Friday catchup and finishing things

I am still busy making more of these Lisbon-times from drops for a special lady's birthday this summer, I hope I will finish, the yarn is a bit of a hassle to work with, but it is so fluffy and soft. I am sure the shawl will look beautiful whilst being warm but still light.

Still chugging along on my ripples baby-blanket, little miss E is already born, so I better finish quickly!

And then there is the finish. I gave my friends a Easter egg (well to be honest it was a yellow paper bag with while dots on it, but it was Easter-y) and in it between some candy and a small handlotion was a crochet basket and bunny eggwarmers also from drops. And, I am quite proud, done all by myself, i read the pattern, and then just knitted and I did not make a single (big) mistake! I think it is time to level up on my knitting adventure!

I have been going to our new shiny library and borrowing loads of books, and crocheting a little and chatting to the friendly librarian. I have no idea how many books I've borrowed this month, but quite a few.  Yesterday I was so into the book I was reading that I did not quite go to bed... Oops.

I had my friends over for an Easter-lunch and Christmas dinner and workshop. We decorated eggs, sowed some seeds in decorated milk cartons. I love doing seasonal things.

 

E and I went to a lecture-thing about Roald Dahl which was very interesting. I am now on the waiting list for his autobiography. 

Oh, and I bought some yarn, I have been quite good lately and not bought a lot, some for specific projects, but this I bought just because. I love the colours.

Finished Friday

I have some finishes to show you and since it is finished Friday today what better than to show off what I have done these past few weeks?

I have found my stitching bug again, yay! And I started and finished this lovely little biscornu turned into a scissor-fob which I will put in my gift-pile. 

Here is the back of the same biscornu and I finished the boy-bunny, I still have one more in this series and am contemplating wether to start it now or do it next Easter, I love having seasonal things to do in its season, but it would also be lovely to actually have a finish... 

And then there is the daffodil in the middle which I started just over Easter, that too is finally finished after I frogged the middle yellow since it was stitched in the wrong place. You would think that I learned my lesson and properly look at the chart, well, I did the same with the darkest green, stitched all the darkest green and then realised it was wrong and had to frog that too. And when it was finally done, I had lost the frame.... I was mad, but as things want to do, it turned up, the same day my beautiful pink scissors and needles set from Tulip did. That was indeed a happy day.

And I finished another bib, the bigger pink one, made a heart on the blue bib and started a third bib, this time in pale pink, but it won't have scallops I think...

And the pink thing in the background of all the pictures is my granny stripe baby-blanket which is way over half way already, just one more skein I think!

So far I have finished One whole skein of pink, but started a second.

The pink for the blanket is already up to five balls I think, but since it is not finished I will not count it.

So, 70 grams out in baby-bibs and 200 grams of scarf

and 

350 grams in these past two weeks.

So I am not doing too well on my two out one in yarn policy, but that might be because of all those half finished things, if I finish them properly I might have more success.
Hey, scratch that, I forgot I had the knitted scarf finish, I never made a proper post about it, but I did finish the blue/green scarf the other day, I will take a picture and show you later, so I think my policy is working better than I thought... Yay me.

Happy Easter and all

Happy Easter, did the Easter-bunny visit you? 

We got our eggs early, and the Easter bunny left an egg here for my mum too. She even got some of those bunnies I made a few days ago and a book with crochet and knit patterns in Norwegian. Mister M got a Nemi magazine from the Easter-bunny as well as his egg with candy, I only got candy, but I have so much yarn so I am fine^^

 I tried taking pictures of the buns but they were fairly uninterested, but both buns chinned my fake plant so now it belongs to some buns, not me.

I have no idea who chinned it last to be honest, so I don't know who owns it.

We have these adorable bunny eggs, these are the humans and the buns are only borrowing them for props but they were more interested in the fake flower anyway.

