HAPPY NEW YEAR

An optimist stays up until midnight to see 

the New Year in.

A pessimist stays up to make sure the Old Year leaves.

Happy & Safe New Year everyone.

AFTER THE RAIN

Look who arrived for Breakfast...

Christmas 2010

A little boy's Christmas prayer: 
Guardian angel pure and bright…
Please lead Santa here tonight

Wishing you a very Happy Christmas.

DAISY BRAID THROW - DARE TO BE CREAM

This Throw is one of the most popular I have created.  Extremely easy, with the Butterfly Braid used around the edges, then the squares slip stitched together.

BUTTERFLY LOOM MAGIC BOARD PATTERN 1

BUTTERFLY LOOM MAGIC BOARD PATTERN 2

BUTTERFLY LOOM MAGIC BOARD PATTERN 3

A BIT OF THIS AND A BIT OF THAT

Raspberries Forever -
Created using the New Magic Butterfly Loom and
the Large Butterfly Loom
(6 sizes Butterfly Looms now available in Hobby Lobby)

CREAM GOES WITH EVERYTHING

A very pretty Throw.  Cream motifs crochet
together with a variegated yarn. 

FAMILY COMES TO DINNER

Wherever I am, there will my camera be also...
Nephew, Niece, Great Niece, Great Nephew -
Aren't they precious?
Love the Beret 
Can't get away from me in those cool black pants.

DEAR NANA

Thanks for the memories...

OH - WHAT HAS HAPPENED

What is that around my eyes - I know, it's because

I laugh a lot and my glasses magnify 1000 times.

For goodness sake there's something around my neck - it's

my necklace... phew I was worried for a minute.

No wonder I hide behind my verandah, and no Hairdresser

on this earth would be game enough to even try to tell me

I needed it cut. It's my security blanket.

My Grandkids don't care whether I've got wrinkles and my

hair has turned to silver - and you know - neither do I.

GOOD MORNING

This cute little face wanted to say

"Good Morning"

WHAT AM I

I am beautiful - I am the buds on a

Geranium - and you thought I was

something exotic - well I am -

I'm a Geranium...

(Don't forget to click on the picture

to enlarge)

A FLUFFY MARSHMALLOW FOR DOMI

Domi - your little Grand daughter

in France will be so excited

with her pink marshmallow

to cuddle and snuggle in to.

SPOTLIGHT WITH MICHELLE

Michelle creating a

Black & White

Throw, with

special knotting.....

JAN LOVES CHOCOLATE

Jan created a Chocolate Throw - just beautiful.

I'll take some more close-up pictures to share with you.

Choosing yarn at Spotlight -

this goes with that

at SPOTLIGHT.

MORE RAINDROPS

I have a secret passion -

Raindrops

TWIRLY WHIRLY FOR MY LITTLE GIRLS

I made these

TWIRLY WHIRLY

scarves for my little girls

TWIRLY WHIRLY SCARF 

9mm circular needle.

3 balls wool - assorted

Cast on 80 stitches (or 100 if you would like it long or more)

Garter stitch 4 rows

Next row - knit, purl, knit into each stitch across row

(change wool)

Garter stitch 4 rows

Next row - knit, purl into each stitch

(change wool)

Garter stitch 4 rows.

Cast off.

I cast on with a plain yarn, then the next 4 rows something different,

and then on the last lot of knitting 4 rows, I changed to a pretty funky texture.

Enjoy casting off, because you can hardly wait to see how it twirls, and seems to take forever.

Have fun!! 

and here's how to make a TWIRLY WHIRLY CURL

DIANE TEACHES THE BUTTERFLY LOOM

Diane loves to teach
The Butterfly Loom.

Pretty scarf created

with beautiful yarn.

You are so clever.

A great day at Spotlight

Yarn Party.

BOOTIES FOR MY NEW BABY

Prettiest Booties ever for baby

Tasharna Rose. Thank you

Auntie Di xx

Thank you Auntie Milena for the pattern.

The booties are just beautiful and I will

treasure them forever.

http://romantikknit.blogspot.com/

WELCOME BABY DEAR

A gorgeous Marshmallow Coconut
Ice Throw - one of the prettiest
you'll ever see.

Wrap a large Butterfly Loom, holding
these 3 yarns together and wrapping
as 1.

Just for you Baby girl...

AN ANT LOVES THE BEAUTY OF A ROSE

When I took this picture, I

didn't realise this dear little

Ant was exploring the beauty

of this Rose.

Click on the rose to enlarge.

BLUE LOOM

Beautiful blues, add a little sparkle and

you have a very pretty Throw. Created

using the Butterfly Loom, and crochet

together using the Flat Braid.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

RAINDROPS

Chasing raindrops

HAPPY EASTER

Wishing you a Happy Easter filled with love,
laughter - and Easter Eggs.

HAPPY COLOURS

Here is a pic of a Throw called Happy Colours.
It's created with a mixture of Granny Squares
and Butterfly Loom squares.
I'll put the pattern up a bit later.

RAINDROPS KEEP FALLING

Between showers I ran out to capture the
raindrops dancing on this delicate rose, and then
chased this Butterfly on and off all day until
it eventually settled long enough for a quick
click of the camera.

AUSTRALIA DAY

HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY

My Country
- Dorothea Mackellar
The love of field and coppice,

Of green and shaded lanes,

Of ordered woods and gardens

Is running in your veins.

Strong love of grey-blue distance

Brown streams and soft, dim skies -

I know but I cannot share it,

My love is otherwise.

I love a sunburnt country,

A land of sweeping plains,

Of rugged mountain ranges,

Of droughts and flooding plains.

I love her far horizons,

I love her jewel-sea,

Her beauty and her terror -

The wide brown land for me!

The stark white ring-barked forests,

All tragic to the moon,

The sapphire-misted mountains,

The hot gold rush of noon.

Green tangle of the brushes,

Where lithe lianas coil,

And orchids deck the tree tops

And ferns the warm dark soil.

Core of my heart, my country!

Her pitiless blue sky,

When sick at heart, around us,

We see the cattle die -

But then the grey clouds gather,

And we can bless again

The drumming of an army,

The steady, soaking rain.

Core of my heart, my country

Land of the Rainbow Gold,

For flood and fire and famine,

She pays us back three-fold.

Over the thirsty paddocks,

Watch, after many days,

The filmy veil of greenness

That thickens as we gaze ...

A opal-hearted country,

A wilful, lavish land -

All you who have not loved her,

You will not understand -

Though earth holds many splendours,

Wherever I may die,

I know to what brown country

My homing thoughts will fly.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Have a great new year! Leave the stories of the past in the past. Take the lessons and move on!