giveaway winners

Yes "WINNERS". Plural. Because I was so grateful for your comments. Thank you so much for sharing your stories, suggestions and encouraging words, both here and on Facebook.Thank you for participating in the first giveaway of this blog. If you missed it, do not fear. There will be more in sha Allah!

But for now, using a random number generator, the winner is ...

TWEED DELIGHTS

And like I said, I wanted more winners! They will get a mini card set each. And they are ...

Runner up 1: DEROS

Runner up 2: BLUE PEARL

Winners please email me at: fruitfulfusion@live.co.uk with your postal addresses as soon as you can.

Once again thank you to everyone! I'm hoping to have some crocheted stationery and coin purses for sale in my Etsy shop in sha Allah! What Etsy shop? Details coming soon!

Now let me leave you with some more of N's lovely creations. We had a delicious Malaysian meal the other day, at her home and then ooh-ed and aah-ed over her embroidery ma sha Allah.

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creativity in other languages

Do you check out blogs in other languages?  If you don't, why not?  I used to scroll through them, looking at the lovely pictures.  But then I noticed Google Translate and decided to give it a go.  I do try to read the French blogs but if the posts are wordy I get lazy and hit "translate"!

These are some of my favourite non-English, creative blogs: 

Bead and Crochet Diary (Turkish) has lots of beautiful bead jewellery and crochet.

Over at Handmade Without Mind (Russian), Deros has lots of lovely embroidery.

I love the colourful crochet at Karin aan de haak (Dutch).

At Subhan'llah (French) you'll find gorgeous knits, some crochet and links.

Mam'zelle Flo (French) crochets, knits and paints beautifully. 

Ptites Mimines (French) is full of all sorts of craft, including kid craft!

And there are those clever folk that blog in more than one language:

Lots of crocheted jewellery at Ne Vous Installez Pas

Julia Vaconsin is a crochet designer who knits and sews too!

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pre-vacation finds and ufos (unfunished objects!)

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

We're going to Algiers in a couple of days in sha Allah! And we'll be away for about six weeks. Yes, SIX WEEKS!!! Plenty of time to slot in a bit of hook-action? But guess what, Hexalicious Blanket isn't coming with us!


I will miss her but some time apart should do us good! And daughter no.2 is taking her Hex Backpack which will ensure we get some eye-candy of the hexagon variety.


In the meantime we might get on with some other, more easily transportable crochet delights (projects that are gathering dust in a bag somewhere!) and I really must finish this shawl.


Initially, I was unsure about the colour. But as the shawl grew the colour grew on me! The white flecks break the lime up a bit. It's a bit of a chumky one too. I can imagine it keep someone snug and warm on a cold, winter's evening.


While I've been packing for our trip, I've been clearing out, cleaning up and organising. During my efforts, I came across a few things under piles of other things or stuck behind other things at the backs of drawers and cupboards!

Here is one of those things:


Made by Me, aged 8 or 9! It's a bit tatty and discoloured. But it's given me craft ideas for the kids!

I also came across an old sketch book with quite a few unfinished projects.


I might have to take the sketch book along with me too!

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