Thursday 10 March 2016

Five on a Friday - Lately





 Hello.......... Today I'm going to be joining in again with Amy's Five on a Friday link up, where I'm going to be sharing five things that have been going on lately, here at the Summerhouse.


The Summerhouse had been getting Spring ready with pretty Primroses and Polyanthus, I've never seen pastel pink Primroses before and just had to have some for the window boxes, mixing them in with white and these gorgeous purple ones.

A big thank you to my lovely sister for texting me a photo when she spotted them in the garden centre and kindly getting them and delivering them to me.


Lately I've been playing around with fabrics, after my Sewing machine starter course a few weeks ago I just couldn't wait to get started, they'll be a post all about this make soon.


As always there has been a little bit of crochet too, I'm really hoping to get my Seaside Pebble Cosy blanket finished sometime this Spring. I'll share a colour order update very soon.


Now as for all those crochet ends well I've been saving them up for about a year, to do a little experiment, I'm not sure if this is going to work, but I've put them into a bird feeder and I'm hoping the birds will use them for nesting materials.  I have no idea if this will work or not but I love the idea of the birds knitting there nests from my left over ends.


Last but not least, it's a yay for new craft materials, I couldn't resist this book and some merino when I spotted it on Amazon the other day, I'm looking forward to having a go at making some felt fairies, fingers crossed it's not to tricky.  So hopefully sometime soon, there will be a 'Something New' post all about my felt fairy adventures, I'm loving my new years resolution to try new crafts.

Well that's about it for now, have a fabulous weekend

Happy Crafting

Clare xx

16 comments:

  1. Definitely five lots of very good!!! I hope that you enjoy all of these things, I will certainly enjoy seeing more of them - especially the fairies - as you work on them. Thank you for joining Five On Friday, hope you have a great weekend! xx

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  2. Lovely five. The flowers make me hope that spring is indeed near. I just threw out tons of yarn ends...now I wish I had saved them for the birds. It will be interesting to see how your experiment turns out. Your sewing and crochet are both very pretty too.
    Blessings,
    Betsy

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  3. Good for you - trying new skills! I keep meaning to try crochet and sewing but then I just pick up my knitting needles again :p

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  4. Its all looking so pretty, garden, fabric, crochet and those fairies, they are just adorable :-)

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  5. What a great five, I am excited to see how you get on with the felt fairies.

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  6. I think the yarn/feeder is a great idea, I'd love to think that there will be lots of cozy and brightly coloured nests around thanks to you :)

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  7. A great five on Friday, your polyanthus/primrose plants are so colourful, you really feel Spring is here when you look at those. I love your seaside pebble cozy blanket, those are just my colours - oh dear, I feel yet another blanket project coming on. xx

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  8. Your entire post made me feel spring. It's warm here, so I'm enjoying that feeling!
    Your quilt is going to be beautiful! I love those pastel, flowery colors.
    Keep us posted on the next feeder. It seems like a brilliant idea!

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  9. Just calling in to say Hi. I love the look of some sewing machine action, I will be back to check that out and your blanket is well on the way to loveliness. Jo x

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  10. Primroses are such a nice surprise when they revive themselves this time of year. Looks like you have a productive five...
    Have a great weekend.

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  11. The primroses are gorgeous, what beautiful colors. And your fabric colors are fantastic, can't wait to see what you do with them. And the Felt Fairy, oh Amazon, I see an order in my future.

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  12. Birds love crochet thread for building their nests, so they'll probably love yarn even more. And won't they be beautiful? They'll be trying to outdo each other for the Beautiful Nest Award.

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  13. Love the fabrics you've got there - and if I'm not wrong it looks like a log cabin pattern. If so that's the first quilt I made too and I wish I still had it

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  14. Ooo great post, pretty primulas, lovely patchwork and great idea with the bird feeder x

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  15. I have a ball made out of twigs that hangs on my porch. I stuff it full of yarn scraps and the birds do indeed use it. I've been doing it for a few years now. It took quite a while for the birds to discover it but now every spring they empty it and I have to refill it. It is quite exciting to find a birds nest with a piece of my yarn woven in.

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  16. We share primrose love! I hope the birds take advantage of your decor for them. I love your log cabin project, and can imagine that fairies might be fun to form. Thanks for sharing your creative adventures, Clare xx

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