WOYWW 837 Chickens and leaves

Hi all, I’m joining in with our weekly bloghop care of Sarahscraftshed.co.uk/?m=1

This's my art class desk. 

I’ve now added notes:

📝 

I should’ve done them all in ink, instead of inktense pencil but never mind. I like the whimsical style of them. 

This week we’ll be starting ink and wash studies of the cafe at the country park where our course is now held. 

They’ll be in the style of Sue Levington, with several views per page. Here’s one of her books and an example of her work:

I’ve also finished my second emotional support chicken, received happily by my cousinette. 

I’m happier with the wings this time, sewn all together rather than just down the middle. 

Her name is Minnie Chucklebutt. 

Bella helped and sends you all purrs. 

And finally:

Happy WOYWW to you all,

Hugs

Lynnecrafts xx

WOYWW 836 Leafprinting and chickens

Hi all, 

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

Here’s my desk from our summer art class. 

We’ve started the season with leafprinting, painting the backs of leaves with watercolour (the secret is to paint them with washing up liquid first) and pressing them down, rolling over them. We also painted around the negative space, such as the dandelion leaf on the left, and rolling leaves on an inked plate then transferring them to the page. This week we’ll add watercoloured flowers. 

My second emotional support chicken is on its way. I call this the spatchcocked stage. 

Bella has been helping and sends you all purrs. 

I had a lovely birthday, thanks for all your good wishes. After my art class we went to a local restaurant, the Hide and Fox, which now has 2 Michelin stars and is very grand. The five course tasting menu looked like a lot but was lovely and not too filling, though there were salmon and tomato starters, turbot and pork mains and an almond and caramel parfait. 

And finally …

Happy WOYWW, 

Hugs

Lynnecrafts xx

WOYWW 835 Chickens!

Hi all, 

I’m back for our weekly bloghop care of Sarah’s Craftshed. 

I confess I’ve been obsessed this week with making my first Emotional Support Chicken. 

Please meet our cockerel, Billy, named after a bantam rooster we had when we lived in the North East. 

I got fed up of doing tails using a French knitting tool so did crochet tail feathers with notional wing feathers. 

He’s been fun to make and I’ve learned some lessons for my next one!

Bella’s not keen on him - a bit big for her. She loves  belly rub though, and sends you all purrs. 

The specialist reviewed my knee MRIs last week and confirmed it’s arthritis. Not bad enough for a knee operation yet, but they can replace knees with a spinal block so he reckons it would be possible, eventually. 

Till then it’s ice and my walking stick! 

We’ll be going out on Thursday evening for my birthday, to a 2* Michelin restaurant nearby. It’s new to us so 🤞🏻🤞🏻. 

And finally…

Happy WOYWW

Hugs

Lynnecrafts xx

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