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FollowCrochet Owls for Handmade Monday
We’ve had such lovely weather for the past few days in this corner of the UK, it’s been great for getting outside…
and also visiting the garden centre for a little inspiration. I rather wanted to take home the pond in our local one…
I got a colour fix inside, I could spend a fortune in here, I can get so carried away!
and this bee was enjoying the scent of the hyacinths as much as me!
I had a bit of an ‘eeek’ moment this morning when I printed out my pages from the Google calendar for the next few weeks. We’ve known for months that the coming few weeks were going to have everything which is planned for 2012 crammed into them, mainly two weddings and Open Studios. And I’ve just come to the point where sticking my fingers in my ears and going ‘la-la-la’ isn’t going to work any more… So if it appears to go a little quiet here on Planet Penny for a while, it’s not true, I just won’t have time to tell you about it as it happens!
I’ve had a small amount of time to play with the pattern I’ve had in my head for a while (usually at 2.30 am!) having been inspired by the little owl Rachel, one of the Planet Penny Cotton Club ‘team’ made with her rainbow pack. I’ve made three so far, each a little different and I would really like some feedback on which you prefer.
I made this one first…
…and was quite happy with it, although the eyes look a bit bulky, and I don’t think there is enough colour contrast for the beak to show enough. Then I made this one…
I like the colours on this one, but I’m still not happy with chest piece. Finally there was this one…
…and now I’m completely confused! Here they are all together…
I’d really like to know what you think!
If you would like to see what other people are making with their Planet Penny Cotton Club rainbow packs head for the PPCC Page where you will find links to the participating blogs. I’m expecting another delivery of yarn in the next couple of weeks so…
If you’d like a rainbow pack,
find out all about it here,
Please get in touch with any questions
here
For now it’s time to head off to 1st Unique Gifts where Wendy is hosting Handmade Monday to see what everyone has been creating over the last few days,
See you soon…x
A Pink Crochet Bunny for Handmade Monday
Higgins and I are home after going our separate ways for a night, I stayed with friends with beautiful pussy cats, so it was deemed safest for Higgins to have a little holiday with my son and his fiancée. (A little tiring for them by all accounts because Higgins has it firmly fixed in his head that Uncle Will is the best interactive toy ever, and followed him around constantly waiting for the next burst of canine centred entertainment.)
It was just as well he didn’t see how unfaithful I was being with this little beauty…
or with her sister, who discovered I had a cat treat in my bag…
But I’ve come straight back with my Planet Penny hat on because the Cotton Club yarn has arrived and needs sorting and wrapping and bagging and packing and there is a very long waiting list to sort out…so this is going to be a very short post! I’ll be in touch with the waiting list people very soon, so please bear with me!
I’ve been asked to write up my modified mouse pattern which I will do very soon, and it will be joined eventually by a pattern for a bunny. My Pink Bunny…
So for now I’ll leave you in the capable hands of Wendy of 1st Unique Gifts as she hosts this week’s Handmade Monday. Pay her a visit and find out what everyone else has been up to over the week..
See you soon x
Planet Penny Cotton Club Update
I’m just slipping in a quick post because I’m away for the weekend. By now, everyone who was ordered their very own cotton rainbow will have received their pink parcel in the post. As I understand it, those who are not actually using the yarn yet are gazing at it lovingly and squishing it gently, it gets you like that!
We’re all systems go for the next batch, and I have quite a substantial waiting list. As I mentioned before, I am rejigging the price just a little. There seems to be a cost associated with every stage of moving money about, whether it’s within the UK or paying for goods in Europe. I started this because it seemed a nice way of sharing a lovely discovery, and I’m having to learn how to do it as I go along, so please bear with me!
I’ve done a test post to the US which has worked and it took about 10 days to arrive. I’m prepared to give that a go with the next batch, especially as I have so many lovely people from the US on the waiting list desperate to try out the yarn! Once I’ve worked out all the postage rates I will update the Cotton Club Page so you can see exactly how much it will cost.
