Hello!

Hello!
I hope you are all having a lovely week.
I had a tough week because my Little Man was ill with fever and he had to stay at home.  I had to juggle a schedule to take care of him and go to work and deal with work problems ( and there are loads of them which need to be addressed still.)
When we were at home , we watched a lot of The Car toons and Mater's tall tales  and played with the cars.

And while he was busy playing with his cars ,I did a little knitting.I am not a fan of knitting,I only knit because it is something different to do when I get bored of my crochet projects.But this project turned out to be soooo nice , I really enjoyed knitting. The pattern can be found here.

Unfortunately,the size is too small for my 27 months old son, so if there is anybody who has this pattern adapted for a two-year-old, please,please , let me know.
I hope to be with you with a ta-dah! post soon. Until then, good-bye...

blackberry salad striped baby blanket progress

Hello Lovelies!
The progress on my latest blanket: VERY SLOW!
I enjoy crocheting this blanket very much but it is taking a lot of time...
You can find the pattern here.
Here is the progress I have made so far:

Hmmmm! I think I should use greens and reds more!

Luckily,in this corner of the world ,we had some rain last night, and the temperatures dropped to 20 something degrees C so I am very much in the mood of yarny business.

This is a corner of my small garden...
Thanks to the weather change, my climbers are blooming;

I hope you all have a lovely week!

P.S My two-year-old son loved this blanket already and said that the popcorns ' are the waves rushing to the beach and the blanket is the sea' . :)

another blanket

Hello!
I am very excited because I have started to crochet a new blanket. The pattern is soooooooo lovely; the moment I saw it , I fell in love with it ! I will be posting in detail about that later but for the time being, here is what I am up to:

I hope you all have a lovely week!

Knitting

Hello!

Today, I am knitting a baby blanket. Actually, I am hoping it to be a baby blanket because I haven't figured out how I will do the edges yet.

The pattern is called 'The Old Shale' ; after I figured out the pattern ,it is such a pleasure to knit that I do not want to leave my knitting at all!

And I decided that I like ripples A LOT!
I cannot wait to see how this blanket will turn out to be ( hopefully a very nice one ) because I LOVE the colour choice which happened accidentally. ( I am even considering turning it into a  blankie for my bed  ; would it be too much work?!)
I am off to buy more yarn for it now. Hope to be able to show you more of my new favourite soon ....

another blanket ta-dah!

hello!
I have to confess; I love love love making blankets. So here is another blanket:

I hope you all have a lovely week-end!

what I have been up to...

Hello and good day to you all!
I know I have been missing from the blogland for a long time . It is not that I am not working on my crochet projects, on the contrary a lot of crochet time I had , but I felt like cooking,baking,cleaning... -in other words- homemaking.
It must be the weather; I feel soooo homely. I just want to clean,do the laundry,hang them to dry under the sun ( takes an hour the most because though it feels like autmn we still have 37 degrees C during daytime and it is still summer) I wish to collect my laundry fresh smelling( Oh! how I love that smell!), fold them, put them in the wardrobes nice and neat. I just wish to bake, bake , bake and crochet,crochet ,crochet.

And as for crochet ,  I have to crochet two blankets  for the twins of my brother-in law's brother, who were born last monday. I need to make a blanket for a boy and a girl. For the girl I am planning to make a version of sunburst granny square in pinks and purples and I was lucky enough to find the perfect yarn for it - that is another post subject - but for the boy I couldn't decide which pattern and I couldn't find the 'perfect' yarn.
So, I decided I will  KNIT a blanket for the boy and that turned out to be a TOUGH JOB . My intention was to make this blanket but after hours and hours of trying , I couldn't do it only to figure out why I couldn't ,  today , after watching video tutorials on youtube. And  this is what I ended up with:

So wish me luck with my new blanket projects . I hope to be posting about them soon...
P.S. This pattern is not what I intended to do but another . It is called ' Old Shale '.  I tried this pattern to figure out how knitting ripples works. Now I will try my intended pattern.

ripple blanket ta-dah!

Goodmorning!
Yes! The ripple blanket is finally finished! The pattern can befound here.

note for Angie: The yarn is Nako pırlanta' Derya'nın tercihi'.' Derya'nın tercihi' yellow is darker than Nako baby yellow. When I last visited the yarn shop I buy my yarn from, I saw the new colours of pırlanta yarn ; VERY bright colours.

I hope you have a lovely week-end.