tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87820471004109660522024-03-19T02:42:59.021+00:00In Pursuit of The WorthwhileDebbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05664838363511139091noreply@blogger.comBlogger233125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782047100410966052.post-40554819993635430132015-12-22T07:56:00.000+00:002015-12-22T07:56:01.970+00:00Granny Meets Hippy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">You
would totally be forgiven for not knowing, although the clue is on my Facebook
cover photo, but a hobby of mine is juggling.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">My juggling balls in their original state!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I
learned to juggle via a mixture of practicing by myself after seeing an item on
a kids TV show about how to juggle – many moons ago, well before the internet
existed to make this kind of thing easier – and later on by practicing with
other people at a circus skills club I was part of as a teenager. I also
sometimes randomly chat to people who are juggling in public, to see if we can
swap tricks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I’ve
had my current juggling balls for quite a few years, over a decade actually now
that I think about it, as I bought them when I was a student and had gone to
London with a mate. I got them from a shop in Camden, really near the famous
Camden markets. Wow, can’t believe I’ve had them so long!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">They
are really good professional quality jugging balls, a great size and weight to
work with. They have a stretchy nylon outer which means that they don’t roll off
very far when you drop them, and this is coated in colourful vinyl to give a
shiny colourful finish. At least, they were…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I
was recently pretty upset to discover that the vinyl, which had been starting
to crack ever since my juggling balls had been shipped over to Australia, was
now really thoroughly cracked and was peeling off a lot in places. This was not
only making them pretty messy, as coloured vinyl flakes would be left
everywhere, but it also meant that the nylon fabric was over-stretching and at
risk of breaking altogether.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A sorry state :(</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I
couldn’t find a local shop that sold juggling supplies so I couldn’t replace
them, but luckily for me a friend pointed out that I could crochet new covers
for my balls to keep them in shape!</span></div>
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thought this was a great idea; I had seen amigurumi-style juggling balls
before, but I immediately knew that I wanted to make mine in a granny style,
joining two pieces in a similar way to the <a href="http://inpursuitoftheworthwhile.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/twit-twoo.html" target="_blank">owls</a> I made from <a href="http://bunnymummy-jacquie.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/easy-crochet-owl-tutorial.html" target="_blank">Bunny Mummy’s pattern</a>.</span></div>
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was still on the balls – there was plenty of it, and it seemed to go everywhere
and stick to everything! Finally though I was left with the bare nylon, so that
my crochet-covered balls wouldn’t continue to spread mess everywhere when I used
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I dug out some icky acrylic yarn from my stash, the sort of yarn that you
wouldn’t want made into a blanket of anything as it’s too plasticky and stiff
in texture. (I’ve also been using this yarn for my amigurumi projects, as the
stiffness helps the amis keep their shape) Then I began hooking granny circles,
using trial and error to get each round too small to sit in a flat circle, so that it would
curl up a bit into bowl shape. I tried the crochet against the juggling balls
at each round to make sure that the finished cover would fit correctly.</span></div>
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chose the colours randomly, and once again I was fascinated by how the colours seem
to change as you add more rows. I made both sides for each ball the same, so once
one was complete I immediately started on its twin. (Please excuse the rubbish
photos, there wasn’t much daylight left when I was working on these, and I didn’t
want to leave my project for days until I had daylight to take the progress
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complete. Instead of my usual technique, for these juggling ball covers I joined
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both sides were complete, they fitted around my juggling balls with just a
little bit of a gap between the two halves. This was deliberate, so that when
they were sewn together they would fit nice and tightly – I didn’t want baggy
balls!</span></div>
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sew the halves together, I lined up the two halves correctly and used double
crochet stitches (UK terminology) hooking into alternate stitches, into one
half then the other. That doesn’t sound really clear! I essentially mean that I
hooked one row of double crochet, with <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"></span>alternate
stitches for this row going into alternate halves. I still don’t think this makes
sense!! Ah well, here’s a picture, and maybe I’ll cover something else at some
point and take more photos to explain it ;)</span></div>
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made each ball different colours, and I was pretty pleased with them when they
were finished. The thickness of the yarn (I used DK) meant that the finished
balls were a little larger than the original ones, enough of a difference that
it took me a while to get used to using them, but I figured that I can always
re-cover them in the future using 4-ply of something, when the mood takes me :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I
had a pretty dreamy day yesterday. I didn’t take any photos, I've been getting a bit slack with photos lately, but luckily I can
share a couple of photos taken by other people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">It’s
really warm and sunny here in the tropics, in Townsville, north Queensland. I
was going to add ‘at the moment’, but it’s pretty much always warm and sunny
here… It’s pretty great, although we are in drought at the moment after the
driest weather on record and we have water usage restrictions. We also might
have a cyclone very soon, so admittedly it’s not <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">entirely</i> great. (If the cyclone does develop, it will be called
Stan. Stan the cyclone doesn’t sound very scary!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Still,
it is pretty great here, and getting to spend a day doing something a little
different with some lovely people makes it all the better :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">The
day began early to beat the worst of the heat, and we met up near the rockpool
swimming pool on the Strand. We all met on our bikes, mainly vintage models,
and we began with a gentle ride around the paths of Townsville, leading the
home of one of our group for refreshments of chilled juice and slices of
watermelon, followed by a coffee stop.</span></div>
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chilling and chatting awhile, enjoying the company and the coffee and the fact
of being out and about, we finished up the social ride and went our separate
ways. Many of us went the same way though, into the nearby street markets
selling various handmade items, fresh fruits, plants, and foody bits. Bumping
into another of my friends, we stopped for a catch up only to gradually meet
back up with various other friends from the ride earlier – a perfect time to go
for some more coffee!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">A
bit later that afternoon I returned to the Strand to go for a swim in the sea.
At this time of year, the swimming here has to be done within stinger nets, to
minimize the risk of getting stung by the dangerous local jellyfish. Following my
swim by reading my book on the beach for a while, I then walked around to the
rockpool swimming pool (a free, outdoor, sea water swimming pool) where I bumped
into a friend from earlier again. We went for a swim together in the rockpool, where
we decided we would get a fish and chip supper. We carried our paper parcel
back down to the Strand, where we sat on the grass listening to noise of the
ocean as we ate. We followed up with yet another coffee and some easy conversation,
before it was time to head off home.</span></div>
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a great day :)</span></div>
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Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05664838363511139091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782047100410966052.post-36607852932990074882015-12-19T11:23:00.000+00:002015-12-19T11:23:03.149+00:00Diamonds Are A Baby Girl's Best Friend<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Well,
that’s the house move all over with… I think there will be a stage 2 to come soon –
more about later perhaps – but for now, I am installed in a new place in
Townsville, north Queensland, and packing up and moving is no longer taking up my days! Hooray!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Rather
than another catching-up post though, I have some exciting new news to
share!!!! I have just become an Auntie for the first time!!!!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I really am tremendously excited about it,
and can be caught during spare moments gazing at pictures of my new niece while
sporting a big dopey grin. She really is so beautiful, and it feels quite
strange to have all this love for a tiny little bundle that I’ve never even
met. Although that said, before she was born I knew I had all this love inside
me just waiting for her when she arrived, so I guess that was a slightly
stranger feeling :)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(I haven’t met her
yet because sadly for me, I am in Australia while she is in Wales. I am saving
up for my ticket home though!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Now
you may be wondering why I hadn’t already been posting about making some
crochet goodness for this little mite, and I have a good reason for that: she
was pretty early! She wasn’t expected until January, so I thought I had time to
move first and crochet later. How wrong I was… So now I am playing hooky
catch-up to get a blanket off to this brand new little lady.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">My
niece’s mum and dad were the recipients of the glorious <a href="http://inpursuitoftheworthwhile.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/the-mumbles-is-finished-woooooo.html" target="_blank">Mumbles Ripple</a>, made at
their request in sea colours. Sea colours was again the request when it came to
the baby blanket, and from the various pattern options I showed them, they
liked the look of filet crochet with geometric patterns. I had never done filet crochet before, but I understood the principle so this was all good,
however yarn was a sticking point. With no decent yarn shops anywhere nearby,
how on earth could I quickly get some yarn worthy of a new baby? Especially at
Christmas time when the mail is busiest?? Luckily my stash came to the rescue! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">While
packing, I came across this yarn that I had bought some time ago and put away
ready for a time when I could knit and could use it to make a cardigan for
myself. I also love the blue/green ocean colours favoured by my brother and his
wife, and had managed to pick up these packs of yarn in the sale. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I
had chosen this yarn because it was so deliciously soft with its blend of wool,
acrylic and silk, and had chosen this colour as it is such a gorgeous rich
blue. It also has this slight shading in the colour, which makes it a bit more
interesting.</span></div>
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also picked out a ball of cream James C Brett merino yarn, which is really
wonderfully soft and gorgeous to the touch. I thought it could make a very
simple (as I only had 1 ball of the cream) border for the blanket. I think it
will look good together:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">With
the yarn sorted, I needed to figure out the exact pattern.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was kind of agonising to have to wait
until certain amounts of packing necessity had been completed before I could
get to work on this. Finally the time came and I could draw out my ideas. I
thought I would need a test though before using up my gorgeous yarn, so the
next time we went to new local Kmart for some basic essentials, I picked up a
ball of their super cheapy crappy yarn just to pattern test. Kmart also has a
baby clothes section, so how could I resist that?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">It’s
summer here in the southern hemisphere right now, so it wasn’t easy to find
clothes that would be too useful back home for the winter. I did however pick
