OK it's been a while since I last posted anything, but I have my reasons and the excuses are :-

1. We all have had colds, some us worse than than others.

2. Husband has been on holiday for two weeks and he takes the computer over, he has a game and eBay addiction.

3. Eldest daughter has been on half term break.

4. Youngest daughter has been as destructive as usual!

5. And to top it all husband had food poisoning last weekend.

But I have been busy, I have finally (yes finally) finished a cross stitch at last and it feels good! To finish one completely I'm not going to put it behind glass I'm going to stretch it round a wooden frame, I found in a charity shop when I get the time and I'm not been pestered.

 

On the knitting front, on my last visit under the stairs I found 2 balls of Sirdar crofter DK yarn so I decided to start knitting a scarf as a side project (I have a lot of  those on the go, hence the UFO pile).

Which was going well until I realised I hadn't got  enough yarn, always the same mistake I make every time. Back to square one, at least this time it wasn't destroyed for me. So I went and got some more yarn, black yarn! Don't know why, but I always seem to go for black, I must be a closet goth!!! So I started knitting again, but soon realised I was going to have to visit square one again! This time the pattern wasn't working out, it just didn't look right.

So instead of sending all the yarn off  to the black hole under the stairs I put the knitting needles away and got a crochet hook out instead. Right let me get this straight now I am not the worlds best crocheter, for a start I'm left handed and it has taken me years to learn how not to end up with a giant knot, but some thing you can actually call crochet. But with my crochet skills, scarfs and baby blankets are my limit. So there ain't going to be anything fancy there.  I started to crochet the scarf, which is looking ok but I'm not sure, so I've put it away until I have a flash of inspiration.

 

 Instead I decided to crochet a baby blanket, just to use up some pale green baby yarn that had been residing under the stairs for quite a while. It is going quite well, it is actually working out how I want it to look and I might finsh it so it will be one less thing under the stairs.

On wednesday evening I decided to do a quick project to cure a problem which has been bugging me for a while. I decided to make a draught excluder (or cat excluder which my eldest daughter calls them) from a skirt I bought from a charity shop months ago which I was going to recycle into something else but changed my mind.

So it now has become a flowery draught excluder and because the door is a inward opening (it's the downstairs bathroom door) I have attached it to the door by using stick and sew velcro so no one is going to break their neck on it, also it can't be taken for a walk by youngest daughter very easily.

I was feeling very proud of my quick creation which I managed to do in under 24 hrs, until my dear husband told me it looked like a giant flowery tampon attached to the door, but I don't care what he thinks because it has cured the draught problem.