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Before I even begin this post all I can say is ...WOW ! 

Sooo many lovely comments on my For the Love of Grey post,I was completely blown away ..

.. thank you all my lovely bloggy friends.

And I am very happy to report that I am not alone in my passion for all things grey.

It would seem that there are many of us out there - and I would like to commend Chrissie for her excellent detective skills in immediately hot footing it  to the internet, sourcing grey nail varnish and reporting straight back to HQ !

Quite surprisingly for me there is a little more colour in todays post, first being in my 'perpetual' blanket.

It still continues and I am having to be really very firm with myself in getting on with it as whilst I was able to wrap all the end of row ends in a rather nifty little fold over border - no such good fortune with all the endless bobbles that seemed such a good idea at the time.

I'm sure it will be worth it in the end but each row of bobbles takes about half an hour to tie off and sew in, and interesting work it is not !

So, I have found myself getting really very distracted from this task really very easily.

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Just before Christmas I finally managed to get round to the much overdue job 

of sorting out all the various bags and piles of wool from all their little hidey holes around the house and I now feel extremely self righteous as everything is where it should be and order has been restored.

And even better than that I can see what wool I have ....

which has been brilliant when I'm looking for small little inbetween things to make.

These small inbetween makes have tended to mostly be of the scarf variety ( 4 to date ) but when I sat and counted the other day I realised that 5 Man Hats have been made since the beginning of January as well.

They have certainly proved to be a bit of a hit with 2 out of the 3 Boyfriends happily sporting them.

( I should explain here that obviously these are not my Boyfriends, what with being happily married and all , but Daughter Boyfriends ! )

They really are the simplest hats ever and I have all the pictures ready and waiting for 
me to write up the pattern.  
By my reckoning there's not a lot of crochet makes for the men folk so it has given me a very warm and happy feeling to have produced something that has been so happily received - and more to the point, worn !

Better still, I am slowly but surely using up all my little odds and ends of leftovers.

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Now, this last hat, well, what can I say !

Being curled up on the sofa yesterday feeling very coldy and a bit yuk generally I thought I'd try a pattern that I had found on Ravelry for a Minion Hat.

A couple of hours later and look !

It certainly put a smile on my face and made me feel a whole lot better 

and an order has already been placed for Boyfriend 3's 21st birthday present.

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Just lately whilst looking through all my favourite blogs I have noticed that many shawls are being carefully worked on, with some truly beautiful results.

Now, as much as I love them, I'm just not sure that I am a shawl type of person, bizarely its something about the pointy bit down the back.

 But much as I have tried to put this thought to one side, when I was sat at the weekend, cold nicely brewing, I really could see the appeal of something other than an all enveloping blanket to provide a bit of comfort and warmth.

I love scarves and also wraps, but there is just something about the delicateness of a shawl.

Maybe, I thought , I need a Shwrap !! 

A wrap type shawl without the pointy back bit !

This thought naturally took me straight to Pinterest and there it was......

in all its wonderful, bobbly glory.... exactly what I had in mind.

Before too long and with the amazing powers of the Internet I tracked it down to being a pattern from a book called juju's loops.

Ten minutes later and the book had been ordered, paid for and happily is now winging its way to me.

Don't you just LOVE the internet ?

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I can't wait for it to arrive and to get started.

It has to be said that I haven't knitted for some time so either this will prove to be '"fun and challenging" or it will mean a quick drive to Mums to ask her if she can make it for me !

I'll let you know.

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