Tree of hope

It finally got better weather and it was possible to finish the hearts in the apple tree.
I thought this was a excellent idea for our 2020 hearts for hope ❤️ over at Instagram


It's an initiative to make, create, spot, and search for 2020 hearts - to symbolise hope in 2020.
They can be sewn, painted, knitted, drawn in the sand, crocheted, chalked on the pavement, found in the shape of a stone or a leaf - a shadow, a cloud!
When you start looking for hope you find it everywhere, and you can make your own too!
So please will you join us in spreading hope during this crazy time?
Share your hearts by tagging #2020heartsforhope

My tree has already been damaged by deers so it's already funny 😉🙈
So I got the crazy 🤪 idea to make hearts 💕 out of the branches.

And now the tree is covered in hearts and makes heart shadows
I decided to put my big hearts with light in the same tree and a crochet heart with a free pattern from Kate.
The heart blew away during a storm, but I found it at the other side of the garden.

Free crochet pattern from Kate

My hubby's shirt had some new holes for me to mend 🙈

And I did finish the pair of socks I was knitting for myself
It's actually the second pair I have ever made for myself 🙈 all the other pairs I have made is for someone else.

Wishing you a lovely new week 🌻 ❣️
Katrine 🌼 🍃 ☀️ 🙋🏻‍♀️

More hearts 💕 and a bit of mending

I hope you are having a lovely Easter 🌷 🐣 🌷
I have made some more hearts 💕
I crochet a few from a Pattern I found on Pinterest.

 Me and Suzie  have launched an initiative to make, create, spot, and search for 2020 hearts - to symbolise hope in 2020.   Over at our mending community Mendingmayhem at Instagram.

They can be sewn, painted, knitted, drawn in the sand, crocheted, chalked on the pavement, found in the shape of a stone or a leaf - a shadow, a cloud!

When you start looking for hope you find it everywhere, and you can make your own too!

So please will you join us in spreading hope during this crazy year? 

Share your hearts by tagging #2020heartsforhope and please tag #mendingmayhem too.

Feel free to share this initiative.
So if you are on Instagram please join us to raise hearts.

Since the weather got warmer our snow chicken melted. I still wanted to share some hearts with people passing by so I made two hearts out of some branches and put some solar light on them. I'm really pleased with how they turned out

I finally found time to replace a fabric with holes on a friend's pillow. I hope he likes the cadillac.

I also had to repair my hubby's denim jacket, it's very much worn and it got a lot of holes since last time I mended it.
First I machine darned the holes but I didn't think it looked so good and made elbow patch.

My hubby is definitely over the mend my clothes invisible 😜 as he also wanted an embroidery on the back.

Wishing you a lovely Friday
Stay safe and well
Katrine 🌼 💚

Crochet flowers

Hi 😀
This weekend I finished my hubby's felted slippers and he was very happy about them and started to wear them right away.

I think the trucks did turn out pretty well. Though I liked the first one better.

Since it's Monday I had to do some mending as well.  Evelyn hoste Mondaymending over at Instagram. And every Monday you take something from your mending pile and fix it. That way you will always get some mending done. And you can show your work using her #mondaymending
Brilliant right 👍
I don't have much left in my mending pile at the moment. But I found a t-shirt that needed some tlc

Since I was a bit lazy I just reached into my knitting basket and found some cotton yarn and crochet some flowers to sew over the hol and the lousy seam. Earlier I have done the same on the other side of the shirt.
It's actually much cooler now than originally.
I have got a lot of questions if I can show how to make the flowers.
They are actually very simple to make.
You need a little bit of yarn. I used 2 colours but you don't have to. And a crochet hook.

You start by chaining 4 stitches  slip stitch to a circle, or make a magic circle if you prefer.
Crochet 16 single crochet in the circle. Slip stitch into first single crochet.

Make 2 chain stitches in the first single crochet. 2 double crochet in the next stitch. 2 chain stitch and single crochet in the next. Repeat 7 times singel crochet into the same stitch you started.

If you need a bigger flower 🌸 use a thicker yarn or make more petals by adding single crochet stitches in the 2.row each petal needs 2 single crochet stitches.

You can make various kinds of flowers using treble crochet or double treble crochet stitch. Or make clusters or popcorn stitch instead.
I have made a variation with 3 double treble crochet clusters and 7 chain stitches.
And one using double crochet cluster.

Have fun crocheting flowers 🌸🌹🌸
Katrine 🌼