Wintertime wreath : Making a start

So it's got to that time of year the berries are turning red and today in the local paper it said it was twelve weeks to the 'C' word eek! (I'm not emotionally ready to type the full word yet, for fear of flying into a panic, but I know you know what I mean.) So it's time for me to stop procrastinating and just get on with my Wintertime wreath.

After nearly running out of time with my Springtime one earlier in the year, which you can read more about  'here' , it seemed like I had so much time back in the Summer when I decided to make a wintertime version of the wreath.

So after faffing around and not getting very much done, it's now time to get serious if I want to get this done in time.  Especially as my crafting time is limited to ten minutes a day for health reasons, and said health is not that great at the moment.

It's not all bad news though I have done some prep work I've ordered some lovely yarns and some other cute bits and bobs to go on my wreath, in fact only today, I bought some gorgeous ribbon, to make ribbon flowers with, (well that the plan anyway).

I've made some important decision about the design and colour, as you can see I'm going for icy tones blues and silvers that will fit in with our other decorations. I was very tempted to make a crazy throw it all in, over top multi coloured wreath at one point but I have resisted that (well, so far !!).

So this is where I'm up to, after trying out several patterns, I've decided to used this star for my wreath. The pattern is great and comes from this blog 'here'  and it's really easy to follow once you have converted it to UK terminology.

As for Mistletoe, this is what I've come up with so far, I need to work on the pattern a bit more, but once I'm happy with it, I probably share a tutorial on here if anyone want to have a go?

As for my Christmas Roses, I've used the same pattern that I used for the Spring time wreath. It's Lucy's May Roses from the wonderful Attic 24.  I'm also planning on making some of the Roses from Nikki Trent 's Cute and Easy Crochet Flower book too.

So what else am I planning on adding to my wreath, well I'm thinking some crocheted Holly, maybe some Snowflakes and of course some ribbon flower, plus anything else I think of, my mind all a whirl with creative plans for my wreath at the moment.

This week I've started reading Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, I'm finding it a bit slow at the minute but I'm going to persevere for a bit and see how it goes.

Linking up with 'Bloomin Crochet along' at Chrissie Crafts and Ladybird Diaries
 Chirstina's Made by hand

 and Yarn along with Ginny

Happy Crafting

Clare xx

Also a big Thank you to Marianne over at Ladybird diaries for mentioning and linking to my daisy pin cushion post, in her crochet along blog last week it made my day/week. xxx