What You Doing Wednesday Week 11

I hope everyone had a fantastic weekend!

I hope everyone in the UK (& the rest of the world) had a fantastic Jubilee!

My mum had a tea party yesterday to celebrate.

Here is Little Red with his Uncle having some fun!

Not sure which one is the adult ;-)

I haven't been myself since the Olympic flame.

I pushed myself too much and now the brain fuzz

has really kicked in.
I'm resting and trying to get my brain to work a bit better.
I'm also having a new problem with my feet.
I've never had fantastic circulation but
now my feet seem to be struggling.
When I press down on my foot it takes a while for the blood to return.
I have really dry skin (which I've never had previously)
and my feet keep turning purple with orange spots.
I'll see what the doctor says next time I go.

Due to my brain fuzz and having to rest I decided to use the time to work on my blanket.
I manage to sew quite a bit of my 

African Flower Blanket together.

As you can see it has really grown.

The picture doesn't really do the colours justice.

The next time we get some sunshine I'll take another picture.

I decided as the brain fuzz was bothering me

I would try another blanket.  

I wanted something repetitive that didn't need yarn changing.

I started off trying:

Soft Clusters Ripple Afghan

The pattern should turn out like this:

This is a free pattern

from

Mama's Stichery Patterns site. 

I liked the pattern but I had made it too long and the pattern

used a lot of yarn so I decided to frog it and try another one.

I decided upon:

Smoky Mountain Ripple Afghan

This is the picture of the pattern I am following:

The pattern is from Lion Brand

This is how far I have got with mine:

This is what it looks like close up:

I am really enjoying this pattern.

It has a fantastic result and is nice and easy to follow.

I am using the yarn I won at Christmas which

is Caron Wintuk4

worsted weight yarn.

Little Red is off this week

so we have been making a Dinosaur Island.

Little Red has a book called Dinosaurs Craft Topics,

which gave the instructions of how to build the island.

Book:

   

We haven't finished it yet but we have made the salt dough island.

Next is painting and then building the trees.

I am reading:

Kindle:

   

Book:

   

I have only just started the book

but it's a fantasy book

regarding a world in turmoil

full of dragons, monsters, wizards & magic.

I hope you are doing well with your projects.

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