A new start

Hubby made a weetabix cake, I saw it on someone's blog, I'm sorry I forgot who, daughter provided us with just 2 weetabix to make the cake, she dropped them off with our shopping. Really nice cake, lovely with our afternoon coffee. I made more quiches, this time no meats, I added some fresh chives which lifted the flavours. 

 I have had this ball for years, it's the silver paper wrappers from Easter eggs, it's solid. We only really get silver paper on our Easter eggs, so the ball grows slowly. It's so old, I can't remember when I started it, our girls were still at home.  I have one more wrapper to add, but only after the chocolate is all gone. 

Another good book finished, I am reading on my ipad, not my favorite way, but I do have a good selection of books. This being my 23rd read in 2020.

So I have started Tunisian crochet, I found a video on you tube, I chose this one because of 2 reasons, 

1st you only chain for the first square, the rest are added to as you make it up, I am terrible when I have to make a long chain. 

2nd, it's square and not a diamond edge, my crochet is not good enough to sort edges into straight sides. 

 This was following the instructions and doing square of 10 stitches, it looked good, but the squares are small, and in truth, I never thought I could just start and make a blanket.

So I started again with a much bigger hook, 4.5 and using 12 stitches,  this feels much better, I can see in my mind how I want this to look.  I am using Drops baby Merino, 4ply and adding all the hand dyed mini's from Burrow & Soar, I want to mix two  using the colours shown here.

I am making rows of colour and within each colour section I am adding the contrast colours, just one or two squares per row. 

I think I am going to enjoy this project. 

I was never going to be as productive as last week, I really was on a mission to finish things, so this week is all about learning something new, slowing down and enjoying the start of a new creation. The hardest part I found is making the 1st square on each row tidy and ensuring the 2nd square is placed correct, on my 1st attempt, I had also done a row of pink, but decided to unpick to reuse as I wanted the squares bigger, then I remembered I wanted a photo. This is the only item in my work basket, but I am thinking about starting another pair of socks.
We have been for another cycle ride, hubby took me further away, almost into town, along the golf course beside our creek, 6 miles in total. I have promised to take a camera next time, but the tide does need to be in. I am enjoying being able to to go further away from home, we won't use the car, and we are always out for less than an hour, we both look forward to our daily exercise. The only down side is the exercise makes me cough, and with hay fever around I am already coughing, I worry our neighbours will think I have the virus.