WOYWW 792 watercolour and crochet

Hi all, I’m glad to be back at our bloghop care of Sarahscraftshed.co.uk. I hope you can join in. 

This week seems to have come round very quickly; I’m not sure where it’s gone. Sending big hugs to LLJ and her G who are feeling poorly with Covid. 

I’ve not had much time to try out my new paints apart from following a tutorial by Olga Koelsch on painting transparent flowers. It popped up on facebook and you can see examples here. https://m.youtube.com/@olgakoelsch? Her flowers are very beautiful and delicate. I struggled with making flowers translucent so I thought I’d give it a go. 

I’m not completely happy with my results; I should have used a hairdryer between stages. I get the idea though, of using very dilute washes. 

Her example is here: 

My friend, Liz, was judging at the Festival of Quilts last week. I asked her to buy me some sashiko needles. She also came back with a lovely present for me, some Japanese notebooks. 

They have one page ruled then one page blank so will be handy for both writing and art! I’m going to Stoke on the train (and replacement bus - 😮‍💨) on Saturday for a family party on Sunday. It’s my goddaughter’s daughter’s first birthday, my cousin Jon is over from Australia and another cousinette (B’s name for my cousins’ daughters) is emigrating to Australia next week. So lots of travelling to use my new notebooks, and to crochet more squares. 

I think I’ve worked out a way to do triangles for the v neck, as well, by doing half c2c squares but I need lots more. 

Bella has been a real cutie and sends purrs to you all. 

And finally:

Take care and happy WOYWW

hugs

Lynnecrafts xx