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