A job done and a bit of a Jolly ...

 

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It's done ... I did it !

I managed to complete 'The quickest blanket in the world ' in time for my friends Birthday.

It took exactly a week to make, and that was with normal everyday life carrying on at the same time.

Now I can absolutely assure you I am not particularly speedy when it comes to crochet, and nor did I spend twelve hours a day working on it ( working full time soooo gets in the way of crochet ! ) its just that the chunky wool works up so quickly.

I never normally time myself when working on things but this time I did, just out of curiosity really.

Each ball of wool, and I used 16 in total for the main bit of the blanket, took an hour to crochet, and then I used one more chunky for the border and one ball of DK for the ruffle. The border took 4 hours to finish. The stitch I used for the main bit of the blanket was Half Trebles with two rows of Double Crochet for the border, and then three Trebles into one stitch for the ruffle edging.

Fascinating stuff huh ?

Gosh, I really must be turning into quite a crochet geek I think -

sorry if you have all now lost the will to live on this one.

Aaannnnyway ... I quickly took some photo's of it...

 

 

... and although it did look really very scrummy on the top of the basket in my bedroom ...

 

... I did wrap it up and give it to Claire,

and she loved it !

Yay !

 

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After all the crocheting I took a little time out on Friday this week as there was an

event going on very near where I live and once I'd seen it advertised there was

absolutely no way I wasn't going to go.

It was taking place in a tiny hamlet just outside of Bath called St. Catherine.

The list of stall holders was quite mouth watering and to top it all off there

was a Cabbages and Roses ( my most favourite clothes in the world ) sale stall there.

 

The wiggly windy drive through the country lanes to get there was absolutely

beautiful , so amazingly green and lush, all single track though so I was very glad

I had chosen to go on the Friday rather than the much busier Saturday.

 Several times I wondered if I was actually going the right way, especially when I was

checked out by this rather curious lamb who was right in the middle of the road

and seemed to be looking at me

 in a  'What are you doing here ? ' way.

 

I got there in the end and wow.... I felt as though I had walked right in  to a

copy of Homes and Gardens.

It was a complete feast for the eyes, set in the most idyllic cottage garden that ran down to a brook, tucked away right at the bottom of a valley.

 

I strolled, and looked ,

and oohed and aahed ...

 

... and I just may have shopped a tinsy tiny bit too.

You see, one of these dresses had 85% off and the other two 75% ... what's a girl to do ?

And then , of course, I needed a basket to put them in !

 

 

It was a truly heavenly morning out,

 

 

and one of the stalls there, Will and Bea, have pretty much captured

 the whole thing in their gorgeous collage of photo's.

 

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One other very exciting thing that happened this week was that I received

 'Highly Commended' in the results of Deramores Blog Awards.

I have to confess it did bring about quite a bit of squealing and jumping

  in the office that morning.

 

See, look , there I am at the bottom, second in from the left

 - squeal !

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And just one more thing before I go...

if you would like to help me celebrate my first Bloggy Birthday at the end of

June don't forget to enter my Birthday Giveaway either by saying hello in the

comments below or on my Facebook page here.

 

 The two winners will be picked out of a hat on the 24th June.
Thank you to everyone who has entered so far ... it has been so lovely to hear from lots of new followers this week and to be able to pop over to visit lots of new blogs.

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 Have a good week.