Thank you, Lucy!

I have followed Lucy’s blog, Attic24, for several years. I love reading about her lovely crochet, her life and looking at the wonderful photos she takes. Lucy loves walking in the countryside and one of her favourite spots is Bolton Abbey. All her photos of this area, whatever the season, are beautiful and I’ve always thought I would love to visit one day. That happened last Friday. We had spent a few days in the Lake District and stopped off here for a walk. I had previously contacted Lucy to ask if she could suggest a walk on the flat as I can’t manage hills anymore. She kindly replied with a suggestion which we followed.

What a wonderful walk we had. A perfect gentle stroll alongside the River Wharfe, the sun was shining, the birds were singing and the river was rippling along, the water glinting in the sunlight.

I’ll share a few photos to show you how lovely it was:

The river here was shallow and underneath quite brown so we guessed there was a lot of iron in the soil.

 

We came across this memory bench, carved out of a tree trunk where hundreds of 1p and 2p coins had been hammered in.

A close up:

We hope father and son are resting peacefully together beside the river in the midst of the beautiful trees and wild plants.

So, thank you, Lucy, for introducing us to such a magical place, a day we will always remember.

Julbilee decorations

 Here in the UK we are gearing up for the Queen’s 70 years on the throne, her Diamond Jubilee. What an amazing achievement. Queen Elizabeth II is our longest living monarch and has been present for most of my life.

Our town is beginning to look jolly with shops decorating their windows with red, white and blue merchandise, bunting and flags and now bollards are having red, white and blue flowers and 4 bollards have been completely covered to become Grenadier Guards! Very impressive!

Not a wonderful photo but you get the idea.

I am sure everyone I passed was enjoying the decorations too. People seemed more smiley and chatty, everyone passing the time of day as you passed. I’m calling it the Jubilee Effect!

Hunting out the Green scraps for May

 I didn’t think I would find many green scraps as it doesn’t seem that long since I was making Green  RSC blocks last year. How time flies!

But this is what I found:

 

Front right loads of 2” squares. Only a few 2.5” squares, quite a few strips. Then chunks, larger strips and Fat quarters. Quite a hoard.

I will start with Bear Paw blocks in my three chosen sizes. I have so many 2” squares but one of my RSC blocks is the Easy Peasy one but I already have 14 green ones from last year. So I may cut up some of the scraps into 2.5” squares and make some more green Twinkler blocks ( I have 9 in my stash at the moment). Then some green String blocks. As I have some larger pieces of green fabrics I think I may make a Crumb quilt, using “Boy” Crumb blocks with green fabric squares and make a similar quilt to the Pink one I did in April. After that we’ll see!!

Linking up with Angela’s So Scrappy blog.