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July 17, 2012 Julie (little Cotton Rabbits)66 Comments

The misty is still growing, one square at a time

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and I’m starting to think that it will look good draped over the sofabed that we bought last year to help us deal with having Toby awake so much at night. I’m glad that we have it because now H and I can take it in turns to get a decent sleep upstairs while the other is ‘sleeping’ here with Toby, but as a piece of furniture it sure is ugly!

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Now I’m just trying to decide whether to have the throw draped over the back or to make it large enough to cover the whole flipping thing!

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I shall keep one-a-daying until I decide.

Well, the school summer holidays are nearly upon us and I’m feeling both unprepared and unenthusiastic. The prospect of keeping Toby entertained for so long is an unsettling one, especially if we don’t get some dry weather soon. So I’m making like an ostrich with her head in the sand and spending the last few quiet days hiding away in a peaceful corner with my knitting.

I hope to pop in here as often as possible but I do expect to fall behind with my blog reading. So, here’s wishing you a good few weeks and hope to see you soon x

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snippets from the last week

July 10, 2012 Julie (little Cotton Rabbits)34 Comments

getting up at 4.40am to drop Amy off for a school day trip to France

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then coming back home and crocheting until the boys woke up

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loving all the growth in the garden, rainy summers = happy flowers

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anticipating the first of our homegrown raspberries, gradually growing fat and juicy on the bush

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and enjoying eating them for breakfast!

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Hope your week has had some happy snippets too x

protecting my cuppa

July 4, 2012 Julie (little Cotton Rabbits)32 Comments

Lately I have been on a bit of a quest to find a new tea cup to use in the garden. A search brought on by something that happened a few weeks back when I was sitting at the end of the garden and noticed occassional ripples in my tea. When I looked closely I found that there were little pellets of caterpillar pooh plopping down from the grapevine overhead! For all I know this may be a delicacy in some corner of the world but I prefer my cuppa sans pooh thank you.

During my search I came across this little mug with it’s handy lid and it’s the perfect solution to a cup of tea full of caterpillar pooh, wind-blown leaves or other garden bits and pieces. I love it!

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In fact I love it so much that I was prompted to make it a special coaster of it’s own. And since I am having some friends over for some chat and afternoon tea later in the month, I then thought it might be nice to make a set of coasters to pop our cups on and afterwards for them to take home with them.

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I used the first 7 rounds of Attic 24’s crochet bag pattern, topped off with 1 row of single crochet (with no increases) worked in Rowan fine milk cotton (sadly just discontinued) with a 2.75mm hook.

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