We made turkey dinner with mushroom, potatoes and Brussel sprouts yesterday and it was delicious, I even got to use my napkins and Easter Bunny light, although we never lit it because our matches were no where to be found. Oh well.

The other day we were invited to a friends house and ate lamb and today we are going out to another friends house to have pork of some kind, I am looking forward to it. Bunnies get Basil and are thrilled about that too, I am happy they are still easily pleased.

My goal is to finish the Florida Shrug this Easter and I am almost there! Just a couple more repeats before the assembling and edge. I can do it!

I also started another scarf, this one in the same yarn we got on sale but on bigger needles, I think I used 5 last time and 7 now and it is flying of the needles. I think it might turn out longer, but we will see.

I love the colours on this, very emerald with some grey blue patches and some more blue and more green in-between, I think this colour would suit almost anyone, I wonder who I will give it too, or if I should just put it in the Christmas box and see...

Anyway Happy Easter!

I still have lots of Chocolate left!

Easter Crochet Patterns

I have been searching for Easter decorations that are not egg cozies (because we don't eat that many boiled eggs) or baskets in our house and I have had a hard time finding any.

 I did however find some gems I thought I would share with you (and me next year). 

Some patterns are just for fun, but some are useful and I did share a egg cozy or two too, because one is useful even if you only eat boiled egg once in Easter.

All patterns are free and the pictures are taken from the links.

Bunnybutt bySteenistugan

This pattern is really fun, it is in Swedish however, but I am sure with a little help from Google you could make this. I think I will make these, so many patterns so little time... 

(Just remember that bunnies don't have the pink on the bottom of their soles.)

Easter Bunny basket or doily by MammaNicole

Another favourite, I really need a bunny doily or two, maybe I should go buy some sweet dusty pink or light blue yarn for this, white is a classic but I would rather have them in colours, usually colours I don't have so I have to buy more stash;)
This pattern seems to just have a diagram.

The Green Dragonfly

 Bunnies are also very Easter-y and I love these little dudes, they seem easy and fun, since they don't look very natural you could go berserk with colours to make them really spring into spring-y-ness.

Crochet Egg Cozy Pattern by Kara

Here is the coolest egg cozy I saw, it looks really useful and decorative and fun but you better hurry up and eat your eggs or they will get cold with this particular pattern.

Easter Egg Coaster by Doni Speigle

I made these for my friend Evi for Christmas so I can recommend this pattern, it was easy and fun and I could use up some scraps. The white thread in-between is carried over so there is less yarn to sew in in the end which is always a good thing.

Amigurumi Hatching Easter Chicks by Toma Creations Blog

I remember in Kindergarten we made decorations like these with real egg shells and pom poms, mine is looking rather sorry now and I think it might be time for a crochet one, might last longer, but it needs shell on the top of the head as well, mine in kindergarten did.

EasterBunny Mug Cozy by Haak Maar Raak

If I didn't already have a yellow Easter bunny mug I would make this, although come to think of it, this could go as a everyday mug cozy too, I think I need this on my list after all.

Drops Chick bookmark

A bookmark, In Norway Easter is the season we eat eggs but also we read crime books, go cross country skiing in the mountains and have lots of oranges and chocolate so a bookmark is most useful.

Kvikk Lunsj blue by Herdagsmagi

This is the chocolate most Norwegians eat lots of in Easter, so I had to add a pattern of this hat, it is in Norwegian though but free, so just try and see if you can crochet it ^^

Henny Penny

My friend Tinkerbell and I had a teacher named Penny in high school and I remember we called her Henny Penny Filli Fenny.

I don't think she liked it much, but she never said anything.

This is useful, look, it is for bread and stuff, I eat bread more than I eat boiled eggs.

Drops Sunny Morning Doily

A doily is always useful, if I had proper yellow yarn I am sure I would make this, and a doily that is not so fragile looking were you don't use a tiny needle is more up my alley anyway. I love the look of the thin thread, I just don't have the patience or fingers for it.

