colors and yarns

08 Mar

A perfect shopping day…

Good morning sweet people around the globe,

Two days ago I received a phone call from my favorite yarn shop…The lovely lady there told me with her innocent voice: “We’ve got some new yarn with beautiful colors if you want to see ..come take a look” and you imagine my reaction…New yarn? mmmh….do I need new yarn? Didn’t I have enough? Should I go there? etc etc…but I couldn’t resist the temptation….I will go…I said to myself…I will go and I will only take a look…a smell and a touch 😀 and I WILL NOT BUY ANY!!

Hehe what a lie! Me …entering a yarn shop and leaving without any bag in my hands…hehe

So, as you guessed, I brought back home some new yarn…and I could’nt wait to show you….

First, I’ve got 10 Mirage yarn…

Mirage is a lovely 100% acrylic yarn thinner than the Nako Vizon one…It is worked with a 3mm crochet hook but I love its softness…a pure pleasure to work with…

and the colors are beautiful, don’t you think?

Then I’ve brought back also two “Nako Lollipop”

I don’t know why I bought them …I don’t usually love to work with a mixed-colored yarn (I can not find the name of that kind of yarn…sorry…) but I loved the colors and I said why not?…I can’t wait to try them…

and…to save the best for the last…

Something new in the Nako family…something called: Superlambs special …with stunning colors…I couldn’t resist…When I saw them I fall totally in love with their color choice…

They are a mixture 50%wool 50%acrylic worked with a 5mm crochet hook…

and I can tell you something …believe me or not…the colors are much more beautiful “live” than in the pics…

Bold but not too bright…just my kind of colors…

And I can not resist starting something with them…even though I have two wips on the go….could I resist? I don’t think so…

Have a colorful day my friend

and see you very soon 😉

Sucrette

P.S: Thank you so much for your marvellous response concerning Miss T. the turtle, I am more than happy that you loved her that much 🙂 THANK YOU!

20 Feb

circle in a square, colors and yarns, Crocheted blankets, for babies

The baby blanket

Good morning!

How was your week end? Hope it was great! Thank you so much for all your lovely comments on my last post! I picked up one of the projects to start with…

Sorry, it is not the turtle 🙂 But I promise, I promise that I’ll make that turtle soon 🙂 It is a Sucrette’s promise 😉

This special project I picked now holds a special place in my heart… It is a baby blanket I started back in September …I was at that time pregnant …then I made a miscarriage and lost my baby… So I left this blanket in THE BOX, heart broken 🙁 I did not blog about it then because it was too sad and painful for me and I couldn’t express what I was feeling with words in a happy crochet blog …

And since that black day of September everytime I open that box and see that blanket my heart cries…But now that months have passed by and hope came back again and again I decided to finish this baby blanket and offer it to one of my pregnant friends (They are 4 🙂 )

I still have the yarn (It is Nako baby a mixture of 50%acrylic and 50%polyamid )…

I still have the first two rows made…

I still have the 3mm crochet hook …

and I still have the pattern. It is HERE!

All I have to do is to give it a go, enjoy it because the yarn is the best yarn I ever touched in my whole life sooo soft and sooo good to crochet with and finish it so a small cute baby can be wrapped with love in it 🙂

Have to go now…

I’m wishing you an excellent week!

Take care,

Sucrette

20 Jan

colors and yarns, Crocheted blankets, granny squares, Love Birds

A new big hooky 2012 project!

Good morning lovely ladies,

Because I so want to get rid of my old stash of Nako yarn in order to buy new kind of yarn,

and because I want to start a long project,

and because I want to work on a simple-pattern-project that I can easily carry everywhere and I can grap whenever I want

I started: Love Birds.

I started Love Birds with a little fear (I must confess) because it is a very big project (a blanket to cover our double sized bed with more than a 100 squares) and every square is crocheted with only a couple of colors.

Wanna see?

Let’s take first a look at the yarn…mmmh…my favorite part:

I will not buy ANY NEW yarn for this project before I finish AAALLL this 🙂 This is my 2012 first goal 🙂

I will only buy for the joining because I’ll need then more than one ball from the same color.

I did not decide how I’m gonna join and with what color, I’ll have to crochet some squares first 😉

Ok, let’s take a look at the squares.

Yes granny squares! what else? 😉 Simple, traditional, granny squares with a couple of colors each! I don’t know why the pics are a little “yellowy” maybe it is due to the grey weather … but “live” the colors are yummy 😉

You, surely, understood now why I called it Love Birds… because each square is made with two colors and because it is for our bed 🙂

I’m crossing now my fingers to be able to accomplish such a big project… I need your support and your sweet words as always for an everyday’s push …I’m counting on you my dearest friends 😉

Love Birds will be my BIG project of the year! Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Thank you for visiting today…

Have a super weekend!

Sucrette

06 Jan

colors and yarns, Corners of my home, new projects, paintings

on the go…

Good morning !

How are you feeling today? Are you still in “Holidays-mode” or did you get back to your everyday’s “routine”? I’m trying to get back to the routine-mode but it is quite hard…the girls are still at home and there is still mess everywhere and new toys in every room and this is getting me crazy…

I saw, once, a very cute quote: “Please excuse the mess, the children are making memories” This quote makes me smile and everytime I get mad about the mess around here I try to remember the quote 🙂

So, this is how we are spending our days, girls playing with their new toys while mummy try to concentrate on hers …

…starting three new projects…

…One with her best friend her acrylic nako yarn…

… one with her cotton stash…

…and the last one with a brush and some colors…

It is always so exciting to start new projects…but to finish them is another story 😉

Will tell you more about each project later …Have to go now…There is some shouting coming from the playing room 🙂 the girls are surely making memories 🙂

Have a wonderful end of week!

Sucrette