Blog Challenge Intro

So I kinda went off on a tangent yesterday about the sorry state of my laptop rather than actually introducing the challenge to you so I will do that now!

The idea is to post something every day for the next 30 days or so. Some days it may just be a picture with a description and on others it could be a whole essay. Well probably not an essay but something more than a paragraph.

The reason I wanted to start this, other than testing the last legs on my laptop, is just to get me here more. My posts lately have been few and far between and mostly pictures. I'm hoping to mix it up a bit. Winter is a hard time for me as I don't get out as much and the landscape isn't as pretty without all it's leaves so I find it hard to get motivated to go exploring.

Most of the following posts will be more inwardly relating I think. You might learn a few things about me (whether you want to or not is a different story) and I might learn a few things about myself.

The general idea for the challenge came from pinterest but I've made it my own but mixing up a few that I found and also throwing in a few of my own prompts. I plan to write them all on little slips of paper which I will put in a jar and whatever I draw that day I will write about. Wish me luck!

Are you doing a blog challenge at the moment? If so leave me a link so that I can go check it out.

Pinterest Project

For me winter is a time for hot food, roaring wood fires and craft fads. The long evenings inside mean that I need to find something to occupy me but with my limited attention span my hobbies rarely last more than a season. Last year it was loom bands, the year before scrapbooks and knitting nancy, this year I've stumbled across crochet.

I find the best hobbies for me are ones that keep my hands occupied but don't require a lot of concentration because the tv is usually on and I find noise very distractive. I like to be able make things and have the satisfaction of looking back at them even if they are useless!

Considering I have only started to crochet this week I'm quite pleased with my progress. My first little play around with the wool produced these little balls which I made without a pattern or any idea what I was doing. The best part is that I don;t really know how they happened or what to use them for and when I tried to follow a pattern for a ball I couldn't get past the first row!

 After mucking about making swatches of random double stitch and single stitch I decided I had better try to actually make something so I turned to my old friend Pinterest for ideas. I came across a pattern for a phone cover which said it was suitable for beginners so off I went. It was easy enough and the only mistake I made was that I didn't really make it wide enough so although it fits my phone, it's a really really tight fit which isn't very convenient if I want to check it regularly. I did make it though and it hasn't fallen apart yet so I'm still pretty pleased!

 And of course I can always make another. I also have a couple of other little ideas that I want to try to crochet so I'll let you know how I go. Do you know any easy crochet patterns for me to try?