Tonight I let the cat out of the bag......

On Friday evening this is how long the bracelet was......

Time to let....

... the cat out of the bag.....

It's FINISHED!!  Apart from the fastening.  If we aren't snowed in, I am going to get a magnetic slider with 4 rings on Sunday.

One complete pattern.....

Well, this may take a while.  I have now completed a whole pattern repeat and I did have the correct number of rows, so it is only a 40 row pattern.  At the beginning the first two rows are done as one, so it has worked out quite nicely; but it did take all of Friday evening to get this last bit done!  I have put a 50p coin next to it to show the scale.

an hour and a half later......

 .... and this is what I have achieved - 22 rows of my new bracelet!  But it does look very cute

Beading design

In beading club tomorrow we are making a peyote rug bracelet, but I asked teacher if she minded if I design my own, as I had bought some pretty beads and had an idea.. so here are my doodlings...

I did a few doodlings to see what sort of a vine with flowers on I could achieve.

Then I thought it would be too difficult to have one long vine (repeats and all that)

So I settled on a short length that kept repeating.

And crossed off each bead as I wrote out the pattern

We will see if it works tomorrow at bead club, when I try it out in Aqua, Blue, Green and Pink.  I did all 39 rows of the pattern, but I think it may be a 78 row repeat, not a 39 row repeat.  Maybe it has to be an even number of rows....hmmmm  back to the drawing board!

Watch this space - tomorrow I may have half an inch of beading to show you!!

giveaway.

 Not here - but have a look at Drew's channel   for a great giveaway... he has a great site with lots of crafty videos.

Ring ring.....

Beading club is back again - Hi Dot - glad you're recovered a bit!!  And we made this lovely peyote stitch ring from delica beads and swarowski crystals.  It looks as big as a napkin ring, but actually fits my finger.

Finished the dark green tank top at last!!  It was only waiting for the bands to be knitted and the whole thing to be sewn together and that took a whole evening last week.

Practise makes perfect...

Tink has been climbing the laundry airer every morning now for a couple of weeks

She can now get all the way up to the top.....

... and all the way down, without either falling off, or having to be rescued!

I started knitting this tank top ages ago and was surprised just how quick it was to finish it - just needed a couple of rows on the back and the arm and neck bands.

I must have crocheted this about 20 years ago (or more).  Many years ago we had a craft event at South Square to raise funds for the NCT  and I made stuff for the craft table - this was lying around at a friend's house - still going strong after all these years!