I finished the Dreamcatcher in time for Little Miss M’s birthday!
Hurray!
She loves it, especially as her big sister has one, she seemed especially pleased about that. I love it so much I am going to have to make one for myself as well.
It fits perfectly on a 40cm coated metal hoop which I got from Glitterwitch.
The 2ply crochet thread used is Rico Essentials with the turquoise (Tropic) from Scheepjes Sweet Treat. I used a 2mm hook.
The pattern is Tuuli by Zoya Matyushenko, a free pattern if you join her Facebook Group
Zoya’s patterns are a delight to work, at almost every row you could stop and have a finished design
I’m tempted to try one in DK to see what size it would be, but just at the moment it is so hot here I don’t even feel like crocheting – now that is seriously hot!!!
Little Miss M’s birthday party was yesterday – on the hottest day so far this summer in the UK (according to the News) – the theme was ‘The Greatest Showman’, there was a bouncy castle, dressing-up, a Mum brought a rainbow coloured parachute for parachute games, circus skills eqipment to play with… it was fun! It was HOT! I got out my little indoor watering cans and sprinkled the children on their heads, wrists and the backs of necks to keep them cool.
Rain is forecast for Sunday – yes please!!!
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What a great birthday party, even though it was so hot. I have visions of you, gently watering the children, they will all grow inches this year now! Love the dream catcher, so bright, I can see why she loved it!
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It was a great party and Little Miss M seemed happy after her months of planning and talking about it – Phew! I loved the way the children all lined up to be watered! and went away with beaming smiles – I imagined them growing like weeds in front of me! 🙂
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Looks wonderful Sandra! We have had 5 minutes of Proper Rain this morning, with hopefully more to follow – hurrah!
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We too had a sprinkle in the night and proper rain is forecast for tomorrow – right on cue – the children have just broken up for the Summer Holidays!
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Only just broken up – not a week ago? I think there is still plenty of sunshine to come though ☀️
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One of them broke up last Tuesday – so it rained on their first weekend of the holidays. Yes, the forecast looks good, not quite so hot, for which I am very grateful!
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Indeed !! 🙂
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So pretty. Love the colours.
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Thank you Karina. Little Miss M and I seem to have the same favourite colours. I just love pink and orange together, it makes my mouth water!
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What a beautiful and colorful dream catcher! A wonderful happy birthday to Little Miss M.
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Thank you so much. 🙂
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Happy, happy birthday to Little Miss M. Sounds like the party was a blast, despite the heat. And what a fun theme.
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Thank you Laurie. It was a fun theme – a little worrying when she said she wanted an elephant there!
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Sounds like a lovely party and your mandala is beautiful – love the bright colours! Very wise of you to be sprinkling the kiddies during play yesterday. Do you have a small mister-spray bottle you can use on yourself? Keeping my fingers crossed for Sunday’s rain forecast for you!
PS/What are parachute games? Must try remembering to search “children’s parachute games”…
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I Googled ‘Parachute Games’ and this come up : http://www.kidactivities.net/games-parachute/
There was also a site for Parachute Games for Seniors!! HaHa!
I expect there are examples on Youtube too.
We have rain forecast here for Sunday, the first in months! but I don’t expect anyone will complain if we are all drenched! 😉
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It is beautiful! I can see why you want one! You could make a story about how yours connects you to your Granddaughter’s! All for happy princess dreams! :o)
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Oh what a lovely idea Eliz! Thank you. Little Miss M and I do seem to have a sort of telepathic connection, so your idea fits perfectly!
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This is so beautiful – and yes, you must make one for yourself!
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Thank you Pauline. Master R (brother to Little Miss M and Miss E) will be 9 in September and he very sweetly told me how he would like one to go with his blanket (happy Granny!) – so I’d better do that one first I think – ugh! back to the purple and greens!
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By the time you get time to make one for yourself you’ll be a whizz at making them up. I was thinking perhaps a hula hoop sized ring for you ……..
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Wow! Yes! That would be fun. Lucy of Attic24 makes mandalas on hula hoops, I’ll go look at those and see how she does it. Thank you for the idea.
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Oh, I must go look too, as I like the idea myself 🙂
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Did you find them? I had to search a bit, there are several of Lucy’s posts about her amazing mandala making but here are a couple of links: http://attic24.typepad.com/weblog/2016/09/mandala-hoops.html
http://attic24.typepad.com/weblog/2014/04/the-starflower-mandala.html
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Thank you Sandra – I haven’t gone looking yet – now I shall 🙂 I’ll report back…….
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Oh wow!! This is exactly what I was envisioning – fabulous! More inspiration for my next project!
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Fantastic aren’t they – I can imagine you combining the idea with your beautiful light catchers.
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That is indeed where my mind is going 🙂
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Exciting!
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What a super present, and the party sounds fun. I love parachute games!
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Me too – I was underneath the parachute taking photos – boy it was hot in there!
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