WOYWW 834 Grapes and Chickens

Hi all, Here again for our weekly bloghop care of Sarah’s Craft Shed. I’ve been getting the days all wrong this week. I woke up on Saturday thinking I hadn’t written my story for “today’s” (Monday’s) creative writing class. Today I thought was Wednesday and I’ve lost a week and had to check when we went to the exhibition! Doolally tap!

Here’s my watercolour desk. Annie’s ATC hadn’t come out of its black hole so I painted another and made it into a picture. I hope she gets it today! 

Here are the lovely ATCs I received for our anniversary 

Left and top are from Jo (Twiglet) and the bottom two were sent by Mary-Anne. They’re all beautiful, many thanks. I adore the peacock especially and the blessing on Mary Anne’s.   

I confess I was struggling with the baby book - such tiny stitches! I can go back to it later perhaps when travelling. 

I then saw on Facebook that people are making chickens in crochet or knitting. They’re called Emotional Support Chickens and they look rather cuddly. The patterns are for sale on Etsy or as a Crochet pattern on Ravelry. 

The example below is from the pattern: (not my work!)

I’m fancying one that’s a cockerel rather than a hen so I’m hoping to emulate this magnificent one by Sue Hill. 

Bella was sleeping on the supervision job, I’m afraid, and I sewed my tail feathers on the wrong side.  She woke up to send you all purrs. 😻

I love the colours of Sirdar Jewelspun but it does not give in easily to frogging (undoing) so I started again, with the colours I really wanted to use. The left over bits can be part of the stuffing. 

Bella’s happier now I’ve sewn it right!

I love the way its coming together, The green flaps will be the chest but it doesn’t look far from an odd corset at the moment!

There are videos to show how to crochet or knit a chicken. I’ve saved them here: Emotional Support Chicken video links with a reminder for me of how to French knit the tail feathers, as per Sue’s rooster. 

It was terrible to view the car crashing into celebrating Liverpool crowds. I’m glad the police shared the ethnicity of the driver to avoid the shameful riots based on misinformation that we had last year. I really hope the injured are ok. 

Wasn’t it sad to see Rafa Nadal’s retirement at Roland Garros? I had to watch it on Facebook as it wasn’t deemed newsworthy in the UK 🤬. He was my favourite and it’s right that he was celebrated at the French Open. No one else has come near to winning it 14 times!

I had an MRI of my knees last week and have a consultation this Friday so I can see what’s going on. Maybe the consultant can tell if it will get better on its own. Otherwise, if an op can be done with a spinal block that’s a possibility, (I had one a few years ago on my ankle) but if it’s a general anaesthetic or live with it, it will be the latter as anaesthetists avoid my damaged lungs like the plague. 

And finally…

I do love Mack the Knife!

Happy WOYWW 

Hugs

Lynnecrafts xx

Links for Emotional Support chickens

Sue Hill’s rooster

Reference page for videos for crochet emotional support chickens 

Video for Emotional Support Chicken crochet. 

https://youtu.be/4vM1ibWFsqA?si=f9FdsUpZU-Qtu9mu

Part 2 ESC

Site for French knitting: French knitting reminder

WOYWW Crochet and art

Hi all, 

I’m back for our weekly bloghop care of Sarah’s craft shed. It was lovely catching up with some of you on Saturday. 

I’ve gone and put my ATCs away somewhere safe so I’ll have to show them to you next week. 

I’ve been trying to start a crocheted baby book this week from this pattern. 

My idea is to make 3 copies for the babies of my ‘cousinettes’ (children of my cousins as B likes to call them). We need a new term for the next generation!

I used the yarn and tiny 1.75mm hook as specified but it came out way too big. 

I’m not dropping another size of hook, my tension isn’t that far out, so I’m busking it, just working approximately to the picture. 

Eventually you get a book with lots of moving parts for children to play with. This hen reveals an egg and a chicken, 

There’s a rabbit with a carrot, a hippo, a bear with furry ears..,

I like the idea, if not the technical details of the pattern. 

Bella is supervising, of course, and sends you all purrs.

