Show and tell week 18

This weeks SATurday
(Show And Tell day)
is more "Re-Joyce-ing Squares"
I'm actually quite happy with the colours
in this photo, they are quite true.
Thanks to Nicole for naming this square.
Here is her reaction when she won.

"Oh how exciting!!! 

I did enjoy making the squares, 

and I have to tell you that the family

helped with the names and every time 

we came up with another name I had to make another square! 

Then I ran out of different colour varigated, so had to stop there. 

As soon as I made "Re-Joyce-ing", that was my favourite.

( I am biased, purple is my favourite colour.  I had walked past that ball of wool so many times 

wanting it and thought no I will behave myself!!!) And then I thought why not.!!!! 

It would be perfect for your competition. Carnival Wool is wonderful with the different colours

 they have. We don't get too much choice up here.

Thank you for the competition.

Thank you for the book

I am going to LOVE looking through and making the squares also.

Take Care

Nicole

yipeee yahooo!!!!

I will go and make some Re-Joyce-ing Squares to send to Kerry for her COTM blanket for knit4charity

So you can see Nicole was happy with her  win and she has emailed to say the book has arrived.

This week I started to put a border colour around each of the "Re-Joyce-ing Squares" 

More about that next week

Show and Tell week 17

This has been a BIG week with the
Royal wedding and other things,
so alas this post is a day late.
Oh well better late than never I say.
Today was a lovely sunny day,
the first for a while,  so I spent
quite some time in the garden.
This weeks Show And Tell is some
Re-Joyce-ing squares.
It's great not to have to call them
Competition squares anymore.
I've just counted them and I now
have 34 Re-Joyce-ing squares

Competition Winner

A big thank you to everyone who entered and to all those who made comments along the way.
Just a reminder about how the competition started, take a look here
and you can find the pattern here
I had a hard time naming this square by myself, so I put it out there for some help.
Some of the names I came up with were Joyces' Choice, Tussie Mussie,
I won't bore you with the whole list.
Before I announce the winner I want to say that all the squares were lovely in their own right.
Grandmas garden window, Violetta and Cherry Blossom were highlighted with darker colours
 and are very special.
Grandmas Garden Flower, The flower garden square and re-joyce-ing had a dapple to them that reminded me of a garden in partial shade.
Bluebell, Blueberry, Joyful pickings, round and round the garden, Marvin and Sleeping violet were all lovely shades of blue, pink, mauve and burgundy.
Feather Joyce and Floral fantasy are both in variegated colours, which I am such a fan of.

I enlisted my Mum for help with the judging and we both
(thankfully) agreed on the winner.
Based solely on the name of the square we chose
"Re-Joyce-ing"
Congratulations Nicole from Sunshine Acres in
Queensland, which is on the East coast of Australia,
not far from Fraser Island.

 Nicole entered 5 squares, Floral fantasy,
The flower garden square, Grandmas garden flowers
and Grandmas  garden window, so she had a very good
chance of winning.


Her prize is a copy of Leisure arts 99 Granny squares
to crochet, you can see inside the book  here 
I hope you enjoy your prize Nicole.
I will post it on Monday.

Competition Squares Close up

Only a few days left until a winner is announced so I thought I would give  you a
close-up view of the Competition squares. In no particular order.......
I couldn't if I tried anyway, it was hard enough to get this together.

Violetta

Feather Joyce

Grandmas garden flower

Grandmas garden window

Bluebell

Floral fantasy

Joyful pickings

Blueberry

Round and round the garden

Cherry Blossom

The flower garden square

Re-Joyce-ing square

The "hedge" I used to take the photos

a close-up of the foliage. Lovely green leaves,
then burgundy leaves,  then spidery pink flowers

not to forget Marvin and Sleeping violet

Competition squares

I thought I would post a 
reminder of the squares I have received for the competition.
from left to right and 
top to bottom, we have:
1)Blueberry, Cherry Blossom,
 Violeta
2)Round and round the garden, 
Bluebell, Feather Joyce
3)The flower garden square, 
Floral fantasy, 
Grandmas garden flowers
4)Re-Joyce-ing square, 
Joyful pickings,
Grandmas garden window


There are also the squares Sue
from SIBOL in the  UK received,
here they are, they are called
Marvin and Sleeping violet.
I'm looking forward to making
a blanket with them.


