Lucky me, I was a winner in Audrey and Maude’s recent pattern giveaway, and received these two sweet softie patterns.

I saw these in real life at the Quilt and Craft fair recently.  They’re now added to my to-make list!  Which first … I think maybe one of the robots.  Thanks so much to Louise and Cathy for their generosity (and their talent – I love these softies)!

In today’s mail was the latest blog VIP swatch mailout from Amitie.

These are all from Anna Maria Horner’s Garden Party line.  What beautiful saturated colours and swirling lines.  Will I need some more pieces I wonder?  I’ve done a little more work on the loopy loops too.

They’re all now edged, thanks to Sarah’s excellent instructions.  They’ll probably be a scarf for a little while – at least until I crochet some more loopy loops to join together into a blanket.  This length is made up of 105 loops.  The edging yarn is also scrap stash yarn – hence the change of colour half way through.