You may recall a few weeks ago that I was pondering making a few things. So far I’ve made a hat, out of really rather gorgeous wool, as I said I’d started a little while back. Today Big and I branched out into the wired bead crochet. Well, OK, the first one I did was with thread and pony beads, and it’s surprisingly effective. So then I did one with wire and small beads.
Here’s a closeup of the wire stitches.
It’s a bit fiddly to do, and slightly painful on the fingers, but very rewarding. I think I need to find a good source of beads, and I’ve got Christmas pretty well nailed 🙂
Then I had a go with Big. This was even more testing! She really has a very short attention span, and had already decided she couldn’t do it before she started, so it took a lot of encouragement and several untangling sessions to get her through just the first row. But we persevered and got there in the end, and this is destined to be a present for a party we are unexpectedly going to tomorrow.
So I feel like we’ve had some concentrated time together today – quite impressing considering that I didn’t crawl out of my pit til lunchtime 😳 They also managed to fit in some painting, which is always good mummy points 😉
Small is still quite sorry for himself, I’m hoping he’s going to be OK for the party. It’s a fair hike up the road – one of Big’s classmates from school. Apparently the invites were dished out at the beginning of the week – but Big kept forgetting to bring it home, and I had to ring in yesterday to get someone to find it and read it to me over the phone after she came downstairs in tears on Thurs evening about it! 🙄
Right, Tim is chasing the small ppl into bed, so I’d better excavate the floor and the kitchen so that he can be comfortable when he comes down. And I’ve still got the washing to distribute around the bathroom – but that will have to wait til the crashing about has stopped.
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