BFF SAL 24 - all good stuff

A little bit of mouse. A decent bit of flowers. And a little bit of green stems.

Quite happy with that progress this week, approaching the backstitch in 2 or 3 more sessions time. (I think my BFF's going to get there before me)

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BFF SAL 24 - owt but the mouse

Putting off the bitty nature of the mouse again. This week there was lots of pink and a bit of green stalks.  I am actually quite enjoying this, I promise. 

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BFF SAL 24 - some brown

Finally got some 842, my original has still eluded me so a new purchase whilst picking up wool for the latest crochet adventure.

The bitty nature makes me feel like I don't see much difference even though there were a lot of stitches added. Ah well.

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BFF RAL - oh my back!!

Well... As you will gather from my BFF'S blog, my trusty wool bag and I were off on our travels again.

Once again off to our London offices, in two different parts of the City.

A smaller hotel room this time, the decent light being only on one side of the room, I did start off sat upon the floor. But I think I forget just how old my bones are these days.

There were many attempts at finding a different comfortable spot, eventually settling on the chair.  But I'll be honest not a lot of crochet was achieved.

Finished these 4 small granny squares on the night, and another 6 between the train travel there and back.  I've yet to decide on the purpose of them besides knowing that I want to make something with those as a focal point. Right now they're just for 'doing', I'll figure the rest out later

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BFF SAL 24 - Pink!!!

Yep lots and lots of pink.

There was some green and a teeny bit of invisible cream/beige too. But the pink was predominant.  Putting off the evil moment of brown confetti in the middle. Partly because I am missing a thread but mostly because I feel like it's going to be hard work!

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BFF SAL 24 - it's easy to be Green

Haha at least when you are stitching things.

Recycling bin weirdness continues space across the UK, with a variety of different colours and sizes of bins not yet ready to support new policies thrown up from April. Here in Northumberland, changes not expected before October 2026.

Lots of green thread fun this week.

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Yarn Adventures - part 5

It was time to up my game. The granny cardi and hexi cardi whetted my appetite, but I wanted to follow a pattern, with counts that mattered.

(I say this as counting was where my earliest attempt at crochet in my 20s fell down. Let's just say I called it the incredible shrinking waistcoat and I never did finish it!!)

Once again YouTube was the source of inspiration, having watched a video using granny stitch to produce a sweater from the top down.

Check out MJ's Off The Hook Designs.

So I purchased a pattern.  And another variegated yarn, this time Double Knitting weight.

This is before the sleeves were added.

Checking out the idea of short sleeves.

And finally, having settled on elbow length sleeves this time round. (Ignore the green row counter underneath please)

I'd still like to make something with long sleeves, and to branch out beyond my comfortable granny stitch, but I have another YouTube pattern in mind for that one, for which I still need to purchase the wool.

I've really enjoyed making this one, it only took a week to make, and whilst awaiting the arrival of the bulk of the yarn, I started another with some of my stash. I'll post when completed. I think it will be a short sleeved variant.