It's Monday morning and I'm sitting in a strangely silent, empty house. The silence is actually bouncing off the walls and it's wonderful. Everyone has gone either to school, sixth form, university or work and have left me here to try and catch up with emails, blog posts, washing, ironing and generally restoring some kind of order to this poor house. Oh, it's good to be back to some kind of routine again. I love routine and get a lot of security from it, even at the ripe old age of 45; which goes to show that we don't really change much in someways as we grow older.
But before I start the mammoth task of restoring order I want to show you my Irish Rose crochet. It was going to be my new project over Easter once I had called in at John Lewis at Cribbs Causeway in Bristol, on our way to Ludlow. Remember? It all seems a very long time ago now! Well, the bright cerise pink yarn I had thought I would do the cushion in turned into a pale pink yarn as the 4ply cotton choice wasn't too good. It also came down to price as I needed a little over 100g ball and if I had chosen the cerise yarn by Rowan it meant getting 3 or 4 balls of 50g and at approx £4...well, you do the maths. So in the end I bought Patons cotton 4ply in pale pink which was much cheaper and has been fantastic to work with - smooth and not separating like my usual yarn. Bliss.
I was quite nervous doing something so fiddly as I have only ever crocheted ripples, granny squares and the odd flower garland. Nothing so ambitious but I tried to stay focused on the round I was doing and not read ahead and go into a panic. And slowly but surely it stated to take shape.
There have been parts that have been tricky but I think that's more down to me not taking the time to read the pattern carefully. I do think however, that joining the roses could have had a picture or diagram to help make things clearer as you have to rely on the photograph in the book to be sure you're doing it properly...and I hope that I have!
Now, onto Anth's bad back. Bless him. He went to work today but I'm not sure how long he'll last. It is still very painful but he took Lisa D's advice and has been sitting with his back against a wall and stretching his legs. He says it has helped so thank you Lisa, and thank you to everyone else who have sent good wishes.
Now I had better get on with my chores as I have a feeling that this lovely empty silence will not last long. See you tomorrow.