up this cute little set of sun smart swimming gear, in a size I hope she will
need when it’s finally summer in Wales again:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">And
this totally cute t-shirt – it was the bicycle that sold it to me:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Of
course, no self-respecting new auntie could stop there, so I also got some cute
leggings with frilly bits on the bum, an owl-themed sleep set, an owl patterned
onesie, funky bibs… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I
was most disappointed not to find any clothes with patterns of Australian
animals, but that is my mission for the weekend! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Back
to the blanket plans, and over the course of a couple of evenings (that’s how
little spare time I had) I managed to whip up testers for filet zigzags and
filet triangles. I liked both, so I asked for help choosing which design to
start with. My husband pointed to the triangles and said I should do the
diamond one as they are a girl’s best friend, and I loved that idea, so I changed
the pattern from triangles to diamonds. (I still really like the possibilities
with triangles though, perhaps a bit more than the diamonds, so she may end up
with yet another blanket!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">And
here is the progress so far – diamonds are a baby girl’s best friend :)</span></div>
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Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05664838363511139091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782047100410966052.post-51702345774394056222015-12-13T12:10:00.000+00:002015-12-13T12:10:03.732+00:00The Week Ahead...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I’m
just popping by briefly to warn you that I have a busy week ahead with house
moving hassle. I detest packing up and moving, and this will be the 6<sup>th</sup>
time in 6 years that I’ve had to move. I HATE IT!!!!!</span></div>
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whole hexagons, and am working on the half hexies to straighten out the sides
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of people who like the sides all straightened out :) )<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will need two different types of half
hexagon, one that is cut in half from a side to a side, for the ends of the
blanket, and another that is cut in half from point to point for the sides of
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A <strike>game</strike> hexagon of 2 halves...</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I’m doing the sides first; one side done, one more to go:</span></div>
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love how the hexies looked when I bunched them up to get those pictures of the halves:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Filling in the half hexie gaps is really making it look good, and I can't wait to see it finished. Unfortunately,
it has become clear that I don’t have enough yarn to start, let alone finish,
the border though. What a pain!! I don’t know what approach to take to fix this,
whether to hibernate the project until I can order more Patons yarn, or just to
buy some 100% cotton yarn locally – and hopefully more cheaply! Of course this
wouldn’t match completely, but if it was just for the border then that might
not matter too much – if I’m lucky it might even look deliberate…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">There's still more to share too: </span></div>
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it was such a great month!! We went to a few different places, and did a road trip and went camping lots...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I've been spotting plenty of iconic Aussie wildlife, and have a few photos to share with you all - I'm pretty proud of some of my spotting!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif";">There
was no need, I had plenty on the go anyway, not to mention plenty else that I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">should </i>be working on, yet still I began
another new crochet project…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif";">When
my crochet mojo decided to sneak back upon me, at first I worked for a while on
my <a href="http://inpursuitoftheworthwhile.blogspot.com.au/2015/12/that-was-long-absence-plus-hexie-update.html" target="_blank">cotton hexagons</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>
This gave me a degree of instant satisfaction, in that so many hexagons were
already hooked up and simply needed to be crocheted together. The blanket grew
at quite a rate with the hexagons being so large though, and despite the
instant gratification I was still feeling a bit unsatisfied. I wanted something
more to get my teeth into. Something more, and something new…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif";">Looking
through Pinterest and setting up some of my <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/projects/CrochetDebs" target="_blank">Ravelry projects</a>, I was reminded of how much I like my <a href="http://inpursuitoftheworthwhile.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/glastonbury-is-finished-wooo.html" target="_blank">Glastonbury Blanket</a>. This was a project for my Aunt though, so I no longer have it. A perfect
excuse to make a new one!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif";">I
dug through my stash of leftovers from this blanket, planning to make my own
version using a more limited palette of just the more bluey purples and the
pinky pinks, with the same Turquoise background and deep purple border. But it seems that I depleted my
leftovers rather more than I remembered, when I made my <a href="http://inpursuitoftheworthwhile.blogspot.com.au/2015/05/granny-stripes.html" target="_blank">Granny Stripe</a>. Bugger!
I think I would still like to make a blanket for myself using that same pattern
and colour plan, but that will have to wait until I can order more yarn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif";">I
did have some leftovers though, including an entire ball of Women’s Institute
acrylic yarn from Hobbycraft. This had been bought to be included in the
Glastonbury Blanket, but in the end I didn’t think it worked. I had held on to
it though, thinking it would suit something in a vintagey colour scheme.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif";">Looking
for some other yarn that would potentially suit a colour scheme like this, I
also picked out some Stylecraft Special DK in Raspberry and Plum. I thought
they would work together – with the addition of a few more colours – but I still
needed a pattern:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif";">1. I
wanted a pattern of motifs so that I could get started with the yarn I have,
and then add to it later on when I order more yarn from the UK. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif";">2.While
I love my two current hexagon WiPs, I am less keen on the way that they don’t
make a nice straight edge, so I decided that I wanted squares for this blanket.
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif";">3. I
also decided (due to my chronic laziness…) that I wanted a pattern which would
look good with no colour changes, so that I would have fewer ends to sew in… (I
have been greatly admiring some of the colourful creations over at <a href="http://cuppacrochet.blogspot.co.uk/">Cuppa Crochet</a> though, so I am definitely feeling more colourful inspiration for the
future!) </span></div>
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final decision factor was that I wanted the pattern to be a bit open and lacy –
I was hoping this would mean the pattern wouldn’t be too hungry on yarn, so I could
make it go further!! Stingey and lazy, two great decision-making factors!</span></div>
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course, Pinterest came to the rescue as usual. Over a couple of evenings
trawling through various different crochet examples, I came across <a href="http://sandra-cherryheart.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/sampler-blanket.html" target="_blank">this beauty</a>
by Sandra of Cherry Heart, made of various different motifs from Jan
Eaton's <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Crochet-Blocks-Blankets-Throws-Afghans/dp/0715321412/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1368275265&sr=1-1&keywords=200+crochet+blocks+jan+eaton" target="_blank">200 Crochet Blocks for Blankets</a></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif";">.
In particular, the top left (94, Gothic Square) and bottom right (58, Peach
Rose) squares in <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDJutuI58oOyKQpyDtmAzwozEg1kS1zdXBILt8AqTZ_CrNcDDp4ZsnHfutxS5tAQSoUD3h20lcYj73dZ2fljB9cl8l9ogwl7CIHNpJW1jYKekvZ3N6M51kGP7hsnKO8dEAmKpCxWUIMeA/+Favs.jpg" target="_blank">this picture</a> appealed to me. (I have already made a blanket
using the bottom left pattern – 189, Willow. My <a href="http://inpursuitoftheworthwhile.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/disco-willow-is-finished.html" target="_blank">Disco Willow</a>) .
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif";">While
I think that Sandra’s sampler blanket really is beautiful, I only wanted to use
one motif for this new blanket. I deliberated for some time over which of the
two patterns to choose, but eventually I decided that the Peach Rose block
would probably use less yarn than the Gothic Square, and the decision was made!
I do like that Gothic Square though, so hopefully I will get a chance to use it
in the future.</span></div>
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so that my yarn would last until after Christmas, when I plan to make a massive
order of Stylecraft Special DK from the UK. Plans never survive first contact
though, and the Peach Rose squares hooked up so easily and with so much
pleasure, that soon I not only had one square of each colour, but I had in fact
used up my entire ball of Teal yarn! These babies were just flying off the
hook!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif";">Realising
that my 2 remaining balls of yarn would never last me until after Christmas, I decided
to look for another ball of yarn that would work. I’m aiming for sort of dusky,
slightly vintage-looking colours, with a few pastels added in to keep things
from getting too dark and gloomy. Stylecraft has so many new colours now that I haven’t
worked with before, and I’m very excited about trying them out. I have lots of
colours in mind to order and see what works, but from my current stash the only
other option I could find was Clematis.</span></div>
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Clematis, Raspberry and Plum seem to tone well together, and I think the rather
grey WI Teal compliments these colours. I realise that these squares will look better blocked, but I still really like how the definition of the pattern really comes out in the lighter coloured yarn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif";">I plan to add in more colours
too, several of them lighter/pastelly ones, so the look of this scheme will change a lot before it is finished. I also
have exciting plans for the joining and edging on this, and I can’t wait to see
how it looks when it is finished – I’m very excited about this latest WiP!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif";">I
just had quite a big, accidental bloggy absence… One of the main reasons for
this absence was that I was simply really busy doing lots of other stuff. All
this stuff was leaving me feeling very fulfilled and happy, and I wasn’t
getting the urge to blog about it (I find that blogging helps me to feel good
about things that I would otherwise overlook, so I think it’s a bit good for my
soul :) )</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif";">But
recently my creative side has been pushing to the fore again, and the urge to crochet
and (try to) write has been making itself felt. So I’m back, and wanted to catch
you up on some of the things that I’ve been up to since the end of May…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif";">One
of my main activities this year has been really making me feel good, and I’ve
been thoroughly enjoying it. I have done it slightly differently in the past,
but the theory and principles are all the same, so I have picked it up again pretty
quickly: sailing!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif";">I
used to sail and race dinghies when I was much younger, and I have been on a
voyage on a tall ship in the past too (I published my diary from this trip –
the introduction can be found <a href="http://inpursuitoftheworthwhile.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/my-first-travelogue.html" target="_blank">here</a>, with links to each of the instalments) This year however I have split the difference, and have been sailing on
cruising yachts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif";">We
are really lucky here in Townsville (and I think it happens elsewhere in
Australia too) in that on a Wednesday night you can go along to the yacht club
and head out sailing for free. What a fantastic opportunity! I started out like
this, before becoming a regular crew on a Catalina 400 cruising yacht named
