More on the topic of spring

I went for a beach walk this morning, as I was desperate to see and hear the ocean.

It was calling me and I am so glad I went.  What I really like about the ocean is its ability to engage the senses.  Sight, smell and sound are immediately awakened.  After I leave there, I feel my creative self come alive.  The visual eye candy it provides is everywhere.  I look at a rock formation and think, wow; can there really be that many colors of brown?  How would I incorporate them all into a project?  The intense colors of flowers look so wonderful against the blue sky, would they look that good together in a knit or crochet creation? As I’m writing this, I look out my window and I see a cute little bunny rabbit hopping across the lawn and I think; how can brown and white look so good together? Nature never ceases to provide the inspiration, I’m the one who must figure out how to grasp the opportunity and make it my own.  I just finished making the second flower motif a crocheted Begonia for my CAL on ravelry.

I hope this day takes you to your creative place.

Glorious springtime...

WOW, what a weekend.

Azure blue skies,

Fluffy white clouds,

Clean crisp air,

Green grass swaying in the breeze,

Flowers a bloom in every direction. 

Now that is what I call a grand entrance into the most wonderful time of the year! Spring…

I’m so happy to have had a chance to sit outdoors, enjoying a cup of tea and take it all in.  Have a great week.

CAL

I’ve joined a really fun Cal (Crochet along) over on Ravelry.  The group is called

English Country Garden CAL and I’m really enjoying being a participant.

Crochet Flowers?  Wow, can anything be prettier? 

Not unless it happens to be real flowers of course.  Flower selection for March is the Jonquil.  

Pattern complements of Queenieamanda. Thank You!

I’m using hook size F and yarn from my stash, Jaeger Siena 4 ply cotton to make these little beauties.  How many?  What color combinations from the five colors I have has yet to be decided.

Wonderful journey this.  Interested in joining?  Come on over to Ravelry and sign up!

Kusha kusha Komplete

This scarf, the scarf that I was so sure I could complete in record speed, took forever and a day to finish.  Five months = One Scarf, Why?  Well I’ve had plenty of time to think about this question while I was in the process of knitting Kusha kusha.  The biggest problem was that I wasn’t able to stay with it for any length of time.  I’d knit four to six rows and then put it back down.  I’d get board with the repetition of stockinette or I’d get frustrated with holding two strands of yarn together and having one fall off and then having to rip back and fix the error.  I’m happy with the end results, and I think it was worth my ‘staying with it no matter what attitude’ but I don’t see me committing to making another one.

Impromptu Knit

Thursday I received an unexpected and quite welcomed e-mail from my one of my nieces' asking me if I could whip up a pair of baby booties for an expecting friend of hers.  Hmm, sure, I thought.  So I started flipping thru my way too large library of knitting books looking for a pattern I'd like to use.  Well, I thought I found the perfect one on Friday and I started in on bootie #1.  Well, after ripping it apart not once, but twice, as I didn't like the way it was turning out, the way I was knitting, oh I don't know I just thought it was ugly.  So early Saturday morning, I went thru my 3-ring binder of patterns from knitting class's I've taken over the years and I found the pattern that I thought I could 'whip' up.  So by Saturday evening I have these to send her.  I'm happy with the results, well as happy as a knitter ever is, as I can see flaws where no one else can, or no one else would dare point out!

Lucky Me!

I was lucky enough to win this adorable little birds nest from Vicki at her blog 2bagsfull Her blog is really beautiful and fun to visit, check it out.

The texture of this lovely little nest is very soft and the colors are so vibrant.  What little birdie wouldn’t want to call it home? I absolutely love it!  Thank you Vicki.

You can check out her etsy shop DreamChallenge to see more photographs and maybe pick one out for yourself!

My sweet Valentine

I really like this holiday.  I mean, I really like it.  I don’t know if it’s because of the bright colors or the sentiment or the anticipation of a sweet little something like chocolate!  I do love pink, I do love amore, and oh yes, I do love dark chocolate.  So in a nutshell, it is the perfect holiday.  I purchased this cute little necklace

from Lisa Leonard's shop and I’m so pleased with the chain length and the shape of the heart.  

Have a great ♥ day everyone!