WOYWW 821 crochet for girls

Hi all, I’m back for our weekly blog hop care of Sarahscraftshed.

Last week I went to Stoke to see my aunt, who’s very ill.  At best she’ll have to move to a nursing home, I guess, once she’s out of hospital. 

This Wednesday I’ll miss art class as the audiology clinic for my tinnitus insisted they only had this Wednesday 11:00 am appointment. Still, I do want to get rid of this blasted tinnitus. I took my hat crochet with me but have made loads of mistakes. It requires precise counting and even now I’m not sure I’m doing it right! At first I thought you had to make separate slices but now I’ve seen you do it in one. 

Useful to learn at least! I had a lovely time having dinner with my goddaughter (who’s 9 months pregnant with her second) and her daughter. I’m now commissioned to make a cardi for the first one in ‘pink and gold.’

Bella is making it clear that I have to do extra cat cushion duties to make up for the days I was away. 

She sends you all purrs. 

I’ve signed up for an online sketching course that runs from 3 -7 March. It only cost £10 and although it’s live at 7:30 pm you can watch the recordings. 

The link is here if you want to join. £10 sketching course

And finally…

You’re very welcome to comment but please sign your name at the end. I’m not comfortable with totally anonymous comments. 

Take care and happy WOYWW 

Hugs

Lynnecrafts xx

WOYWW 820 Stoke

Hi all, I’m scheduling this as I’m in Stoke visiting my aunt in hospital. I brought a bit of crochet with me: 

This is a paid pattern for a hat made of strips of leaves:

You make 5 or 6 of these and sew them into a circle. It may work, I’ll let you know. 

It’s a bit hard to predict what I’m doing as my aunt is a bit up and down. (Sorry, Sarah, I’ve not had chance to come over to Trentham; I’m staying at the Hilton in Shelton. Yay it has functional WiFi so far!).

It’s half term so no art class. Next week is the start of a 3 week project doing an ink and wash painting of a canal boat. I found this one, which will be fun when doing the tree reflections:

Bella’s at home looking after Brian but I’m sure she sends you all purrs. She did a good job supervising my crochet:

And finally:

Take care all and happy WOYWW. 

Hugs

Lynnecrafts xx

WOYWW 819 Crochet, shirts and ink

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

Thanks for your good wishes last week. My knee is now improving, thanks, and I’m rebooking to go to see my aunt in hospital next week. Next week I may not be able to post or comment- it depends on how the WiFi is. 

Still, here’s my desk.

It’s all a bit pale as my shirt is, too. I’ve found a wonderful watercolour by Winsor &Newton called ultramarine ash. It’s a transparent, granulating colour and mixes beautifully with copper blue to provide my shade. 

I’ve also finished the crochet slipover for myself. 

B says it looks military with the right shoulder buttons, but I like it. 

Bella helped me of course. 😻 She sends you all purrs

I had some great happy post today. Firstly a crochet bag that our LLJ made for me. 

I love it!

I also had a pen arrive from Tom’s studio with some gorgeous sea shades of ink. It’s a felt tip, brush tip, writing tip pen that’s refillable and comes with two pen heads and eleven different tips. 

It’s not cheap and I had a few niggles but I love how it writes and draws and that it’s not a throwaway pen. 

The second head is hidden in the middle and reverses for use. You’d struggle to write with both tips exposed as it only comes with one cap. I’ve just ordered a second one. 

Also you can buy ink sample bottles but the shade label is on the cardboard, not on the bottle so I’ve just added labels. 

And finally…

An oldie but goodie 😻

I’ll be round to visit after class and lunch. 

Take care, all, and happy WOYWW 

Hugs

Lynnecrafts xx

WOYWW 818 hobbling and Hobbii

Hi all,

I’m so sorry I didn’t visit any blogs last week. I got back from art class to a call saying my aunt is ill in hospital, in Stoke. I spent all Wednesday and Thursday rushing round to organise things and stupidly put my knee out, turning at the bottom of the stairs. Our neighbours gave us a lift to Brian’s birthday do ( which we all enjoyed) and I then dosed myself up with painkillers and ice. I’ve been really groggy ever since. Finally, today, Tuesday, I’m starting to walk without my walking stick. I’ve done it before and it gets better with rest. Getting anywhere like hospital would have been so complicated now it’s only me who drives. 

I’ll do better this week at blog visiting, when I get back from art class. 

Here’s my desk at art class last week and some of our group’s bug paintings. We’re now doing a picture of a shirt. 

This week we’re going on to painting, being very careful about gradations of colour. My shirt is an old, linen shirt I bought when Travelsmiths had a UK shop. I wish I’d bought more as it’s proven virtually indestructible.

Last week was just drawing and the review of our bugs. I’m pleased I received good comments on mine; they’re all excellent. 

Bella supervises my crochet as ever, and sends you all purrs. I’m making myself a slipover from one colour of Hobbii winter glow (shade 22) which graduates from teal to darker blue and purple, with a bit of a rusty shade here and there. 

I’m thinking of a row of buttons coming down from the right shoulder and down a left-hand pocket with these pretty enamel buttons I bought from Amazon. 

And finally…

Take care, all, and happy WOYWW!

Hugs

Lynnecrafts xx