Freya.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif";">As
well as the Wednesday night sailing, I have had the chance to sail in a
week-long regatta (I will write about that at some point too) and do a mini,
day-long cruise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif";">This
little mini cruise took place one Sunday. Myself and another regular Freya
sailor and friend of mine joined the owner to help him sail over to Magnetic
Island. I have visited this beautiful place a few times now, (and blogged about
one of those visits <a href="http://inpursuitoftheworthwhile.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/koala-ty-time-part-1.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://inpursuitoftheworthwhile.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/koala-ty-time-part-2.html" target="_blank">here</a></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif";">) but I had previously always got there by ferry. It would be fun to get there
by wind power!</span>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif";">After
leaving the harbour and getting all the sails up and set, the skipper passed
the helm over to me – meaning I got to steer the yacht. It was my first time
doing this on a yacht, and I was surprised at how difficult it was. You are
constantly having to make adjustments to your steering to compensate for the
fact that the slight gusting or dropping off of the wind, and the changes in
waves and currents, all constantly influence the direction the yacht is
heading. You have to compensate for all of these factors to maintain the
direction you want to head in, and to make the sails power the boat
effectively. Hence the look of serious concentration on my face!</span></div>
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sailed north out of Townsville, which is on the east coast of Australia, and
around the east side of Magnetic Island. We rounded the island anticlockwise,
and after sailing as far around as Horseshoe Bay on the northern side of the island, we changed direction and
headed back to Radical Bay (with the red label) to drop anchor for a while.</span></div>
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was a pretty windy day so we were all working to do this – the skipper had
taken back the helm by this point, and us two crew were working hard on the
winches to manage the sails.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif";">Radical
Bay was relatively sheltered, with just a small swell, and we anchored up for
lunch and leisure. While the skipper stayed on board to just enjoy being on his
boat, us crew jumped into the sea for some swimming and cooling down. It was so
pleasant to float about in a bay on a tropical island, admiring the scenery and
enjoying the beautiful day. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif";">I
swam around getting a few pictures of Freya before getting out to dry off ready
for lunch.</span></div>
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know how to work the yachty crowd for food. They weren’t disappointed, as our
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mostly don’t condone feeding wild animals, but these kites are mainly
scavengers and weren’t coming too close to humans (and even then were only
approaching the yachts) so I don’t think that it’s a big problem. It was
certainly fantastic to watch them circling round the yacht, and see them
catching their lunch in mid-air!</span></div>
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Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05664838363511139091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782047100410966052.post-38770801392517087232015-12-09T10:03:00.000+00:002015-12-10T04:49:58.706+00:00G'Day Bruce!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif";">Bruce doesn't live with me any more, he<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif";">'</span>s pretty happy with his new family though<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif";">:</span> he went to live with a good bloke,
who has a Marine Biology degree and a special place in his heart for sharks,
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attention at school (his new dad is a teacher) and lots of admiration on
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif";">Rather
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Luckily for me though, Bruce recently went on holiday – a road trip with his family
across outback Queensland to the Northern Territory, and on to Alice Springs
and Uluru. (It sounded like a pretty awesome trip – I’m jealous!) Therefore, I
have a few of Bruce’s holiday snaps to share:</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Brucie enjoying a bit of red wine while the sun goes down at the red rock - Uluru</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="color: #666666;">Bruce
is an amigurumi creation of my own design, and once again I forgot to make any
notes to help with making him any brothers or sisters! (eejit! I will try harder next time...)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Wow,
that wasn’t meant to be such a long break between posts!! I can’t believe it
was back in May that I last posted!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">That
was entirely unintentional, I was just living my life and I guess that for a
while my life didn’t include blogging…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It included plenty of other stuff though, and I will do my best to catch
up on the highlights over a few blog posts to come.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">During
my bloggy absence I have mostly been quite sociable, meeting and making some
new brilliant friends. I have been very active too, mostly with mountain biking
and a bit of kayaking thrown in. I’ve done a little bit of travelling when my
friend came to stay – that will definitely be worth sharing! I haven’t been so
crafty as usual during this time though, maybe that was connected to my lack of
interest in blogging?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">More
recently though, I have got back into the crafty side of life. It happened very
suddenly, one day I just fancied staying in and going online – on Pinterest
specifically. I spent aaaaaages looking at lots of colourful crochet goodness,
surfing the links to read about various creations. Dipping in and out of a few
favourite crafty blogs. This inspired me to dig out some crochet of my own, and
get to work again. Not as easy as it sounds, as my personal life was in a bit
of turmoil at this point, and all of my crafty stuff was in storage (from when
I had emptied out my place ready to accommodate my friend and her kids). I had
a frustrating delay of several days of longing for crochet activity before I
was able to get cracking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I
eventually dug out some stuff though, deciding that my Cotton Doily Hexagons
were the place to start. I played around with them for a little bit – it felt
surprisingly difficult to actually get started after thinking about it so much.
In the end, I decided to start hooking together some of the finished hexies. I knew
I didn’t have quite enough for a finished blanket, but I thought that at least
if I started putting them together I could better judge how many more were
needed. In my eagerness to get started though I forgot to take another photo of
a lovely tall stack of hexagons! Dammit!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I
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to make up for that I took some other photos of lovely piles of smooshy hexies,
so lovely to see :)</span></div>
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hexies are quite large, so when hooking them together they make pleasingly
quick progress. I soon had a few rows of double-bed-sized strips of hexies. At this
point I decided it would be a good idea to plan out where I would put the
remaining hexagons. I was putting them together randomly with no real plan, so I
didn’t want to end up with a disproportionate amount of any one colour in the
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make the plan, I simply played around with the hexies themselves on the floor,
getting a reasonably balanced random layout set up. Then I just wrote out the
colour order, and stacked up the hexies row by row. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I’m
loving it!! I’m only 2 rows away from finishing this main part of the blanket,
and I have half of those hexagons already hooked up – I just need to whip up a
few other colours. Then I’m hoping I will have enough yarn to fill the gaps
with half hexies! I don’t think I will have<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>enough yarn for the border I’ve designed for this blanket, which is a
shame. I don’t want to have to order more of this yarn! Hopefully I can work
something out :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">In the meantime, I have been figuring out Ravelry a bit more, if you fancy checking me out <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/projects/CrochetDebs" target="_blank">here</a> :) This foray into Ravelry has also allowed me to discover that the pattern for these hexies can be found in Jan Eaton's </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><a class="preview" href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/sources/the-encyclopedia-of-crochet-techniques" id="preview_33838">The Encyclopedia of Crochet Techniques</a>.</span></div>
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don't feel like I quite have my blogging voice back just yet - not
helped by the fact I am writing this hurriedly in between an afternoon
and a morning work shift, and that I have so far been interrupted twice
by other work-related phone calls... but I do feel like I have my crochet
mojo back, and I still have more to share later :)</span> </span></div>
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Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05664838363511139091noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782047100410966052.post-87627656355368453412015-05-24T12:02:00.001+01:002015-05-24T12:02:54.631+01:00Billabong<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Hello, it's been a while again!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I haven't been able to do much lately, as I currently have stitches in my hand. They're in the palm, in that crease where my index finger joins my palm to be more precise. So this little tiny wound is proving to be very limiting to me! It's also on my left hand, and I am a leftie, so even worse!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This means that even though I had a very quiet week this week work-wise, I haven't been able to do much else of interest. Not much exercise as I can't let my hand get too sweaty (too much information perhaps!), no swimming or anything as I need to keep it dry. No countryside walks as I need to keep it clean and not go anywhere too dusty. No crochet as the stitches are right in the way - and it hurts to move my finger... You get the idea :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">But as I hadn't posted for a while, I did want to write something, so I thought I would just share a few pictures from a day out I had with a friend and her little one last weekend - before the stitches went in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The place we went to was a local wildlife park, called Billabong Sanctuary. I have been really looking forward to visiting this place as they have wombats there. You can even have a picture holding the wombat for an extra charge, although I didn't do that on this occasion as the little miss who was with us was kind of tired, and not in the mood for waiting around for me. We did get to stroke the wombat though, and that was pretty awesome anyway :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Billabong is a relatively small wildlife park, so its draw is not the scale of the place, or the exotic animals. It's more about the up close and personal encounters you can have with the animals there, which are mainly native wildlife. Of course, coming from the UK, the native Australian wildlife is pretty exciting for me anyway!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So, here are a few of my favourite pictures from the day:</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">These ducks and geese are wild, but they eat from your hand at Billabong!</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Last
weekend was the last weekend I had with my husband before he went off on a long
course with work (he left this morning). He’ll be 2 or 3 days’ drive away for this course, so there’s
no way for me to visit him while he’s away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Adam
had a bunch of stuff to get organised ready for his time away, so while we
wanted to make the most of the weekend we also had to do something that didn’t
take up the whole time. This meant staying local, and we are very fortunate
here in North Queensland that there is plenty to see and do!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">What
we chose to do was make a visit to Alligator Creek, a little place within
Bowling Green Bay National Park, and a mere 20 minute drive from where we live.
