Nothing in particular

Hi everyone
After having a 36 degree Celsius day it did not cool down to very, very late last night

This is what the moon looked like at about 9.30 pm - ignore the double moon, its me with the shakes as I needed to do a long time lapse to capture the colour

And today ...... well its dropped about 10 degrees, is lightly overcast, with light showers :-)

I can start rippling again :-)

Bye for now

The Kurrajongs

Hi everyone
Firstly some lovely lilies that DH bought home on Thursday. He bought them with all the buds closed tight so that I would get to enjoy them opening. Now if you have read my profile I mention that I like reading. I have not even mentioned it here at all, so I thought from time to time I should do that. So here is the first ......

I enjoy history, I love Australia, and I have more than a passing interest in the human side of war. Not so much the battles and deaths, more the intimate stories behind it, so this book is a great start.

The author, Ian Small, has labelled it a "faction" a mix of fact and fiction. I think he got the mix right, it certainly kept me entertained and I also checked for more information on the "The Kurrajongs". So if you have an interest in Inverell, NSW or 33rd Battalion you should pick up the book from here or at the St Ives Heritage Craft Fair (which is where I got mine from).

Bye for now

All is right with the world

Hi everyone

Sometimes I should just have a little more faith in myself.

After crocheting and frogging this amount at least 10 times with 3 different patterns (btw they all ended up with the same curve), I took hook & heart in hand and continued with the pattern.

And look what happened ..........

Ripple Pillow, originally uploaded by Aussie Maria.

Just a little faith goes a long way and I actually did not have that much time to spend with it this weekend.

A HUGE THANK YOU to the very concerned and helpful people out there in blogger & flickr land. You did help and made me very determined to work out what was going on.

Another btw - I have no idea why it curves when I start, maybe I do the chains too tightly or ????????

But it worked out!!!!!

Here is one of the reasons I did not get to do much on the pillow

Way too hot to pick up yarn out here :-))))))

This is the view from North Bilgola lookout looking south - beach on right is Bilgola and left is Newport. The colours are not so good as they are taken with my very basic mobile phone. But what you really can't see is 2 very large pods of dolphins playing - honest. And they were having a ball!!!!

Hope you all had a great weekend

Apologies and explaination

Hi everyone



Firstly I should apologise for not saying a BIG THANK YOU to all the very kind people who have left compliments and comments about my Rainbow Hex. I got so caught up in reading them I forget to pass my thank you on - so thank you kind bloggers and Flickr's.



Secondly, just for your info - I usually blog early in the morning, from about 8ish, so I usually am a day behind those in England or USA. And I never blog on weekends - love Monday morning when I get a good read from all the feeds.



But extremely luckily for me naughty Kate, from The Garden Bell, was having a late night and gave me a suggestion for colours. Now The Garden Bell has completed quite a few ripple projects, so I took her advice (cause I was leaning that way already) and I raced back up the shops to acquire more yarn. Along the way I thought of another project, so of course more yarn was purchased. The new project uses some of the colours I already purchased and will be a Xmas gift. I had to race back up as there was not that much yarn there at that price and for once I really did not want to miss out.

Also a huge thank you for the advice that came through about my ripples, which I have browsed and used and will show photos of later. If you remember, I am a self-taught crocheter and I needed a little correction with technique. And possibly the yarn I was using could have been the cause - it was horrible!!!!!!

Now to explain my excitement over the yarn yesterday. I had budgeted for more cotton to complete this DD3's wedding project ......

and more wool for this Xmas project for DD2 .........

but instead came upon this ........

and yes there is another colour in there, but I did leave out one of the silvers (which actually is showing a slight blue tinge in the photo).

My excitement was because the yarn was only $2.00. Most nice acrylic blends in Australia retail for $4.00. So that is why I got so very, very excited.

Now do you think 800g of yarn is enough to make a small ripple? :-) Or do I need more?????

Also for those who asked - I found 'Crochet Today' at Borders at Hornsby, it is not a place I normally look for my magazines. The local newsagents had not got copies yet.

Now its another lovely day to practice my rippling as it is cool and overcast - perfect.

Bye for now

Oh my

Hi everyone

Mrs Twins sent me instructions for her ripple which was written by her friend Brenda. If you view Mrs Twins blog you might just happen to notice that she has a few ripple blankets (read that as a lot). I wanted to try someone else's instructions after not feeling so pleased with my Green Baby Ripple. So I grabbed some yarn (very old acrylic - yuk) from a bag that my MIL gave me to give it a go.

See Mrs Twins & Brenda it worked - I did it - just my starting chains are too, too, too tight (any advice with this would be very much appreciated).

It is very easy once I got started ......


and then I went to the shops to pick up some food for home and have a quick peek in a few shops for some specific Xmas presents that my DD3 & us were looking for and

oh dear!!!!!

what happened ......

I found something else ????????

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which insisted on coming home with me, even if .....

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its not wool ..... it is a combination 55% acrylic & 45% cotton. Not overly soft like the Luxury yarn, but way soft enough for me. And the colours are what I was looking for. They did have a dark, warmish blue - should I have added that too????? Looks like I needed something nicer than the old acrylic to practise a ripple with.

Can I also please get some advice from the ripplers as to how many stitches I should start with for a smallish blanket?

And then I found this .........

I'm sure Mrs Twins would like to attempt this ........ although the ones she has already stitched are so very, very nice

and her skirts are so much prettier than this one, but maybe its one I will attempt (don't feel like stitching!) and the pleating reminds me of her latest plays with her ripple blanket

Xmas is one its way!!!!!

Bye for now