Posted by Today, for one brief day, the sun came out!
The promise of a pancake breakfast lured my daughter out of bed to join me in an early morning bike ride down our local section of the cycle network before the hoards descended on the area to enjoy the sunshine.
A quick trip to ikea to finally replace our rotting garden furniture culminated in an hour of rather successful joint flat back erection.
A new garden table against which to photograph my finished African Flowers.
I also dug out my Planet Penny stash of cotton.
This is the haul for my first amigurumi, the stripy giraffe. The first of many amigurumi I intend to crochet between now and December for the little people of the family.
This is the original giraffe ( by Emma from I love Buttons) I came across a few months ago on Pinterest and promptly lost. But now he is found once more! I love the stripes.
Pattern by Emma of ILoveButtons . Miss B of InStitches was kind enough to direct me to the pattern, after my request on a previous post. It was exactly the one I was looking for.
The BBC have promised us rain and chill again for the next few days. Ah well, it was good while it lasted.
Love, Lucie x
Love, Lucie 
‘flat back erection’?? ooer missus! I assume you mean flat pack which doesn’t sound quite so thrilling.
Loving all those african flowers and the giraffe is gorgeous although I think you should have gone for a zebra if you wanted stripes – just saying!
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Urmmm yes, I did mean flat pack erection! But loath to change it now. Far too funny!
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Lucie, you are such an inspiration with your crafty ideas. I finished my stripy blanket (which I found via your blog) before I left on vacation. The striped giraffe is such a cute idea! Have a great week. (I hope to post my stripy blanket photo next week)
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Glad you finished your blanket. I love mine. Looking forward to seeing your version!
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What lovely colours for your crochet, and your giraffe and flowers are great! Have a good week, whatever the weather. Chris x
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I wish I could take credit for the giraffe but this one is the image from the pattern. I’ve edited the post as you were not alone in thinking it was mine. Thanks for popping by.
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The new furniture looks a perfect back drop for the African flowers, and the giraffe is lovely.
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I’m sure I’ll use the table as a backdrop for masses of photos. It’s good to have plenty of light again for photographs after such a long grey winter.
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Your crochet is so wonderful.. Was the giraffe pattern easy to follow? I can crochet a little and have seen many little critters like him and long to make one but patterns scare me (that is crochet patterns not spots and stripes!) xxx
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The african flowers look amazingly zingy, I love the colours. I also have the giraffe pattern in my list of to do’s, he is gorgeous.
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So nice to have to sun out to photograph them!
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Wow, you have been productive. The sunshine really makes the colours zing. I am back to work tomorrow so not too bothered about the weather;)
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Work for me too. And it is raining.
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Not sure that in reality it makes it any easier?
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No not really. Would be nice to come home to a sunny garden.
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Oh yes. We had a bit of sun this evening before it threw it down!
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I love that giraffe! Colours are wonderful together. Yes it’s depressing the weather forecast after 2 nice days!
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I hope you don’t think the giraffe is mine! He’s the image from the pattern. I hope mine will look just like him.
Back with the brolly tomorrow ;(
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First off, STASH-*ENVY*!! :-} Even though I have *enough* to FILL a shop!
And, BRILLIANT job on ALL of those HEXes!! – Personally, I’ve always loathed that “Assembly Required” bit! So, kudos to You *when* You get it done!
BTW, love that Giraffe too. And the Quilt it’s sitting on…
😀
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I love this Planet Penny cotton. I save it for all my mini makes. It came as a mixed lot so all the colours go well together.
Unfortunately the giraffe is not mine but I hope mine looks as good!
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Wow, your African flowers are looking lovely, and a great choice of colours too. I’ve seen quite a few images of these recently, and i’m not sure I’ll be able to resist making one for much longer. Look forward to seeing your version of the giraffe, he is very cute!
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I had been looking at the African flowers for ages too. Have you seen the bears and hippos made from them?
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very beautiful colours for the african squares and the giraffe is so cute
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Super colours on the African flowers. Your crochet is so neat, with no sloppy gaps like I get in mine! Wonder if I can come join your family as a little one so I can have a giraffe?
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Ha, ha! You have to be under 3 foot to be classed as a little person!
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The giraffe looks great, I can’t wait to see your version. I love the african flowers, they must have taken you ages.
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The giraffe is great fun to do. Two arms completed so far.
As for the hexagons, they didn’t take long at all. I had a bit of a system going with each colour way.
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Oh nooooo! Looks like I’ll have to go shopping for a new table now 😉
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Ha, ha! I’m hoping to serve afternoon tea the day before my wedding so the relatives can all meet each other. I couldn’t be responsible for giving them all splitters.
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Your African flowers are beautiful, as is your Giraffe:) if only Ikea was nearer….!
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