Lichen and Moss on a Rock Soft Sculpture

 Or you could call it a pillow.

I worked on this for months. There are a lot of french knots. I will kind of miss this project, now that it is done. 

Spool and Tube Knitting

I can remember spool knitting as a child, with set-ups just like this. I have a few wood spools that are pretty much antiques by now. Fortunately I had enough spools to have messed up two of them by getting the fourth nail (always the fourth) crooked, and still having 2 spools where I got things right. 

The larger 'spool' is a very solid tube with 12 nails evenly spaced. It was a little trickier to set up the knitting, but should go well enough now that it is started. 

 

Toilet Tube Village

 I wanted to make some play things out of very recognizable objects. It will be wonderful if they have play value. If they don't they can go out with the recycling. 

There are 26 toilet tube houses. If you go to the trouble to count, you will notice that there are only 25 in the photo. One fell out of the box on the way to the photo shoot. It was returned to the fold. 

Adding the letters was an after thought.

I added paper cars, which may only last a minute, but bring some added imaginative opportunities.

Time to clear up. 

Advent 2023 - Part 4

Day 22 - House street    

Day 23 - Family and car  

Day 24 - Airplane

     

2023 Christmas Card

 I have a general operating strategy that encourages me to work with what is at hand. At the moment I have a stack of strips of paper, remnants from the Faerie Book project. 

What could a little folding and gluing produce? My aim was to make something that did not require assembly by the folks who receive these in the mail. My research indicates a stunning lack of viable gluesticks in the homes of the nation. 

The idea behind this year's card is that it behooves us to be open to new ideas.  A retirement in my household will change how we organize our days and what opportunities we can entertain. We can still take pleasure in the ordinary (white petal) days;  we also need to change our thinking to take on new things - the coloured petal days. In a more general way, new thinking --generous, empathetic, and conscious -- could go a long way to change our communities and the world. 

Advent 2023 - Part 3

Day 15 - Mary and Joseph  

 Day 16 - City buildings on left 

                                                                                                      

 Day 17 - City buildings on right 

                                                                                                    

 Day 18 - Element 😁                                                   

Day 19 - Hotel

Day 20 - Stable (see the truck parked at the side?)

Day 21 - Tents 

Advent 2023 - Part 2

 Day 8 -   New hill: Mary and Joseph now have a red truck and the donkey is in the back.               Day 9 -   Wise Kings                                                                                                                               Day 10 - Trees                                                                                                                                    Day 11 - Star

Day 12 - Farm hill and crop

Day 13 - Mary and Joseph in the truck

Day 14 - Green hill crops and flock of sheep