Latest crochet inspiration......

I couldn't help but stop by my favourite newsagents this morning and check out the latest edition of
"Inside Crochet", I sure wasn't disappointed! I now must be known to buy the crochet mags as the girl stated that I will be able to add some more creations to my collection, from which we got chatting on crochet, couldn't get a better morning than that really could you!!
 
 Here it is........ (I also had to purchase the creative crochet book as I couldn't leave it there!)

                                        Inside Crochet is such a good magazine that I can't rave about it enough!

I came across my favourite new pattern in the mag the "chevron" just take a peek at the beauties you can make.......................
                                                     Chevron beauties

and check out this crochet dress, talk about inspiration...... Isn't it just divine :)

                                        

                                       This is what crochet dreams are made of!!!

I also went on a bit of an oppie run today, as the weather is soo nice here in Burnie at the moment that I felt the urge to check out the Salvation Army and Lifeline.....

I came across this beautiful little children's book that it was soo sweet I just had to have it :)
 It has little flaps in it and to my amazement you have to reach in the little flaps and take out the little treasures hiding inside, and alsas the little liftouts are all still in there, how rare is that to find the book in perfect tact??

  check out the sweet little book with flaps and treasures to lift out.....

Check out the little lift-out bunny, isn't this perfect for easter! Now all I need is a baby to read the book to, I am working on this at the mo with the partner as I am veeery clucky at the moment!

While at the Supermarket I came across these cheap retro looking sundae drink cups! they go well with my newly purchased crazy straws don't you think.
 
 My partner and I will be having homemade smoothies out of these......

Pink for me and blue for Tom!!!                                      

I will leave you with another piece of crochet related post, here is some sorting that I was doing last night, playing around with wool and buttons to decide on my next lot of scarves to create for my Market stall which I am going to take the plunge and do :)

will soon be turned into crochet scarves for the market stall.....

   Till next Blog creation
Kate :)

a busy few days....

Hi there, yes I have been busy with my crochet obsession!!

 I have had a busy time recently with my aunty passing, and then some friends of mine and Toms came up from Hobart to stay with us for the weekend. We had a great time, on Saturday night the boys had a gig at a local club, the funny thing is that it was a bikie club, Tom hadn't realised this is where it would be and when we arrived he wasn't happy with his friend that he hadn't told him all the details! but it all turned out to be fine, and was very harmless with a comfy couch for us girls to sit on while the boys played their music, the guys that were part of the club even put the heater on for us that nite as it was quite chilly! so all in all it turned out fine, I think Tom was just being protective of me which is nice to know :)

Tom playing at the Bikie Club (and yes he is wearing the crochet beanie I made him!!)

On the Sunday we all went for lunch at Fish Frenzy which has a beautiful view as it sits right on the beach, and has a lovely view. Then my best friend Moira and I did a spot of shopping.
Here is the view at Fish Frenzy.....

Valentines Day.......
  Yesterday was Valentine's Day, I had a nice evening with Tom, when I arrived at his house he had some lovely chocolates all wrapped up for me and some roses on stems that were also made out of choccy!
he took me to Rialto's Restaurant we then went for dinner, a walk on the beach afterwards, Tom had planned for us to go to the movies, but I wanted a quiet nite in snuggling him watching tv!! I love being home :)

and now to some of the latest crochet makings (where would I be if I didn't mention crochet!)

Here is my new laptop!!!!! yay!!!! I mainly wanted it for blogging!!!!! of course I am blogging on it right now as you read this :)

 Here is my latest creation which I havn't decided if I will keep it as a scarf or make it a cowl, it is worked in Chevron stitch which I am just loving using now :)

 Here are the buttons I am deciding between to use, you will have to stay posted to see which ones I choose :)

Here is another project I am working on and have nearly completed, it's a mohair wrap. I thought I would show you the early on pic as it was my first attempt at shell stitch and I just adore it, I would have to say that its my fav stitch now :)

Here is the wrap, it is still in progress and will come out larger when done. I love the way I added the love brooch to it as I think that the gold stands out against the blue mohair wool

I wanted to add here the experimenting I did with "Tunisian Stitch" I wasn't keen on the look of it after I had done it, but am slowly coming around after a few weeks thought on it
  (yes they are my pjamas that the work is sitting on!!)

Here is a close up of the front of the Tunisian stitch work

Can you see how the front of it looks like knitting (those of you experienced crocheters will of course know this) the reason is because tunisian stitch is a cross between crochet and knitting, and if you look closely you can see the difference being all of the stitches on the crochet hook at the one time as usually in crochet there is not that many stitches on the hook at the one time :)
Till the next post where you get to see the finished scarf / Cowl with big chunky buttons

P.S "welcome to my new follower on the blog, Crochet by the sea" this is such a quaint blog with lovely audio on it as the sound of wind chimes :)