Sucess and failure

25th July

What an interesting few weeks we've had in our eclectic home.  I have been very sporodic in my blogging but hope to be better in the coming weeks, would love you to pop by and share a coffee with me over the summer, you would be most welcome.

This week I share with you both success which are fun and my failures not so much.

I am in Norway this week and the latest craze to take over knitting fantatics here are cotton washcloths, either for kitchen or bathroom use.  They are colourful and soft to the touch, I can see why so many become hooked on them.  In fact there is even a facebook page dedicated to a dishcloth a week.  So whilst in Rome and all that as well as it fitting in neatly with me continuing my knitting challenge of knitting more this year, I set to.

Dishcloths galore, clever mamma

My attempt, thought I would make a nautical one for our boat

It took a lot of concentration

But frogging had to occur again and again

In the end I decided to make a sample to get
the pattern correct.  I managed but could not see
it was an anchor.  Can you? So decided
the pain was not worth it

It was after this disatrous encounter that I felt it would be safer both for my sanity and hurt pride to return to my love of crochet.  Magazines here always have crafty goodness within to make and I fell in love with some serviette ring holders.  A day later and I had eight made.  I am as pleased as punch and now want to make some for all occasions, thinking Christmas next... Over on IG some thought I was making a summer bunting with them. I may just do that too!

The beginnings of serviette rings, colurful and jolly

Cake and coffee place setting

Mocha roulade made, just waiting on the coffee

Crocheted motifs and sewn onto ribbon

On a high from the above I decided to bring out the bunting I began a while ago and to complete it, I am almost done, so hope to have it finsihed by the end of the week, it's looking just how I imagined.

Starting to put it altoghter

Photographing in Norway is so easy, so many great places

In other news from home, the garden is progressing and we are mightliy pleased although we did have a path failure, which I share with you here, it has now been rectified and we are delighted, but this will be another post...

Oh dear, too angular and not the
flowing path I had imagined

And another failure with glass :(  I love glass fusing as some of you may have noticed and I decided to make my uncle a bowl similar to the one here  but on firing it came out with a sharp edged bottom and a tad wonky.  It's ok and I am already using it, but it has to be classed as a failure as I can not give it to the intended recipiant.

Do you have many success and failures?

Have a wonderful week, joining in with Amy,  here sharing my five sucesses and failures with you.  Hope you have time to pop back over the summer, you are most welcome!

♥ Happy summer everyone ♥