Knit Your Square to Give Your Share - PART 4

roamin_in_the_gloamin

Playing frivolously on a Friday !

DSC02102 by Jeangenie21, on Flickr

Just realised that its a Bank Holiday in the UK this weekend I do hope you all manage some lovely weather, great relaxing and tons of love from me. Back in a bit -

OOPS - if you would like to try this link below - I know it isn't knitting or crochet - but it is FUN.............
http://www.instructables.com/id/Folded-Book-Art-Best-most-clear-Tutorial-available/
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use for MANDALAS - I currently have some feathers tied on fishing line dangling on the kitchen windows - I do think that some mandalas would look slightly more 'upmarket' - before you ask the feathers float in the wind so that the birds don't do kamikaze fly pasts right into the glass.

mioliere

Hi everyone. Slightly hungover after a lovely evening with friends, and their huge but totally soppy mastiff and two gorgeous kittens that sat on my lap for the whole time we were there. I wanted to sneak them home and one of the kittens even sat in my handbag, so I almost got away with it!

Jean - that's a great link to book-folding but I don't know if I would have the heart to do that to a book! I suppose I could do with books I don't like, so I might give it a go. It certainly looks amazing.

You could stiffen your mandalas (why does that sound rude - or is it just me?!) with a coat of PVA on the back. I had to do that with the one I sent to Attic 24. And you could still have your feathers there by attaching them to the mandala. I always string up old CDs in my conservatory to stop the birds but I think mandalas would look much classier. I've just had a thought - you could make a sandwich of two mandalas stitched together with a CD between the two. I'm going to have to give that a go now that I've thought about it!

Well, yesterday was a good day what with our evening out, and a morning coffee with other friends in their beautiful house in a nearby village. When we got there, it was lovely and sunny and she was sat outside making jewellery in the sun. She is currently making foot jewellery which is stunning - just a little ring that fits on a toe, and two fine strings of beads that clasp together at the back of the ankle. She says they are quick and easy to do, and they looks really summery.

I haven't done a lot of woolly stuff over the last couple of days apart from making flowers to go on the cushion covers that I have made for my granddaughters. I want to make something for my mum for her birthday and would really love to make some sort of picture in crochet, so I've been trying out different ideas. I also want to make some of these little preemie onesies that are in the link in my last post - I think it's a lovely pattern: http://mammathatmakes.blogspot.com.au/2014/02/jacks-one-piece-free-crochet-pattern.html

Anyway, I hope you all have a good day.

Back later with the update, I promise!

KathyXX

roamin_in_the_gloamin

Please DO NOT use precious books to do the folding - it took me two days down in my barn to find the box of really old spoiled Reader's Digests - they were MIL's but she started to rip the pages out when the alzhiemers kicked in she did a lot worse by the time we managed to get things packed a way...... oh and the big green Burn's books - pages have parted company with the bindings, so they are up for re-furb. I also love books Kathy and have a hard time parting with even the paperbacks!

DSC02098 by Jeangenie21, on Flickr

have a fantastic day folks, I will pop back when I achieve a bit of finished off knitting....... Cuddles to you all
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mioliere

I was given a load of Reader's Digest last year, but I gave them to the Hope Association for their fund-raising event, for a dog's charity. They went to a great cause, but now I wish I'd kept just one of them! Enjoy your knitting!

KathyXX

ginnyknit

Jean love the folding book thing, looks amazing. Kathy the little prem suit is so cute and Im guessing quite easy. Im upto my ears in Wips so I darent start anything new yet.

Off to pick up little man today and try not to teach him naughty words. he is at the stage of picking things up like 'its buddy raining again Grandma' whoops - could be worse :rotfl:

roamin_in_the_gloamin

ginnyknit - its really easy and I now have the doings for a wee teddy bear - so spect I can get to that sometime over the next week.
Love it when the littlese pick things up they ain't supposed to.....I remember standing by the pond telling my grannie that my son really was saying DUCK........ she woulnd't have it tho'
Kathy when you get down souff - make sure you have sun cream - don't want you getting all burt.
ok off to fold a bit of book....
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mrs-moneypenny

love the heart book folding, might give it a go.

hope all are well and enjoying the long weekend (if you are able to partake)

mioliere

Jean, will take the sun cream, I promise. I will have plenty of time for just lounging around! The book folding looks really complicated but now that you've said it's easy, I might give it a go. I have just found some books that were left with us when the holiday home we looked after was sold; I had shoved them away without thinking because it was a busy time, but they are all bodice-rippers that I just can't bring myself to read; you know, the sort with rugged handsome heroic men and women who get the vapours!

Ginny - that made me laugh and reminded me of when my youngest, at two years old, shouted 'scumbag' through the letterbox at the postman because he had made him jump when he put the mail through. We never found out how he learned the word but we suspect it was his older brother! I can also remember, many summers ago, my sister and I teaching our little brother to say 'bug**r, bug**r, damn, damn' and getting a real telling-off when he started shouting it out loud when we were all on the beach!

KathyXX

roamin_in_the_gloamin

My daddy used to pay my sister and me for every bad word we could come up with... 3d a time - years later I found out it was so he knew just how many 'really bad' words we knew....clever chap my daddy!
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As long as its a hardcover book so it can sit up properly - oh and most folks tie a lovely ribbon around theirs to keep it open/closed at the right place - I am hunting for string - well it's my house after all - ribbon is precious for other things.

Kathy - If you get near any of the stores in the chain below - very worth a visit......Janette is down in Perpignan with the monsters camping and she is raving about the shop she found close bye..........

http://www.grandfrais.com/recherchemagasin.html

psso

Hello all,hope you are all well.Been mia for a few days.

Having a bit of a kindle problem here. Every time I click on a link, whether it's for Kathy's patterns or Jean's crafty things etc the page comes up then disappears and it goes back to the carousel page. Click to go back to web pages and I'm asked if I want to restore my tabs.

Any idea why this is happening and how to cure it, before kindle gets thrown across the living room.

Granny blanket finished, using up the rest of the wool doing hats, second one on needles, before starting a new ball/project.