Snowflakes

Christmas is coming and the staff at work have decided to decorate the ward already. The girls on night duty had a few quiet moments and started cutting snowflakes from templates you can download on the internet. The snowflakes looked a little dull in white due to all the white walls on the ward, Up against the desk (in grey-brown ) they look great and stand out, and they also look lovely on the windows but a bit of colour is required for the white walls
Hence I have hit my stash of paper and dragged out every blue sheet I can find. Last night I spent cutting (in between being sick) and produced this lot.
Enjoy!

Christmas Stockings

Well I've been trolling across the internet again and have spent many hours finding delicious inspiration and linking up with many new blogs to follow. I found a lovely crochet link up  on Annemarie's Haakblog and spied these luscious snowflakes to be found here

I seem to have altered my pattern slightly  to the original pattern (thats because I am totally slack and dont go back to reference what I am doing once it looks right) Either way it is not a difficult pattern and not too time consuming

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Once I had the large snowflake pattern down pat (my way) I started to add extra chains in to make the spikes more pronounced. Then I decided I wanted some smaller ones  and linked them to make a chain.
My original thought was to utilise these on a christmas stocking with alot of snowflakes on a plain background, but then we are all entitled to change our minds. So I made several stockings.

This snowflake was actually dropped into my cup of tea and stained brown. I rinsed it but it was still too discoloured so I dipped the edges into beetroot juice (straight out of the can).

 (the underside)

Thanks for persevering through all of those photos