Back again, feeling all weepy (in a good way) after seeing Amy’s school assembly with the children showing their paintings and saying what’s best about their mums. Anyway, March has whizzed by with not enough knitting time for my liking but I am almost finished on a batch of animals.

I know I’m cutting it a bit fine to get them all re-homed in time for Easter but hopefully they’ll be ready to travel to new homes next week and I’ll email the mailing list with details soon. If you’d like your email address to be added please just leave a comment below.

Happy Mother’s day on Sunday to all mummies out there x

My one a day blanket is coming along nicely.

So far I have made more rounds than I’ve joined because I have been trying to work out how many completely different squares I could make from the 7 colours I’ve chosen but my brain just isn’t up to the maths! Though I have managed to work out that for any group of 3 colours there are 6 possible combinations…

…but that’s as far as my brain can compute and so I’ll just have to work out the rest as I go along! The plan for happy-thought-thinking is working out well too and blankety thoughts this week have centred on confirmation that Amy has a place at the senior school she and we were hoping for – she’s so excited! I’ve also been lazily mulling over seed planting and daydreaming about summer picnics inspired by a book I got from the library this week. It feels good to have set a little corner of the day aside for hooking and happy thoughts!

Hope there are some happy thoughts happening with you too.

It’s been dawning on me that I’m not doing too well with my new year’s resolution to look for the best in each day. In theory it’s a simple one, but in practice I find when I sit down at the end of the day my mind starts going over all of the negative bits. So I started thinking of ways to make me focus on the positive moments and I think I’ve come up with a way to end each day on a happy note.

It was love at first sight when I saw Solveig’s gorgeous blanket but at the time I was all cack-handed on the crochet front. Now I’ve got a few crochet projects under my belt and I feel ready to take on a bit of a challenge. I’m going to take it slow and steady, just doing one square at the end of each day and as I work on each one I’ll be mulling over the day’s good bits.

For my one-a-day blanket I’ve chosen Amy Butler’s Belle Organic DK yarn by Rowan because I love the softness of it and I’ve decided on a limited palette, using just 7 of the gorgeous collection of colours: Robin’s egg, Cornflower, Peony, Hibiscus, Persimmon, Basil and Cilantro along with the main colour ‘moonflower’ which is a cream.

I know it will take me most of the rest of the year but at the end of it I’ll have a lovely blanket (well hopefully if it turns out even half as nicely as Solveig’s) and I like the idea that it will be made with happy thoughts in my head.