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27 Feb

Crocheted blankets, granny squares, Love Birds, paintings, wips

Wips…

Good morning sweet friends!

It is monday already and February is at its end…Isn’t it great to feel that spring is not so far anymore? I hope on this monday morning that you’re feeling spring in your heart and that what counts 🙂

Today, today, today… just a small follow up on my wips…

The pile of squares of “Love Birds” is slowly growing …

It is a super feeling to see that yarn is slowly becoming small and the pile of crocheted squares is slowly growing 😉

I’m loving this blanket even though I’m working on it on a very slow rythm …one square maybe two/ a day…

I’ve began also a new painting…

This was a very small peek of the painting because it is just the beginning and beginnings are not always beautiful to see 🙂 Will show you more very soon…

I’ll leave you now with a last pic of “Love Birds” squares…

Thank you for your visit…

Have a wonderful week!

Sucrette

13 Feb

Award, Crocheted blankets, free patterns, granny squares, Love Birds

How was your weekend? Hope that it was a little less cold in your part of the world…Here it was sunshine with a good 18 celcius d. so yesterday the girls played outside and had so much fun after weeks of gray and rainy days stucked indoors 🙂 Sunshine again…yes spring is not so far anymore …

I’ve made more squares for my Love Birds blanket…I’m getting a little bored from this square 🙁 …so I must work on something else in parallell if I want to be able to finish it …yes 121 squares is something huge and I can not work it without crocheting another wip at the same time… for the distraction 😉

Some of you asked me how I begin a new row when I don’t want to change the color and cut the thread… Well I’ve made a small graphic for you to understand this small trick…it is so easy …

Here is the graphic of the traditional granny square I’m making for Love Birds (the first 4 rounds):

and here are the symbols used:

As you can see in the graphic, you have to close each round with a sc (U.S) instead of crocheting one ch and a slip stitch. With this sc, you’ll be able to stay in the corner ( hope you’re understanding what I mean 🙂 ) and begin a new round with 3ch instead of the first dc (U.S) !

For each Love birds square, I crocheted the first 3 rounds with one color and then the next four rounds in another color…

and round8 with the lovely turquoise color (I’m so in love with this color, thank you so much for all your kind comments concerning my joining colors…now, thanks to you, the turquoise is surely a winner 🙂 ) and then I’ll join my squares with a line of sc (U.S) with the darker turquoise ! (You can see a small sample of the result in this previous post)

So, my sweeties, this is it! I have now to find a new wip so I can work on more than one project…yes, I am not a monogamous woman (is that an english word or translator is giving me wrong translations?????) I can never stick on one project at a time …

Have to leave you now… and go see my box-of-left-behind-wips 😉

Have a wonderful week!

Sucrette

P.S: Thank you so much Olga, Heidi, Carol and Cynthia for the versatile Blogger award! That is really sweet from you 🙂 THANK YOU !

07 Feb

Award, Crocheted blankets, granny squares, Love Birds

I am back!

Yes, I am back! Oh how I missed you my friends and how I missed blogging, visiting blogs, leaving comments, writing new posts… I can say that I am back from a kind of hell! Everybody got sick in this family and when somebody was feeling better, somebody else was getting worse etc…we’ve been ill and then better and then ill again all of us :(… A special kind of very bad virus… I’ve been a nurse and a sick mummy at the same time and that was one of my worse weeks …Today, we are all feeling a little better, the girls are still at home resting…they are still very weak but today is a better day…

During this crazy week I’ve crochet a lot… yes, I crocheted between wiping runny noses, taking fevers and giving medicine to everybody…I crocheted when I was feeling a little better between a headache and another…The crochet was the only thing that was keeping me away from getting completely crazy and out of my mind…I’ll show you today some progress I’ve made to Love Birds…

I’ve crocheted 32 squares so far and I’m loving them…I’m loving each and every one of them…

and I’ve chosen two colors for the joining…wanna see?

I love this light turquoise…It is one of my favorite colors and it is beautiful in our room where the walls are light blue…mmmh…(Love Birds is a bed spread for our room)

I have a small idea on how I’m gonna joinall the squares with these two colors 😉 …Will make a small sample for you my sweeties to show you next time and I’m counting on you to tell me what do you think…

Have to go now…a lot of work is waiting for me…but before leaving I want to give a big BIG THANK YOU to two lovely ladies for giving me the versatile blogger award! Thank you so much Jill and Gramma Rita ! I am very honored to receive such a wonderful gift 🙂 You both really made my day!

Sending you lots of love, hugs and kisses…

See you very soon (I’m crossing now my fingers)

Sucrette

01 Feb

Crocheted blankets, granny squares, Love Birds

Slow progress…

Hello lovelies!

Wooww I felt really really blessed by all the wonderful comments you’ve left on my rainbow ripple! They were my only sunshine during these horrible days I’ve been through…

I’ve been so ill during these past days…A very bad cold with a very high fever and strong headaches…my small daughter Sarah too … We’ve stayed in bed, drinking hot tea and not feeling good at all… 3 hole days at home without holding a hook I think it never happened to me before 🙂

Thank you SOOO MUCH for all your sweet words … my medicine 🙂

Today, I’m feeling better…(Sarah too 🙂 )

and I have some pics to show you ( these were taken before I even finished my rainbow ripple but I totally forgot to post about them ) It is some slow progress I’ve made to my Love Birds bed blanket…

Today I feel very strong and I feel that I can crochet all day long 🙂

Hope you’re feeling at your best 🙂

Take good care and stay warm!

Sucrette

23 Jan

Crocheted blankets, Crocheted cushion, granny squares, Love Birds, rainbow, Ripple, Small squares

Crochet, crochet and more crochet :)

Gooood morninnnnng!

How are you today? Even though it is monday and it is grey and it is raining and it is cold I’m feeling goooood 🙂 Hope you’re feeling the same 😉

This weekend I’ve made the first steps of Love Birds…and I enjoyed it to the max…

little 3 rounds-granny-squares 🙂

the hearts of Love Birds 🙂 I’ve made one with every color of my stash…

You can not imagine the amount of pleasure this new wip blanket is giving me 🙂

and I’ve made some progress on my rainbow ripple too…

I know, I know the colors are too bright…but I’m loving it for this particular reason… A rainbow must have bright colors, don’t you agree? It must brighten up the greyest days of winter !

8 more rows to go and I’ll finish it ! I’ll surely miss rippling with its bright colors… such a soothing effect 🙂

When I’ll finish my rainbow ripple, I want to crochet a cushion like this one. I fell crazy in love with this cute cushion made by the talented Paula! and ever since I’ve kept it in my mind 🙂 She even shared how she made it:here and she crocheted also another gorgeous one! Thank you Paula for this inspiring work!

Go visit Paula, She’s got a lovely blog where she share beautiful handmade cards and gorgeous crochet!

That’s it for today! It was all crochet talking 🙂 Don’t you sometimes feel so grateful because you know how to crochet? 🙂

Isn’t it wonderful that with this small piece that we call : “hook” and some yarn you can make such beautiful things that make you and your loved ones so happy 🙂 ?

Happy monday to you all!

LOVE,

Sucrette

Wips…

The traditional granny square

I am back!

Slow progress…

Crochet, crochet and more crochet :)