Holiday in Holland

During the half term holiday, we sailed away to Holland. To the sea side and to see our family. I was a bit nervous about the ship but it went quite smooth. To my surprise there was a lot to do in the ferry. Massive play area for children to! Little Emily was happy and I got almost the whole day to enjoy my cup of tea and knit away, while sailing to De Huge. Yes, that's where our destination was. Two days at the beach. How lovely was that? Then we headed towards my in laws beautiful countryside thatched roof cottage. The weather was pretty much the same as here, sun and rain. But we did manage to go for a little walk in the woods just behind my in laws house, the girls played badminton with their cousins. Hubby and me also joined in for a short while. Everything was beautiful, we really had a good half term break then came back to England and heard my sister had a stroke.
I felt so horrible and guilty and didn't feel like blogging my holiday photo's. She is ok but still some more tests to be done. The biggest draw back of living far away from your family is you can't just fly to them when you want to. It's sad, but we survive. Through good and bad. Hope things back in India settles soon. I almost felt like stopping blogging. This is a happy place for me and don't want to come across sad or make you sad, that's why I took a bit long to post this.

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Camping and Mandy Pattullo

Friday after dinner, we went camping. Weather was really nice and I had my workshop at Hope and Elvis the following day. I was super excited as always. For so many years I admired Mandy Pattullo's work and the day came when I could do her workshop! Not much needs to be said here, as Mandy Pattullo's work speaks for itself. But I do need to mention how wonderful teacher she is. Thank you Mandy, and I can't thank Louise Presley and Miss Deb's enough, for a wonderful day.
Many of you must have visited Mrs Bertimus blog but if not please do knock at her door! Another talented artist and a great blogger. Thank you Mrs Bertimus for informing me a bit more about technical details of blogging. I have finally managed (together with my twelve years old help) to get bit more fancy in blogging!
I loved Louise's new growing collection of bright coloured fabrics. The last two images are my work inspired by Mandy Pattullo. My boho piece of work.

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Lately...

...we had a bit of mixed weather.

Sun makes everything look so much nicer in the garden. I do try to make the most of the good weather whenever I can. I spend a lot of time sitting and knitting on my swing.

 Knitting with this yarn has been fun! It is bit difficult to keep the tension the same, but it knits so quickly. And the colour, I just LOVE IT!

LOVE the colourful makes in this book too. One of my favourite books by Salina Lake ' Homespun Style'.

I have completed both arms and almost the back. Just the front two sides and stitching the whole big lot is left. Still quite a bit I guess.

I do need some healthy food in between with a nice cup of tea or coffee!

Couldn't believe how heavily it rained and how lucky we were just few days before to camp in the lovely sunshine.

And I have started a new project. Another one without completing the previous ones. To be honest I am not too bad at this point. Don't have too many projects on a go. My little one keeps me busy so not easy to be too ambitious at this point. I am finding knitting the easiest to do combined with looking after the little one.

So, let me tell you about my this project. This is going to be for Tiffany (our caravan). Its magical mitered squares. You start knitting them all straight but as you go on decreasing at the central point it ends up as a square.

Once you have got two knitted squares you then pick up stitches (which saves a lot of time later on as you don't need to stitch each individual square together) and knit the third square and ....

The fourth one!. So now I have to just keep going.

 Maybe I will take this project with me on our next holiday.

Oh yes! I can't wait to go to Holland. During the half term we are going to see our Dutch family in Holland. Girls are excited as we are for the first time going in a ferry. I am not very keen on the journey itself as I get sea sick. But we will see. As for now we are all looking forward to visit our relatives in Holland.