Welcome to Handmade Monday no.317, our link up for handmade ideas, crafts and recipes. Creative bloggers can share their tutorials and projects and we can all be inspired.

No exciting trips anywhere for me this week, it’s flown by to be honest. I did spend a morning at the hospital with my mother in law a few days ago, she had a routine appointment which takes a good 2+ hours once a month so I like to take something simple to do to pass the time. I’m knitting mitred squares from some yarn leftovers and it made me happy to see that I matched the floor tiles in the waiting area - it’s the little things, right? :-D

Let’s take a look at the features from last week’s Handmade Monday. Click through on the photos to see the original posts.

• Remember if you want to pin any of these ideas please make sure you click through via the photo to the original project.

Penny from Penny’s Vintage Home shared some beautiful lemon themed decorating she has been busy creating.

Monika from Naehoma Moni has been busy making these adorable chickens. She has included a link to the free pattern too if you’ve fallen in love with them too.

Creatively Beth has made these genius playing card holders. We could have done with these years ago when the children were young as we played a lot of card games, especially on holiday and they often struggled to keep cards hidden.

Congratulations to you all There is a "YAY I was featured" button over here if you want to add one to your blog.

A like on social media, a comment or share is an easy way for us all to help to support one another so please do take a moment to visit some of the other projects linked up this week. It’s not mandatory to be able to join in here, there’s no easy way to check if you did but it costs nothing but a few minutes of your time and is just a nice thing to do!

The rules for Handmade Monday are very simple:

• Did you make it? Yes - then yay! We'd love to see it

• Add the link to a specific post, not your main blog url

• You can link up to 3 posts each week but try to make sure it's not something that you've shared here before

• Mingle - visit some other links - comment - share - be social

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If you are not sure of anything more details can be found here.

At Handmade Monday the links are shown in a random order so it’ll look different each time you pop by.

Julie