Second one finished

Remember I showed you the beginnings of my granny square scarf last week? Well, the few squares I had completed whilst sitting in front of the fire in our little French cottage. I actually managed to finish it while we were there. I have decided that I do like crocheting a heck of a lot better than knitting, so the third scarf for Vicki's Pink Scarf Project is probably going to be a crocheted one as well. But I am getting ahead of myself, lol, you want to see pics of the finished scarf, don't you?

Here you go -

And as this is a very pink post indeed, I am linking it to the gorgeous PINK SATURDAY linky party over at Beverly's How Sweet the Sound blog.

Toodlepip xxx

Pink Saturday

I haven't done a Pink Saturday post for ages, but as I am knee deep in pink wool at the moment, it seemed a good idea to post my scarf progress on this Pink Saturday.

I bet you all know about Vicki's PINK SCARF project by now. So many people have already contributed and you can see some of the gorgeous creations on her post here. I remember showing you the beginnings of my first scarf quite a while ago. Well, at long last that very simple scarf is finished, and I have started on my second one. I love granny squares, so I am making a pink granny square scarf -

This was the first scarf I made, a knitted one with little flower embellishments. I found some really sweet scarf pins with pink beads, perfect to go with the pink scarves, I think -

Happy Pink Saturday!

Toodlepip xxx

Pink Scarf Project

A little while ago, my friend Vicki from the 2 Bags Full blog posted about her year long project called the Pink Scarf Project.

Please read all about it HERE on her blog. Such a very worthwhile cause and of course I wanted to make a scarf as well. 

As you know, we are in France at the moment, and as you also know, our cottage is pretty much in the middle of nowhere. Now, I had some pink wool which I had bought in the summer,

and I had crochet hooks, but knitting needles? Nope. And no wool shops or haberdashery shops in the nearest town ( 13km ) to get any. So I started making a few embellishments first, and waited for the brocante shop in a town nearby to open on Wednesday. And I got my knitting needles there, yay! Pink ones, of course! -

I am a very basic knitter, but I thought that with some pretty flower embellishments even a plain scarf would look nice. The wool I used for the scarf is very fine, as I wanted a very fluffety light scarf,

and for the flower embellishments I used a slightly thicker pink yarn

and the most delightful deep raspberry pink, very fine silk/metallic yarn -

You gonna get lots of pink pictures now, lol, because it all looked so sweet! -

I am really enjoying knitting and crocheting at the moment, it gets dark quite early now, and it is so cosy and comfy spending the long evenings sitting by the fire and playing with wools.

Toodlepip xxx

Oh, I might just link this post to Beverly's PINK SATURDAY at the How Sweet the Sound blog, even though the theme over there this week is mostly fall stuff.