Crafty Catch Up

 It's a beautiful sunny bank holiday monday here.....and i am having a crafty catch up.........

 .............this is the v stitch crochet baby blanket i've been making recently..........

 .............i wanted to try a new crochet stitch and discovered that i really LoVe this one :) .....

 ............so easy to do and i love crocheting trebles....and using lots of scrappy yarns from my stash with a row of white in between made for a fresh and summery colour scheme............

 ................this little blanket was soon finished and next i am going to make a bigger one for myself  so that i can keep on working those pretty zig zags for a lot longer......

 ..............the yarns are mainly from the stylecraft special dk range, with a few extras from my travels around that i haven't made a note of.....now that stylecraft have brought out a few new colours though their collection pretty much covers any i might have found elsewhere............

 ................i photographed the baby blanket on the cot we have at our house for visiting grandchildren....i got it over eight years ago when charlie was born and below is his little ck boat print teddy from that time too.....we keep it here in case baby rhys wants to cuddle it......

 ..............and here is baby rhys himself helping model the stripy baby blanket on this sunny day....

 .............besides doing crochet i have been sewing up a lot of patchwork and am so inspired at the moment that my to do list is just growing longer and longer :) .......

 ................i also spend some of my crafty time designing cross stitch, often for magazines and often i just create the charts on my computer and then the magazines get them stitched......above is a little peek at the chart for the summer sampler that world of cross stitching magazine are offering specially to subscribers............one of a set of the four seasons..........

 .................cross stitch and patchwork combine in this summery project that i made for this month's issue of crafts beautiful magazine..........this little sewing set is called raspberry keepsakes...........

 and below is a sneak peek at some adorable new fabric that has come all the way across the world from lovely jodie of vintage ricrac in australia............this is her delicious new bunny trails fabric and very soon i will show you what i have been making with it.......

................finally i must tell you who is the winner of the candy bloom button houses giveaway.......thank you to everyone who took part.............the winner is peta cowan........please email me your postal address, peta, and i will send your little houses to you :)................there will be more giveaways coming soon......... thanks for dropping by and for all your kind comments........wishing you all a happy, sunny, crafty week ahead.........back soon xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx