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

What a week!

Thing 2 happily drove off with his dad at 5am last Saturday morning, towards Birmingham and his new life at Aston University. Excited and a little anxious.

A couple of hours later I drove Thing 1 to Hatfield to pick up the keys for his new home for his last year at Hertfordshire University.
A busy couple of hours ensued moving him in, he couldn't really help being on crutches.
We then drove back to Norwich as he had a physio appointment on Monday. Exhausted by the time we arrived back, having been up since 4.30am with Thing 2.

Thing 2 has met two hall mates today and is now happy being in his new room and environment. He's showed his dad round and unpacked.

Trying to cook tea later (a nice piece of gammon) the oven went bang and the oven stopped cooking. Think the heating element has gone. Thankfully being a range oven there is a second oven and so tea was saved!

Thursday saw another early start and then a very early stop as we couldnt even get out of Norwich (A11) before coming to a halt with cars backed up and going nowhere. Meant our normal 2 hour journey increased by half an hour

But we got there, finished moving in Thing 1 and then dropped hm off, crutches and all, with two geography friends, at University for his intro day.

I got back to Norwich by 12.30pm and out came the crochet. My head was spinning. This was it.. just me now and the cat. Going to be a very strange time and will take some getting used to .. will feel like they will just walk in for a while yet.

But on the plus side Sophie is going great guns and I'm on round 85. So very close and my 8 sided Sophie has now just got 4 sides and so is on its way to being a completed square blanket. Its taking my mind off being on my own after 21 years.

So here she is.... she does need a bit of blocking so edges are curling in a bit at the moment but you can see roughly how much work has gone into her so far..

So i wish you all a happy weekend, hope the weather hasn't affected you too much this week. Take care Roz x

Tough week

Sometimes we all go through tough times whether it be months, days or even moments. The loss of a loved one, illness or anything which just upsets our equilibrium.

If i'm honest this has been a tough summer with a special cousin going through a cancer scare (thankfully recovered after a major op), my sons turned 18 (April) and 21 (June), Thing 1 came home from Canada and we had to start the process of getting a knee injury sorted. Thing 2 did his A levels and achieved an AAB. Proud mum totally.

But this last couple weeks have felt like its all accumulated and caused me stress. Trying to get two boys ready for University at the same time, visitors from Finland, Germany and the Netherlands just before Thing 1 had his knee operation (this monday) I think pushed my stress levels up and caused me a few problems.

What saved me .. getting some of the jobs sorted, a good sort out of the house and crochet. Sophies universe is so complex (not necessarily difficult but whoa you need to concentrate) that if i pick it up i can't think of anything else. Its such a stress buster.

So I hope that if any of you also have stress issues, going through a tough time, its good to realise that others are too.. but pick up those hooks and let crochet take some of it away.

Happy weekend everyone.... oh and this time next weekend... both boys will be moving into their uni accommodation. A start of a new journey for me... so i think next week is going to be an emotional one. Tissues have been bought!

Roz xx