I Am Sure The Pain Is Not Worth The Gain!

I am talking about my second attempt at Needle Felting.  I really don't think it is for me!  I decided to Needle Felt some Easter Eggs for The Basket!  I got my pretty fibre ready and my incredibly sharp, three pronged felting needle and set to work with gusto.  Much too much gusto.  I seriously drew blood from my index finger and my thumb within the first three minutes of creating the above egg.  The core of the egg is natural Merino which is blood stained!  I managed to cover it up nicely with layers of green Merino with a fancy pink stripe and pink spots.  This egg is a one off.  It wont be having any Needle Felted friends.  I may have to give up on my Needle Felting career as I can not take the pain.  It does look pretty though with the crochet Easter Goodies.

For health and safety reasons I have gone back to nice safe crochet.  I am working on something that I have high hopes for.  I always have high hopes, which might explain why I experience so much bitter disappointment in my life!

Yep I am excited about this wonky hexagon.  I am going to leave you guessing for now as to it's destiny.  xxx

A Little Bit Of This and That

This week I have mostly been working on this.  I have now completed the left front, the right front, the back and half a sleeve.  It is quite a relaxing knit, but now I am on a 'county' bit and 'county' knitting is not too good in a busy household.  Did I say 43 or was that 45, oh it might have been 39!
          I have been a complete crafting butterfly, which is a nice was of saying I have crafting ADHD, I have not stuck to the same thing for very long this week.  I had my first go at a new craft this week, quite late one night I tried 'Needle Felting'.  There are two ways to felt wool, wet felting and needle felting.  Needle felting involves repeatedly jabbing fibre or fleece into a shape or to get the desired effect and the jabbing creates felting.  I have a very sharp three pronged felting needle.  It don't arf wake you up when you miss the fibre and jab your hand!  I woke myself up about three times to create this:

For a first attempt I am full of self congratulation, this flower took about an hour (huh I am a poet and I didn't know it).  When I have enough courage to use the very sharp, three pronged needle again I have made 'note to self':  Do not Needle Felt late at night, to jab a little less enthusiastically and never take my eye of the 'ball' so to speak!

I have also been making these for my poor Old Granny (some of you may remember her).  Warning: These Pictures May Cause Distress  I will rebuild her!

I have also been very bad and could not resist this bargainous 'Aran'.  Elephant Grey and Raspberry Pink work so well together in my opinion.  I know of a couple of 'imminent arrivals' that are due and thought I would work on a couple of Pram blankets.  Is Raspberry Pink and Elephant Grey acceptable if the 'arrivals' are of the male variety do you think?
               We are all set for a sunny weekend here, I will try to take photographs of the Chicken ladies sunbathing, they have been really enjoying sunbathing today.  They lie, spread out in the sun and snooze.  They are certainly not 'bird brains' they seem to have the right idea to me, they say it is a 'Dogs Life' but I think chickens have it pretty well sussed too.   The clocks go forward an hour on Sunday Morning, which leaves me feeling robbed and jet lagged.  On the bright side I break up for a fortnight next week.  Yahoooo!  That reminds me I want to crochet eggs and chicks and chickens and bunnies and all sorts of lovely stuff!  I do hope you all have a lovely weekend.  XXX