Crafty Little Rat Podact - E11. All the Crochet.

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Star Blanket -Bernat

Drops Paris - Aran Weight Yarn 100% cotton. 4.0mm hook

12 - Red

13 – Orange

14- Strong Yellow

11 – Opal Green

10 - Dark Turquoise

09 – Strong Blue

08 – Dark Purple

African FlowerBlanket – 5.0mm hook

Stylecraft Special DK – 100% Acrylic

Lobelia - 1825

Boysenberry - 1828

Grass - 1821

Tomato - 1723

Pistachio - 1822

Mustard – 1823

Duck Egg - 1820

Cypress – 1824

Fuscia - 1827

Kelly Green – 1826

Empire – 1829

Midwinter Shawl

Lithuanian Linen – Midwinter Yarns 100% Linen. 450 m to 100g.

3.0 mm needles – Colourway is 915 Claret

No Pattern – Self designed shawl. Top down, triangular.

Twirl SocksVickiBrown

Currently on offer for £1.50 (reduced at the check out)

Miju Wools Hand dyed – Summer Meadow. 3.0mm hook

FO Frenzy

These are totally not in the order I spoke about them - sorry!

Indigo Dragonfly CaribouBaa in Captain TightPants. UK supplier

Watercolours and Lace - Falklands Merino Lace - Precious Metals

Truly Hooked SW Merino Tweed in Kurora

Truly Hooked MCN Sock in Turquoise and Fluro Pink

Owl about Yarn - Sparkle Owl in Aberavon Harbour

Easyknits.co.uk Dusted Dreams Firestorm

Unbelieva-wool Merino Silk - Dolly

Unveliva-wool MCN - OOAK

Ullcentrum 2-ply Sport in Sky Pink and Blue Pink - from Midwinter Yarns

Dyeninja Twinkle Lace - Sam Vimes

Baa Ram Ewe Titus - White Rose and Parkin (Minis) and Bramley Baths

Stylecraft Special DK, Cream, Fondant, Meadow, Pale Rose, Prama Violet (I think - Doing this from Memory because bag vlogger and not yet in the stash!)

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Corwin

I was hoping I wouldn’t have to write this post for a while. I’d hoped at least not this side of Christmas; but he had other plans. Last Thursday Rhys came home from work to find him laid up in the cage, dehydrated and not interested in moving. Rhys tried tempting him with Peanut butter and he turned his nose up a it. Corwin… not accepting food meant it was a bad sign. A few weeks ago he’d started to loose movement in his hind quarters – as can happen in old rats. He was still moving around reasonably well; eating, drinking and snuggling and we agreed to take each day as it came. We took him to the vets that evening, and all agreed that the best thing to do for him was to let him go easily, peacefully and quietly in his sleep. Corwin came to us from SPA Vets in Gloucester. This was our vets before we moved to Newport and one I would heartily recommend to anyone in the area. He’d wandered in through someone’s cat flap and realising (thank goodness!) that he was...

Thinking about 2017 goals!

I'm currently laid up with what we think is Slapped Cheek. Slapped cheek is a thing that kids get, and my bosses daughter had a case. When it affects adults it shows up as joint pain and swelling and flu like symptoms. Ouch. As a result I can't do much knitting or spinning or crochet. What else can I do but have a think about what my goals for 2017 should be? My goals for 2016 were fairly simple 80/20 Yarn used to yarn bought ratio (We’ll see how this goes!) Finish using 2015’s Wonderwool yarn before 2016’s WW (Faberge, Sunny Days Shawlette, Pink Topaz) 12 pairs of Socks in 2016 So I managed 2 and 3, and the less said about goal 1 the better I suppose. I must have added at least 100 skeins or balls of yarn to the stash this year. To be fair, I did go to Canada (where I bought lots of yarn) and have a fortuitous year with Wonderwool this year. By comparison, I've used up around 60; which really is no mean feat. Proposed Goals!* 1) Yarn Management! I'm st...

March Goals

I’ve been trying to write a recap of 2020 crafting for the last two months. It’s very odd that I’ve been stopping myself from writing other posts because I “must” recap what has honestly been one of the weirdest years in history. Not that my craft has been weird of course, but small acts like photographing everything felt overwhelming at times last year and I’m taking it as a personal success that at least things are recorded on Ravelry. So I’m going to try a more regular check in, I’m currently working on a variety of WIPs and I’d love to aim for at least a monthly update on where they stand and new cast ons or ideas. Current WIPS Shine Shawl: This is being worked in some yarn my parents bought for me as a Christmas present from their trip to Scotland in the few non-lockdown weeks we had last summer. They picked out 3 colours for me a lovely tomato red, a deep sandy yellow and a rich chocolate brown. They’re tweedy and they have occasi...

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