Drops Sunny Side Up

Another useful kitchen item, this is not just for Easter, it is a fun pot holder, I do love fried eggs and I eat that a lot with bacon. Omnomnom.

Drops Kikiri-Key

 This little chick pretends he is all useful and all, but a Key fob just for Easter seems a bit excessive in my book, but you could always use him for something else, although nothing useful comes to mind. Mind you he could always just be decorative.

Chicken Vanes

 Another decorative chicken, but I am sure you could adapt this into another pot holder if you really want something useful.

Did you find anything you liked? Did your to-do list grow as much as mine did? Think you could finish all this easter?

Easter and checking in

M and I had our six month anniversary last Saturday and spent the day shopping and later watching "Oh Brother, were art thou" on TV, I loved the movie BTW. And we ate cake, lots of cake, M surprised me with cake from our wedding from the freezer and I surprised him with cake I bought at the store. Haha. I got lots of yarn, 30 balls of wool which made me happy, and M got a note with the same amount on STEAM, so he can buy games which made him happy.

All the squares of my baby granny blanket is done and I am in the middle of crocheting them together which is quite tedious, but the edge is a carrot and I am edging towards it, edging is always so much fun!

 Maybe I want to do the heart edge again only this time with the scallop edging I envisioned on the Wedding Blanket....

The Florida Shrug is over halfway through, and I am having fun with this, and easy project while watching TV. Only problem is that the whole thing is covered with tiny little black hairs. #Troubleswithblackbunnies

And since it is Easter I have pulled out my new shiny Easter mug M gave me and am happily hooking some small Easter critters, I made these last year too, but I am definitely making a garland this time!

Bunnies Applique and Easter Egg Crochet

I love the bunny pattern, but both are easy and fun and with the right colours make spring sing.

This yarn is acrylics from Nille, but I don't think they have the same colours anymore, which is too bad because even though I am not a fan of acrylics I am a huge fan of the colours here.

Mini basket

I made these a few years back, but have since misplaced them so I made a few more using some scraps of yarn and on one I added a little scallop edge. The adorable little chicks inside I bought at the store earlier but I would like to make them myself, too bad I am not that good at amigurumi...

I also picked up a small cross stitch kit from Permin that my mother found in her chest just before Christmas and gifted to me. My hand are hating sewing at the moment, but the pattern is oh, so cute and you know how I love making things that are seasonal so I just had to sew some. But alas, you see all that yellow I did? I used the wrong colour, the colour I mistook for light yellow was just plain yellow and the light yellow is actually white! So now I have to frog half my work, which I hate.

Oh well, that will teach me (probably not since this is not the first time I did this---) to not double check all the colours before starting a kit.

Bunnies and Kitties and glitter and yarn

(I have done three more repeats since this picture was taken this morning)

My kitties in a row afghan is coming along nicely, it seems though that even though I bought lots of yarn it is not enough to finish this blanket:S

So far I have made 20 cm and used 172 grams of yarn and since I am adamant this will be given to someone adult sized who likes to take naps it needs to be big enough, so M and I had a brief discussion and agreed I needed to buy enough yarn so that I only use these eight colours...

I have three different greys, three different browns and black and white, all proper kitty colours... We haven't figured out how much more I need to buy yet though.. Better let M do that math, me and numbers are not exactly best buds.

But I am loving this pattern, and it does go rather smoothly and fast, at least when I am doing it right, I have done four or five rows more than once, but I blame that, still, on the French Tv Watching.

I love my new bunny dish and sparkly bunnies,

I decided the one on the bottom is Valmin being blissfully unaware that he is being threaded on by Mimle who is trying to see if there is something edible up on that dish.

If the bunnies are not looking for food they are sleeping. We had company over this weekend, M's friends and both bunnies are not shy about begging for treats! At least this time no one was bitten by Mimle in disapproval.

