Knit Your Square to Give Your Share - PART 4

mioliere

Hi everyone

I'm sorry I haven't had time to do the update today but I will definitely do it tomorrow! I've tried very hard to do it on Mondays for the last few weeks but today I've been gardening because the weather has been so good, and I've run out of time.

Hope everyone has had a good day!

KathyXX

chalky_75

Hello to one and all and lots of love tucked in too!
Lovely posts on here and so lovely to see MAY !!
Jean Hope you are feeling better
Kathy Are you packed yet??
Annakat That puppet is lovely-- What a clever pattern
Shaz Hope things have settled a bit with your Mum and Dad

I am so glad everyone is enjoying lovely weather all over it seems-- It is here too!

I am busy knitting a friend a present on 9MM needles!!! So a bit distracted from all things snakey at the moment!
Its like knitting with trees!!!!

mrs-moneypenny

quick hello all and welcome to lovecrafting

had the sewing machine out this afternoon and made 10 donkey nosebands (got some more cut but ran out of velcro) and made a shopping bag all for LH

hope all are well

In_Search_Of_Me

love the clown! very funky!
knitting tonight so may get cat blanket #2 done!
hugs all!

f1widow

Evening ladies - hope you are all well - sorry I have been missing in action again! the days fly past and im always thinking will pop on and then a day will pass etc .....

Anyway was meant to come on yesterday to wish you all a Happy Mothering Sunday and to say that first thing I had thought of all of you that have lost your Mum - so am sending a big belated hug to you all xxx

pippa - Im sure you are worried - fingers crossed that everything is ok - take care xxx

may - thank you for the post it was lovely and lovely to see you pop in - how have you been? hope things are better than they have been xxx

sock-knitter - I felt so sorry for the family when I read what had happened to your Mum and Dad - have had attempts to get in and things taken from garage but never in the house and that was scary enough - send our love to them and tell them we are thinking of them xxx

mrsmw - lovely to hear from you - hope everything is going ok xxx

psso - how are things your end - have they quietened dows? hope so xxxx

chalky - lovely unique mothers day greeting for you - lovely daughter takes after her lovely Mum! xxx

welcome newbies - we are having a good run on newcomers the last few months - its wonderful!

roamin - I really hope you are feeling better its very unlike you to be in bed so was concerned to hear you were so poorly - well done on the LH patterns I finally had a chance to look and still havent gone through them all (am needing a new black cartridge for printer and a day when OH not looking over my shoulder to print a "few" off) - but its great xxx

Im sorry as well kathy as I have not updated again - I promised myself that this week would be charity baby items and catching up on recordings before the half term and DH off and then friday DH announced he had booked Mon/Tues/Wed off as well (lovely on the one hand but .............!) the royal "we" had planned to start tidying garden - painting fence - pots etc but the weather has turned so that put paid to that

Anyway must go and finish sewing up hat that I have got done today and find my next item before sitting down to viewing tonight

Big hugs gentle thoughts and love to all xxxx

mioliere

Good morning everyone.

I have done the update with totals posted up to midnight on Sunday 3rd. Anything posted after then will go on next week's update. You can find the update by clicking into my name at the side of my post, then going to my 'homepage'. Please let me know if there are any mistakes and I will put them right! Fantastic totals, everyone, really impressive!

Jean - I hope you are a lot better today. When you are feeling up to it, I have added 'Baby Mitts' to the update but at the end of the list of items, so I'd be eternally grateful if you would alphabetise for me, please!

Shaz - your mum's needles must be red hot!

Pippa - thinking of you at this worrying time.

Mrs MW - thinking of you and hoping that life is not too challenging for you.

