How often does this happen to you? You have an idea of something you want to make and by the time you're done it turned out something quite different. To me it seems to happen all the time

At the moment I'm into crochet flowers and that's what I was trying to make when I got these leftover yarns from my crochet box. These were bought years ago by my mum, she knitted a jumper for Alex and I kept the leftovers. Anyway, there's me sitting on the sofa trying to come up with a new flower design and instead get this spiral thingy. It reminded me of some glass Christmas decorations I had as a child. So I made a few more using different colours and in different sizes and then attached then to a crochet chain and now I have a cool (well, I think it's cool anyway!) Christmas garland.

Crochet Christmas garland