We had a busy weekend with a lot of ballet rehersals for Amy. There's only a week to go before her ballet school perform Cinderella at the local theatre and Amy is Cinderella's shadow (as you might imagine she's very excited!) So that meant a lot of sitting around for me – not too bad when you've got a bag full of crochet to keep you busy! I'm working on lots of different bits at the moment which I hope will one day become a collection of cushions!
There was also a little garden time. Everything is growing like mad and there are loads of strawberries ripening.
We learnt our lesson from last year and picked them quick before the birds or the slugs could tuck into them.
They tasted good!
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PS: the crochet cushions above are all based on the summer garden granny square pattern from Attic24's blog
little cotton rabbits 
The strawberries look delicious – very tasty with a little drop of cream!.
Break a leg with Cinderella too!
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love all the lovely crochet, super colours.
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Your crochet is looking great, lovely colours!
Don’t you just love strawberries, my absolute favourite fruit, mmmm. 🙂
Best wishes to Amy for her Cinderella performance!
Vivienne x
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Good luck to Amy. I love the colours in your crochet – they will look fantastic as cushions.
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Yum! We remembered to net our strawberries this year so hopefully we’ll get to eat some …
Good luck Amy!
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we’ve had the problem of birds eating our strawberries, we’re just having to pcik them real quick! The woodlice like them too which is a nuisance. Love the crochet – there seems to be a lot of blogging about it at the moment and I have even started the ripple pattern from Attic24, something about all her colours really makes you want to have a go!
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Your crochet is flying along 🙂
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I love the soft colours of your crochet – very summery – as are, of course, the strawberries. Don’t they taste delicious straight out of the garden? We’ve had a few this week – first time I’ve grown them.
Janet
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good luck to Amy , I’m sure you’ll be one proud mammy. You are flying along with your crochet – very pretty.
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And they look lovely too! I’m amazed at all your crochet stuff, it looks brilliant!!
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Oh I love ballet, Amy’s sounds lovely, no wonder she is excited. Your crochet is fantastic, you are definitely a natural at these things. As always I love your garden news. The strawberrys look lovely.xx
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Strawberries…we can only dream of any fruit ripening. Rain, thunder and cold here. As usual in summer!! Love the crochet. Dawn
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Your crochet is so fab! I love the colors and color combinations.
And I’m so sad to be missing the strawberries on the allotment this year. Wonder if I could persuade G to freeze some for me?
K x
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Those cushions are going to look amazing! 🙂
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Yum – your strawberries look almost as good as your knitted ones! 😉
Pen x
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You are my craft god!!! I love your all stuff.
Best wishes to Amy for her Cinderella performance!
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You can certainly tell you are an artistic soul. You just have a way of arranging colors that seems to belong together.
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Fab crochet and strawberries already?! Wonderful! Lucy x
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Ooh what gorgeous crochet! Those cushions are going to be beautiful.
xxx
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You’ve reminded me to go and check my strawberries!The granny squares are beautiful! I’m waiting for a delivery from Yarn4you and I feel so impatient. I can’t wait to get started! Lots of love, Amanda xxx
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My mouth is watering just looking at your strawberries! YUMMO! And your crochet work is also scrumptious!
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Your crochet is gorgeous and those strawberries look yummy! Hope Amy has a wonderful time in her performance xx
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I remember my own ballet. All dressed in black including tutu – and a silver tinsel crown. I was gorgeous. Your crochet reminds me of quilting somehow – or of flower gardens. And your strawberry plants – sigh. I could send you a picture of our ravaged, flooded, hopeless dirt plot. New Strawberries and cream. Oh, and shortcake –
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Oooohhhhh! I love the colours you are using in your crochet squares! Gorgeous! The strawberries look delicious! Yum!
Cheers, Faeryfay
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Ha ha! Your crochet pile looks like mine, lots of little projects that are heading towards a few final goals. My boy says I try and do too many things at once. I know I just get bored easily so lots of little things keep me happy. 🙂
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Way too nice to let the slugs have them! 🙂 and good luck to Cinderella’s shadow!
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Your crochet work is beautiful. My daughter is a dancer, too. She’s 15 and is still as keen as ever to be a dancer. She hopes to get a scholarship next year for a dance school. Fingers crossed for Amy’s performance, dance is such a beautiful form of art. I love it. xx
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strawberries and crochet – bliss!!!
x
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Hi Julie,
I`ve sent you an email, hope that was ok. Good luck with the Cinderella performance.
Love Carole from Rossendale xxxxxx
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Love your blog and love the colours of the to-be cushions. Have a good week. Carina (www.carin-at-home.com)
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Lovely, lovely strawberries…we’re having a really old fashioned Strawberry Tea on Saturday for people in our village….Yum! Good luck to Cinderella’s Shadow! Jenni xxx
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I love all those pieces of crochet, Julie. Can’t wait to see the finished items. Your bag was gorgeous – I hope I can ‘do’ something like that one day. x
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your crocheting is amazing the colours are great, and the strawberries are delicious looking. I was just wondering what the blue wool is because it is such a gorgeous shade of blue i would love to get a couple of balls of it.
thanks
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I love the way you worked the granny square. Switching between white and colors that almost blended together. Very beautful
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