F1 - I know what you mean about DH having time off. I get so much more done when mine is out of the house! Yesterday, I was continually being interrupted to help empty the wheelbarrow, and then I had to go to the tip with him to get rid of loads of rubble and other rubbish. We've sold a huge
metal and timber barn that is a bit of an eyesore; the buyer is coming at the weekend to start dismantling it, which will take two weekends probably. At the moment it's full of stuff that the last owners left in there (and should have taken with them but we couldn't track them down once we'd bought the house!), including several bales of very old straw. We want to set fire to the straw once the barn has gone but we shall have to ask the local mayor for his permission because it's now no-bonfires season! The other rubbish we can take to the dump and I think that will mean several trips, so my time will just get used up for the rest of the week. We also store our neighbours' caravan in the barn so that will need to be moved to a stone barn at the other side of the house until the weekend in July when the neighbours get married, then it's going to be extra accommodation for some of the wedding guests! What with chores and cooking, and my own online work, I wonder how I ever found the time to go out to work!

Chalky - not packed yet but a step closer to getting the health side of things finalised, so it shouldn't be too long now. We see the new baby on Skype every couple of days but I'm longing to give her a proper cuddle! She is gorgeous, of course! As my mum says, 'gorgeous is the only type we do!' We're not biased, are we?!

Well, we have lovely weather forecast for the whole week (apparently!), so we've put our garden furniture outside again - I love that time of year when the garden becomes an extra room and the barbecue reigns supreme!

Well, I hope you all have a good day.

KathyXX

sock-knitter

morning all, kathy send us some sun please, here in yorkshire it is very dull and looks like rain again
thanks everyone for their thought and wishes for my mum and dad, the council sent a lovely man out yesterday, who fitted extra locks to all their windows, and changed the locks on the front and back doors, to extra security ones, they have a longer barrel? that goes further into the door frame, and also they have fitted internal bolts too. i still say they should have replaced the doors with newer stronger ones, but council said no, they've had the same external doors since they moved there over 35 years ago, in fact they've never beeen changed since the bungalow was built around 1940's, the whole road has the same, except the odd few which have been bought privatly,
no charity knitting done yesterday, but i will try and fit some in today if i can, i dont work, so i dont know where my time goes
hugs all
love shaz xxx

roamin_in_the_gloamin

I am alive.........not under the patio..........still coughing and spluttering but the headache (thumper) has left, I also have managed a good nights sleep which helps enormously. DH has now caught it and he is about 3 days behind me, so he too is just getting over the worse of it....well that's what I am telling him. I can do without this again in a long while. Neither of us have had anything like it previously, so fingers crossed we never get it again. I am in the sweatshop today, keeping snug and doing activity books which is a lovely way to spend time, will spoil myself with lots of breaks and cuppa's as and when I feel like it, then perhaps tomorrow I will get started properly....the polytunnel is in dire need of digging (YUK) so I am hanging off on that one till next week.
I hope your all going to have a great day, Oh Kathy........could you not offer the hay to local sanctury .....cats, donkeys whatever as bedding....or a free to pick up on AI? Even if its old it still has some use as bedding. Right will catch up with the postings some time this evening, welcome to all newbies and love and cuddles to you all.
Jean - rosie cheeks have returned!
xx

anakat

Good morning

Had a think about the clowns and came up with this, 2 circles stitched together to make a head.

P.S. Anyone got any ideas for using a bag of polystyrene eggs

mioliere

Shaz - I'm so relieved that your parents have now got proper security on the doors. That should make them feel safer even though it won't get back the things they've lost. I would love to send you some of this lovely warm sunshine!

Jean - glad you're starting to feel better. As for the straw, old hay and straw develop dangerous spores over time. DH didn't know that and was planning to heave it into his van to dispose of at the dechetterie; luckily, I warned him first! I wish we could give it away but it's been there since we bought the house in 2005, and heaven only knows how long it was there before! It would cause all sorts of health problems to animals and humans alike. Burning would be the best thing for it but, of course, we can't have bonfires now (or that's what I thought, but one of our neighbours had one on Saturday!). I'll ask the Mairie for his advice - maybe he will give us permission to burn it. If not, we'll have to cover it where it is and the barn will have to be dismantled around it, then we can burn it in the autumn. All this is down to the previous owners who left tons of c**p behind!

Anakat - the clown is gorgeous; well done on the perfect solution! Can't help with the polystyrene eggs unless you just crochet little covers for them and hang them on some twigs as an Easter tree! Children love that!

Well, off to do something useful like clean the bathroom!

KathyXX