Wow. So it really has been a long time since I last posted and sooo much has happened in my little crafty world since February. I have decided that I need to catch up with everything on here and hopefully the best way will be to post quite a few different blogs over the next few weeks - giving you a couple of days between each to digest and read them.
I have added quite a few more meaningful squares to my blanket.
There's one for February 14th - moving day! The day that we got the keys to our house, a full 2 years ago now!
And I also added quite a few for the Winter Olympics. The Olympics are by far my favourite sporting event ever shown on TV and especially the winter ones definitely have a place very close to my heart. I was never quite crazy enough on skis - either with the idea of flipping myself through the air (I don't like to have my feet leave the floor really if I can help it) or with throwing myself down a mountain at breakneck speed. I will definitely stick to my instructing and concentrate my energies on teaching the sport rather than doing these crazy things myself. Maybe one day I will see one of my students skiing for the British team and get my tiny claim to fame that way!
I tried this out as an idea for the days when my favourite skier raced. I had the amazing privilege of being able to meet the amazing Chemmy Alcott a few years ago when I was out in Canada working on a world cup race - I volunteered to help with the event before the season really began and I started to teach.
The square its-self I wasn't too happy with as it didn't quite come out the right shape to fit in the blanket but I still like the idea and kind of wished that it had - I have thought about turning it into part of a cushion cover at some point but as of yet this has been added to the list of ideas that I have floating around in my head and not actually materialised.
This is what I ended up with - Chemmy always wears a pink helmet even with her GB kit hence the colour scheme.
There were a few more very good days throughout the Olympics where GB won medals - each day I made this kind of square and then added the colour of the medal around the edge:
I also made another "snowy" square for the day of the opening ceremony of the Paralympics (the same as the Olymics opening ceremony day) - I still need to make the coloured tick-type shapes to add as the logo for the Paralympics
Only a few more special days - Henlow's birthday - 3rd March - this is the day that we got him last year
My Birthday - 9th April - I wanted a very chilled out birthday this year. I received a Kindle for my Birthday from my husband (with a purple cover - hence the purple edging) and we went for a walk with a picnic to the little lake near our house so this patchwork was to represent the blanket that we took with us and sat to chill out on by the lake
And the following day we went to The Deep in Hull for a day out:
This is about as far as I have got at the minute - I am up to 16 May - quite a bit of catching up to do and I have some special squares still to add - mostly around July as this was when we went on our holiday and also when our wedding anniversary is.
It has been far too hot over the summer, especially as the blanket is starting to get quite big and heavy to carry on with the squares but as it is now starting to cool down a fair bit then I should be able to start catching up fairly soon. I have also had a few other exciting projects and new hobbies to start to get into recently so I have been quite busy with these things.
As promised at the beginning of this post, there will definitely be more updates with some of these other things very shortly
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