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weekend stuff

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!

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There was also a little garden time. Everything is growing like mad and there are loads of strawberries ripening.

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We learnt our lesson from last year and picked them quick before the birds or the slugs could tuck into them.

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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

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the saggy baggy bag

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It's finished and yes, it is saggy and oh so very baggy. I now realise that it would have been better to have used a finer crochet hook with this yarn and it would have helped to have woven in the ends as I went. I also still dislike the purple spot but all things considered I am ridiculously pleased with my finished bag! I'm also glad that I got the time to finish it over this half term break which has had it's difficult moments but overall not been a bad week for us. Even so, I'm really looking forward to the peace and quiet that tomorrow will bring when our term time routine resumes again!

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