Happy Hexagonal Hooking

Most of my recent posts have been rather cookery heavy, so I thought I'd take a break and show you something different.

Pattern from Lucy at Attic 24

Very pleasing repetitive motion to use up all the scraps left over from this

Respice Finem

That was my school motto. Keep The End In View. Slightly strange for a school, I always felt... "Don't worry folks, you'll be out of here one day."

Yes, I am aware that it can be more profound than that, and if one is more Christian than most of my schooling was, then one can see it as keeping the end of this life and the start of the next in view. Although I think I'm struggling to spin this one, so I shall leave the motto aside and return to the point of this post.

The long game. A blanket. At least 10 years in the making.

Please ignore the garish colour scheme,

and the distinctly erratic tassels,

and enjoy with me (well, if you come round, and are very good, I might let you literally enjoy it) the warm cosy goodness of a finally finished blanket.

Pattern here, or for ravelry users, here.

Bizet the pig

Made for an operatically named friend. From this pattern.

My New Friends

Yesterday I made a tortoise from a copy of Crochet Today that I picked up in the local market for only 67p. Then feeling all inspired, I designed and made him a giant land snail friend - Swirly the Snail!