Friday Smiles 2024 # Week 38

Another week of chaos here but quite a positive one. We now know that the agent will be here to take photos on 1st October so we have a target to get everything finished by. It will all look a lot better after the weekend when we can again put large items out by the bin for collection. Then we can rearrange the furniture as we want it. 

I had warned Tom he might be doing some painting and here he is covering the two-tone wall that was behind my cupboards. Now my computer desk is in the middle of the room and this afternoon he will paint the walls on the opposite side of the room. It has covered well and looks so much better.

I have been trying to get decent photos of the two cats to make a re-homing poster and they are very uncooperative. As soon as they see me with my phone out, they look away. This is the best I have managed so far.

This little fellow has taken up residence in my kitchen this week. I don't know where he hides away all day, but each evening he is up on the ceiling, hopefully catching a few midges etc for his supper. Tolly hasn't noticed him there, but Leo was instantly aware of him, and each night he eats his supper with one eye on the ceiling. but he can't get anywhere near it, so it is quite safe up there.

Last week I showed two baby blankets I had made and here is another. This is big enough for a pram or pushchair. I used to make these little squares with left over scraps of yarn, when ever I needed something to do at sewing because my current project was too big and cumbersome to carry around. Every square is unique. Sometimes I would take a bag of red scraps with me, another time yellow etc and I had no idea how many I had made. It turned out I had 72 in total, so I arranged them in ten rows of seven, and ditched a couple. I crocheted them together and did a simple border. It was intended to keep going until there was enough for a bed, but this is big enough to be useful for one of the food bank regulars. Fortunately I had fastened in the ends of each square as it was finished, or this would have been a much bigger task to complete.

I have one more small blanket to finish sewing up and work a border for. I also had a colourful strip of work that I did years ago to try out a pattern from Attic 24, but I found it hard to work the long rows and knew a blanket would be heavy to hold, so I had just left it. I showed a friend at sewing and said "I don't think I can do anything with this bit" and she said "Yes you can. Add a fringe along each end and you will have a scarf for one of the children's Christmas boxes." So last night I did that. It is just waiting for me to get my good scissors to level up the edges and that is it done. It is good to see all these old projects being put to good use.

And that is how this week has rushed along. Next week will probably be even busier but then we can settle down and do the rest of the sorting in our own time, though we will of course have to keep everywhere tidy in the hope that there will be some viewings soon.

Now I have to unplug my computer again and get all the cables out of the way, so tomorrow I will link up to Annie's Friday Smiles using my tablet if I can.