Little Tin Bird

Good morning, and happy Saturday :-) I just thought I’d pop in to give you a quick update on something that I’m sure you have all been thinking about. That’s right. The bulbs in the car are blooming!

Don’t they look sweet? Beautiful Narcissus. (Or should that be Carcissus? I can hear you all groaning!)
Enjoy the [...]

I realised recently that it was taking me longer to choose the colours for each square I was making than it did to actually make the squares. This was holding me up a lot, and when you have half a bajillion (I just made that up) squares to make to get your blanket finished, any [...]

I have reached 340 squares! I’m so excited by this that I had to tell you about it. Three hundred and forty! It’s almost bed sized, almost.

It’s getting a bit tricky to photograph now because it’s so big. I had to stand on my pillows and hold my camera aloft (and then crop out the [...]

You may remember that I was really looking forward to Saturday, when my friend Katherine was coming to visit. Well she did (and brought her baby bump with her ♥ andher bump was wearing an ace red and white stripy top. Katherine, your bump looks good in stripes), and we had lunch while watching the [...]

What a beautiful blue sky. Such amazing big white clouds.

A brisk and bracing day, just right for a stroll.

How nice to get out and take some photos. What a lovely heart shaped leaf.

It’s been ages since we’ve had that colour blue sky.

OH BUT WAIT. Don’t be fooled by these pretty pictures of lovely clouds and [...]

Good evening! I am so happy to be posting this tonight. I have been working since lunchtime on writing the pattern for the granny squares I made for my cushion cover. It’s taken me ages! I’ve never written a pattern before, and I took LOTS of photos so that I can explain what I mean. [...]

I should have been writing a pattern for those cushion granny squares today. But it snowed! I can’t not watch it snowing! Snow is such a pain, but so beautiful and it’s always a cause of excitement in our house when it snowed. So what did I do instead? Well, took photos of the birds [...]

Ohhh how I love you pancake day! Nom nom nom. This is certainly one day when I don’t regret living in the family home! My mum makes the BEST pancakes ever. This year instead of having crepe pancakes (which I would have eaten with golden syrup and lemon juice) we had sort of scotch pancakes. [...]

There’s nothing quite like getting something just right, is there? It feels great and I’m so happy with the progress I’ve made.

Yep, you guessed it, I have joined my cushion squares together. Yay! I got my tension right this time, and joined them in a much more logical fashion. I did the centre four first, [...]

… my mum has bulbs in the drinks holder in the car. I just don’t know. That’s my sister in the driver’s seat by the way, she is learning to drive. She is doing really well and I only closed my eyes once during the whole journey. (I know she reads this - you did [...]