According to the <a href="http://www.nprsr.qld.gov.au/parks/bowling-green-bay/" target="_blank">website</a>, “Rugged mountains rise abruptly from the wetlands, saltpans and mangrove
forests of the coastal plain. Alligator Creek descends in a series of cascades,
deep pools and waterfalls.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">The
Park is pretty big though, 57,900 hectares, and is divided into three sections,
so of course we didn’t see all of these features. We didn’t even see the
waterfalls, which are a fair walk away from the car park and are best tackled
in slightly cooler weather. What we did see though, is the swimming hole near
the car park and camping area at Alligator Creek.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">The
last time we came here, this area was chock full of people, and we just walked
on by to go for a bit of a hike until we got too hot. On this occasion however,
we had the place almost to ourselves!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">We
followed the path from the car park towards the water side.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">This
way soon turned into a boardwalk for safe and easy access, if you had a pushchair or mobility issue, or simply lots of stuff to carry!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">We
enjoyed the shade of the trees and plants, making it nice and (relatively) cool. I
love these huge jungle-ferny plants – I must find out what they are actually
called!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">This
is the swimming spot we were after – the sun was really bright, and I has
bleached out the colour a bit in these photos. Those rocks were actually really
orangey-yellow, very Australian!</span></div>
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in we jumped!! The water was cool but not cold, and felt gently warm once you
got used to it. It was pretty clear for fresh water, although it doesn’t stay
that way as the water levels drop during the dry season, and therefore pools
and becomes stagnant. I’m hoping we’ll get another chance to visit before the
water goes bad though, as I’d love to explore some of the other pools heading
upstream – it would be great to take your stuff in a drybag and see how far
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">It’s
funny, in the UK this would have been called ‘wild swimming’ – in fact I mentioned
wild swimming in a <a href="http://inpursuitoftheworthwhile.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/on-yer-bike-off-yer-bike.html" target="_blank">previous post</a>. You can buy books to recommend good wild swimming spots, and even join wild
swimming clubs or <a href="http://www.wildswimming.co.uk/" target="_blank">communities</a>. Apparently Australians <a href="http://www.australiantimes.co.uk/wild-swimming/" target="_blank">find that all quite strange</a>
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>– heading to a ‘swimming hole’ for a
cool off during hot weather is pretty common for lots of people, so they just
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you saw my last post about <a href="http://inpursuitoftheworthwhile.blogspot.com.au/2015/04/100-years-of-anzac.html" target="_blank">Anzac Day</a>, you may have spotted a little crochet goodness in the first picture.</span></div>
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recent <a href="http://inpursuitoftheworthwhile.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/disco-willow-is-finished.html" target="_blank">Disco Willow Blanket</a> is there, plus my <a href="http://inpursuitoftheworthwhile.blogspot.com.au/2014/12/granny-stripes-and-going-troppo.html" target="_blank">Leftover Granny Stripe</a> that I haven’t blogged about since December!!Both blankets got plenty of use that day, and the little person in that picture had a good snuggle with them :)</span></div>
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feel a bit bad for not doing some kind of ‘ta dah!’ post for the Granny
Stripes, but I’m not completely sure that it’s finished. I had wanted to do a
proper border of some kind, but I couldn’t decide what I wanted it to be like,
so I only got as far as doing a few rounds of DC-chain 1-DC-chain 1 etc, with
the following rounds hooked into the previous rounds chain 1 space. Using a different
colour for each round gives a good effect with this method.</span></div>
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that’s as far as I have got with this Granny Stripe Blanket, and until I picked
it up to take out to Anzac Day it had just sat in a bag in the spare room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">After
Anzac Day it was pretty much covered in dead grass and bits of leaf and twig. I’ve
read other people’s accounts of how well Stylecraft Special DK washes, so I wasn’t
too nervous when I put it in the machine for the first time. Waiting for the cycle
to finish, I hoped that nothing would go wrong!! The blanket felt horribly
plasticky and stiff when I took it out of the washing machine damp, and I was a bit
worried about whether it would ever be the same again though… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Reading the yarn
band, it said that you can use a cool tumbledry with the yarn. As the blanket
is so big – double bed size – I didn’t have anywhere to hang it up effectively,
so it went into the tumble drier on cool for about 20-30 minutes. I was
delighted to discover that it came out as soft as ever! I folded it up to hang
it on the airer for a bit, thinking it would be put away again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Granny
Stripe is earning her keep though!! My husband has been complaining about being cold
during the night recently as the night-time temperature here has finally been dropping. He’s
been saying that it’s about time I finished a blanket so that we can actually
use them, so he was really pleased to discover Granny Stripe hanging up, and he put
it to work!</span></div>
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<br /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #9ef12f; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #674ea7;">Lavender </span><span style="color: #38761d;">Meadow </span><span style="color: #f4cccc;">Clematis </span><span style="color: #0b5394;">Aster </span>Spring Green</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #92d050; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif";"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b9cde5; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #B9CDE5; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: "lumm=40000 lumo=60000"; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent1; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themetint: 102;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #d60093; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #d5a6bd;">Wisteria</span> Magenta </span></b></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Cloud Blue</span> Saffron</span></b> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b3a2c7; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #B3A2C7; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: "lumm=60000 lumo=40000"; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #f10f35; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #ea9999;">Candyfloss </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">Lipstick </span><span style="color: #a2c4c9;"><span style="color: cyan;">Sherbert</span> </span>Shrimp <span style="color: #674ea7;">Bluebell </span><span style="color: #990000;">Pomegranate <span style="color: #0b5394;">Turquoise</span></span></span></b><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #953735; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #953735; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent2; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;"> </span></b></span>and a</span></span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #b3a2c7; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #B3A2C7; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: "lumm=60000 lumo=40000"; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;"> </span></b><span style="color: #b3a2c7; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #B3A2C7; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: "lumm=60000 lumo=40000"; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">darker </span><span style="color: #351c75;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif";">Purple </span></b></span>from which the label had come off)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">That's 17 colours in total, but I'm not really sure of quantities as I was using up leftover yarn from other projects. This included leftovers from an </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.woolwarehouse.co.uk/attic24/stylecraft-special-dk-attic24-colour-pack" target="_blank">Attic 24 pack</a> I ordered years ago, so the colours are very similar to her <a href="http://attic24.typepad.com/.a/6a00e551101c5488340134859ef10a970c-popup" target="_blank">Granny Stripe Blanket</a>, although the effect is very different simply by creating my own colour order.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">For my colour sequence, I have gone for random - as random as possible! I did actively try to keep similar colours apart, giving lots of contrast between each stripe. I also deliberately spaced out the reds - Lipstick and Pomegrante - fairly evenly to keep it balanced. I didn't have much greeny colour either, so I also tried to spread these out a bit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">In the making of this blanket, so many colour combinations appeared that made me feel really inspired for future blankets! I really want to make more! I didn't manage to get any yarn for Christmas (boo!!!!) but I still have Cuddly and Cotton Hexagons to keep me going for a while. When they have run out though perhaps I can treat myself to some new Special DK, and have more colour play in my crochet life :)</span></div>
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Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05664838363511139091noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782047100410966052.post-9726811720260947112015-04-27T01:42:00.000+01:002015-04-27T01:42:46.987+01:00100 Years of ANZAC<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Saturday
just gone, 25<sup>th</sup> April, was ANZAC Day here in the antipodes. In fact, it was the 100</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><sup>th</sup></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"></span></span> Anniversary. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I
am used to commemorating the end of the War with our Remembrance parades in the
UK, honouring the </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">11<sup>th </sup></span>hour of the </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">11<sup>th </sup></span>Day of the </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">11<sup>th </sup></span>Month, when
First World War hostilities formally ended in accordance with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armistice_with_Germany_(Compi%C3%A8gne)" target="_blank">armistice</a> signed by Germany. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Australia it is done slightly differently,
as the main commemoration occurs for the beginning of the Gallipoli campaign. The
land offensive landed at dawn on 25<sup>th</sup> April 1915, and as such ANZAC
Day is commemorated with Dawn Services on </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">25<sup>th</sup> April each year</span>, followed by the laying of wreathes and
then civic and military parades which are very similar to the UK Remembrance Day
parades - the only real difference being that things were much less formal here in Australia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I
have written a brief piece about the Gallipoli Campaign, and put it at the end
of this post in </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">dark red,</span></span> so you don’t have to read through it if you don’t want to; but I did
want to share the gracious words of Ataturk, first President of the new
Republic of Turkey and an Ottoman commander at Gallipoli, on the memorial at
Anzac Cove, Gallipoli, Turkey:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></b></span><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #b45f06;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"Those heroes that shed their blood </span></b></span></div>
<span style="color: #b45f06;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></b></span><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #b45f06;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">and lost their lives…</span></b></span></div>
<span style="color: #b45f06;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></b></span><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #b45f06;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. </span></b></span></div>
<span style="color: #b45f06;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></b></span><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #b45f06;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Therefore rest in peace. </span></b></span></div>
<span style="color: #b45f06;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There is no difference between the Johnnies </span></b></span></div>
<span style="color: #b45f06;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></b></span><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #b45f06;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side </span></b></span></div>
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You, the mothers, </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">who sent their sons from faraway countries </span></b></span></div>
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lying in our bosom </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">after having lost their lives on this land they have </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">become our sons as well."</span></b></span></div>
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Ataturk, 1934 </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Here
in Townsville, I was collected by a friend at 4am so that we could get to the
park and ride that was laid on to take spectators to the Dawn Service. Before
the service began, documentary footage about the Gallipoli campaign was
screened. Then the service began, with readings and speeches continuing as the
sun made its way above the horizon. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">The
quiet and still of dawn darkness and the anticipation of the sun rising lent an
extra layer of solemnity to proceedings. While obviously there is no comparison
and we cannot possibly imagine what it would have been like, being tired and
uncomfortable, and slightly chilly (we are still in the tropics here, so
although the nights are starting to cool it will never be very cold) helped
people to empathise more with what those young men must have been going through
100 years ago.</span></div>
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coffee and let their kids go and play, before returning to line the streets
ready for the parade.</span></div>
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has a very large proportion of military families due its Army and Air Force
bases, so the largest contingent of marchers was the Australian Defence Force.
