go south in the winter

Hello! How are you? Good, I hope. I'm feeling rather relieved myself as I have completed my January paperwork a little ahead of schedule and can now breathe easily....

I thought I'd show you where the husband and I had our coffee yesterday morning. We were just above Poldhu, overlooking Church Cove and the waves were incredible, very clean and impressive. It's a lovely spot to sit and enjoy the space - next stop America from that viewpoint. We bundled up warmly in the crew cab of Bertie the Landrover and felt very cosy indeed.

I've been searching for just the right crochet motif - I want to create a spotty fabric but nothing so far seems quite 'spotty' enough. Is that perhaps a limitation of crochet? A Granny square gives much more of a cross motif in the centre which isn't quite what I wanted. This large motif isn't right (most definitely unblocked in the picture) so I tried a different version with less rounds.

This is better - and much more square - but still features a lot of white. I've got much more red yarn than white yarn so I perhaps need to try another version with even less white rounds. Do you know of a good spotty motif that might work here? Perhaps popcorn stitch in a round?

I'll leave you today with this photograph of the latest addition to the farm - little piggies! Aren't they adorable? The husband picked them up on Saturday and chose the ginger pig especially (after all, he IS married to a redhead...). The other piglet is pink with black spots, one of the spots falls just over one eye which is rather rakish - he looks to be winking at us.

Cheerio for now. xx

Posted by Anita at January 26, 2010 03:11 PM