Clearing My Clutter 10

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Space Clearing, Clutter Clearing, and Feng Shui by Karen Kingston - Saturday, 16 August 2008

Crocheted Blanket 3 - Alias: Pansy Afghan

The finished article, and very nice too, if I do say so myself. It's bold, it's colourful and I made it. Brag brag brag!!!

Approximately 100 hours of hand crochet work over 4 weeks in my own, so called 'spare time', 81 crocheted squares and measures roughly 115cm (45") square.



And here it is; draped over the sofa.

I like this Afghan so much I don't want to part with it! I have a friend who likes pansies and I wonder whether she might like it as a gift. Although her colour scheme is more neutral and light. So I might have a go at making another one with the pansy theme, but in her colours: Neutral with a splash of Red maybe?

Anyway, I think I will be asking more money for our stall on this one compared to the others. We'll see.

Can you see the pansy effect?

Crocheted Blanket 3 - Alias: Pansy Afghan

I have discovered that the blankets I am crocheting are known as Afghan's. Not sure, but think this refers to knee or lap blankets, or small throws. Anyone with more knowledge on this; please comment.


Two weeks down the line and I have nearly finished crocheting all the squares for my Pansy Afghan. As I said before, I decided to do different coloured squares, because the red pansies were looking too Christmassie. Here are some pictures of the colours I am using.





I have crocheted 17 squares in each colour. I will have 4 squares left over, of which I intend to make a Tea Cosy with some plain black or maybe striped in all the colours on the reverse side. I will post the results.

Double Bedspread 1970's

More from Auntie Vera's treasure chest of fabrics. Large squares and long strips of beautiful roses on a white background.

This swatch is the only remaining evidence of the actual fabric used.















I designed the layout before sewing together.

The article complete and on Mum and Dad's bed, plus cushion for bedroom chair, no it was not a commode!

Don't you just love the clashing wallpaper?

When my Mum and Dad no longer wanted this bedspread it went to a friend of mine, who loved it too.

Teenager's Bedspread

Here I am at the young age of 19 years, with a collection of left over fabric; given to me by my Auntie Vera, who was an avid craftster.

I found some useful squares and designed a pattern to suit.

I was very pleased with the finished article, which adorned my bed along with Teddy Tail.

Clearing My Clutter 9

Clearing my clutter has gone down the tubes of late. I had a brief interest last week, but this just helped me get all sorts of things out of cupboards, drawers and boxes. They now lie strewn over my office; spare bed room to most folk! Him indoors is struggling to keep his cool about it. I am trying to keep within my space. However, I do have my manicure table on e-bay, which will be up tomorrow, so let's hope it sells.
Gone to the Girl Guides, Yeeeee Haaa!

Crocheted Blanket 3

I have decided to use more colours as well as the red because with the red and green together it looked a bit too Christmassie. So I have chosen: Dark blue, light blue, violet and cream. I am hoping this will help my blanket to look like a collection of Pansies more than just odd shapes. We'll see.

Crocheted Blanket 3

With my next blanket I want to give the impression of Pansies. The main colours I have chosen are Black for the background and the black of the Pansy. Yellow for the central area; Red for the coloured part and green to represent leaves. These have all come from the oddments bins.

First I designed my pattern using AutoShapes in Word 2003. Once I had copied, pasted, rotated and flipped my shapes to achieve the effect of a crocheted square, I used another AutoShape as a border & background and grouped them together. I was then ready to play about with the colouring of the shapes to produce the impression of a pansy.

Although it is not a clear image of a Pansy, if you don't look too closely it is kinda like one.

I enjoyed routing about in the wool bins, even tidying up some of the unravelled balls.

I made one complete square so I could test my pattern. Then I decided to make all the yellow centres, and instead of cutting the thread, I kept them together. This saved time in constantly picking up the scissors and meant I did not loose any.



They made a pleasant daisy like chain, which has given me some ideas for future projects.

I am still at the stage of making the centres and will keep you posted.

Crocheted Blanket 2

Here's my 2nd crocheted blanket.


Blues and lilacs were chosen for this peice of work. It took me longer, as I started from scratch. It is also bigger and I did not have as much spare time to devote to it. Once again it was bought by one of our ladies before reaching the stall. I made the mistake of taking it into the art department one day to do some work with the group and it was spotted! After which I was nagged into submission to complete quickly.

Trigonos

I spent a lovely week-end with a group of like minded people early in July 2008. Trigonos is a residential education centre in Nantlle, Caernarfon, Gwynedd. For further information see http://www.trigonos.org/ or phone 01286 882388.

The following 5 photos show off Trigonos garden flowers, where there is a relaxed combination of man's intervention and nature.

The next 5 photos are views from and around Trigonos.

Above is a view from Trigonos

A view from the back of the meeting rooms.

The lakes formed from slate mining.

Trigonos horticulture

Above is a view of the Horticultural Fields of Trigonos