Happy Friday to all of you! The past week was a mixed bag of ups and downs (just like life in general, wouldn’t you say?), but luckily the “ups” outweighed the “downs”, so all’s good.
A big, rather personal, “up” was my mother turning 85 years old on Tuesday. She invited our small family for a celebratory “rijsttafel”-dinner in our favorite Indonesian restaurant, “Djago”. We just had a delightful time, enjoying each other’s company, as well as the excellent food.
Another “up” was the sunny spring weather that mother nature finally sent us – first outdoor crocheting of the season was a fact, hurray!
You know how much I love my daily walks with Mila the Wonderdog, but seeing nature wake up at this time of year, is definitely a bonus. Oh, and speaking of our beloved Mila: she turned 1 on April 12th.
As I told you last Tuesday, I’ve picked up my “Rustic Lace Square”-blanket again; very happy to report I’ve made great progress. Twelve more squares were added to the 54 that I was up to this past Sunday.
At that time I thought I needed a total of 143 squares, but after doing some proper measuring&calculating this morning, I think 132 squares will be enough, which means: I’m half way through – yay!!
I “just” need to keep the momentum going …….
You might remember this little thing in black and white?
I’ve worked on that on and off over the last few weeks, having enough pieces to assembly them in either a cushion cover, or maybe a bag? What do you think?
In a little “Rustic Lace Square”-lull, I played around a bit, which resulted in this colorful surface crochet – fun to do!
And lastly there’s Haafner’s test-mandala, that I’ve been meaning to turn into a cushion cover. How about finding this perfect matching blue in my stash? I’m looking forward to finishing it.
While going through my stuff/stash, I also found this long lost Instagram pouch – made almost 3 years ago, following this free pattern by “Haak & Smaak”.
In between all this, I’ve been working hard on my May-project for CraftKitchen, while my second one – a diy to make cute little treasury boxes – went live on the CK-site yesterday – busy, but exciting times!
The tutorial (in Dutch ànd English) will be available here on Monday.
Wishing you a wonderful weekend,
love,
Marianne xx
Just realised you have a blog Marianne … Lovely!! Gorgeous blanket x Happy Birthday to your Mum xxx
Yay, and so do you, Hattie! How lovely to connect here too!
Thank you, sweetheart! Marianne xx
The rustic lace squares are all so different and each one as charming as the next. Lots in this post and boxes as well!
Thanks, sweetheart! It’s really true: still madly in love with the rustic lace square (which, of course is a good thing, since I’ll be crocheting at least 66 more, haha). Marianne xx
Hallo Marianne,
Beetje laat maar een welgemeend van harte gefeliciteerd voor je moeder! Wat een mooie leeftijd!
Ook van harte voor mooie Mila en voor jou voor al je mooie haakwerk. Je werk is en blijft uniek en dat is altijd fijn om naar te kijken.
Hoop dat het goed gaat met je!
Groetjes van Andrée
Ah, wat lief, Andrée, dankjewel! Ja, mooi, hè – we hadden alle reden om deze dag te vieren!
Ik bloos van je lieve complimenten en ben er heel blij mee!
‘k Mis je blog oprecht, maar het is erg fijn dat we op ig nog volop van jouw inspirerende creativiteit kunnen genieten (en nu ook van Nina, leuk, hoor!).
Liefs, Marianne xx