One thing I have to say with the postage is that I am sending everything First Class Post with Proof of Postage and Airmail to the US. It is possible to arrange for it to be signed for in the UK, obviously bumping up the cost, but that facility will cost far more than the cost of yarn sending out of the UK. Once I have handed over the parcels to the Post Office and collected the proof of postage, it’s out of my hands, so please bear in mind when you order the yarn that it will be best endeavours on my part to package it safely and post it to the address I have been given, but that it must be at your own risk.
Over on the Planet Penny Cotton Club page there are already links to take you to members blogs so you can see what they’ve been doing.
At Baxter’s Rest there really is a rainbow…
In the Little Room of Rachell it seems to be being admired at the moment!
Penelope by the Sea over at L is for Love has done some gorgeous embroidery…
And Mrs Micawber , who was my US posting ‘guinea pig’, couldn’t wait to get started on her stash…
Please add your blog to the Linky on the page if you have one, and don’t forget to add the PPCC button to your sidebar. If you don’t have a blog but want to share what you have been doing, you can join the Flickr group.
So have a lovely weekend one and all. I’m off to the theatre tomorrow and then staying with friends in a part of Norfolk I don’t know very well – it’s a big county – so I mustn’t forget my camera!
See you soon x
Hooray for Crochet Mice!
The Making of the Crochet Mice…
I’ve set myself a challenge, to see just how many projects I can get out of the Planet Penny Cotton pack, at one ball of each colour. One of the reasons I put this collection together is that I found it impossible to find one stockist, on the high street or online, who had every colour to make up a rainbow, and going from place to place, or buying a ball here and a ball there from different online stockists was time consuming and expensive.
From the time I dyed my own colours I was determined to use every scrap of Bluefaced Leicester 4 ply I had so painstakingly coloured myself. I’m still using the little leftovers the needlefelted pincushion from this post, and the Sophie Digard inspired scarf from this post.
I wanted a pattern for crochet mice which was just right for small amounts of yarn and this silky smooth cotton yarn is perfect for amigurumi, and the bright colours just lend themselves to something fun so I devised this cute crochet mouse pattern and made one in every colour.
So I developed my own simple pattern for crochet mice, and used beads for the features as I have made them to be strictly ornamental However, with embroidered features they are ideal for a small child (just right for little hands) or filled with catnip for your favourite puss cat.
And so the knitters out there don’t feel left out, there a knitted version too!
You can find the yarn, the knit and crochet patterns for the mice, as well as other patterns using the gorgeous Planet Penny Cotton yarn in the Etsy shop here…
Ed. to add. the Etsy shop has now closed but you can find the patterns FOR FREE here…
I’ll be back soon …xxSharing our Reasons to be Cheerful…
…just one more time!
Which doesn’t, of course, mean we can’t keep looking for them!
Here on Planet Penny, I’m still finding little flashes of springtime promise, (even though as I type the wind is howling and rain is lashing against the window!)
Higgins is not quite so cheerful because although the ‘boss’ came home from work last week, he’s had to go away again on a course…so Higgy hasn’t got his early morning vantage point. The routine is that Tim sits in the reclining chair to drink his morning tea, and Higgins gets as far down the chair as possible, so he can lie on ‘ a person’, always the best place as far as he is concerned, on red alert, looking down the garden ready to leap, like a coiled spring when the post lady and the paperboy arrive. This is how he does it…
After my last post it’s been very cheering to have lots of enthusiasm and lovely comments (thank you!) for the Planet Penny Cotton Club project, and I’m still trying out different ideas…
…and I’ve been happy to pack up the cotton packs in the pretty pink mailing sacks!
(If you’d like to join in do get in touch, there are still some packs left, and if I sell out there will be a waiting list!)
This is the last Reasons to be Cheerful post and Linky for now, I hope you’ve enjoyed it, either joining in or just following the links to meet other bloggers. I know I’m really happy to have gained some new bloggy friends!
Please join in for this last Linky below, or leave a comment so we can go out on a high, I do love to hear from you…thank you for taking part x
