Thursday, 14 May 2020

In my hands


Another new author for me, I enjoyed this book, different story line, I would read another of his. This being my 27th book read this year. 
Book 28, I always love this author and I loved the way the cast came together, very clever. 
Just 80 pages, so a short read, I enjoyed it and wanted the story to carry on, it could have, they sorted issue which threw up another. Book 29
I've done another glass ornament, I purchased some larger cut circles, this is as big as I can use in my kiln, I used different thickness of glass, just to see what works,  the blue disc is just too thick to work well, to get the soft edges I fused for longer, but that made the clear circle edges go a bit too thin, my sister Lena has decided she would like this one. For my reference, I fused for 10 minutes and then a further 2 minutes.  
One sock is finished knitting, just the toes and loose ends to sort, the second sock is almost at the heal pickup point, not done loads on these.
I am still enjoying this blanket, I have not stitched the ends in as yet, but I will start the task soon, it's getting so big I have to pop it on the floor to take a photo, I am still using the 1st ball of each colour and have a 2nd ball to use. Not sure how long it will become, should be enough for my lap blanket. 

The colder weather has been a shock, we have been lucky the night temperatures have not dropped close to freezing, all my plants in the greenhouse are doing well. it will be a few more weeks before I start to plant out, it's hard to wait, but I know I must. 
Most days have been inside, I am a fine weather gardener, always have been, so plenty of crafting and reading has been done. 


3 comments:

  1. It's nice to have so many hobbies to flit between, I think we'd get bored otherwise. It's been much cooler here but it's sunny again today and we're in for warmer temperatures again soon.

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  2. What would we do without our hobbies, they have been a god send during this time at home. Yes the cold was a shock after all that warm weather, I did lots of work int he garden on Tuesday because it was cooler, I don't like doing gardening when it's hot

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  3. Having lots of hobbies to choose from has helped us all in recent times. We've had a couple of frosty nights this past week.

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