WOYWW 881 Bird beading

Hi all, I’m back for our weekly bloghop care of Sarah’s Craftshed. Sending healing hugs to our Neet and everyone who’s feeling under the weather. 

This week has been a bit of a blur, care of Dihydrocodeine painkillers. If a doctor ever suggests you taking Tramadol, ask if Dihydrocodeine is suitable. It’s much kinder, though I wouldn’t drive while on them. Thanks for your good wishes this week, my back is still giving me a lot of grief, especially when I move. 

I’ve done a bit of bird beading his week, it features a bit of sashiko, a bit of embroidery and some beading to make, in this case, a little sewing kit. It comes from a pattern by the Wishing Shed, available on Etsy or Ravelry.

It closes to keep its tools safe:

It has a removable heart-shaped pincushion on the back:

On the inside, it has a scissors pocket on the left, a pocket with a button in the centre and a needle keeper on the right with a magnetic needle minder. 

It’s flying off to Jan to sell on her RNLI stall. 

Bella has been supervising me and sends you all purrs. 

And finally:

I can think of some in particular..,,,

I’ll not be going to art class tomorrow so I’ll be round to visit. 

Happy WOYWW

Hugs

Lynnecrafts 🥰🥰

WOYWW 880

Hi all,

Just a quick post as I slipped on Monday and came down hard on my tailbone. It seems fractured but, when the paramedics phoned, they said it would be pointless going to hospital as all they could do was to give me pain relief. 

I can just about walk but changing between sitting and standing is v painful. I wasn’t going to post today, but having woken at 5sm…

This week’s art class would’ve been a portrait of a naturalist with collage, so I was wondering about a portrait of the lovely Hamza Yassin, from BBC nature programmes and Strictly, who, I’d heard, sadly has stage 4 cancer. As well as collecting photos of birds, to use in the collage, I was wondering if I could make him some dreadlocks. 

I tried an I-cord maker, but it  took all Sunday evening to do this little bit. It’s supposed to slip over the 3 hooks but I have to pull each stitch over the hook individually. Any tips welcome!

I’ve completed my 10 cannula sleeves and just need to tie the ends in after washing them. 

Brian and Bella have been a great comfort, and Bella sends you all purrs. 

And finally, 

I saw this in the cafe at Perry Court farm on Saturday and couldn’t resist it. 

 

I particularly like the Swiss Army knife attachments 😂

 

I’ll try to visit, 

Happy WOYWW 

Hugs

Lynnecrafts xx

WOYWW 879 Knitting and Making Wanted Posters

Hi all, 

I hope you’ve had a good Easter.  I’m joining in with our weekly bloghop care of Sarah’s Craftshed, sending healing hugs to our Neet and others feeling under the weather. I’m starting to feel better from Bell’s palsy; thanks for your good wishes. 

Having made loads of twiddles when I wasn’t up to doing anything else, I sent some off to someone in our Handmade for Dementia group who make cannula sleeves for hospital patients with dementia.(Some just  do the knitting and sewing up, and there are a few of us who mainly crochet twiddles.) I’ve finished off some cannula sleeves I’d made and am knitting another one so I’ve ten to send. 

The twiddles above are quite Spring- themed. I like doing my rabbit silhouette with a white tail,(although in the photo it looks more like a snail😀) but we don’t do whole sleeves in a particular theme. 

Bella likes me knitting as she can easily supervise me. She sends you all purrs 

We knit the cannula sleeves according to a risk-assessed pattern, with bright coloured stripes in different textural stitches. It’s a while since I’ve knitted them and found the website below useful for free stitch patterns:

Free knitting stitches  

I’ve started doing Wanted Posters for our festival in Beaujolais in May, where the theme for our fancy dress parade is a French cowboy series called Lucky Luke. I tried a Wanted poster template but it was quite restrictive and created huge files so I did one from scratch in PowerPoint. 

Here’s mine:

They don’t seem to mind me making up Western nicknames in English - I guess it’s more authentic. They like the idea of showing us as kids and not putting their real names in so that it’s harder to guess who’s who. I think there’ll be some 500 to do. I’m making some blank ones for sticking photos on manually, as for certain there’ll be people who don’t do anything till the last minute. 

This photo reminds me that next Monday will be the 65th anniversary of my first day at school. I can still feel the rage. Miss Smith asked who could write their name so I wrote mine on the blackboard: LYNNE. ‘That’s wrong’ she said, ‘You don’t write it all in capitals.’ 

‘It’s not wrong, my Daddy taught me,’ was my furious reply. My fists still clench to think of it. How to learn mistrust of authority on your first day at school 😂.

And finally….

No art class this week so I’ll be round to visit in the morning. 

Happy WOYWW

Hugs

Lynnecrafts xx

WOYWW 878 bird twiddles and beads

Hi all, I’m joining in with our weekly bloghop care of Sarah’s Craftshed. Many thanks for your good wishes. I’m sending healing hugs to all who are ill, especially our Neet. I’m starting to feel a bit better, the numbness in my face is mostly gone and I can make a little effort but any more and I’m completely exhausted. 

I’ve cracked the spiral chicken I think. It’s less than 2 inches in height. I’ve used dc crochet in the back loop for the spiral and have tried to give him a bit of a rooster tail. 

I can show you my beaded bird as well now, since Jan’s received hers. It closes for storage with a press stud. 

This is the back with a removable pincushion (press stud):

And this is the front with a scissors pocket, a central pocket and, on the right, a magnet needle minder and a book format needle case. 