Also parading though were various Veterans Groups, hobbyists with restored
military vehicles, elderly residents, Volunteer humanitarian groups, local
bands and even school children in their uniforms. There was even a flyover by a
couple of planes, including a local tourist seaplane called the Red Baron.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The
Gallipoli Campaign in brief:</span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">During
the First World War, the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey) was an ally of Germany, </span></span><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">and the
Russian Empire was an ally of the Allies</span></span>. The Dardanelles is a narrow strait in north-western Turkey, providing a sea route through to the Black Sea and Russia, and as such was a tactically important area during the First World War.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In order for the Allies to gain control of the Dardanelles and establish a sea route for their navies to the Black Sea and Allied Russia, an Allied force was sent. The aim was the capture of the
Ottoman capital, Contantinople (now Istanbul), initially via Naval force and then via landings on the </span></span><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">northern banks of the
Dardanelles, </span></span><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">formed by the Gallipoli peninsula</span></span></span></span>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The initial naval attempt used damaged British and French ships attempting to force the
Dardanelles. They made headway, however the attempt failed after too many losses from artillery
bombardments from the defending Turks, newly laid sea mines and strong currents that destroyed submarine attempts. Therefore, a land
campaign was devised to eliminate the Ottoman artillery and clear the way for
the naval operation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This
campaign was designed to be a quick hit, but there was a delay of several weeks
until the plan could be put into action, and this time was not wasted by the
Ottoman and German defenders. Good preparations were made to repel an invasion,
and this combined with the Allies’ inadequate mapping and intelligence, plus a
failure to keep momentum and capitalise on ground gained early on, with the
result that a stalemate ensued. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The
landings at Gallipoli began at dawn on 25<sup>th</sup> April 1915, and the campaign ended
with an Ottoman victory and defeat for the Allies on 9<sup>th</sup> January
1916. Here in Australia, it seems to now be part of folklore that the joint
Australian and New Zealand force – the ANZACs – fought a spirited battle and
suffered an unfair defeat due to callous disregard by the British masters for
their Colonial servants. In reality, the ANZACs fought their battles alongside
troops from Britain, Ireland, France, Nepal (Gurkhas), India, Canada, Palestinian
Jewish volunteers who had been displaced by the Ottoman Empire, civilian
volunteer logistic support, and probably others as well. While I’m sure there
were poor decisions made by Allied commanders, there was also poor information to go on as
intelligence was not adequate.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">What
is definitely true though is that at this time, for white settlers Australia
and New Zealand were very much overseas parts of Britain. In the Gallipoli
campaign these ‘new’ countries came of age, and a new sense of nationhood was
forged. These junior nations had been called upon to make a vital contribution
in a very violent grown-up world, and had established themselves as useful countries in their own rights. The sacrifices made at Gallipoli helped to cement a new national consciousness and an idea of 'the Anzac Spirit'.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">For
the Ottomans too this campaign was important in the forging of a new nation.
The victory was not cheap, in one infantry regiment every single man was either
killed or injured in defending their land. Commanding these troops was Mustafa
Kemel, later to be known as Ataturk. This final defence of the motherland
formed a basis for the later Turkish War of Independence, and the formation of
the Republic of Turkey under Ataturk as its first national leader.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">After
the failure of the Allied campaign, the evacuation of the Allied troops went more
smoothly. Despite the bitter winter conditions, good planning and ingenious tactics
and deception meant that the Australians suffered no further casualties as they
evacuated. The final troops to leave were elements of the British Troops who
had been amongst the first to land.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">At
the end of the Gallipoli Campaign, casualties on both sides were similarly heavy,
with losses of over 56,600 lives each: </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The
Allies lost 56,707 lives; the ANZACs lost 11,430 lives between them, and
British forces lost 34,072 with 7,654 either missing in action or prisoners of
war. </span></span></div>
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Ottomans lost 56,643 plus another 11,178 either missing or prisoners.</span></span></div>
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don’t want to disrespect anyone by belittling their loss and not including them
here, so below is a table from Wikipedia listing casualties:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Gallipoli
casualties (not including illness)</b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Wounded</b><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Missing<br />
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b> Ottoman
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b> 56,643 </b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>107,007</b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>11,178</b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>174,828 </b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">United
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">34,072<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">78,520<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span></div>
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<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">7,654<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">120,246<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">France<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">9,798<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span></div>
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<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">17,371<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span></div>
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<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">27,169<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">8,709<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">19,441<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span></div>
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<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">28,150<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span></div>
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<td style="background: #E8E8E8; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">New
Zealand<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span></div>
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<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">2,721<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: #E8E8E8; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">4,752<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span></div>
</td>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">–<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span></div>
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<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">7,473<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span></div>
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<td style="background: #E8E8E8; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">British
India<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span></div>
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<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">1,358<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span></div>
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<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">3,421<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background: #E8E8E8; padding: .75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;">
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Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05664838363511139091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782047100410966052.post-51207441170853722722015-04-23T02:25:00.001+01:002015-04-23T02:25:59.533+01:00Monster Mash<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Well this is exciting for me - I left a comment on <a href="http://lucyravenscar.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/little-monkey-amigurumi.html" target="_blank">LucyRavenscar</a> to let her know that I had shared her links on my <a href="http://inpursuitoftheworthwhile.blogspot.com.au/2015/04/this-week.html" target="_blank">last post</a>, and she not only replied to me, but she said <span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"</span></span></span><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I really like your little animal characters too, and your budgie is adorable!" <span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I feel very excited about that praise!! It's made my day!</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I also said in my last post that I had yet more mini amigurumis to introduce, but as I'm making them faster than I'm blogging them I think that will be the case a lot, so I might stop saying it! Instead, I'm just going to introduce a few every now and then, when I have a nice little group to show, or something I'm especially proud of.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">So with that in mind, here's a little set of new prototype amis I made the other day. I
fancied a little change from making animal ones, so I decided to use the same simple
pattern I’ve developed to make some people-y ones.</span></div>
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first one wasn’t originally going to be a people-y one, it was going to be a
turtle. But as I finished the first piece (head/body/legs) I started thinking about of all the options - it
could become any number of other things! I eventually decided to make it
into a little monster though – I thought of making a zombie, but finally settled
on a mini sort-of-Frankenstein’s monster.</span></div>
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monobrow is embroidered with yarn, and his hair is a small pompom of the same
yarn, sewn securely onto his head. I didn’t make many wraps to make this pompom
so that it would lie a bit flatter than a full pompom. He also has little
co-ordinated buttons on his jumper :)</span></div>
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made this little monster, I really wanted to make more! [remember kids,
monsters aren’t just for Halloween!] My husband suggested a vampire, so I made
this little fellow (He's a bit short as my husband kept asking me questions about it while I was making it, and I lost count of how many rounds I had done for the body...). His hair is slicked back – embroidered with long stitch. He
has a string tie and matching cape, but I haven’t been able to make good enough
fangs yet – I have a plan for that though, so when I can put it into action I'll let you know how it works out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I'm not forgetting my regular crochet though, especially as I've been able to collect the rest of my Deramores order from Aus Post. I have in here more cotton for my <a href="http://inpursuitoftheworthwhile.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/a-hexagonal-update-in-cotton.html" target="_blank">Cotton Doily Hexagon Blanket</a>, as well as some Stylecraft Classique Cotton DK for another project yet to be started:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As well as adding in a new green colour, I needed to top up the original colours I had for this blanket. Unfortunately, even the original colours I reordered are all a bit different to the yarn I already had. I guess that's what you get for buying your first batch of yarn in 2011, then waiting 4 years to order extra! It shouldn't really matter though, as it was meant to be a multicolour blanket with randomly placed motifs anyway. I will just keep hooking on it and see how it turns out - I'm working later this aftenoon, I wonder how many new patches I can get done before I have to get ready and leave...? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I’m
still being quite busy this week: I had enrolled on a course a while ago (I
think I might have mentioned this at the time), it’s a ‘blended learning’
course, meaning that the delivery is a mixture of home study and college
attendance. Well, Monday and Tuesday this week were my first attendance days
for this section of the course – I have already completed the introductory
section which was attendance-based, and I’ve done a lot of the home study
already too. The next big thing to focus on now is getting log book experience as I
need to build up practical hours as part of the course.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">You may be wondering what the
course actually <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is</i> of course! Well,
the full course I’m doing is a Diploma of Remedial Therapy, but it begins with
the level below that, which is relaxation massage. So I don’t think I’ll have
any trouble finding volunteers to help me out getting my practice done :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Easter holidays are all over now,
so I’m back to my previous work hours on just a Wednesday and Thursday afternoon/evening.
I don’t like working these hours as it makes it difficult for me to get to
sleep at night as it takes me a while to unwind, and I miss out on not only
precious time with my husband (he will be away again soon – we will be apart
for most of this year…) but also on the opportunities I had hoped to take up to
do ‘after work’ activities, like watersports and Red Cross volunteering. For me
these are now ‘during work’ activities so I can’t take part, but of course
during the day there are no activities available as most other people are at
work then! So frustrating as I really miss being able to do interesting activities!