What name would you have 
chosen if you had entered??

Let me know which name 

would you pick to win??

Show and Tell week 16

This weeks show and tell is some Competition squares 
in various colours, all from variegated wool, of course!
 I quickly snapped a photo while the weather was nice. 
The competition ends in 
a weeks time, so I have 
this week to make a 
decision who the winner is.

More Competition Squares

The postie has delivered
4 more squares from Nicole
who hails from Queensland.
They are all so lovely,
I see she has used my favourite
Carnival wool too.
Nicole has also come up with
some great names.
The pink square is "Floral Fantasy"
beige is "The flower garden square"
blue is "Grandma's garden flowers"
last but not least the purple square is
" Re-Joyce-ing" square.
Some truly great names there,
thank you again Nicole for entering
I hope you enjoyed making and naming your squares.
This takes the total of squares entered to 14. I have 12 here and Sue at SIBOL in UK has received 2.
 There is still time to enter, the competition will close at the end of April.
The squares will be made into a blanket and donated to charity.

Competition square

I received a lovely square in
todays mail from Nicole in Qld .
Nicole's square is lovely and soft
and she has used yummy colours.
She has named her square
"Grandma's Garden window"
I love seeing how the ladies have
taken the same pattern and
made it their own, by using
different colours, plain or
variegated and also adding
accent rows. It's typical of me
to slightly change a pattern to
suit my taste/ideas.
Thanks for entering Nicole
I am still waiting on some more squares but I think I will pick a winner at the end of April.

Competition squares

Mrs twins from SIBOL told me  a
while ago that she received 2 squares for the competition from Steph in the Uk. 
The burgundy square is made by 
Debbie, she has called it "Marvin",  
Steph has called her mauve square "Sleeping violet" 
Thanks ladies for entering the competition, they are both lovely squares, I love the colours
and the names. 
That makes  7 participants so far. 
I was recently visiting my mother for her birthday and showed her the squares that have entered so far and she was
"favourably impressed", (she loved them actually).
I hope you may be inspired to make a square and send it too.

Competition square Update

First of all I would like to thank everyone for their kind words and thoughts for my interview today. It was with the National and Regional managers and went for over an hour Whew! It wasn't that bad really. 

Hopefully it will make me more relaxed at any future interviews. .

I have received more Competition squares, so some show and tell is in order,

This lovely square is from Lisa from

Victoria and she has chosen the name 

"Joyful Pickings" I love the lemony 

cream colour she has used and 

the lovely dusky pink, she has done

a wonderful job

Thanks Lisa

Next we have a group of crafters that have made squares as a group project, 

it sounds like a fun thing to do.

Ames from Le Tigre Papillon started a group called Plain Tiger Butterflies

meeting in The Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne, you can read more about it here

So these squares on the left is Kathy's and she has named her square "Blueberry", her square looks yummy too.

On the right is Amy's, she has named hers "Feather Joyce"  Amy said she had 

a grandma called Heather Joyce, 

so it's nice that we can both honour our Grandmas together.

These two are made by Liz, 

she has named her squares "Bluebell" 
and "Round and round the garden"

they are so cute, like little twins. 

They remind me of the twinsets that
my grandmother used to knit for me.
I love the cute labels you have all
pinned to your squares, not only cute,
but helps me remember which is which

Last but by no means least, are these 2 squares from Wendy, she has named them "Cherry Blossom" and "Violeta", which I think suits them to a T. She did such a good job at weaving those ends in, I thought she had used special wool to achieve the great shading. I'm not sure if she realised, but
my grandmothers sister is called Violet, (Aunty Vi to me) 

I must say that I love how you have all added your own personality and I love your name  choices. I notice that you are all from Victoria, so hopefully we get some response from other states or countries. The pattern is here if you are interested. Thank you all for participating.