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by patti
23 Apr 2020, 08:07
Forum: Handicrafts and other Hobbies
Topic: Boredom projects
Replies: 14
Views: 9504

Re: Boredom projects

All so lovely and neat, and the girls hair do’s are fabulous.
Very talented and thanks for showing us.
by patti
19 Apr 2020, 13:38
Forum: Handicrafts and other Hobbies
Topic: Try again - Mrs Fab's New Blanket
Replies: 8
Views: 8093

Re: Try again - Mrs Fab's New Blanket

Ha ha, I’ve found the pattern.
Clever lady is Dedri Ulys, I crocheted another one of hers some years ago. I suspect your wife will know the pattern, Sophie’s Universe.
Thanks for showing us.
Patti.
by patti
19 Apr 2020, 07:21
Forum: Handicrafts and other Hobbies
Topic: Try again - Mrs Fab's New Blanket
Replies: 8
Views: 8093

Re: Try again - Mrs Fab's New Blanket

Beautiful, sending complements to your wife.
Who is the pattern designer and it’s name please, I am interested in a crocheting challenge?
by patti
23 Mar 2020, 21:20
Forum: Other Gardening; Flowers, Care & Maintenance
Topic: What's that flower called?
Replies: 5
Views: 6583

Re: What's that flower called?

No we are not allowed out for a walk. Lockdown has been extended to Easter Sunday. All the parks, paths and beaches have been closed for the last week, and this will continue. If you have dogs only one can be walked at a time ( by one person) for 10 minutes. Feel sorry for families in flats with chi...
by patti
23 Mar 2020, 17:50
Forum: Other Gardening; Flowers, Care & Maintenance
Topic: What's that flower called?
Replies: 5
Views: 6583

Re: What's that flower called?

I believe it can be white as well, but mainly various shades of mauve. There is plenty in my village in the U.K. but I must look carefully here, as I have never seen it in Menorca. I expect though, that by the time our lockdown ceases, it will be all over. Not that I am complaining, if in lockdown, ...
by patti
23 Mar 2020, 17:25
Forum: Other Gardening; Flowers, Care & Maintenance
Topic: What's that flower called?
Replies: 5
Views: 6583

Re: What's that flower called?

My mother was not a great gardener but taught me lots of names of flowers and weeds. I still remember a project of pressing and drawing rose bay willow herb etc some 60years ago! Anyhow I think you might mean the low growing creeper that flowers in spring as the plant aubrieta (spoken as Orbreesha) ...
by patti
11 Jul 2015, 20:39
Forum: Handicrafts and other Hobbies
Topic: Getting carried away!!
Replies: 32
Views: 18827

Re: Getting carried away!!

Well,it could do,ok,what answer is that!!! It would depend how many stitches you missed in between. I will try to post a picture of a 4ply shawl I have just completed (it is an easy pattern and I have made three in the last year) where I always crab stitch the last round in every other stitch.I love...
by patti
11 Jul 2015, 18:26
Forum: Handicrafts and other Hobbies
Topic: Getting carried away!!
Replies: 32
Views: 18827

Re: Getting carried away!!

It maybe possible to "pull it" together by doing a crab stitch (ie a UK double crochet the opposite way round ) rather than undoing it.
Hope I am not interfering!
Patti.
Ps meant to say in every other or every third space.