Tea Towel - prize draw

We need a quick drum roll, as promised I have just drawn the lucky winner who will receive two Tea Towels from  All Tea Towels  Such a generous giveaway, thank you Al

The lucky winner is Sara who has chosen the Garden Tools and Bramley Tea Towels - they sound adorable. I am so thrilled Sara I will contact you with the delivery details.

Hope everyone is well, talk soon

Tea Towel treat..............

February is racing along and before we know it we will be into March, where does time go? This has become a bit of a theme, I just don't seem to be able to fit everything in and my blog always seems to suffer. Lots of  things have been happening and I have some exciting things to share with you. The lovely people from Stitch Craft Create are going to give me a copy of the new book Hooked as a special give away prize, more details next week.

Also Al from All Tea Towels has contacted me about his lovely designer Tea Towels. Al had seen my blog and wondered if I would like to review the quality of his Tea Towels. Al has a background in Art and Design and runs his business single handedly. I checked out his website and fell in love with the Greengate Tea towels, especially Phoebe.  Al sent me one to try and also one of his popular slogan Tea Towels, You Complete Me, as a Jerry Maguire fan this was perfect!

The Tea Towels arrived really quickly and were beautifully wrapped in tissue paper, they are sent out by first class post which is free for UK orders. The Tea Towels were very soft and they looked even better in the flesh, my favourite is the Phoebe Tea Towel which looks perfect in my kitchen. Before I used them I popped them into the washing machine, following the washing instructions. The colours stayed bright and fresh and were very absorbent when drying the dishes, a job I hate but I was looking forward to putting them straight to work.

Al has kindly offered two Tea Towels of your choice as a little prize, so to enter my little giveaway pop over to Al's website check out his amazing Tea Towels and then pop back over to my blog and leave me a comment with the names of your two favourite Tea Towels. I will then randomly select a winner on the 26th February (my birthday) If you would like to increase your chance of winning you can also follow me on Facebook and leave a comment. You could also visit me on Instagram, all new followers will be added into the draw.


I'm excited for you all can't wait to do the draw.

talk soon xxx

Blog Hop................

A few weeks ago I was asked to review a new Crochet Book and also hook up a few of the amazing motifs featured in the book. I was so thrilled to be asked and have been wanting to show you my super cute creations but it has all been under wraps until today!!!

The lovely people over at Stitch Craft Create are launching a blog hop today to showcase some of the beautiful crochet patterns prior to the books release at the end of March. I was so pleased to be featured on day one of the blog hop, so please click here  and if you are really lucky you might win a copy of this amazing book........................

The book has been written by Michelle Delprat and her two daughters Cecile and Sylvie. The motifs are bright vibrant, quirky and lots of fun to make.

I adore the look and layout of the book, the illustrations are beautiful every page has been styled so simply but with great impact. I guarantee that by the time you have flicked through you will have a very hard task deciding what to make first. It's one of those books that at every page turn you exclaim oh I must make that, so by the time you get to the end you have a must do list as long as your arm.

The majority of the motifs are made with fine yarn and hooks as teeny tiny as 1.00 mm but Michelle advises that you can use any yarn and appropriate hook combination. I mainly used 4ply cotton and a 2.5mm hook but for my bluebird coaster I experimented with a DK cotton.

Some of the patterns are a little tricky but lots are very straightforward so it really suits all abilities. I would start with a little smiley face motif, so simple and will brighten up any day. I'm planning to stitch them onto some cotton draw string bags and they would also be great as mini brooches

As Valentines Day is just around the corner I had a lovely time making some little crochet hearts, I think I will string them to make cute heart bunting or maybe a little brooch for my mum.

You will already know I am a keen baker but these calorie free cupcakes are a sweet treat...............

One of the more quirky design was my blue bird coaster, you can make small, medium and large birds. I chose to make the largest and use it as a coaster for my favourite coffee cup. I used DK cotton yarn and I think a 3mm hook. I think the bird shape looks sweetest when made as a smaller motif but my chunkier large blue bird does make a great coaster.

Michelle,Cecile and Sylvie's simple moto is always to crochet with passion, something which is dear to my heart too. I have had such fun looking through this delightful book and creating some lovely motifs which has been a new form of crochet for me, I now have to think of all of the lovely things I can applique them onto.

In case you're interested, the folk over at Stitch Craft Create have just launched a crochet competition! Show them a photo of a motif you've crocheted and you can win a bundle of crochet goodies. You can upload your image to the competition share board to enter, or just put it on Twitter or Instagram – making sure to use the hashtag #mycrochetmotif (so they can find it). If you need more info, check out their blog. Good luck!

Hope you have a lovely Monday 

Talk soon x