Began with a bagel and cream cheese! Yum! I really should never be allowed to visit New York, bagels and cream cheese for breakfast will do nothing to assist with any kind of diet.
After that I took myself off to Dunelm to buy cushion innards. I love love love that shop. Besides the cushion innards I also bought two new tape measures while I was there. My capacity to lose tape measures is tuly extraordinary. I have no idea where they vanish to. Personally I think they disappear through wormholes in space to some weird alien tape measureland. Well that's my story and I'm sticking to it. Also in the shipping was the new yarn basket pictured above for the Stylecraft Special DK, some lemon yarn, because I thought it might make nice doll hair, some wooden coathangers that I intend to make covers for, 2 cintronella candles in little pink buckets and two pink tea light lanterns and this...
I have wanted a chair like this for ages. My Mother has a 'real one' in their bedroom but steadfastly refuses to get all my hints about wanting to bring it home with me so when I saw this chair I had to have it. I will probably do it up a la Lucy at Attic24 of course. (That is if I ever find the still missing sewing machine.) And then it can reside in the bedroom where I will enjoy using it. So, so happy with it especially for less than twenty quid.
I made a wonderful and so easy lemon sauce to go with my Sunday chicken which I ate whilst watching Rafael Nadal give Robin Soderling a lesson in how to play tennis at the French Open final. That young man really is such a delicious guilty pleasure. :)
And of course there is this...
My granny stripe blanket is coming along nicely and I am loving the colours. They aren't easy and I don't have the greatest colour sense in the world so there have been one or two hiccups along the way but I am very happy with it so far. It is also decidedly snuggly, much to my surprise.
In other crochet news I decided to call a halt to my Rowan Handknit Cotton ripple. I loved that yarn so much when I bought it and I had such great plans for it, but knowing that so many of the really vibrant colours are no longer available seem to have really taken the delight out of using it. Silly I know, but I can't help the way I feel. However, when I put it over the back of the leather couch in the big sitting room I couldn't help but smile.
It seems I have stopped at exactly the right size and it brightens up the leather couch and protcects the wall behind. It is also big enough to be a lap-ghan if needed. Now, seeing it in situ so to speak, it makes me very happy. I just wish the light in the big sitting room was better so I could get better pictures.
Well I hope everyone had a good weekend and I think it is time for a glass of wine and some more crochet. Love O. xx