If only there was something fun on a Monday or Tuesday evening instead…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">My at-home activities are easy
though – I’m still enjoying my current obsession with amigurumi, not only
trying it out but also looking at other amazing creations online. I really am
in awe of the talent of some people, there are some incredible pieces of work
out there. With that in mind, I thought I would just share a couple of websites
that I recently found when trawling Pinterest for inspiration:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">First up, I’ve already
mentioned <a href="http://www.amigurumitogo.com/">www.amigurumitogo.com</a> as I have made 2 patterns from there (<a href="http://inpursuitoftheworthwhile.blogspot.com.au/2015/04/anzac-bunny.html" target="_blank">bunny</a> and
<a href="http://inpursuitoftheworthwhile.blogspot.com.au/2015/04/this-little-piggy.html" target="_blank">pig</a>). My favourite of these patterns was the pig, as it had such a beautifully
shaped head and cheeky face, and it looked so cute when finished! I couldn’t
believe how simple all this cuteness was to produce, with the easy-to-follow
pattern. I do find Sharon’s patterns on this site easy to follow, and she
provides great video tutorials too, so I really recommend her simple patterns
to anyone who is a beginner at amigurumi, or who wants to learn. Or who can do
it already and wants a cute pig! <a href="http://www.amigurumitogo.com/2014/06/pig-pattern.html" target="_blank">Pig pattern here</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Next up, and in a different style,
is <a href="http://lucyravenscar.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">Lucy Ravenscar</a>. If you’ve searched for amigurumi on Pinterest at all and
seen any really cute Star Wars figures, chances are they are Lucy’s. Her Star
Wars figures are so impressive and cute, and so popular, that she’s even got a
<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Star-Wars-Crochet-Kits/dp/1626863261" target="_blank">book</a> now that comes with a kit for some of the designs. The book is released next month (May 2015), and I wish we had proper Amazon in
Australia! Even though I’m not a Star Wars fan as such, I think the figures are
so cute that I would be tempted to make them anyway – I could always gift the
results to Star Wars fan friends? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">As well as this book, Lucy has several
free patterns for little teeny amigurumi on her <a href="http://lucyravenscar.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">blog</a>,
and she has other patterns for sale in her <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/lucyravenscar?ref=l2-shopheader-name" target="_blank">Etsy shop</a>. The for-sale patterns vary from slightly larger makes, to small makes with brilliant
details given the size. My favourites from the Etsy shop are the <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/150079653/halfling-fantasy-amigurumi-pattern-pdf?ref=shop_home_active_5" target="_blank">Halflings</a>
– they look like cute little Hobbits to me, and the <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/63378835/witch-and-wizard-mini-amigurumi-pattern" target="_blank">Witches and Wizards</a>. I also love that the Witches and Wizards are inspired by Terry Pratchett’s
characters, as I’m a huge fan of his.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Back to her blog for the free
patterns, my favourites are the <a href="http://lucyravenscar.blogspot.com.au/2010/11/and-pussycat.html" target="_blank">cat</a>
and <a href="http://lucyravenscar.blogspot.com.au/2010/11/owl.html" target="_blank">owl</a>
to go with the Witches and Wizards. I haven’t made these yet as I’ve been so
busy on my own stuff, but just reading these tiny patterns has taught me a bit
more about adding shape to small amigurumi. And the owl looks like a Hedwig to me :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Finally for now, I want to
share some amigurumi eye candy! The <a href="http://magicdollstoys.blogspot.com.es/search/label/Crochet%20dolls" target="_blank">little dolls</a> on Magic Dolls
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>are made in mixed media – amigurumi,
crochet, knit, fabric, cross stitch, applique, and perhaps more. They are all
photographed so beautifully, with gorgeous painted illustrations and little
props and accessories. The blog is in Ukranian (I think) and doesn’t have its
own translate button, but the post titles and the labels have English, so it’s
easy to find the images. There’s also <a href="https://instagram.com/magic__dolls/" target="_blank">Instagram</a><a href="https://instagram.com/magic__dolls/"></a>
if that’s easier for you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I mentioned the illustrations
in the photos, well if you like those you may be interested to see that there
are also these gorgeous <a href="http://magicdollstoys.blogspot.com.es/search/label/Cross%20Stitch" target="_blank">cross stitch portraits</a> of the dolls
(I can’t find links to any charts, but if you were really keen I’m sure you
could email to ask about charts).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">With regard to my own amigurumi
work, I’ve been continuing to make little creations from my own pattern, the
same one that I used for these little critters:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I’ve got this one written up in
note form for myself, and I’m planning to share a pattern when I’m less busy
and can therefore write it properly and take photos to accompany it (so
probably not this week…)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">And speaking of patterns, I’ve
also been trying to rework my budgie so that I can make a pattern. I made the
budgie without making any notes whatsoever, which was a bit silly. I also made
it in rounds rather than in a spiral, as amigurumi should be. This means that
it will probably need a fair bit of working and tweaking to find a good ‘proper’
version, but if I figured it out once then I’m sure I can do it again!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">My next task though is to make
myself a nice cup of coffee, take some photos of my latest creations
ready to share, and then settle down with some hooky before I have to head off
to work :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I’ve
had a busier-than-normal week last week, and it’s nice to be on to the weekend!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Work-wise,
with the Easter holidays, I’ve had some extra time with the girl I work with as
a Support Worker while she has been off school. While this meant I didn’t get
to spend much time with my husband while he was off work, it did mean I had a
chance to earn a bit of extra money. This all goes back to normal next week, so
I’m hoping to get to work with another person as well so that I can boost my
hours. While I’m finding my job quite challenging, I’m sure I will get better
at it with experience, and also I really need the money – I have a friend and
her kids visiting for a month later in the year, and I really want to be able
to give them a really great trip over here, as well as help with the costs a
bit.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Speaking
of my friend’s visit, I’m so excited about that!! I have spent much of my spare
time over the last couple of weeks in planning parts of our trip. I just
started writing about it all, but I’ve realised that there is so much to say that
it probably deserves its own post really. I will mention part of it though – I’ve
booked a trip to Sydney and the Blue Mountains, which I’m very excited about!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I’ve
never been to Sydney before, and I figured for my friend that if she’s going to
fly all the way from the UK to Australia, then a trip to Sydney is a must.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I
booked everything myself independently, which is how I generally organise my
travels. I managed to get in early enough to get the cheapest Jetstar flights,
although this was still a bit more expensive than the flights I would buy from
budget airlines in Europe. We really are lucky in Europe when it comes to
travel options! You have to watch Jetstar though, they are very sneaky with
their additional fees – they even charge $17 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">per person</i> for paying by card!! </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">For
our accommodation, I have booked us all in to YHAs. As we have the kids with
us, I’ve booked family rooms; this has the added benefit of keeping the costs down a little further. YHAs can have
a slightly odd reputation back in the UK, but the Aussie YHAs seems fantastic:
modern, bright, clean, youthful, and more budget-holiday than austere and remote. I’ve
stayed in 2 Aussie YHAs so far, and both were fantastic – especially the one at
<a href="https://www.yha.com.au/hostels/qld/fraser-capricorn-coasts/hervey-bay/" target="_blank">Hervey Bay</a>. We were only there one night on the way home from Brisbane, but having seen
it I would happily make a holiday there again. There are several YHAs in Sydney
itself. <a href="https://www.yha.com.au/hostels/nsw/sydney-surrounds/sydney-harbour/" target="_blank">The Harbour one</a>
looks amazing, with wonderful views of the Opera House from the roof terrace. This was significantly
more expensive than the <a href="https://www.yha.com.au/hostels/nsw/sydney-surrounds/sydney-central-backpackers-hostel/" target="_blank">Central YHA</a>
though, which would have added up even further over a few nights, so the Central
one it was for us.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">After
a few days in Sydney, we will catch the train to the Blue Mountains town of
Katoomba, where we will stay in <a href="http://www.yha.com.au/hostels/nsw/blue-mountains/katoomba/" target="_blank">another YHA</a>
so that we can explore a little around there before having to catch the flight
back to Townsville. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Mountains_%28New_South_Wales%29" target="_blank">Blue Mountains</a>
form part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site too, so I’m really excited to visit
there and see what it’s like.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Also
on the internet, I have entered the world of MOOCs – Massive Open Online
Courses. These are free online short courses offered by various education
institutions, including some really top universities. I completed my first one
last week, an Introduction to Nursing in Healthcare. I chose this as I’m
considering training as a nurse next year, and this course had an Australian
focus so I thought it would be relevant. It was a very superficial glance at
the role of nurses in Australia, but it was good to get thinking about nursing, and it was also a good,
gentle introduction to MOOCs in general. I plan to do more throughout the year too, in
whatever takes my fancy :)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">If
you’re interested in MOOCs yourself, these are the places I have found most
useful for finding them: </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.futurelearn.com/" target="_blank">FutureLearn</a> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><a href="https://www.edx.org/" target="_blank">edX</a> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #38761d;"><a href="https://www.open2study.com/" target="_blank">Open2Study</a> </span> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Away
from the internet, I went to my first Aussie sports game yesterday. </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I tried to get some photos of the game and the pre-match entertainment, but as you can see the sun was not helping!</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">We went to
see the AFL – what is called footie in Queensland, but would be called Rugby
League back home. The Townsville Cowboys were playing the New Zealand Warriors,
and it was a pretty tight game coming down to a nail-biting finish. I really
wanted to support my new home town, but I’ve always been something of a
Kiwiphile and the All Blacks have always been my second team to support in
international rugby. As soon as the Warriors got the ball to score the first
try of the match, I found my loyalty very firmly lay with them… They had an
excellent player who made several breaks, and they were ahead for most of the
game. The Cowboys never let them get too far ahead though, and just when it
looked as though the gap was too much to close, the Cowboys scored another try
with 2 minutes to go, taking the lead at the very end. The crowd went wild, but
I was a bit disappointed that the Warriors hadn’t won…</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Today
was kind of an exciting day: after work, I whizzed home to get changed into
something smart and collect hubby, before heading into town to the Council
building. There, my husband took part in a citizenship ceremony and officially
became an Australian!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">We are very lucky that because of who he works for, we
didn’t have to be Residents for very long before we could apply for
citizenship. My citizenship test is coming up next month, so hopefully it won’t
be too long before I get to do the ceremony myself!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">In
other news, some of the yarn I ordered from Deramores with my first pay cheque
has arrived… Strangely, the part of the order that was dispatched last has
arrived first, and so I am now in possession of 2 new balls of Patons 100%
Cotton DK in Candy. I’m very pleased to be able to continue working on my
<a href="http://inpursuitoftheworthwhile.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/a-hexagonal-update-in-cotton.html" target="_blank">cotton hexagon blanket</a>, especially as the nights are <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">finally </i>starting to cool down a bit, so it may be ready just in
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course, nothing ever goes completely smoothly… either it’s the different dye
lot, or I’ve got the colour wrong, but the new pink is not the same colour as
the old pink…</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">You can see the new pink is quite a bit lighter</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Still,
this is to be a multi-coloured blanket anyway, so I’m sure it will be no big
deal to have different pinks in it. And perhaps when the extra blue arrives
that colour will be different, so if there are even more colours in different shades then it will
probably look like I did it deliberately… ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Now
