This peacock above, was found last week in a charity shop... it is on a piece of silk and the packaging said it is from China. I can't work out if the majority is machine embroidered with a few hand stitches over the top or if it is completely hand embroidered. Either way it is pretty, but I haven't got any idea what to do with it yet.
This post isn't about my shopping believe it or not.... no, I thought I would show you what I am working on. You know how sometimes you start a project and you feel it is just not right and it ends up as a cushion cover? Well I have been wandering around aimlessly in the land of crochet for a couple of weeks now trying to find a project to get my teeth into.
I abandoned the medallion square blanket because I wasn't loving how it looked and turned my attentions to The Royal Sisters Nana Square pattern. This wasn't doing it for me either...
I have been in my element ever since... I'm finally making a crochet blanket just like my nanna had in her front room. It seems what I have been looking for is the freedom to throw all sorts of colours together without any thought to colour co-ordination.
I took the above photos a while ago and I've wanted to put them in my blog and seen as today's post is a chopping and changing type post, it seems the ideal time... the statues sit on gate posts in the street where my nanna used to live and they have peacefully sat here looking over Morecambe Bay since I was a child. They seem truly devoted to each other and I smile every time I pass them.
I'll leave you with a picture of how our porch windowsill looks at the moment... it is a little corner of Spring and brings great delight every day... hope you all have a colour filled wonderful weekend x
Love your new plate. Great finds at the charity shop. I have the one book by Candace (?), with the baby on the front. Love that book. I am impressed that you frogged what YOU didn't like. I think both the blanket and the scarf were beautiful. Love the statues. LOVE your flowers.
ReplyDeleteHave a great weekend. I hope to get alot done when all the 6 grandchildren go home.
I should think the baby crochet book has had alot of use Barb with six grandchildren! thank you for your lovely words and I hope you have a super weekend x
DeleteWow so many lovely finds....lucky lady!!!
ReplyDeleteI love what you're doing with the new blanket although i adored it as a scarf too.
Also love how your sill is looking, thank God spring is finally here :D.
Have a sweet weekend
Karen x
Am loving the blanket, well done
ReplyDeleteHugs
Pene
It's all soooo pretty!!! Those statues are great!!!! :) Is your peacock big enough to be a pillow?
ReplyDeleteYour blanket is lovely...those bright colors standing out against the black is strikingly beautiful!! I'm in the same roving-about-for-a-project mode...I'm thinking blanket now that I see yours!! :)
Im loving your new blanket its going to be gorgeous i know just what you mean about thowing colour together its great fun. Your spring bulbs look lovely.Have a lovely weekend, dee x
ReplyDeleteHi, I always love the light in your pictures, you must live in an extra sunny place! :)
DeleteI like your blog name... half the house is full of light, so I just avoid taking pictures in the other half!
DeleteJestem zakochana w Twoim blogu. Jest cudny, przecudny, będę robić poduszkę z takich kwadratów tylko w innych kolorach, zapraszam w odwiedziny, pozdrawiam :)
ReplyDeleteI Just found your blog, and i love it! It's sooo my style!
ReplyDeleteLove your beautifull plate too.
Love from The Netherlands
Ilona
lovely to hear from you Ilona and thank you for your kind comment.
DeleteYour Chinese embroidery is probably fully handmade. I have a picture of a ginger kitten which I bought many years ago from Allan's of Brook Street in London, who sold lots of Chinese embroidery pictures, many like yours in very bright colours. I imagine they are no longer obtainable now that China has industrialised so much. It's beautiful!
ReplyDeleteJill
The more I look at it Jill the more I think it is hand embroidered... thank you for your comment, it is very helpful. I'd like to get it framed I think. Can you believe it cost 25p! At least it has found a good home.
DeleteI just tried to find Allens on Google. It may have been Allens of Duke Street not Brook Street, and this now seems to be a cafe rather than a shop. My ginger kitten is just beautiful - the fur is done with great skill. I remember that Allens made a point of saying that such hand embroidery skills would become increasingly obsolete as China industrialised, and this has proved to be true. Your embroidery - 25p!!! - is lovely, and well worth framing I think. Probably done on silk fabric? Jill
Delete´Que trabalhos lindos.
ReplyDeleteParabéns.
Já estou lhe seguindo.
Venha me visitar e me seguir também.
Beijo.
Hi , I love your latest project. What a great collection of books....so lucky . I never find crochet books in the charity shops around here.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your advise about etsy....it's the site I'm most drawn too but I havn't got as far as joining yet.....just need a bit more stock.
have a great Sunday
Jacquie x
Hello!!! Love those statues!!! Think I'd have a quiet giggle every time I walked past but what a way to start your day seeing those!!!! Love your blanket and the scarf that inspired it. Have been toying with doing a black border blanket for a while and now I realise I HAVE to! lol x
ReplyDeleteOh wow! I just love your flowers! My bulbs had some flowers this year but I have yet to master the art of "bulbing" ;)
ReplyDeleteThat scarf-turned-blanket is great. I think a perfect choice for the blanket you wanted to make!
I wonder what is the origin of those statues... they look somewhat African or Asian, maybe...?
XXX
You can find such wonderful things at charity shops in England!
ReplyDeleteI love the colors of your blanket, you have a really good eye.
Cheers!
Kay