#forty five

I love getting involved

in a project

as you have probably realised!

I saw this the other day

http://www.leafcutterdesigns.com/blog/knit-the-sky-yarn-bombing/

A call for some nature inspired

yarn bombing!

So number forty four

is some little knitted leaves 

with a dried rose attached

and a tag with the message

"love nature"

and the group hashtag

"#knitthesky"

Last night I sent

my brother and nephew

out to hang it 

in a mystery location for me

After watching Glastonbury

on tv all weekend,

I am currently

obsessed with

Florence and the Machine.

So my song for the day

is 

Rabbit Heart (Raise it Up)

#forty four

Number forty four

is some little paper butterflies

I read an appeal on Twitter

asking for people to join in and make

a butterfly 

as part of a secret project

in support of libraries, books, ideas and words.

http://paperscissorsstone321.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/if-youre-reading-this.html

They will all be assembled

and taken to a location,

we will all find out where that is later......

They were much more fiddly

to make than they look

and I kept gluing them to my fingers.

Big respect to my friend Becky

who makes the most exquisite

paper and wire

flower sculptures,

sooooo difficult!!!!

#forty three

Number forty three

is some photographs

which may or may not be

entered into Wolsingham Show

in September

Today I am listening to

Bob Harris's show

recorded on Sunday morning 3am

on Radio 2.

Such a great listen,

he plays some excellent music

Sounds of our shores

I've just heard about 

the most fabulous project organised by

The British Library, The National Trust,

The National Trust for Scotland

and audioBoom Ltd.

They are asking people 

to record sounds from our shoreline

and upload them onto 

an interactive audiomap

audioboom.com/channel/soundsofourshores

I have been playing some of the sounds

this morning and could

listen to them all day long

#forty two

A while back I read about

a project called Briswool

in a crochet magazine.

Vicky Harrison and a team of volunteers

have been knitting and crocheting 

a model of Bristol, UK

with buildings, boats, trees etc.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcLf18rdU6w

You can see it on this You Tube video

Last week she made a request on Twitter

for people to make some strips

of "brown water".

As I am always looking for

something different to do

and I love joining in with

these types of projects,

I got the pattern and have made

five strips

They remind me of 

rashers of bacon!

Its a great way to use up scraps of wool

and a fun thing to be part of.

So that little make is number forty two.

Today's song is

For You by Judie Tzuke

Summer Solstice

Happy Summer Solstice

The best day of the year!

I'm up at 3am

(more by accident than design)

I am full of cold and needed

some toast and something warm for my throat.

The sky is already getting light

so I went out into the yard

with my drink

and sat and listened to the birds

that had started to sing.

It was a lovely atmosphere,

with that musty damp grass smell 

you get when you are camping

and have to get up at the crack of dawn

in the middle of a field.

The sky is clear, so

there were still stars to be seen

to the west

and the sky turning a paler blue

to the east.

I have something planned to make today

so fingers crossed for some sun.

#forty one

Number forty one.

This tapestry was started by my neighbour

but like many projects had sat in the cupboard

for some time.

So for the last couple of months

I have been stitching it for her

and have finished it today.

I did manage to sew it to

my dressing gown a couple of times!

Now I will have to finish

the little one of my own 

that has been stuck in a basket for years!

#forty

Make number forty

is a knitted cushion

for my neighbour Elsie

I used a pattern from

Homespun Vintage by Jane Crowfoot

with a few little changes

#thirty nine

Last week we had some

glorious weather.

Perfect for a trip to the seaside.

My friends Becky and Joyce

went to Tynemouth and brought the beach to me!

So I made my own little seaside scene -  make number thirty nine!

On the same day

my mother and brother went to Whitby

and knowing it is my favourite place on earth

they brought a little of there back for me too.....

together with a Whitby Lucky Duck!

I hope it lives up to its name!

#thirty eight

Another little crochet project

to use up some scraps of yarn

and some beads

Number thirty eight

is a cover for the milk jug

I have just finished reading

Weathering by Lucy Wood

which I loved.

She has such a fabulous imagination

and you feel immersed

in the characters from the start.

Next I am reading

The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan.

A sort of similar type of book with such 

an imaginative story

and characters you empathise with.

#two

Mr and Mrs Renard

I made these from a printout

by the textile artist Mister Finch

I coloured them in, glued them to thick paper,
cut them out and fixed together
with butterfly pins

If you want to make one

go to Mister Finch's Facebook page

you will find a link

www.facebook.com/MisterFinchTextileArt?fref=ts

or here

http://www.anthropologie.eu/anthro/images/misterfinch_foxdoll.pdf?cm_mmc=Facebook%20-_-2014_Anthropologie-_--_-Mister%20Finch%20Mr%20Fox

Am still listening to

War and Peace,

its long!