April Flowers

 The sun is shining here and the garden is green and growing and filled with spring flowers......

 ................i have been doing some relaxing crochet in between sewing some commissions.......

 ............as well as weeding the beds, watering the pots and generally loving the spring......

.............the painters are here again today but it may be their last day as the job is almost done and the old house is looking very spruced up with shiny paintwork now.........

 .................my new crochet blanket is underway........i love making these circles in flower colours.....

 .............almost all the yarn is stylecraft special dk left over from other projects........

 ..........there are just a couple of extras from yarn i found on my travels but now can't identify......not a good idea if you want to find the yarn again or tell others what you have used, so i am going to try and keep a note of each yarn that i buy for the future.....

 .............some of the tulip bulbs from the old tulip patch have now flowered down in the box garden.....they look pretty there so i will be adding lots more next autumn.........

 ...............the cutting garden is mass of spring flowers............

 ..............more of my favourites, bellis daisies.....love these little button flowers so much :).........

 ..............at easter we got a new seat for under the cedar tree....it is the place to go and sit in the shade on hot summer days........the old seat was in a sorry state so we bought this new one to replace it.........then we decided to mend the old one and put it somewhere else.....can't have too many seats around the garden to sit and rest after gardening, to watch the birds or the grandchildren playing (or do some crochet in the sunshine)........

 ..................i made the circles into squares and using the join as you go method i started putting the blanket together at the weekend.........

 ..............this week is a busy one for me, with magazine project making, book proofs to check and all the delicious fabrics in my sewing room waiting to be sewn............and lots of family times too........

 ................plenty of moments to enjoy the spring flowers as well, i hope.............

..................thank you for visiting me here, dear readers, and thank you so much for all your very kind comments..........i wish you a happy week ahead with flowers and sunshine and peaceful crafty times..................back soon xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxoooooooooooooooxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx