mosaic madness

Hello everyone, hope you are all having a good week!

I've got completely hooked on mosaic crochet and whilst continuing on with Tinna's Havana Cal i've been on a bit of a designing lark and am currently making a wide scarf based on my own design.

I'm not sure what i have enjoyed the most, designing it or crocheting it. 

At some point I will add the pattern on to this blog.

Thing 1 is coming home this evening til monday morning and Thing 2 will be home next wednesday til Sunday so a good week ahead. Looking forward to seeing my boys. 

Have a great weekend when it gets here

Roz x

Well hello everyone on yet another sunny October morning and its Saturday. Could it be better...?
Seems very wrong to have it so good when there seems so many issues worldwide. Hurricanes, tidal waves etc and now this train crash in India. Makes you wonder what next, so i think that if you have good days then you really need to appreciate them and the people around you.

Anyway, thats the deep part over... back to crochet.

Well with Sophie finished my plan was to finish my mononchrome blanket and i did attempt it. I took off one of the side panels which i just wasn't happy with and all it needs now is a border. But i got sidetracked... i stitched the daffodil squares together with a persian stitch border and bobbles at the end which gave me a scarf that I am passing onto someone for a 70th birthday present.

Anyway, guess you could have thought that i may then have got to that monochrome border but i chanced to stumble on another cal. Havana Cal by Tinna Thorudottir Thorvaldar through the Pippin crochet club on facebook.

This is an amazing Cal using mosaic crochet which I've never seen before. We are only up to week 3 out of i think 8 so still more to go but this is it so far...

Sorry not a great photo but you can get an idea of the wonderful patterns. Have had my creative head on this morning and albeit a few rubbings out and my head has been scratched thoroughly i think ive come up with a pattern that i want to try out on a scarf... i guess i will see if it works as i go along. Wish me luck.. i might be tearing my pattern up and abandoning it later..

Enjoy your weekends wherever you are and please remember it would be lovely to hear from you too.

Roz xx

Finished

Sophie was finally finished today. All 113 rounds of her and she is pretty amazing. Dedri written pattern was so easy to follow, so well written.

This last month has been a bit all over the place. Thing 2 started his first year at uni and Thing 1, along with crutches, started his 4th and final year. Plus I turned 50 eek.

The only bad news is that Bad Bob our cat, has been diagnosed with low red blood count and a heart murmur, which means he has a blood disease of some sort. Not sure how long left with him that we have but most of his days are good days at the moment and thats what counts.

So i'm going to sign off here for tonight. Just thought i'd give you a quick update.

Hope you are enjoying the same sunny warm weather that we are having rather unusually at the moment in England.

Roz x