WOYWW 847 Chevron blanket

Hi all, 

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

I haven’t done much crafting this week as I’ve been sorting out my MSc, PhD research and associated paperwork that’s cluttering the office. I’d like to be able to use the desk for painting, and we don’t have a use for all the copies of research papers now. 

I have started a chevron blanket, as the first on has proved ideal. The yarn has some alpaca in it, so it’s warm in winter and sufficient with a top sheet in summer when we don’t want a duvet. 

Here’s the first one I made. Bella loves it, as did poor Gracie:

Here’s my wool (King Cole harvest and Bramble):

It’s a two row pattern, from an American company, Mary Maxim, made in 4” wide strips and crocheted together at the end. 

Sunday was a beautiful day here. sunny but without the forecast heatwave. In fact, the whole weekend flouted the regulations that say it must rain on bank holiday weekends.😹 We went up to Perry Court Farm for lunch and shopping.  We’ll be back on 5th Oct for the Apple fair but they had some lovely Worcester Pearmains already. 

I noticed they had some hand knitted sheep for sale - the prices made me blink!

We came back up over Wye and stopped at the Devil’s Punchbowl for a walk. The view’s stupendous.

Bella sends you all purrs

And finally…

Can’t resist this one: 😹

I think they’ve already taken over 😹😹

Happy WOYWW 

Hugs

Lynnecrafts xx

WOYWW 846 Crochet critters and watercolour

Hi all, I’m back for another Wednesday bloghop courtesy of Sarah’s craftshed. 

All those of you who guessed that my latest emotional support critter was a dragon were spot on. 

They’re currently sitting on the back of the settee where the hens are looking quizzically at Brian. 😹😹

I’m also trying to do another painting, this one of the Peak District, but I’m not happy with it. 

I had to fix the printer first(to get my reference photo)  as the magenta wasn’t printing. I tried changing the ink cartridge, running a clean but nothing was working. I went online and found the deep clean option, which finally worked. Then I almost gave up on the painting but I keep lifting out and trying. I think most paintings go through an ugly phase so I keep trying to fix it for longer now. 

I’ll see if I can turn it round. I need more of a slant on the rocks and a better shaping, as well as the layers of sky and hills. 

Bella prefers me crocheting to painting. She sends you all purrs, between her absolutely essential and frequent naps. 😻

And finally:

I’ll be in and out tomorrow, so it might be later before I can start visiting your blogs. 

Happy WOYWW 

Hugs

Lynnecrafts xx

WOYWW 845 Windy watercolour and Crochet critters

Hi all, 

Another week has whizzed by, so here I am again for our weekly bloghop care of Sarah’s Craftshed. 

I’ve added a bit more shade to my watercolour:

I’m working on another ‘Crocheted Critter’. I don’t know if you can guess yet what it is? I’m adding boning to the wings to make them ‘fly’.  

This boning is a bit hard to sew through and I have to pull the needle through with pliers but I’m hopeful it will make a nice effect. I’ve since covered it with a crocheted hem. It’s hard to get a decent angle as it’s not yet stuffed but this might give you a better idea:

I want to say ‘Fly my children, fly!’

Bella approves and sends you all purrs. 

I hope you can all stay cool in the hot weather this week. 

And finally…

Take care and happy WOYYW

Hugs

Lynnecrafts xx

WOYWW 844 Painting the wind and chicken-crochet

Hi all, another week has zoomed past. I’ve started work on a watercolour from my holiday photos. Mont Ventoux on a windy day. 

I’ve still to finish the mountain but it’s getting there. We had a day or two of the Mistral wind blowing really strongly and I wanted to illustrate that. 

There really are olive trees there that have grown in spirals from the strength of the wind. I guess with the windy day and Mont Ventoux above, it’s more the tough farmer’s life of Pagnol’s Jean de Florette than holiday Provence. 

I might do a sketch of Serge Gainsbourg soon, too, as I’ve a friend in France who likes him, hence the photo on my desk. 

