Ripple Blanket

Remember I started a ripple blanket for our bedroom? I started it about three times I think lol but I finally got the colours right for what I wanted and here it is!

I’m pretty slow at crochet and knitting projects because I like to dip in and out rather than work on it everyday. So I think this project is going to take a very long time. Still I love it and because it’s striping it’s really enjoyable challenging myself to get to the next colour.

I’m just finishing up the raspberry row and then will go onto the last colour, the baby pink. So pretty! Then it’s back to the baby blue. It’s going to be gorgeous when complete.

We are almost done decorating the bedroom now, just some finishing touches to do then I’ll take more pics to show you.

What are you crocheting or knitting right now?

xxx

Putting the Vintage Touch on Our Bedroom…

For the last month, we’ve been decorating our bedroom. It’s the first time we’ve been able to since moving in, back in Aug 2007. It’s so exciting to be able to put our touch on our own home, we rented before and I’ve never felt free to express my decor tastes until now.

It’s slow progress it feels as there is so much prep to be done but we are finally getting closer to painting stage. I’ve already got the first coat of satin wood on the woodwork and Hubby has been busy with loads of sanding, paint stripping, and hole filling. We’ve gone for a very vintage/country looking theme, calico white, soft green and some gorgeous rose wallpaper for the feature wall.

You can see the before and progress pics on my Facebook albums.

Back last year before we had officially decided on a colour scheme I started a ripple blanket for our bed. I didn’t get too far with it and it looked like this…

Pretty but not quite right for what I am wanting, so a few attempts later and a few balls of the wrong shade we are now well on the way with the right colours hooray!!!

That’s the wallpaper we’ve gone for in the background, I just need to buy the light pink to complete the colour striping and then it’s repeat, repeat, repeat, until it’s done. It’s going to look so gorgeous.

I’ll keep you posted with our progress, I can’t wait to have the room finished and we can enjoy it then. No more staring at ugly walls, mentally decorating a thousand times over, hooray we are nearly there!

Have you been doing any decorating this year?

xxx

P.S If you want to see more of my ideas for the rest of the house you can check out what I’ve been pinning over at Pinterest.

It's raining, it's pouring...

It's a warm and wet Sunday here in England so I'm enjoying some quiet time this afternoon after a busy morning helping out at Sunday School. The kids amaze me, they are so funny and love to sing and dance they help me to remember to lighten up and enjoy myself too, it's so easy to get bogged down with life and forget to have fun.

This afternoon I'm doing some crochet, I started on my first ripple blanket using Lucy's pattern. It's coming along great I'm on the second row, I think it will take me a very long time to complete this but it'll be so worth it. I'm going to use it for our bed. Currently our house is in the process of being completely overhauled so every room needs a makeover! We bought it like that ;) We do like a challenge. So this blanket is my attempt to start putting some love into our home and transform it into a beautiful vintage style country home :D I'll make sure to show you some pics sometime so you can see the transformation.

It just downpoured so I thought I would quickly grab a photo of my tomatoes to show you, these have been grown from seed. I'm really pleased with how they have turned out, not bad for a first attempt. My carrots aren't looking too hot though, they look like the tops have been eaten by slugs :( But I'm still hoping they will work out.

Thanks for all the wonderful comments on my podcast, I really enjoyed doing it so look out for another one soon.

I'm off to snuggle with Ellie. Have a great Sunday!