Well, here in England we are back in lockdown, though to be honest that doesn’t really change much for me. With my mum extremely clinically vulnerable, and me just ordinarily clinically vulnerable, we’ve basically been shielding all along, hospital appointments/visits excepted. However, to combat the doom and gloom of the wider world, here in my … More A Wheatfield, With Cypresses
This is a very brief update, but I had to share it with you all. Yes! YES!!! Okay, so there’s still work to do. Ends to sew in, brush strokes to do in surface crochet, edges to straighten, right angles to be perfected. I estimate about 3-4 more days work on it, in total. But! … More Wheatfields – progress update #6
Today’s update is brought to you by the words ‘flatness’, ‘squareness’, and ‘arrrrrrrgh’. I mean, it’s okay? It’s getting there? But I’m definitely having to do some fiddling around to a) keep it flat (because it’s a picture, it therefore has to be flat – texture notwithstanding), and b) keep it squared off. Siiiiigh. It … More Wheatfields – progress update #5
Phew, isn’t it hot? At least, it is in my corner of East Anglia! Hot, dry and with only the barest of breezes, today, to make things a little more bearable. I do not do well in heat. I may have mentioned this before, like every single summer ever. Sigh. However, I am still crocheting, … More Wheatfields – progress update #4
I have finally triumphed over the wheat fields!!!! And yes, I do mean triumphed. Oh my god, that was a hard slog. When it was going right, I was so so pleased and really enjoyed working on it! But there was an awful lot of time spent sitting staring at it going ‘that’s wrong…’ … More Wheatfields – progress update #3
I absolutely meant to update you all on this before now – it’s just under a month since I last did! But for a while I was mired in troublesome wheatfields, and couldn’t spare mental energy to talk about it; I just had to get through it 😛 So, how am I getting along? Quite … More Wheatfields – progress update #2
Ooooh, I am loving working on this freeform picture. Seriously, seriously loving it. There’s something so challenging about it – stripping the brushstrokes down into shapes, building the swirls and colours into recognisable representations of Van Gogh’s work – and yet it’s infinitely rewarding, too. Though I sometimes want to tear my hair out (such … More Wheatfields – progress update #1
I’ve been a bit at a loose end, crochet-wise, over the last few weeks. I’m not being hard on myself over it, because the whole world has turned upside-down, but nevertheless, the fact remains that I’ve been faffing around doing not very much, with hook and yarn. I made some little creme egg cosies for … More Out of the doldrums
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