It's All About The HOME...

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This New Year...

it's all about the HOME...

A granny good Home of course...

Putting my best foot forward and making

my home life extra special...

Lots of gardening...painting...prettying up...

and most of all 

lots of LOVE....

I do hope everyone's New Year will be just sweet...

Thank you for all of your support over this last month...

it has made me realize that there is so much more I could be doing

instead of feeling all wishy washy...

Like crocheting some more...

I have started working on some more patterns 

and will have one out in January...

Cross fingers...

But for now...keep up the granny goodness that you know so well...

And I will see you very soon in the New Year...

Merry Christmas

Wishing you all a very...

Merry Christmas 

and a granny good New Year...

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With the help of a last minute "How To"

by the lovely Dottie angel

Thank you my dears for your sweet words 

and kind thoughts 

over this past year...

You make it all worth it...

Reflecting...

Reflecting...
Originally uploaded by Loving The Vintage

Reflecting...
on a year almost past...

Surrounding myself with comfort and memories...

Carnations...my favorite flower...
Garlands...to hold me together...
Tissues...in case I need to cry...
Tea...to sooth the soul...
Granny Blanket...to keep my safe and loved...

Chevron Granny Blanket pdf

Thank you all my very special dears...

for all the well wishes and kindness

for our sudden loss of our dear pet Millie...

Your comments have helped me so much...

I would love to thank you all

so I have added a

Chevron Granny Blanket pdf

in my sidebar...

It is free,

but I can only have the pdf link for 30 days

through the host server...

So please feel free to download it and save to your computer...

I do hope it works as I am new to uploading this sort of thing

I know you will need Adobe to access this...

Wishing you much granny goodness... Michelle...

Farewell my sweet Millie

You will be so dearly missed...

You were taken from us tragically yesterday morning...

and the tears keep flowing...

I would like to say more...

But it hurts too much...

Know we will always think of you as our little friend...

Always in our thoughts

and now sadly in just our memory...

About my tutorials

With the festive season approaching 

and many of my dears

crocheting their decorations...

I have had a lot of e-mails asking about my free tutorials...

so I thought I would help out

and answer a few here...

You are most welcome to use my free tutorials...

You are more than welcome to borrow a image and post a link with it to my free tutorials...

You don't even have to contact me...But I do like to see every one's lovely work...

You can of course sell your finished product...even on etsy...

Changing my tutorial significantly and posting a tutorial on your site is also most welcome...

Things I find not ok...Are...

 This is more a blog etiquette thing...

Copy and paste my tutorial and posting it on your site...

I have only ever given one person permission for this...

and it was so it could be translated into another language 

so more people can benefit from some granny goodness...

Taking your own pictures of the "Grandma step- by- step Tutorial" and posting it...

Changing the pattern slightly and posting it as your own step-by-step tutorial...

eg of slightly : colour changing, adding a picot etc...

This doesn't mean showing these steps that you have come up with...

it means the whole tutorial from start to finish with a few added steps included... 

(did that make sense?)

I have always kept the original patterns very basic...

no colour changes,adding an extra row of dc(sc), or adding picots etc...

because I really want the patterns to be used by everyone...

including people who are only learning...

and by keeping it simple the finished product is achievable...

also if you are an advanced crocheter you can add these things quite easily without

a step-by-step tutorial...

and of course I always love seeing these as finished products...

and I do know a lot of my dears out there have done just that and they look amazing...

 and thank you so much for sharing your versions with me...

I do realize that many people can and have come up with some of my patterns without every seeing my tutorials or pictures...That's just the beauty of crocheting and trying new things out...

and if you have come up with a pattern that looks identical to mine without realizing it or every seeing mine till now...that's wonderful...

I would never want to upset anyone that has made a pattern from scratch

and it just happens to look like one that I did as well...

I do hope these last things haven't upset anyone...

I do believe though if you stick to the general blog etiquette rule

sharing links and pictures we can all

keep up the granny goodness...

and all enjoy the wonderful free things you can find on the internet...

P.s...Thank you MADE BY KATE for the lovely jute idea...

I'm loving it this year!!!

Little Granny Bag via flickr

My Little Granny Bag
Originally uploaded by bunny mummy

Thank you Bunny Mummy...
For adding your finished Little Granny Bag to the
Flickr group...

It is so amazing to see one finished!!!
Looking just sweet in the snow...

It feels like snow here...
even thou we are in the first week of summer...

What is happening to the weather lately?

We are having flooding across so many parts of the east coast of Australia...and the garden is starting to go to mud and mildew...

I think we are all mixed up...

Are you my dears feeling mixed up...

I think I am...

Must be time to sit and get out the yarn and try to keep myself busy
and stop myself feeling mushy...

Christmas mantle

Christmas mantle
Originally uploaded by thatischarming

Thank you "That is Charming"
for adding your beautiful Christmas mantle
picture to the Grandma Tutorial Group...
I adore these little trees with the
added stars...
And the coloured trunks are too cute!!!
It makes me feel all
motivated to get out the hook and yarn
and make some more too...

Thank you all for your lovely comments on my last tutorial...
and please don't forget to add your pictures to the group...
They always inspire me...And I do need some inspiring lately...
To many hours at work and not enough hours
to do the fun stuff...

Like Crocheting...