Colourful Hooky Delights!

I am a huge fan of crochet and yarn and have been so ever since my nanny taught me to hook when I was a teenager.  I have such lovely memories of learning to crochet and to stitch with her and these memories will stay with me forever.  A few years ago I needed a refresher on my hooky skills and a very special mum of one of my friends came to the rescue and I have not looked back since.

The thing I love most about yarn is colour!  There are soooooooo many beautiful yarns and colours and I simply cannot get enough of them.

As you can imagine I have quite a collection of blogs that I am totally addicted to and this includes some amazing yarny, hooky, crafty blogs.

One of my favourites is cocorosetextiles.blogspot.com.au .



You have to see this beautiful blog for yourself!!!  Simple, clean and pretty and full of her everyday potterings and creations.

One day this gorgeous creation popped up and I knew imeadiately that I had to investigate this further.

http://cocorosetextiles.blogspot.com.au/2014/01/ta-dah-of-happiness.html



Before I move on I just need to reinforce the urgency of adding this gorgeous blog to your favourites list!

So this post led me to another gorgeous hooky and colourful blog.

http://myrosevalley.blogspot.com.au/



And here I found this!

http://myrosevalley.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/the-story-of-nordic-shawl.html

This is a beautiful story!  Very touching indeed!



My next stop was here!!!!!!!!

http://myrosevalley.blogspot.com.au/2013/11/the-nordic-shawl-pattern.html


So by now you can imagine I was a bit excited and very pleased with myself! The pattern is very easy to follow and I was up for the challenge!

My next problem to solve was to find suitable yarn.  I was after cotton yarn and I had a particular colour scheme in mind.  I knew the perfect place to head to find some gorgeous yarn, sold by a delightful little biz right here in Australia!

My journey led me here.

http://littlewoollie.blogspot.com.au/



This blog is amazeballs!!!!!!  It is like that first cup of tea from my spotty teapot first thing in the morning!!!  I just love it!  And one of the other amazing things about Little Woollie is her yarn store!!!!!!

http://www.littlewoolliemakes.com.au/



This is not like any yarn store I have ever been to!  My parcel arrived in the most gorgeous packaging I have ever laid eyes upon!  I will post pictures of the packaging soon!  It is seriously the most gorgeous I have ever seen and as you can imagine I have made a few purchases from little bizzes all over the world!!!

I chose Heirloom Cotton 8 ply for my nordic shawl!  Wool makes me quite itchy so I always use cotton.

Here are the colours I chose.

Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!  Are they not soooooooo cute!!!!  So I have been busy hooking away creating my very own nordic shawl!!!  I have actually ordered some more of this yarn to make some scarves as well!!!!  

Here is a sneak peak of my shawl in progress.  The photo is not the best, however I will take my camera out into the autumn sunshine tomorrow and take some better ones for you and some pics of the packaging!

Oh I just love it, however this photo does the colours no justice at all.  So stay tuned for some better pics ASAP.

Have a great week everyone and keep your eyes posted for some new designs very soon.

Suzie xxxxxx