Did you think I'd abandoned you?!

I haven't blogged in a while as I've been busy being creative if not successful! 

Over the past couple of weeks I've made two baby blankets (one knitted, one crocheted, only one successful); three attempts at illusion knitting (none successful); one mobile phone case (crocheted); one felt flower (courtesy of Mollie Makes) and a few knitted and crocheted flowers.

I don't know why I've been skitting about so much, I just haven't been able to settle on a project and have found myself getting easily distracted.  But I've just ordered Charmed Knits and I plan to make lots of Harry Potter related projects next!

I've also been working on my website which is a lot more difficult than it first looks - I just can't get the thingymajig on the whatsit and the doodah didn't work when you clicked on it.  In my frustration I had to eat a whole chocolate orange which I had bought for my Dad - it's a hard life!

Anyway, hopefully I'll have lots of lovely new projects to share soon but in the meantime here is the product of many, many hours!

Baby blanket for my colleague Jo - double and treble crochet with a double crochet border - self striping acrylic yarn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Four pairs of arms...

...it must be a cephalopod mollusc of the order Octopoda. Or in plain English: an octopus!  

Going one better than a Time Lord an octopus has three hearts but they cannot regenerate and, as many species have a very short life expectancy of only 6 months, I think the Doctor probably wins in this game of top trumps.  I'm rambling...

Anyway, my octopus still does not have a finished body (I got distracted by all the brightly coloured images in my laptop) but it does have all it's arms and I consider that an achievement. 

Next question is what to call him/her, I did briefly flirt with Octavius as I was looking for an alliterative name but I'm not so sure now.  Any ideas folks?  And don't all rush to suggest your own name!