2024 - No Craft Spending - I WILL bust my stash and make pretty things!!!!!

plumduff55

@Soontobeoap Beautiful work - nice to hear hubby is recovering xx

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Beautiful work Soontobeoap 😻 

old_fogey

Great makes @Soontobeoap, so glad hubby is improving

Katiehound

love the elf... very cute

greentiger

 Hi. Everyone,  

I hope you are all well.   It’s about a month since I’ve popped in!   I just could not get going to do anything. 

I’ve not read any of the posts yet, but I will read them all.

We just came back from our holiday, a Norwegian cruise, on Wednesday.   Weather not great and my arthritis was really bad (knees) before we left.   Managed to get a doc appointment (phone) on Friday before we left and he prescribed very strong painkillers.   Tried the first dose – felt sick, woozy and fell asleep for 4 hours.   Didn’t feel a thing, lol, but it was time yo take the next lot, lol.   After that I halved the dose, still had same symptoms, but not so drowsy but only a couple of hours of some pain relief.   I decided to stick with that for the duration of hols but really couldn’t walk about anywhere for long.  I had lots of books and crochet with me, but I couldn’t concentrate on anything.   Got back and upped the dose gradually again and I seem to have sorted it out at last, thank goodness.   Ach well it was a change of scenery and I did get out on 4 excursions.   So that’s the end of my ‘pity party’ and I’m good to go again.    And then the football – which I love – started 😠   Oh well, that’s life.

 

So, May’s Plans were

·        Christmas Eve Wishes blanket - Finishing, Faces & Border (all those ends, ugh!) ✓

·        Crochet shrug for younger granddaughter – almost finished

·        10 Christmas cards  – nope!

·        Birthday cards for friend’s 16yo granddaughter and for my son-in-law ✓

·        Cat tapestry – nope!

 

I’m back on the crafting horse again, just, so here are my June plans   We’re halfway through the month already, so it’ll be a challenge.

 

·        finish the crochet shrug for younger granddaughter

·        Christmas cards  

·        cat tapestry

·        Bibliocat quilt panel – think it’ll be shrinking to cushion cover size, instead of wall hanging, lol

·        crochet scrapghan

 

 

 

 

daisy_1571

Lovely bundle of makes there green tiger

old_fogey

I love the blanket @greentiger

I have done another tree decoration, it still needs to be made up.  There is a similar one with a dove that I have started.  At some point I will do another angel, but there was a lot of counting, these are easier and more relaxing.

daisy_1571

Very effective xx

Soontobeoap

. My first try at mosaic. We pay £2.00 a week for craft club. £1.50 goes on tea or coffeeand 50p towards crafting materials. This cost around £10.00 per person but it would have been so much more expensive to do on our own. Next time I would put the pieces much closer together and maybe use, a different colour grout. Lots more, experimenting needed but very happy with it for a first try. 

plumduff55

@Soontobeoap beautiful colours - well done xx