WOYWW 863 A festive cornucopia and the Möbius strip blanket

Hi all, sending healing hugs, and purrs from Bella to Neet and hoping you’ll be out of hospital by Christmas. 

For our bloghop, care of Sarah’s craft shed, here’s my desk. I’ve managed to match the wrapping paper vollage well enough, but my chilli still needs more work, and I’ve yet to paint the berries, oranges and cinnamon. 

Bella is doing intensive snuggle testing of my chevron blanket and sends you all purrs. 

It feels never-ending, Brian calls it a Möbius strip, but I’ve the last three strips to extend, add the border across the top and it will be done. I’m doing the strips in parallel now, so once I get to the top they’ll be ready for the top border. I did think of it like Adam Smith’s pin factory where it all goes quicker if you all make the different bits  but that only works if you can make a division of labour. I’ve suggested to Bella that she could help but she always has the excuse of not having opposable thumbs  😹

And finally,

I’ll be out having lunch in Hythe with my art class after our class, so I’ll be round to visit later. 

Happy WOYWW,

Hugs

Lynnecrafts xx

WOYWW 862 Shelter under the ever-growing blanket

Hi all, I’m back for our bloghop care of Sarah’s Craftshed Firstly, sending healing hugs to Neet. 

It’s been a rather eventful week for us. Here’s my desk, where we’ve started winter cornucopia paintings with collage. 

We have to collage bits onto the drawing of this and paint the other part so it looks the same. 

Here are our collected squirrels. 

They all have such different characters!

My chevron blanket feels never-ending as it seems to get even longer as I’m trying to match all the strips to the same length, under Bella’s supervision, of course. She sends you all purrs. 

Still, working under a blanket has been useful this week, as our hot water and central heating boiler died on Saturday morning. It was fixed on Monday (broken circuit board) and broke again Tuesday morning. The engineer has just been here again and this time it was a lead disconnected. 

One highlight of the week was having dinner at our excellent local Sicilian restaurant with our friend Pascal and his Ukrainian girlfriend, Svitlana. They went to London on Sunday for a short break. 

Svitlana had baked us beautiful Ukrainian biscuits, and brought us Ukrainian chocolates. . 

We had a lovely time and the food at Let’s Amore was excellent, especially their caponata and cannolis.😋. Svitlana and I have said we’ll go on a literary trip together to Paris at some point, visiting where Hemingway et al wrote, drank etc. It will of course feature my favourite Shakespeare and company bookshop, where Sylvia Beech supported Joyce, Hemingway, Fitzgerald et al. 

And finally…

I’ll be round after art class so put the kettle on 😸. 

Hugs

Lynnecrafts xx

WOYWW 861 Squirrel and cornucopia, chevrons

Hi all, sending big hugs to Neet in hospital and hoping she’s feeling better. 

I’m joining in with our crafty bloghop care of Sarah’s craftshed. 

Here’s my desk at art class, working on my watercolour squirrel. It’s all fluffy and backlit. Tricky. 

And here it is finished:

Lots of use of comb brushes for the fur. 

I’m getting on with joining up the strips of my chevron blanket. As it’s essentially rib, it stretches easily, so I’m having to get the strips to the right length, not easily!

Still, Bella is finding it cozy and sends you all purrs. 

I’ve been searching for items for this weeks winter cornucopia:dried orange slices, berries, chestnuts and a chilli 🌶️  that may not fit. The cornucopia is made of Xmas paper and we’re sticking some of the paper onto the picture as collage, but then we have to paint the rest of the image to match. Daunting!

After shopping, we went to a local pub/restaurant which has changed hands, the Tiger in Stowting, a little village ‘nearby’. I say nearby, which should have meant going back to Stone St (the straight Roman Road from Canterbury to Sandgate castle, down which the assassins of Thomas A’Beckett fled.) Oh, no, we tried to go across country. This part of Kent has lots of valleys and one-track roads, and I very nearly gave up before going back to Stone St. and starting again. It was worth it, though, for an absolutely gorgeous pistachio tart. 

And finally…

I love Wiley Coyote - you won’t fall if you don’t look down. 

I’ll be round to visit after art class and our art class lunch, so put the kettle on!

Happy WOYWW 

Hugs

Lynnecrafts xx