Crafty Dilemma Continues

Yesterday I had a little play on another practice piece of the ripple pattern. Ok, it's easy to manage I think. Except for that rotten first row! Grrr. & If I make it big, how am I ever going to be able to keep track of the number of chain stitches. That is the bit that has put me off for so long. I did go & get 4 colours of acrylics to do the blanket with though. So that was enthusiastic of me. I also stopped by the second hand kids shop while I was near it (it's over the road from the wool shop!) & found BJ a cash register. He loves playing shops. He spends a lot of time in mums shop to know what the people do when they come in. The hand money over the counter & take something home. So Grandma or myself spend a bit of time there at the shop counter playing shops. When I turned up there with his own little cash register he was rather rapt. It continued for quite some time at home & then again when daddy got home. It makes beeping noises & all. It didn't have the plastic credit card with it that you swipe through but he has one of my old drivers licences which he plays with & that makes a good pretend credit card. It's very clever. Anyway, I am a bit sidetracked...

I forgot one of the things I want to do on my list yesterday. It is really calling me! It's crazy how many hexagons I have seen lately. Quilted or crocheted. Not so many in knitting but plenty of the others. They have been following me around for a couple of months now. Just now, on this bright & cheery Saturday morning, while I am being forced to keep quiet & not wake everyone else in the house (after a long night with a terribly angry & cranky child) I have been surfing & clicking on some blog lists of some of my favourite bloggers. (ok spoke to soon - kid started bashing on the wall!) It is amazing once you start clicking away what you will find. This is what I found! A hexagon tutorial. In a few parts. Cool! I don't really need this cos I could find out for real at work. I will do these sometime. I really want to learn how to do these properly. I have lots of scraps of course to make use of it. (A friend & I swap scraps. So I have a bunch of cool scraps to play with as well as all my own bits.)

Anyway, now I have finally got this posted - it all went cranky on me & thank goodness for it autosaving as drafts, I can now go & move about the house freely as the boys are playing shops now! (told you it was a hit!) I already played shops too you know & it's only 9.30am. Time to move on to the mundane tasks of a weekend.

Have a good day in your crafty world or not so crafty world if you too are on the mundane tasks first. I think I need to go to the library to pick up Heather Ross Weekend Sewing, before the weekend is over. Unfortunately I think the local footy is over for the year so I won't get my couple of hours to play anymore while the boys go there! Maybe I can get the interested in local cricket! Ok, I will turn off the drivel button now...