WOYWW 795 Watercolours and crochet

Hi all, back again for our weekly blog hop care of Sarah’s craft shed. 

I have a large ‘nurses’ bag’ I got from Amazon for my art supplies but I got so fed up with losing stuff in it that it’s now organised into separate plastic bags inside: paint, sponges, accessories, water pots. 

I’ve also organised my brushes into a new brush roll so I’m not struggling to find space for them all. 

So I’m all set now for the new term. I wasn’t like that at school, I tell you. 🤣🤣. 

My desk this week:

I wasn’t happy with my first attempt at painting Hokusai’s Boy Watching Mount Fuji so I’ve started again. 

Number 2:

There’s still a way to go…

Bella’s happier when I’m crocheting than painting as she can sleep on my knee when I’m crocheting. 

I’m joining up at the mo’. 

Bella sends you all purrs. 

And finally….

Take care and happy WOYWW 

hugs

Lynnecrafts xx

WOYWW Hokusai Sashiko and Drawing

Hi all, 

I’m back again to join in with our blog hop courtesy of Sarahscraftshed. 

I’ve  nearly finished my sashiko panel but don’t know what to do with it - any ideas welcome. 

I did it because it was a challenge I wanted to do, and because I’m feeling nostalgic about Japan. I gave into the temptation of looking at one such holiday on Facebook so now my feed is full of holidays there!

I still need to tidy the back and make it up into something. 

Bella helped, of course, and sends you all purrs. 

I’m also planning a watercolour of my favourite Hokusai: The Boy Watching Mt Fuji. I’ve started with a pencil drawing of the boy and then used a few Inktense pencils to colour it. 

On Sunday there was a dragonfly outside our house. It didn’t move when we approached so I got some sugar water and dribbled it in front of it. I saw it drink some and when we went back later it was gone so I hope it flew away safely. I’ve asked the Dragonfly group on Facebook and they think it might be an immature female Migrant Hawker. 

I’m still making c2c squares for B’s slipover. 

And finally…

Take care and happy WOYWW 

Hugs

Lynnecrafts xx

WOYWW 793 travel and sashiko

Hi all, I’m looking forward to joining up with you all on our weekly bloghop care of Sarah’s Craftshed. I’ve not had chance to do much crafting this week as I went to Stoke to meet up with my cousins, including one who’s visiting from Oz and another who’s emigrating there tomorrow. 

I have started a bit of slow stitching, a Sashiko panel of Hokusai’s Great Wave off Kanagawa. I love Hokusai and Hiroshige’s work. 

I’ve not got far yet! It’s a nice puzzle working out routes that avoid big stitches on the back, that could pull the work. I’ve learned a trick of sewing alternate stitches on an isolated line so I can go back the same way. Of course, Bella’s a big help. 😻

This is what the finished one looks like. 

I’ve bought some extra colours of fine sashiko thread to use:

It’ll keep me good for a while! I’m still crocheting my squares jumper when it’s cool enough, and did a couple more squares on the train.

It was lovely to see my cousins on my mother’s side. The star was my goddaughter’s daughter, who celebrated her first birthday and refuses to be separated from the book I bought her. Clever girl!

Here we all are:

Bella sends you all purrs;

And finally:

Take care and happy WOYWW 

Hugs

Lynnecrafts xx

WOYWW 792 watercolour and crochet

Hi all, I’m glad to be back at our bloghop care of Sarahscraftshed.co.uk. I hope you can join in. 

This week seems to have come round very quickly; I’m not sure where it’s gone. Sending big hugs to LLJ and her G who are feeling poorly with Covid. 

I’ve not had much time to try out my new paints apart from following a tutorial by Olga Koelsch on painting transparent flowers. It popped up on facebook and you can see examples here. https://m.youtube.com/@olgakoelsch? Her flowers are very beautiful and delicate. I struggled with making flowers translucent so I thought I’d give it a go. 

I’m not completely happy with my results; I should have used a hairdryer between stages. I get the idea though, of using very dilute washes. 

Her example is here: 

My friend, Liz, was judging at the Festival of Quilts last week. I asked her to buy me some sashiko needles. She also came back with a lovely present for me, some Japanese notebooks. 

They have one page ruled then one page blank so will be handy for both writing and art! I’m going to Stoke on the train (and replacement bus - 😮‍💨) on Saturday for a family party on Sunday. It’s my goddaughter’s daughter’s first birthday, my cousin Jon is over from Australia and another cousinette (B’s name for my cousins’ daughters) is emigrating to Australia next week. So lots of travelling to use my new notebooks, and to crochet more squares. 

I think I’ve worked out a way to do triangles for the v neck, as well, by doing half c2c squares but I need lots more. 

Bella has been a real cutie and sends purrs to you all. 

And finally:

Take care and happy WOYWW

hugs

Lynnecrafts xx

WOYWW 791 Windows, sea caves and new paints

Hi all, 

I’m joining in with What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday, kindly curated by Sarah’s Craft Shed. Take a look and join in!

My workdesk is from my summer art class. Thank you all for encouraging me to finish my collage and watercolour sea cave after a Sara Adams painting. 

I’m much happier with it now. 

Here as well are all our watercolour koi carp from the last class of my summer watercolour workshops

And here’s my desk of today. I’ve been lusting after beautiful handmade watercolours from A. Gallo, a small Italian company that makes gorgeous and non-toxic watercolours. 

They were in a sale so I snapped them up. 

Even the wrapping is gorgeous. 

This is such a treat after last week’s upheavals. We needed new front windows and had to move lots of things out of the way in the front room. The company was excellent and installed them in 3 hours, but then we had to put everything back. 

It was a bit stressful but Bella has got over it and sends you all purrs. 

My squares and rectangles of c2c crochet are slowly growing. They were going to be slipover for Brian but the shape may lend itself better to a kimono-style cardigan. 

And finally, since Paris is on the TV so much at the mo…

Sorry Sarah!

Take care all and happy WOYWW 

Hugs

Lynnecrafts xx

WOYWW 790 Book sales and collage

Hi all, 

Here’s my desk this week. My summer watercolour class uses collage and watercolour for a sea cave picture this week. The original pictures are by Sara Adams. 

I'm not very happy with it but it’s better than my first attempt, below, I think. I don’t think I’m much good at collage. 

This one had too much newspaper and the sea was wrong. 

The last class is tomorrow ( Wednesday).

Last week was Hythe (Kent) Food and craft fair so I joined other local authors in selling our books. 

The weather was good but everyone commented that sales were slow. We didn’t have a gazebo but being outside meant we didn’t have to pay stall fees. 

Bella would rather have me doing crochet than being out selling books or painting as she can at least sit on my knee for crochet. 

She sends purrs to everyone. 

And finally…

Take care and happy WOYWW 

Hugs

Lynnecrafts xx