I’m also still working on more Emotional support critters with Bella’s help. She sends you all purrs. 

My art club had a lunch last week where we discussed having an exhibition. They’ve secured space at a local deli in October.  We can’t display paintings we did in class but I’ll work on some new ones. They saw my holiday snaps and said I should include some of my crochet chickens. 😻🐓
And finally…

I’m off to visit your blogs courtesy of Sarah’s Craft shed, I’d love to see you comment, but please add your name as I’m uncomfortable with anonymous comments. 

Happy WOYWW 

Hugs

Lynnecrafts xx

WOYWW 843 Chickens

Hi, I’m back for our weekly bloghop care of Sarah’s craftshed. My latest emotional support chicken is at the spatchcock phase. I’m

I’m thinking of adding a second layer of tail feathers. 

I’ve seen other examples of this. 

Bella approves and is happy as long as I stay here. She sends you all purrs. 

And finally…

Happy WOYWW

Hugs

Lynnecrafts xx

WOYWW 842 Hens and badges of the revolution

Hi all, sorry I haven’t visited everyone last week, it’s been hectic since we arrived home from France. 

I promised Alexia a composite photo of all the badges, which took some time. I discovered that my phone is better than my desktop for clarity when zooming in, but I had to transfer them all to the desktop computer so I could put them all together on PowerPoint and save it all as a picture. 

I’m quite pleased it worked but wished I’d thought of this at the beginning so I could’ve taken straight forward photos!

 I think Angela asked what we were all drinking. Mostly it was our red or white Beaujolais and our local fizz, Crémant de Bourgogne. 

The local restaurant had invented a cocktail of our rosé, crème de griottes liqueur, our Crémant with griotte (Morello) cherries. Since I wasn’t drinking, I had griotte squash and Perrier. It has that nice sour edge of the cherries, so I’ve brought some home. 

Bella was of course delighted to see us home and has developed an imperious voice to get me to sit down so she can snuggle up. She sends you all purrs. 

It did mean that I got to finish my latest Emotional support chicken. I’d taken it to France to see up but it was too hot there. 

And finally…

Take care and happy WOYWW 

We have to be out on Wednesday so I’ll be late visiting but I promise I’ll do better than last week!

hugs Lynnecrafts xx

Art of the Revolution

 

WOYWW 841 Vive la révolution!

Hi, just a quick post as we’ll be on our way home from tomorrow. 

Our stay on the farm in Beaujolais was surprisingly craft-filled. Our goddaughter had chosen the theme of the French Revolutions, from 1789 onwards up to #metoo and ‘Les Gilets Jaunes’ complaining about the high price of fuel. 

In preparation for the evening’s fancy dress ball, we made badges and placards. I ran a badge station. I’d gone to a keys/shoe repair shop and they laser cut me 36 blank rectangles and sold me stick on brooch backs. As it was the permanent Sharpie felt tips that worked best, I got them to do drafts on paper first. I worked with some such as Nina, to help with their designs. 

I’ll do a composite picture of the badges next week. 

This was mine:

It was a happy afternoon. I didn’t have time to do a placard but it was good to see everyone taking part. 

I thought our goddaughter had got into fancy dress from the beginning, dressed as Marianne. 

Her evening costume and that of her partner was a brilliant surprise. She was now Marie Antoinette (with a cut throat) and Pierro had become Marianne with a blond wig. 

As soon as she saw my cockerel (which I was crocheting as we had no bread 😏), she said ‘Oh that’s for me😻)

And off they went!

There was a man with a guillotine on his head, an executioner, a few in ‘68 costumes and lots of revolting peasants like me and Brian, though of course I was crocheting by the guillotine. All great fun and I’ll put more onto a blog page once we get home to Ms Bella

And finally…

BTW I get the cartoons from facebook. 

Happy WOYWW 

Hugs

Lynnecrafts xx

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