Continuing with my Christmas crochet, I spotted a fab book entitled '100 Crocheted Snowflakes' on Jeanet's blog. It was in Dutch but she kindly sent me a link to it here. Then I found 4 free patterns from this book on the Deramores site here. As I've now got patterns for about 20 different flakes I think I have enough to play around with.
Last night I was busy experimenting with different yarns for my snowflakes and then I tried to choose the one I like best to make a garland and I like them all in different ways! I think for a garland though that the 2nd from the left, on the top, would be good as it's firm and chunky as the ones with long pointy bits could get a bit floppy.
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| Unblocked snowflakes, still all floppy! |
Christmas knitting continues apace. I really must try to take photos before I wrap things as I often forget!
Winter friends
Last night we had a little visitor in our bedroom looking for a place to stay over the cooler winter months.
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| Beautiful green lacewing |
I'd read on the uksafari.com website that they change colour during the cooler months but I was still surprised when I saw the same lacewing this morning -
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| Beautiful pinky/brown lacewing |
Lights, camera, action!
What's all this about? Watch this space! |
| Mandy, Jennifer & George |
2 comments:
Sorry to hear you were lurgified by the boiler man. My family was lurgified by a visiting cousin, so I know how that feels.
Lovely coconut cake!
And the snowflakes are great. My Mum is making a flurry of them this year - she plans to decorate her tree using only white fairy lights and the crocheted, starched snowflakes. It'll be pretty.
Ooooh, I like the sound of your mum's tree - sounds very sophisticated. Please will you ask your mum what sort of starch she uses? I've tried the spray starch which is reasonably effective but I wonder if the old style soaking starch might give a firmer result? I wondered about using diluted pva glue but that might yellow with time.
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