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Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05664838363511139091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782047100410966052.post-49121958936074179842015-04-15T08:55:00.000+01:002015-04-15T08:55:55.779+01:00Beautiful Whitehaven Beach<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">We
drove down the highway to Airlie Beach, it’s about 3 hours south from here, and
very different to a 3 hour drive in the UK! The road is one lane in each
direction, with an occasional third lane for overtaking – but crucially you
rarely need to overtake as the traffic is so light. It’s so great to get on the
road and just have a smooth, congestion-free drive all the way to where you are
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I’m
not good at relaxing holidays, I’m better at holidays where I have stuff to see
and do and new foods to eat and new languages to learn little bits of… but on
this occasion we were meeting friends for our trip, and they knew how to do
more relaxing holidays. So I got to see how to spend quality time gently doing not a
great deal, and it really was lovely.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">We stayed in budget accommodation, and despite having all the architectural charm of an early multistorey carpark, the rooms were clean and had great views.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Great view if you ignore the tin roof :)</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">When we arrived, we met up with the others for lunch and spent the afternoon chilling out and exploring the backpacker bars before getting ready for dinner. </span></div>
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from chilling out, and eating and drinking a little too much, our main activity
was a half-day boat trip out to Whitehaven Beach, on Whitsunday Island. We had to get up early the next morning - we met up outside our accommodation at 5.30am to walk down to the port!!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Whitehaven is famous for its super white sand, which is 98% silica. This not only
contributes to its whiteness, but also makes it stay cool in the fierce
tropical sun, so you can comfortably walk on it in bare feet. This is a
wonderful novelty in this part of the world!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">We arrived to Whitehaven Beach on our boat, it was a little choppy on the way there
but once we arrived it was glorious! The sun wasn’t too harsh as there was some
cloud overhead, and the sea was lovely.</span></div>
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all wore very attractive stinger suits – essentially lycra onesies – to go swimming, as although
the stinger season is coming to an end, the previous day there had been a
suspected irukandji sting. These are little tiny box jellyfish, which deliver
stings that require hospitalisation. I felt this was marginally worse than
being seen in public in a lycra onesie! </span></div>
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had about an hour at the beach, and I spent all of it in the water, just
floating about and enjoying the views. It was so gorgeous!! At one point I saw
a turtle come to the surface to breathe too, very exciting but I didn’t manage
to get a picture in time before it dived away again.</span></div>
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our time was up, we had to get back on the boat. It wasn’t going all the way
back to Airlie Beach though, so we had to disembark again on another of the
islands, Daydream Island.</span></div>
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the island’s resort and took a dip in the pool there. It was beautiful!!</span></div>
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on the mainland, we indulged in delicious burgers at <a href="http://www.tripadvisor.com.au/Restaurant_Review-g261596-d7606271-Reviews-Little_Vegas_Burger_Bar-Airlie_Beach_Queensland.html" target="_blank">Little Vegas</a> for lunch,
followed by delicious ice cream at <a href="http://www.newzealandnatural.com/" target="_blank">New Zealand Natural</a> and
then a browse around the strip – I even managed to find some Billabong board
shorts that were a perfect fit, and way cheaper than the same ones in the UK!</span></div>
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Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05664838363511139091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782047100410966052.post-57694170371472834752015-04-09T09:20:00.000+01:002015-04-09T09:20:00.291+01:00More Mingurumis!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I introduced my own-pattern mini amigurumis <a href="http://inpursuitoftheworthwhile.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/minigurumi.html" target="_blank">here</a>, and mentioned that I had since made even more... These little critters are pretty quick to whip up, so even this post is now out of date, and I have more still to take pictures of! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I'm still hoping to (eventually) do a craft stall, and now that I've come with these little guys I'm planning to make a whole bunch of them to sell.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I mentioned that after the success of the bunny and the turtle, that I went on to make a little list of possible new creatures. Well, this was quite a long list really and I'm nowhere near through it, but I have been making more progress! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">To design the new patterns, I choose just a few features that really capture that animal - such as the long ears and fluffy tail of the bunny, or the shell of the turtle. Then I just kind of sit there and think a while, really thoroughly imagining it in 3D, and then figuring out how to achieve my idea with the crochet stitches. Then I just get to work - sometimes it comes together right away, and sometimes it takes a few attempts before I figure it out.</span></div>
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in this manner, so was born Hatty the Heffalump! I think I am most pleased with this little
elephant, as it took a bit of ingenuity to figure out how to do her trunk, and
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I posted about making another toy for another friend’s daughter (aged 5), the lovely <a href="http://inpursuitoftheworthwhile.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/this-little-piggy.html" target="_blank">piggy</a>. When this big pig was finished there was a little
pink yarn left over – enough to make a little chibi pig in fact! This one looked a
bit odd while in progress, but as soon as the ears were right and I’d sewn them
on, it looked really cute! I already had the little heart-shaped coconut
button, it came on a label on some White Stuff clothes I had bought ages ago,
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out shopping for eyes for these little critters, as well as picking up those little yellow buttons I also picked up some grey and
brown yarn for more animal amigurumi. So far I have only used the grey, as one
of the creatures I wanted to make was a koala!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I embroidered his nose and
tried out various ways of making his ears, but in the end the only method that
looked right was to make them out of pompoms. I used white and grey to get the
colours right, and then forgot how many wraps I had used for the first pompom so
the second one turned out a bit bigger… oops! Still pretty cute though I think
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">This all means that I have had to glue the eyes in. This is particularly frustrating, as I bought little round buttons to glue on for the already completed amigurumis. If I'd realised before that I would be gluing the eyes in anyway, I would have just stuck to the cheaper 'unsafety eyes'!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I
hope everyone had a really great Easter weekend! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Mine
was very quiet, lots of chilling out with the hubster and making the most of
not being woken up at 5.30am…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Part
of all this chilling has been crochet, amigurumi crochet to be precise: having previously
avoided amigurumi due to finding it pretty daunting, and not knowing what I’d
do with the finished items, over the last few days I’ve really gone down that
rabbit hole!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I
have posted about my freestyle <a href="http://inpursuitoftheworthwhile.blogspot.com.au/2015/04/panda-monium.html" target="_blank">panda</a> for my sister-in-law, <a href="http://inpursuitoftheworthwhile.blogspot.com.au/2015/04/anzac-bunny.html" target="_blank">Anzac Bunny</a> for
my friend’s baby (his first Easter), and a little <a href="http://inpursuitoftheworthwhile.blogspot.com.au/2015/04/this-little-piggy.html" target="_blank">Piggy</a> for another friend's daughter. This hasn't been the only amigurumi I've been working though...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">After the first panda, I decided to have another go at a mini panda. This time I tried to create a more <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chibi_%28term%29" target="_blank">chibi</a>
style, with a big round head and little body.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">The
panda was ok, but the eye patches are a bit thick because it was DK yarn but at
such a small scale, and consequently the eyes are a bit boggly. Plus I had to
remake the ears about 3 times until they were ok… I also went a bit wrong when
sewing up one of its legs, so it’s a little wonky in the leg department too, so
I called it Peggy:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">It was after this panda that I made Anzac Bunny, and having made him I was feeling very enthusiastic
about amigurumi… </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I had forgotten about the stash of horrible yarn I had bought
for the Frozen-inspired crochet at Christmas, and when I rediscovered it I
decided to turn it into amigurumi. (The yarn is quite stiff and icky, and is kind of rough, but it turns out that it works great for amigurumi as the roughness helps to keep the stitches nice and tight, and the stiffness of the yarn helps the finished item to hold its shape.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">At this point i</span>t
was nearly Easter, which I don’t normally mark in any other way than enjoying
the long weekend off work, but this time I decided to make a little Easter bunny.
Inspired by the fact that the bunny pattern for Anzac Bunny had been adapted from a teddy bear
pattern, I decided to adapt my new panda bear into a bunny
pattern.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I
am so pleased with my little bunny! I embroidered a pretty Spring flower on her
tummy, using the lazy daisy stitch and a French knot,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">And
I made a little pompom tail for her, so cute!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">My
husband liked this little mint bunny too, he named her Choc Chip (because she’s
already Mint), and he chatted with her – apparently she said that I need to
appreciate my husband lots because he’s really brilliant, and I should make him
tea more often… Whose side is she on?? ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I
was just getting into to the swing of this now, so I asked my husband
if there was another animal he’d like me to have a go at. He wanted a turtle in
the purple yarn, and he would call him Shelby – cute!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I
made the same body and head pattern, but this time I shaped the head a bit
differently after it was stuffed:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Then
I hooked up a funky shell outfit for him, including a leftover scrap of neon
yarn from the <a href="http://inpursuitoftheworthwhile.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/disco-willow-is-finished.html" target="_blank">Disco Willow blanket</a>. Very funky! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Doesn’t
Shelby look cute in his funky disco shell?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I
was super-duper chuffed with how these little guys turned out, so I started thinking
of all the other creatures I could make by adding particular features to my basic
head/body pattern… I have quite a list of possibilities to try out now!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I hope you like these little guys as much as I do, feel free to add any suggestions to the list to try out!! :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #a64d79;">Edit to add: Since writing up this post I've made a few more, so I'll introduce those in another post! :)</span> </span></div>
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Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05664838363511139091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782047100410966052.post-52818752256887304592015-04-07T07:03:00.000+01:002015-04-07T07:03:53.263+01:00This Little Piggy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I’m
so excited about my latest amigurumi make! It’s another one from a <a href="http://www.amigurumitogo.com/2014/06/pig-pattern.html" target="_blank">pattern</a> by Sharon
at <a href="http://amigurumitogo.com/">amigurumitogo.com</a>, a pig this time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Once
again, the pattern is a delight to make, and I have been so enthusiastically
impressed with how clever people are to be able to design things like this. I
mean, the bunny was cool, but this little piggy doesn’t have a simple round
head, she has actual shaped cheeks and everything! It’s amazing, I really can’t
get over the talent of some people!! The only point where I strayed from the
pattern was for the tail – I’d had in mind right from the beginning that I
wanted a curlicue tail for the pig, so I simply made one of these rather than
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">As
with <a href="https://www.blogger.com/anzac%20bunny%20http://inpursuitoftheworthwhile.blogspot.com/2015/04/anzac-bunny.html" target="_blank">Anzac Bunny</a>, I made up the outfit by myself. There are a couple of
patterns for piggy clothes on the website, but I’m currently on a roll with
freestyling these smaller things! (I have several other small makes to share in another post, you’ll see what I mean)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
simply made a chain that fit around the piggy’s body at the right point, adding
a few extra chains to make a loop for a button. I hooked doubles all the way
round for the first row to keep it nice and tight, then continued with trebles.
