Its May and time for the Monthly Mand-a-long

 Hello lovelies and Hello May! I am super excited to share my May mandala with you today.

 

 

 

So instead of taking this little project with my on my jolly hols, I figured I would be able to whip it up in a night or two on my return, well it seems the girl was wrong (yet again)! Not so much because the pattern was complicated, but largely because I seem to have fallen out of love with my choice of colours just before the final hour, just a little annoying right?!

 

 

 

So the night before last, two rows before finishing, issues with composition brought on a dichotomic moment when sheer excitement stared sheer frustration right in the face and out came the yarn, yikes, don't you loathe it when this happens. Saying that sometimes it just has to be done.

 

  

 This gorgeous pattern by Wink has been heaps of fun to work (thanks Wink!).

 

 



 

 

It certainly kept me mindful throughout, well as much as one can be whilst trying to watch the first few episodes of the first series of Breaking Bad, oh my where have I been??? I have been um and ahhing for some time now to buy the series and then finally succumbed upon our return. Lets just say that our evenings for the next month or so are firmly secured and that I am avoiding all social invitations (well mostly!). Anyone else addicted? or is this just so yesterday?!

 

 

On Tuesday my gorgeous friend spoilt me with some beautiful crab apple blossom and Camelia's (one of my fave's) from her Mum's garden and I have had such fun admiring these pretty blooms against the gorgeous colours of this Mandala.

 

 

 

I worked the Mandala using Drops Paris in colours, Apricot, White, Light and Dark Grey, and Dark Turquoise. I kinda love the unusual colour of the Apricot, anyone else used this before?

 

 

 

 

So for June, I am planning a cute little Mandala that I am quite excited to start work on. I found the lovely pattern on Ravelry and for those of you who want to join in and hook the same Mandala, you can find the 'Starflower Mandala' pattern here on Ravelry or you can find it on Zelina Oliver's gorgeous blog Zooty Owl's Crafty Blog. Isn't this pattern just gorgeous?? I just Love it and can't wait to hook it. To be honest it wasn't the original plan for June, but when I saw it I just knew I had to hook it. Fortunately it also seems that the lovely lady is more than happy for us to hook away, so thank you so much Zelina, how very kind of you!



Image courtesy of Zelina Oliver (http://zootyowlcards.blogspot.co.uk/)

For those of you who have managed to create a Mandala, I would love to see your creations so please add your link below and for those of you who haven't yet managed to get around to it but would like to, don't worry the link up is open for a month, so you can add your link anytime or you can just join in as and when you feel up to it. For those of you who are new to my blog or are just visiting (hello and welcome!) and would love to join in over the next months, you can read more about my Monthly Mand-a-long here.



So before I sign off and return to my bake-a-thon, I will just take a humble moment to yet again grovel that I haven't gotten around to any blogs, bare with me I promise to get there soon. For now though there is a party to organise for Saturday and shortly after there is a great deal of sewing I need to do for school, but somehow in between it all I will make some time to catch up on all your news. For now though I have a kitchen covered in a cloud of flour dust and blue icing, oh the joys of parties, its a good think I love doing them!

Sending you all much love and wishes for a fun and creative May and a wonderful May Bank Holiday for those of you in the UK, may the sun shine down on us, pretty pleeeeeeezzzze!!

Warm Wishes
Hannapat
xoxoxo

 

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