homemade@myplace

It has been a while, right? ;oD I've enjoyed my summer holiday back in Italy in June and July (just one week was spent in Edinburgh : beautiful and cold!!!!) and the boys, the hubby and I were back in Maputo at the beginning of August, as the school was starting again the 11th….  So we are all back to our routines : boys in school, hubby at work and I back to my blog!!!! We have just moved in our 3rd apartment here in Maputo ( yes 3 moves in one year!!!!) and maybe for this reason my blogging will have some hiccups in the next couple of weeks … you know some boxes need to be unpacked…. well, you know what I mean! I just wanted to show you today some crocheted gifts I made this summer in Italy : are you interested??? Hope so !!!! At the end of July it was the birthday of my niece Mara, so she was born under the Leo zodiac sign… In the same days there was the brutal killing of Cecil, the majestic lion of Zimbabwe… so this is what I made, thinking at both of them, Mara and C...

… I have only KNITTED one cowl before (  here  and  here  ), not crocheted one….. never …. ….. but from today I can say that : I DID IT ! It all started with crocheting some granny squares ( 3 rounds each, with a 3,5mm hook), in 3 different colours ( light grey, turquoise and teal ), joined together with the "join as you go" method, forming some rectangles… …. it was an easy project to crochet and so relaxing at the same time ….. I choose to work 3 stripes for my cowl and each one is made of 6 "rectangles". In a couple of days it was completed and sewn … …. and I had to try it on !!!! ….. …. but I was not able to leave it as it was …. so imagine what happened next…. I choose a fourth colour ( black : beautiful colour, but a nightmare to see the stitches …. sigh! ) and I crocheted 1 simple row with granny shells, one for the top and for the bottom of the cowl … …. honestly, I couldn't avoid to crochet even a...