I am amazed I haven't killed this flower yet! We will see if it will actually survive easter!

Speaking of Easter, I should take out my decorations and look them over, I L O V E easter, there are so many adorable bunny decorations.

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I was at the store and since I am easily amused, here is something I found funny:

Round cheese? Looks square to me.

Finished something

This is a series of three bunnies which is an easter ornament. It was nice to have something small and fast to do because my head is not really quite here lately.

Easter Vacation

And what am I doing?  I am reading, so far I've read two e-books and two paper books. I've read one book from the library called "Hvorfor hopper jeg" by Naoki Higashida and one I borrowed from my friend called "kongens merke" by Erling Pedersen. I liked both books, but I have no idea what book to start now. None of them seem to call out to me, so I guess I  will just have to pick one at random. 

I have been doing some crafting as well, and eating of candy. Mimle is mostly sleeping under the sofa as I am in the doghouse because I cleaned her glands yesterday and washed her eye as she had something in it… She seems better today, but has started to molt AGAIN. So I guess I have to spend some time combing her as well. Boyfriend is at a wedding in England, I hope he buys me something! I have so many things on my list that I would love to get from the UK. 

Since bunny is mad at me there will be no picture of her today, I doubt she would agree to pose, we would only get a snapshot of a blob under the sofa in bad lightning that could just as well be a dust bunny as a real one. But I will be back, she can't stay mad at me forever, I have already tried to bribe her with so many treats today….

My exchange gift

As Easter is one of my favorite holidays (you may guess it is because of the bunnies  and if so you are entirely correct.) I love getting and sending and making Easter themed items (because of the bunnies) and so I joined an exchange. Here is the lovely card Hollybunny made for me. (Isn't that the most perfect handle? It has bunnies in it!)

The design is from the latest Cross Stitch Cardshop number 95, there were so many fabulous designs in that magazine (with so many bunnies).

Anyway. Boyfriend and I were at a party yesterday, so today is a slow kind of day. With only a bit of laundry done and the rest of the day spent in the sofa watching TV and crocheting. I still have not finished my Crochet Blanket, but I am getting there, the end is in sight. Only five more squares to go!

Even bunny is chilling today, and I understand completely with her redecorating frenzy in the past couple of days. 

And yes, I had just finished vacuuming, apparently it was too clean. But thankfully, it is only the area on the side of the sofa near the bookcase where demolition and bunstruction happens, so I am content with letting her have her fun a few days before cleaning. No one can see it unless they are inside the living room or on the sofa. (unless they see my blog). Might be time to vacuum again today, she got a new cardboard box from the store yesterday so I won't feel bad when I take her leftover sticks away. (Yes, the entire tunnel is destroyed). Mimle says she wants a new one for a house warming gift, thank you;)

Late Bunday

As you can probably tell I am bunny sitting. The reason we are up all night is because we have to see if she needs more pain-killers. So far I think she can manage without. Still force feeding her, but the poops are coming. I think she is starting to dislike us. LOL. Everytime I pick her up and place her on the table for feeding time she shows her disgust in the frantically rearranging of the towels... Or biting my sweater....

Bunny on the toilet.

(we have not seen much blood in the urine today, so am happy)

She keeps trolling us, whenever she sees that we are coming she hops into the toilet because she knows we'll leave her be in case she is doing her business ).

Here is the critical care, boyfriend went and bough more syringes the other day, and look, they are purple.

I am actually a bit further on Henry than this picture says. I am done with the Tudor rose and the yellow on the left side too. Just on the leafs now.

My secret project. How about those purples? This is what I have been doing on my WiSp day.

And on Saturday, I finished this Easter piece. Next Ornament Onsdag, I will make it into an ornament. 

Currently I am gridding Frederick the literate. But I am frogging more than I get done. I think my brain is a bit tired. But atleast I am blogging on a device that has a dictionary and autocorrect so I don't really have to think....  Three more hours until boyfriend is up.