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