30 squares each month. When the month is 31 days I’ll have a free day 😉

I’ve already crocheted january 1, 2 and 3…

I’ll keep this sheet in my everyday filofax 🙂

I’ll use yarn from my stash – mostly leftovers 🙂 and pick up the color each evening depending on how was my day …

I hope that this blanket end 2014 will be full of bright and happy colors 😉

So, my friends, did you like this wonderful idea? Would you like to join the fun?

Come on! grap your hook and crochet a square…(It can be any square you want…a granny…african flower…a square you love in particular)

Each square took me 7 minutes with the joining part…7 little minutes per day for crochet all over the year…It is easy to do… and the result will be a cherished blanket with a full year of memories behind each small part of it 😀

So? Are you still thinking? We are already more than 1000 crocheters around the world…

A beautiful worldwide crochet-along 🙂

And we are waiting for you to join 😉

Happy day to all!

Kisses

Sucrette