It was a bought pattern from the Wishing Shed on Etsy. The creator has struggled with people copying her pattern and Luna crow patternselling it for twice the price. Her pattern is here: 

The instructions and templates are beautifully clear. 

I’m still at odds with my laptop although the dishwasher has been put back on its wheels, yay! 

Bella isn’t keen on me beading as I need a tray on my lap. 

She’s been giving me lots of healing cuddles though, and she sends you all purrs. 

She’s found another way of supervising me, from the back of my chair. 

And finally:

I’ve a hospital appointment so may be round later. 

Happy WOYWW

Hugs

Lynnecrafts xx

WOYWW 877 Twiddling, beading and sun energy.

Hi all, I’m joining in with this week’s bloghop care of Sarah’s Craftshed, sending healing hugs to our Neet and others who are unwell. 

I’m still laid up, the facial paralysis has abated but I’m exhausted all the time, so I’m just resting. 

I’m playing with a new twiddle I got from a free pattern. The author asks that we only link to her paid pattern  on Ravelry:

Swirly spiral chicken

But if you search for Swirly spiral chicken there’s a free version. 

When I make twiddles, they’re to go on a twiddle mitt or similar so they don’t want to be too big. I love this pattern but 3 inches is too large. The pink & yellow one and the blue and yellow one are double knitting  The blue and orange one is 4 ply but still too big so I might have to try and use double crochets instead of trebles etc

I’m still playing with beading and a bit of slow stitching  but nothing much to show yet. I buy things, see they’re the wrong size and send them back. One 2mm bead fits over my needle and another type’s hole is too small. I’m getting there, but slowly. 

 The sashiko lamé I bought shredded when sewing on felt so no good for my use. Other silks etc are better and Katie from Japan crafts has kindly swapped the lamé for more silk thread. She has a beautiful range of fabrics, threads etc and all things sashiko. Her site is here: 

Japan Crafts

It’s well worth a look. 

Felt is a wonderfully forgiving fabric and doesn’t seem to mind being undone, redone at all. 

I’m also having a cursed time with electronics. My email login on my laptop went wrong, things wouldn’t save properly, the Google streaming dongle on the telly stopped working and I seem to have broken something on the dishwasher shelf because now neither of us can get it to close. (Our local white goods shop is sending someone out on Friday).

I put it down to the misfortune of being ill. It’s just my turn and I’ll wait it out. 

Bella’s giving me lots of cuddles and sends you all purrs. 

We just went round to feed our neighbours’s cats. It’s a bit complicated as little Izzy is 16 and on medication that gets mixed with her special food, while the other cat is being distracted with his food. On the way back it was trying to sleet.  Ugh!!

I feel the need of some mystical sun energy at the moment, and I found this sun pendant on Etsy. It’s a copy of an ancient Sumerian pendant, and I love it. I’ve ordered a chain. 

 

The seller’s photo is clearer. 

The original would date from around 3000 BCE and I guess it’s from somewhere like Ur of the Chaldeans, (which I always thought was Ur and the Chaldees, sounding like some obscure 60s prog rock band. 🤣)

Time to get out healing amazonite and malachite crystals, too. 

And finally…

Especially relevant for me as I’ve had to take steroids again and have put the weight back on I’d lost. 🤬

Happy WOYWW

Hugs

Lynnecrafts xx

WOYWW 876 Resting and curating

Hi all,Sending healing hugs to our Neet, and thinking of the patients and families suffering from the meningitis epidemic only 12 miles away from us. 

I have an idea for some beading / embroidery so am currently collecting / curating supplies. I can shop for Britain when I’m on steroids 🤩

Beads and sashiko threads and some felt for now. 

I’m resting, still suffering from Bell’s palsy. I saw my excellent physio by video call yesterday and he confirmed my eye is closing better so I don’t have to tape it anymore. Yay! The palsy’s exhausting me though and stupid systems at my GP have made the ‘roid rage hard to control. Their Econsult doesn’t recognise *diagnosed* Bell’s palsy and kept trying to send me down A&E stroke pathways so I missed the slot for getting a doctor’s call. Grrr🤬. Still, collecting nice supplies is fun  

I’ve also been crocheting twiddles when I’ve not had much energy. 

Bella’s been giving me lots of cuddles and supervising me. She sends you all purrs. 

Happy St Patrick’s and St. Gertrude of Nivelles day for yesterday. I like St Gertrude, she’s the patron saint of cats 

And finally …

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I’ll be round in the morning, to visit care of Sarah’s Craftshed

Take care and happy WOYWW

Hugs

Lynnecrafts xx

WOYWW 875 the art of painting culverts and eye taping

Hi, just a short post today. Sending healing hugs to Neet. Bella wanted to send her a chocolate mouse for her birthday yesterday till I explained it had no mouse in it, so we sent her an e-card which I hope she got ok. 

Here’s my desk from last week’s art class. I’m not going today.as I’ve contracted Bell’s palsy, a temporary paralysis of the left side of my face. It means I have to keep my eye covered as it won’t close properly and there’s serious risk of damage to my eye, else. I really haven’t got used to taping it, and have to have it untaped if I drive so I’d miss half the class while trying to redo it when I get there. Brian is helping me do it at home. 

Bella’s keeping us company and sends you all purrs. 

I’m not up to precise crochet one- eyed so I’ve just done a few twiddles, which I forgot to take photos of. 

And finally…  

Stay well and happy WOYWW 

hugs

Lynnecrafts xx