Christmas Crochet!

Oooooh! Look what I found at the shops! Mollie Makes magazine! I have read about this mag online on numerous blogs but never seen it here in Australia! It is just a lovely mag with so many crafty ideas and people! As you can see I've also started some crocheted snowflakes to pop onto the tree! There are many different patterns coatscrafts.co.uk. It has really put me in the Christmas spirit!

 I'm loving some of the old favourites in the garden that just pop up every year. These lambs ears are beautiful and soft.

I've taken many cuttings this year to give as gifts at Christmas. I've potted up 10 little japanese maples that self-seeded in the garden. These will make a great gift. Other cuttings I've taken are geraniums, fuschias, lavenders, daphnes and hydrangeas.

After all the rain we've had the garden has turned into a bit of a jungle! I am loving it though!

Happy Crafting!

ilsa-fay's mobile phone bag pattern

Hey check out my new free pattern. I got a new phone and it needed a warm, cosy home! It is an easy-peasy pattern and quite quick and fun. A good one for teens or as a little gift!

I added a crocheted flower, but a button is good too!

Ive added photos of how to do tricky bits like crocheting through both layers of the bag.

Happy Crocheting!:-)

Busy crocheting, cooking and loving the garden.

Look at this gorgeous wool! I've crocheted a small adult hat in a beautiful Aussie wool. I just love how the colours form stripes. It is warm and not scratchy. I'm going to make a few more in different sizes.

I also started crocheting the back of a sleeveless-type cardi (my own design), so it is kind of developing as I go. Lovely yarn from Cleckheaton (really thick, maby 12ply).

This is a delicious soup I made for the girls -cauliflower and potato soup -thick and creamy with avocado on muffins. This was such a yummy and healthy soup. I love making warm soups in Winter. I love it even more when my teenaged daughters eat it all up in one sitting!

Here are some flowers from my garden, which at the moment is stunningly bare. I love the dots of colour of the budding jonquils though -Spring will come! I am sowing seeds of delphiniums this week and I threw lots of purple poppy seeds around the garden yesterday that I had kept from last Summer! I am planning to have heaps of delphiniums this year. Usually the snails get them as seedlings, but I am determined this year to beat the snails! I adore poppy pods. The purple poppies last year were absolutely gorgeous!

I am loving reading your comments and blogs! Have a great weekend!:-)