Nature and Crafting

As promised I will share some of my crafting over the last few months, and recent weeks along with how things are growing on the Plot.. April has been very dry here in the UK, and cold. With heavy frosts first thing in the mornings. So things in the greenhouse have been covered in fleece.. Tender plants are still vulnerable so holding back planting out some tender plants in the garden until later on in the month of May.

So here in picture format is just some of what is growing, If you click on the images they will enlarge .

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  Rows of Potatoes

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  Tomatoes which are covered in fleece at night

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  Cabbages

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  Leeks and cosmos, and brassica family .

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  Here is a comparison.. Our plot on the right, one that has been neglected on the left for a year

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  Lettuces in the cold frame

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  Cosmos

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  Flowers, Asters

So that is what is growing above. Below is what I have been creating . I have been painting, and creating knitting and crocheting. You will see a large crocheted blanket , and some small knitted and crocheted jumpers / sweaters/ tank tops for some teddy bears. And I recently had bought me a Mandala crocheting book from my daughter for my birthday and so I am now enjoying creating some mandala’s in crocheting.

The first is a bag I have done and crocheted the outside.. I made from a canvas back and created some pockets inside

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  Red little sweater for a teddy bear

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  A little green sweater for a teddy bear about twelve inches in height

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  The back view of a little jacket

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  A coat cardigan I knitted for myself in some spare wool I had left over

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  My crocheted blanket throw

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  One of my recent Mandala’s I did this weekend.

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  Tank Tops for teddies .

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  The inner liner.. This bag I got from the Flower show the other year I attended.

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  I made inner pockets one open the other buttoned out of cotton linen.

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  The outer bag I crocheted which was sewn to the liner bag. Its the same both sides

Creations in Yarn

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  Meditation Tree in Acrylics a present for a friend

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  A glitter butterfly, another present for a friend

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  Stone Circle in Acrylic

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  And I tried my hand at painting on glass, Some jigsaw patterns in the bottle Light I created.

So my friends, that is what I have been doing while I have been absent from blog land.. I feel the need to be creative. I hope you also embrace your creativity .. Enjoy ALL you create.. All you grow..

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will” – George Bernard Shaw

May you never stop Imagining into being that which you wish to create..