Working on something new.....

Hello.

Today marks the first day of the school holidays here, so we have 2 weeks with the boys at home, with Easter in the middle, should be a nice break.  We don't have much planned, as usual we are a bit tight on funds at the moment (getting paid monthly, the second fortnight is always a bit of a long stretch), so will probably dag around here at home a fair bit.  The boys are fine with that, and I am sure we will catch up with friends and family as well.

Being at home so much means I can have some big crafty ambitions for this fortnight, which is great!

I have even cracked out the coloured pencils and done a bit of planning and playing around with colour schemes.

 I like these greens together..........

.......and these are as close as I could find in my pencils for a colour scheme that I think will be very pretty, the wool colours look great together......now to work out stripe placements....

............or maybe I'll go for a rainbow of colours, a bit of a carnival, circus feel. 

It is so much fun playing with colour, I love working out pleasing (to me) combos, and I think it will speed up my crochet, as I do spend a fair bit of time trying to decide what colour to use next in my current random approach to colour work.

Anyway, here's the start of my new blanket, I like the pattern, nice and solid and cosy, (I am not really into gappy patterns) and it is easy to do.  I am going to use the one pattern for the whole of this blanket, I like the stripes definition.  And I have several colour combinations I'd like to make, so these are going to be cot size blankies, it will be interesting to see how much I can get done on the holidays.

I still have the other sock to make yet too!  Must keep that in mind before I am of on another tangent!

Have a great day!

My creative space #5.....

..... Nearly finished!!!!!! Today there is a lot of creating on the agenda. I want to finish blocking the rest of my granny squares (48 of them) and start sewing them together. I am going to crochet one more round on each square and join them together as I go, never used this technique but hope it goes ok.

Also going to make a few more of these flower squares, I think they are cute and might make a nice little cushion for my niece.

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My 10 year old son Max was sitting concentrating for quite a long time and this is the drawing he was working on. I was impressed with the level of detail he drew, it looks like quite an epic battle between the dragons and people, only disturbing thing is all the red pen blood! Do love the 'Deathinator' airplane, such a boy thing to draw. My nieces draw fairies and flowers and rainbows, my boys draw battles and weapons. Go figure.