 This is me trying to wake her up so I can go to bed. She works so hard  😻

I was pleased to be able to thank the singer Peggy Seeger on her ninetieth birthday last week. It was in an article about her in the Guardian. Her song really kept me going as a trainee engineer. It’s here: 

I’m gonna be an engineer

Thanks for your good wishes last week. Sadly, my aunt died on Tuesday so I didn’t go to art class on Wednesday. She was in a lot of pain from her cancer at the end so it was a relief for her. 

I start a summer art class on 5th June. 

We had a nice visit today, Tuesday, to Lenham art show in a wonderful 14th century tithe barn. 

There was lots of variety, painting, pottery, sculpture, without it being too big 

This is one of my favourites by my tutor Claire Sparkes. 

Jan, I think you’d like Jane Ford. 

And there was even a rocking horse above the cafe in the village. 

And finally…

Happy WOYWW 

Hugs

Lynnecrafts xx

WOYWW 832 Happy anniversary!

Hi all and happy 16th anniversary to us all, many thanks to Julia, Jan and now Sarah for keeping it going and to you all for contributing. 

Here’s my digital ATC, and I’ll happily forward it to whoever’s after me on the list if you send me your address to lmcollis(at)iCloud.com. 

It’s quite a simple watercolour, using a wet in wet technique for painting grapes that I learned at art class last week. 

Here’s my desk, where I’m still working on my weathered window. 

With Bella’s supervision (she sends you all purrs), I’ve finished the little cardigan, which I’ll be posting to Stoke with my goddaughter’s circle cardigan. 

My bad knee has come back with a vengeance.  It’s frustrating but I’m seeing a consultant on Thursday for it.

And finally…

A French cartoon I liked:

It’s a girl!

Happy WOYWW anniversary !. I look forward to seeing 

your digital ATCs when I get back from the last art class of this term. 

Hugs Lynnecrafts xx

WOYWW 831 Cardigans and old doors.

Hi everyone, I’m back for our weekly bloghop courtesy of Sarah’s Craft Shed

Brian thought I’d take a better picture of my goddaughter’s circle cardigan so that left him to model it.😹 

I’m now working on her daughter’s cardigan, then I’ll send them both together. 

Bella’s supervising me on this. She sends you all purrs. I need one more measurement to finish the sleeves, and to do the gold embroidery and buttons. 

At art class we’ve been working on the surroundings to the windows. Mine’s in its ugly phase at present, I’ve been using salt, and printing with corrugated cardboard for bricks but it didn’t work well. I want to add strokes of flat brush for the brick on the lower left. The next phase is the window and shutters. I am finding the newspaper collage tricky to cover, but our tutor says we can glue more tissue over it. I’ve added the photo I’m working from to the middle do you can see what I’m trying for. I have a lovely new Winsor & Newton watercolour paint called ultramarine ash for the light blue. 

And finally…

I’ll be round to visit after class. Your comments are very welcome as long as they’re signed.

Happy WOYWW,

Hugs

Lynnecrafts xx

WOYWW Crochet, watercolour and glue.

Hi all, I’m back for our weekly bloghop care of Sarah’s craft shed. 

I’m going to watercolour class (wearing a mask) so I’ve had some catching up to do. 

I’ve finished my spring flowers:

The masking fluid text could have come out better but I’ve improved my painting of jars and flowers. 

And I’ve started my old window collage. Not much to see yet. 

The instruction was to paste tissue snd newspaper randomly. I’ll find out more tomorrow. 

I’ve also been asked by my Handmade for Dementia group to share how I make my rabbit twiddle. I’ve not written a pattern before, (and as a lefty a video might be confusing). I wonder if any of you might try it and let me know any glitches, please? Thanks so much. 

I’ve nearly finished my goddaughter’s cardigan, and Bella’s working hard at supervising me as I alternate front post and back post trebles for the rib. She sends you all purrs. 

And finally…

Since Monty Python and the Holy Grail is 50 years old: 

We used to have the French insults on the uni newspaper answering machine: ‘ I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smells of elderberries. I wave my private parts at your aunties ‘

We thought it was so cool 😎😹

I’ll be round to visit after my art class. Please don’t post anonymously as I’m not comfortable publishing them. 

Happy WOYWW 

hugs

Lynnecrafts xx