Never too hot

to crochet! But it's all motifs, because it's much too hot to have stuff on my knee.

So what's new? Well, not much. Here we have (yet another) hippo, this one for Doreen's granddaughter.

Please note the turquoise eyes!  I've just one more to finish, then on to elephants and a unicorn. Jules and I have been playing with colours for the unicorn; you can't have anything ordinary for a magic creature.

Time is being spent on projects for crochet workshops: if you learn post stitches, this is what you can do ... sort of thing. So this is the start of a blanket for a Moses basket:

Then there's this:

I was thinking of a bag, but then Rhiannon thought it was a tortoise, so perhaps a tortoise cushion?

And:

Note the spiral theme. I love making them! This one is an experiment to create a cat cushion. I think it might have to be a black cat with a white chest.

It's been fairly quiet in the shop - in fact Bournville has been quiet. Jules and I have been drooling over yarn - of which more later - and I'm ashamed to say I was sniffy to the rep over the crochet patterns. OK, they look like stuff from the seventies, they're very simple and dull,  but I didn't have to tell him.

There's a nice write-up of our Marie Curie day in 'Knit Now!' magazine:



Jules is closing down the funds for this year with the total at £2,600! She and Caroline worked so hard on all the unseen stuff, but that total is pretty great, and it's nice to see them getting the publicity they deserve.

Don't worry, we'll carry on raising money by making little toys etc during the year.