Chicken

hicken!

It's been a while since I put up any of my artwork so I started to put some up the other day and then after a conversation with a friend I was promted to post this one.

It's a mixed media piece and photo's don't really demonstrate the surfaces involved, lots of paint, print, acrylic medium etc on a gesso ground.

In Flight

his little bird caught my eye in my studio and I thought I'd share him with you:

Magpie Chart

f you would like to have a go at the Magpie Wrist-ees from my recent swap package you will need the original Robin pattern by Tiny Owl Knits.

The chart here is the one that I made up for the knit, with the eye made from a french knot and the beak from a few satin stitches. At the last moment I added a couple of lines of stitching to outline the bird, but you could leave those out. I stuck to the original pattern for the nest, just adding some brown flecks to the eggs and  then stitching on an assortment of odd beads, ribbons, small buttons etc for the nest.

To print off the chart at a larger scale click on it to enlarge before printing.

Giddy with Excitement

xcited? You bet!

There I was checking my emails when I came across one from Cookie A, some spaces had opened up on this years sock club and I was on the waiting list. Before I knew it, with no level of self control at all, click, click and yahoo, I'm in.

Do I really need to be in another club? No, but its Cookie A's: yarn, two patterns each time and a cookie recipe evidently. Baking and knitting, what could be more perfect? I might be insane with excitement by the time the first installment crosses the pond!!!

Menagerie of Animals Knit Love Swap

So, the parcel was sent, and ended up with i-make a keen crafter so here's what I included:

This felted owl pincushion wristband, where I followed the pattern up to the eyes which I enlarged with discs of felt.

and these are an adaptation of Tiny Owl's 'Sweet Robin Wrist-ees' which I decided to adapt a little to make a magpie and nest complete with trinkets: beads, buttons, ribbons and a dangley bit from a broken necklace. I also included the channel island cast on which Alice introduced to us in last year's Knit Love Club and seemed appropriate as these were off to Guernsey.

Evidently magpie's love to collect shiny things and have a song that's described as a 'chatter' which just seemed right somehow for my swapee who has a blog and podcast about a whole range of gorgeous crafting activities.

The bought elements were packed up alongside the made and it has all been posted off and my fingers were crossed that I'd picked well.

Phew, she was very pleased with the package! Hurrah!

Animal Swap

I've organised a swap for the Knit Love Sock Club over on Ravelry. It's been keeping me rather busy and I can't yet put anything up here about the parcel I'm sending off because its all hush hush!

It has an animal theme open to interpretation with the aid of the questionnaire reply from the allocated swap partner. So, here's what I've made to send off this week:

Nothing to see here I'm afraid, not until 'she' gets it!

Nice Stash Prize

Lucky, lucky me... this is what I reecieved in the post recently as a prize for my Advent Challenge win (the recyled birds). It's a very nice skein of walkers sock yarn in a soft heathery shade of lilac/greyish which I shall now deliberate over to make something lush from.