I hope you all had a great Easter. The weather here took a turn for the worse but their was an abundance of Chocolate Eggs to compensate for this. Sadly the upshot of this is I will be joining Weight Watchers later this week! Oh dear, it feels like a very guilty confessional. Moving swiftly on to matters that make me happy. . .
I have finished my 'Ring', my six inch ring for The Annual Exhibition for The Guild of Weavers Spinners and Dyers. Members were invited to submit an 'un-selected' piece of work to be displayed at the exhibition. All of the 'Rings' will be displayed together in July. I can not say I am happy with the results but I am happy it is finished! I used my hand spun beaded yarn to weave, crochet, Kumihimo Braid and 'Flower Loom' my way to completion. I have not used a flower loom for decades. I had a yellow plastic 'Flower Loom in the seventies and would make colourful flowers when I was a kid, I don't know what I did with them, but that is the beauty of being a kid, you don't feel obligated to do anything with them, creating for the pure sake of creating.
I have also been working on more crochet. The little black hexagon is coming on nicely. It just doesn't like to be photographed.
It likes to pretend it is a square, or a pentagon. . . anything but a hexagon. I have high hopes for this hexagon. The main thing it has going for it is...
This shape. I could not for the life of me work out in my head how a hexagon could fold into either of these shapes. I had to see it with my own eyes. . . trust me it works. . . a hexagon into these shapes, fancy that! I think they have great potential. I will keep you posted as to their progress and the plans I have for them.
Over the Easter Weekend my Blog Counter blasted through 100 000 hits. It caught me a bit unawares. I had planned another 'Give Away' as 100 000 hits feels like a big deal to me as I am only a little Blogger at heart. I have waited for months for my Blog Counter to reach the magic number. I will get organised and post about 'The Give Away' asap too. Thanks for following me, I admire anyone who manages to hang on in there and read my ramblings. 'The More the Merrier' so they say. I also appreciate all of your comments too, it is great to know you are out there. XXX
Congratulations on the 100,000 hits.
ReplyDeleteI love your homespun meadow - beautiful colours. I had a flower loom as a kid too - I think it was by K-tel - not sure what I ever did with the flowers.
Where did all the flowers go? I feel a song coming on :) x
DeleteI love your six inch ring, it looks lovely, and the beads set it off really nicely. The little ones look like little dew drops! Enjoy the rest of your holidays, and if you fancy a nice long walk to help with the weight watchers, just give us a shout ;)
ReplyDeleteThanks Claire, I appreciate the offer of a nice long walk, I was hoping to come and watch you dig your allotment while I have a nice flask of tea and half a packet of 'Rich Tea Biscuits' to dunk ;)
DeleteWell we could do that as well!
DeleteYour 6 inch ring looks great - I shall look out for it at the exhibition ;-)
ReplyDeleteI love working with things like the old flower looms, and similarly remember the classic ones from my childhood! Happy memories of making things.
I can't make it to the Exhibition now as we are going on our holibobs, I will feel much better knowing someone will be looking out for my little creation, it is like not being able to make the Nativity Play, because you are a 'working parent'...I feel a sense of abandonment towards my little creation. :) I can see 'Flower Looms' making a comeback... x
DeleteLove your beaded yarn! I had a flower loom too, I made loads and loads of flowers, but like you I haven't a clue what I did with them!
ReplyDeleteI think these flower loom flowers would be great for Yarn Bombing. :)
DeleteOh what beautiful beaded yarn, it's lovely!
ReplyDeleteThanks, the beaded yarn was fun to make, apart from when it snapped and three million seed beads went everywhere, ok I exaggerate maybe just one million!
DeleteBeen on the WW since Jan 1st, almost a stone now, its a reall slog (1 pound a week) but looking back now they all add up to something big. Loving your creations as always. Well done on the county thing too, must have a look at mine......
ReplyDeleteI would be very pleased with a pound a week over that time scale, well done you. I am dreading it! Absolutely dreading it! My seven year old fitness coach has been punishing me already. We have now done two 'training walks' where he barks 'encouragement' at me like a Sargent Major. . . "Do you want to be fat all your life Mom?" "Move Faster!", "Don't stop! Stopping is for wimps!" I am going to end up giving him a clip round the earhole!!!
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