Block of the Month - March

This months block is the Wiggle square by Debi, this is one of several she has created for SIBOL
She asks that the pattern not be sold and she has given permission for K4C to use this
in our Block of the Month project. The only changes I made were using 8ply wool with a
4mm hook & 7 rows to make a 6 1/2" block. It is quite an easy block, but I did have to concentrate
on the corners, as the way the corners are done are quite different to granny squares and the way they are done is alternated on odd and even rows. Next month I am going to Tasmania for a
3 day weekend for the K4C Confab, I will take these squares as we will be joining donated squares
into blankets. I have received permission from a designer to use her pattern & we will be doing it
as a CAL (crochet-a-long it will be a mystery and given out at intervals)
I've never been to Tasmania,  I'm looking forward to relaxing, learning, reconnecting and having fun.

Happy New Year 2013 - Farewell to 2012 - SIBOL

2012 was a particularly bad one for us.
We had a close family friend and coach
pass away on our daughters birthday.
Then my father died around my Birthday
then my husbands father died 10 weeks
later, just 2 weeks before Christmas.
I'm hoping 2013 will be a better year.
I'm sharing photos of this years
Sydney New Years Eve fireworks,
they had a butterfly theme!
SIBOL has a butterfly theme too
& they have 14 SIBOL challenges
at the moment and one of them is a
butterfly theme. So if you would
like to join in take a look and email
Sue to ask her for more details.
Check out her website for deadlines etc

Here is a list of her current challenges
(current as at Jan 2013)

1.     Fruit & Vegetable Challenge.
2.     Gardening Challenge.
3.     Wartime Challenge.
4.     Underwater Challenge.
5.     Leaves Challenge.
6.     Transport Challenge.
7.     SPECIAL CHALLENGE 2012//2013. 

        Marie Curie Cancer Care Challenge (Daffodil Challenge).
8.     Butterfly Challenge.                        
9.     Debi's - 'Lavender Square' Challenge.  
10.   Luna's - 'Challenge to be advised'.
11.   Pauline's - 'Freeform Challenge' to be advised.
12.   SPECIAL CHALLENGE 2013.  'Linda's suggestion).

        'What a Wonderful World!' Challenge.
Raising money for 'Sight Savers' - Cataract Removal.
13.  'Make your own 'SIBOL' Blanket Challenge' 

(Squares 25) or one of your own design.
14.  'Make your own Large Granny Square Blanket'.

Lastly here is a photo of the bridge pylon that displayed a message for 2013.

I think it's a great message and I hope you do too.