Valentines Ring Giveaway

Another ring! This time of my own design. I'm giving this away. Leave a comment below before Tues 3rd Feb, and I'll pick a winner on the 4th and hopefully get this to you before Valentines day. Wherever you are in the world



The ring is a crocheted heart, edged in gold blanket stitch, with a red bead sewn in



I cut a cardboard heart to size and blanket stitched the whole thing to that. Then glued on an adjustable ring back.



I'm still pretty new to making things, so I don't know how long-lasting a construction this is. But, hey, it's free, right?



It's perfect for wearing whilst you pen those love letters.....




PS. I tried to improve my photos this time. A tricky process involving my desk lamp and a piece of paper sellotaped to the desk. I really must read those photography books I got out of the library!

Cheap Thrills

Crocheted Cocktail Ring, originally uploaded by ninethreeo.

The washing machine broke on Friday - £110 (which the lovely repair man assures us will keep it going for another 5 years, fingers crossed for that!). It should hopefully be back with us tonight.

The car went in for scheduled repairs on Monday, another £92.

So last night I glammed it up for no pence!

I was re-reading Craft:04 in the bath and saw the instructions for a crochet cocktail ring. Ingredients: thin elastic, beads and a small crochet hook. All things I had to hand already, so I settled down on the sofa and had made this within the half hour. I left off the last row of beads because I used larger pearly numbers and by the time I'd reached the second row of beads, it 'looked done'.

I know I should be holding a cocktail, that's a large glass of apple and blackcurrant squash. These are hard times after all!

PS. The beads were reclaimed from broken jewellery. So it really was cheap

PPS. My hands look awful! I've been handwashing clothes...

I've not had time to get much done this week as I've been doing extra hours at work. In the few minutes I get after getting in and before going to bed, I've been working on this:

Little Star Afghan, originally uploaded by ninethreeo.

I started this shortly after E was born, it's made from what WAS a thrifted acrylic stripy jumper, which I washed, unpicked and unravelled. It was pretty handy for a small baby, you could throw it in the wash when she spit up on it (often).
Here's a picture of her on it, a couple of years ago.


Then, about a year ago, I found another instance of the exact same jumper, so that too got unpicked and unravelled and I picked up the hook again.
I've been trying to go through some of my MANY unfinished projects (I start way too many things at one) and actually finish some of them.
This particular blanket will be finished when this:

is used up

First harvest 2008, originally uploaded by ninethreeo.

A pic from a couple of days ago. Our first proper 'harvest'. Up until now we've just had a couple of sungold tomatoes every few days. We had the courgette with tea that night, the plums for dessert and on porridge the next morning, the tomatoes barely made it into the house. E loves those little tomatoes.