yearning for yarndale

Last year I couldn't crochet . My closest friend excitedly went to yarndale and I wished  I could have gone.

This year I cam crochet and we made plans to go but family issues and redundancy and lack of cash in general  meant neither of us could go

The I Gerber full off picture of the bunting , yarn bombing  not to mention the mandala and I feel disappointed  so to cheer myself I decided to make a mandala . Well not true really it's a vintage vase coaster  but it's basically sane thing lol.

It's actually something I made before here is my original

And here is today's effort

Love these colours and remind me of lucy choices . It cheered me up and broke my gloom.at missing out I hope it does the same to any of you also not lucky enough to go . Who knows I may see you next year

up up and away

 Was really pleased how quick this has worked up

 To make this I have borrowed from various sources. The general idea comes from.Lucy's happy flower .  The sun  from. Bunny mummy  blog and the cloud came from.a motif in simy crochet.  The star of the show is the hot air balloon which was ally designed by o e of my.closest friends . The pattern can be found on ravelry

Blog land myself I included having a bit of Mandala mania  but I love that this one can have a practical use as my house if getting covered by these no surface is safe lol.

I think all together it works really well . I plan to give this to my nephew to put in his nursery I think it will brighten up any room. 

mandala mania

  Blog land is full of mandala at the moment.  This heighten awareness comes in a big part to Lucy over at attic 24 . Who is busy preparing for yarndale I am very excited as hoping to go this year. Any way it got me thinking as I have a fair few of these myself . The above one  was my first attempt and I feel in love  them

 The next two examples  are from another blogger and both appeared in simply crochet magazine

 This is my latest and this came from.Lucy's blog. Not sure if I will send to yarn Dale  as I quite fancy making them.into some kind of display here as certainly running out of places to put them . Are any of you going to yarndale ? I would love to see if  you create your own mandala.