I worked back and forth in rows until I got below the piggy’s little curly
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Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05664838363511139091noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782047100410966052.post-52706042947862593352015-04-06T10:14:00.000+01:002015-04-06T10:14:00.130+01:00Oh So Stylish<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I love some blogs where people put up wonderful photos of their beautiful things, and include little lifestyle snaps of baking, or coffee and cake. Especially over Easter, when baking and crafting and spring flowers are part of the season. It all looks so beautiful and stylish, and makes me want to dive into their lives and see how they do it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Vanessa at <a href="http://cocorosetextiles.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Coco Rose Diaries</a> is one blog I love for this, I love her taste in, well, in everything! I love her colours, and her collections. I love the patterns on her ceramics and I love her quirky bits and bobs that she includes in her shelves and dresser. Her pictures make me happy :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><a href="http://helenphilipps.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">Helen Philipps</a> is another one, she also has beautiful colours. A bit brighter than some of Vanessa's, but very fresh-looking. She also takes beautifully styled shots, and I love her pictures that include flowers and gardeny bits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">There are so many more besides these lovely bloggers, and literally every time I see a blog post with wonderfully mismatched china and delicious looking baked snacks or frothy coffees, I just want to dive right in and join in with that lifestyle!</span></div>
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Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05664838363511139091noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782047100410966052.post-75199517544135340482015-04-04T00:18:00.000+01:002015-04-04T00:18:36.299+01:00Happy Easter!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I began to hook another amigurumi pattern for a friend's little girl yesterday, she's 5 years old so cuddly toys and dolls are a very big part of her life at home - she even has a couple of favourites that get to go out with her on trips too. It's very cute!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I was enjoying the pattern greatly, but none of the shops were open yesterday so I couldn't get any eyes yet, and hooking had to pause when I got to the stage where stuffing will be required. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So while this project was on hold, I worked on a little pattern of my own, hooking up a </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">few new amigurumi friends as variations of the same pattern. I finished these ones, and will glue eyes on when I can get some</span> (these ones are not for babies, so safety eyes are not an issue).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I'll write more about these new friends later, but for now Choc Chip the mint bunny insisted that I embroider her some eyes so that she could pop by and say Happy Easter too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I’m
so sleepy today! I had another work shift yesterday evening, and I always seem
to sleep badly afterwards. I’m very much an introvert, so I really make a huge
effort to be a jolly, chatty, outgoing person for the girl I support. Then I
struggle to switch my brain off again when I get home in the evening, so I
struggle to sleep until very late. This was compounded this morning as my husband
had to get up at 5am for work!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I’m
excited though to share with you my third amigurumi instalment, this one being
the first time I have tried to follow a pattern. It looked like a mushroom when
I showed it to you <a href="http://inpursuitoftheworthwhile.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/panda-monium.html" target="_blank">yesterday</a>, but it’s actually a bunny! I made him for my
friend’s baby (the same friend + baby with whom I do <a href="http://inpursuitoftheworthwhile.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/a-few-things.html" target="_blank">circuits on The Strand</a>) as this
will be his first Easter. Well, that and I wanted an excuse to make something… I have no
idea what Bunny’s new family will call him, but until I hand him over later, he’s
called Anzac Bunny.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anzac_Day" target="_blank">Anzac Day</a>
</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">marks the anniversary of the Gallipoli campaign, the first campaign that led to major casualties
for Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War. It is commemorated on </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">April </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">25<sup>th</sup>, the anniversary of the ANZAC's (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) landings at Gallipoli, Turkey, and this year</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">
is the 100<sup>th </sup>Anniversary of these landings. </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Anzac Day </span></span></span> is important to Australians and New Zealanders, not only in their military
history but in their cultural history too, as it seems to mark a coming of age as nations as they made their own contributions and sacrifices to the 'War to End All Wars'.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Baby’s Daddy used to serve in the New Zealand Army, and is now
in the Australian Army, so making an Anzac Bunny for the baby seemed quite
appropriate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I
used a pattern that I found via Pinterest (isn’t Pinterest awesome??) on the
website <a href="http://www.amigurumitogo.com/">www.amigurumitogo.com</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s called the <a href="http://www.amigurumitogo.com/2015/03/Spring-Time-Dress-Me-Bunny.html" target="_blank">Dress Me Bunny</a>,
and the pattern was published in March 2015 – so for once I’m not years behind the
curve with my pattern choosing! The patterns also have links to video tutorials
if you need them, and there are links to little outfits for the bunnies – cute dresses
and a pair of little dungarees. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">As
I know the (very) basics of making amigurumi, I found the pattern pretty easy
to follow, so I would recommend this pattern even for someone new to amigurumi.
The one thing that is a real <i>must </i>is to use stitch markers: as you continue in
a spiral and don’t join rounds when doing amigurumi properly, you have no ‘landmarks’
to keep count from. This causes real problems if you lose count, and if you
realise you’ve gone wrong and you need to rip back then it’s a disaster! The
stitch marker provides a landmark so you can avoid these problems; you have
somewhere to count from to check all is correct, and a landmark to rip back to
you if you do go wrong. Don’t worry if you don’t have actual stitch markers as
you can improvise. You can simply use a spare piece of yarn and pull it through
the stitch you are marking, or I used a safety pin and that worked pretty well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I
finished Anzac Bunny last night after work. In fact, I finished the amigurumi
pattern before work, and then made my own additions after work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">When
I showed you the first piece of this project last time, it looked kind of like
a mushroom:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Eyes
and a nose to embroider (I don’t have safety eyes, so as this is for a baby I went
for embroidered eyes. One went really well, but the second eye came out a bit
wonky. I hope the baby doesn’t mind!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Put
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">The
construction of his legs means you can sit him up as well</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">He
has a cute little tail – you can make a pompom tail which is even cuter, but
again I was thinking of making the bunny baby-safe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I hope you enjoyed meeting Anzac Bunny as much as I enjoyed making him! I'm off now to share my link with <a href="https://plus.google.com/100102815939329495770" target="_blank">Sharon</a> and to thank her for writing this awesome pattern FOR FREE!!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Edit to add: baby has now received his Anzac Bunny - he's too small to actually say thank you, but there were smiles aplenty, and he reached for bunny and gave it little cuddles, it was so so sweet! Baby's mum was impressed with the uniform too, and thinks baby's dad will be equally impressed when he sees the bunny dressed in his honour :) I think Anzac will be a happy bunny in his new home!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I
was feeling at a bit of a loss after finishing my <a href="http://inpursuitoftheworthwhile.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/disco-willow-is-finished.html" target="_blank">Disco Willow blanket</a>. I had
worked on it fairly obsessively for a couple of weeks (perhaps to the detriment
of other things I should have been getting on with!), and having finished it I
felt as though I was a bit burned out, crochet-wise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Although
I’m working again now, the casual nature of my new job means I still have a lot of
free time though, so I wanted to be working on something else – albeit more
gently!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I
picked up my <a href="http://inpursuitoftheworthwhile.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/a-hexagonal-update.html" target="_blank">Cuddly Hexagons</a>, but after the willow pattern, all those ends on the
hexagon pattern felt like a real drag. I know it’s lazy, but I just couldn’t be
bothered with them (I know I’ll come back to them later though, and the climate here means there’s still
aaaaaaaages before that blanket will be useful.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Instead, </span>I wanted something small, that was a bit fun,
and had very little end-darning involved...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I
have 2 leftover balls of very cheap acrylic yarn, one black one white, that were bought
when I was trying to decide on the background colour for the Disco Willow
blanket. I hate waste, so I decided to do something with this yarn, as I'm not likely to ever use it in a blanket. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">Black
and white leads to several possibilities; cats, penguins, zebras, pandas, to name just a
few. Pandas! My lovely sister-in-law has a real thing for pandas, so I thought of
making a panda cushion for her. A few rounds in though, and I wasn’t feeling
the love for making a giant circle, especially knowing that a second circle
would be required for the back, so I ripped it all out in favour of having
another go at amigurumi. Much more fun!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I
haven’t done much amigurumi, just a couple of ball shapes to practice the
basics of increasing and decreasing, followed by my attempt at an
<a href="http://inpursuitoftheworthwhile.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/from-my-draft-archive-amigurumi-budgie.html" target="_blank">amigurumi budgie</a>, which worked out pretty well considering it was </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">freestyled</span>, and by me!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">There were loads of patterns on Pinterest for amigurumi pandas, but I decided to have
another go at freestyling it, and I came up with this little critter!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">His
legs are fixed, so he can sit up by himself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">He
has a little embroidered nose and smile, and (slightly wonky) beady eyes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">And
he’s pretty weeny, less than 3 inches tall in fact.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">He
was really fun to make, and quick too. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">He
was so quick to make in fact, that I decided to have a browse on Pinterest for
some more ideas for amigurumi makes…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
spotted loads that I liked, and picked one that would work to use up the black
and white yarn (well, the white anyway).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">I’m
making from a pattern this time, and this next little fella will get a post
when he’s finished too. He’s not finished yet though, right now he just looks
like this…</span></div>
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