Balls!

hand-dyed orange felt balls!
Now what can I do with them. I thought I could bung some silver wire through them and use the old man's soldering iron to fix them in place. Life's never that easy is it? Electrical solder isn't the same as silver solder and his soldering iron might not reach the right temperature. Why is everything so technical? Far too technical for a dumb brunette like me!

I don't actually knit ...

or crochet this stuff you know...
It just sort of evolves in my hands ..or round my neck... or on my head!
Help.. this one has got me by the neck...... it's worked in the same two yarns as the weird hat.

If you want to get ahead....

Then don't get a weird hat like this!!!
I really enjoyed making it with two very fine brown & greeny brown yarns worked together... no pattern and a vague idea that it was going to be... beret/hatty shaped but worked from the brim. It's strange .. beanies start from where the brim would be if they had one and berets and tam o'shanters start from the middle/top. Why?

Finally the Farewell Present is Handed Over

A flying visit from the luscious La La Lady allowed me to hand over the very very long narrow multi -directional scarf that I hurried to make for her before her departure. Lack of luggage space meant that she didn't have room to take it with her when she left but I'm hoping that the thought of some genuine wintery conditions make her
s q u e e z e it into her bag this time.
We all know that L runs a little warmer than most but even she has to wrap up warmly when the temp gets below freezing!!!

SIXTY ODD - A FIBER ODYSSEY

SIXTY ODD - A FIBER ODYSSEY
"61 fiberartists, all members of the International Freeform Artist’s Guild were given a unique challenge. Each artist selected one yarn and sent 61 five-yard skeins of that yarn to a central location. In return each artist received 61 different skeins from fellow artists all over the world. There was no coordination of color, texture, or any other artistic components. The Challenge was to create their own interpretation of fiber art using only those yarns. Artists include members from Australia, Canada, Estonia, Greece, Ireland, Kuwait, UK, US, Wales and Yemen."

The two scrumbles shown are my contribution to this escapade. Why not have a look at the really amazing pieces the others produced. I've recently taken part in an exciting challenge "

"It takes a long time to grow an old friend."


THURSDAY 10 November

I've only known, Lynne & Ellie a couple of years but something tells me that we'll be doddering around together when the zimmer frames are needed. I can't think of a better way to spend a day off work than mooching around with people you like. Poor Ellie had to work so could only join us for the eating and tea drinking but managed to squeeze in some talking in that time. We were joined at lunch and the first part of the afternoon by Julie, who I hadn't met before so there was plenty to talk about. What did we do? Do you mean apart from eating lunch and talking and sitting in Patisserie Valerie and drinking tea and eating and talking? Well, we dropped in on Bravissimo and one of us had an uplifting experience. If you've been there you'll know what I'm talking about. We also managed to fit in a few bookshops and Lynne and I were tempted by the new Canongate myth series. Lynne came away with Karen Armstrong's "A Short History of Myth" and Margaret Atwood's "The Penelopiad". I was more controlled and just bought the Atwood book.
I'm in very erudite company when I tag along with these two. Ellie works in publishing and Lynne is an experienced reviewer and manuscript vetter. I'm a bit of a lapsed reader so it's just as well that this pair keep a watchful eye on my reading.

DRAGGING SUSIE ROUND THE BACKSTREETS
Finally I got to meet Ms Susie B-M the steel magnolia from Oz! She only had 3 days inLondon so I claimed Tuesday as mine. I have the feeling that Susie was a bit wary about what I might make her do and perhaps her concerns were justified - we spent 11 hours on our feet and then I still had to get home!!

PROUD AS A PEACOCK
I'm off to the PEACOCK Theatre tomorrow night with two of my children to see
LA VEILLEE DES ABYSSES.
"James Thierree, son of the gloriously eccentric Jean-Baptiste Thierree and Victoria Thierree Chaplin comes from a long tradition of music hall, variety and circus. His particular mix of visual trickery, acrobatics and clowning is both fantastical, unbelievable and extraordinary.
He is joined by opera singer Uma Ysamat, contortionist Raphalle Boitel, dancer Niklas Ek and capoeira dancer Thiago Martins, who together cook up a virtuoso dish of fantastic invention."

The show was originally at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London in April 2004
read the review

HAVE YOU LOOKED AT MY LINKS YET?
Do take time to have a browse they could have just the inspiration you are looking for.

PURSE EXCHANGE









One of the groups I belong to is doing a PURSE EXCHANGE.
Juliette is my partner and even tho' she moved house yesterday she managed to get this little woven number in the post to me. I feel sure that she picked the colours especially for me :-)

OUT OF THE DEAD WOOD SPRINGS THE GREEN
My neckpiece decided all by itself what it wanted to be just like the waistcoat I made a few months ago for a Challenge in the International Freeform Crochet group. If you don't know what FREEFORM CROCHET is - watch this space and I will attempt to educate and excite you.

LATEST CREATION
This is my latest "creation". I suppose it's a "neckpiece" 'cos it's not exactly a necklace. I had a piece of wispy felty rubbish left from making a freeform felted scarf and I was pulling around at it and it looked like something that would hang round the neck. I had some weird metallic yarn called DRAGONFLY so I grabbed it and a very small metal crochet hook and off I went.
Sorry - the pic is a bit fuzzy!

JUMPING IN AT THE DEEP END
Well here I go. Not sure if I've got what it takes to be a blogger but I'll give it a try. That probably tells you you the sort of person I am ... ooh .. this looks interesting .... I think I'll do that. Two days, two weeks or two years later I'll forget I've even seen or heard of it!!!

Must dash off to work but in the meantime I'll leave you with one of my half-finished webpage attempts www.angelfire.com/amiga2/fibracations