Garden Party Hat

I bought this white gauze hat in the local opp shop thinking I could do something with it. Got home and found an invitation to a friends 60th Birthday, a Garden Party. Christine was thinking we'd be on our way back up from Tassie, on our way to Alice Springs, therefore passing thru St Andrews/Cottlesbridge where she lives. But no, we are in Northern NSW, so I decided to make her a Garden Party Hat instead. It has been such fun, I hope she likes it, she is an avid green thumb with a wonderful garden of flowers. Last year it was showcased in the Open Gardens tour.

"Urban Excavation Effect"

Well having begun my own "Urban Excavation Effect" project a few weeks ago, by cleaning out my bus's nooks and crannies, and beginning to crochet them into an "Urban Excavation Creation", to maybe enter in this years Beaniefest competition, or 'Winter Warmers'comp. I was amazed to Flickr-meet Wooldancer, aka Michelle, with this wonderful concept. see www.wooldancer.blogspot.com

I've also just applied to join a local recycling group, an on-line group that posts 'things' they need to 're-house', sharing what we don't need anymore, and possibly finding that, which we do need now!

How I love all this networking that's possible these days. Why has it taken me so long to get Computer-wise/literate/Co-Nected ????

So here are some pix of my 'Finds' and what I have begun..........

Sorry about the weird layout, got a bit to learn about loading photos, or which layout to use and when, but I guess this is creative! Where will my project go next?????

Will I get back in to this one now, or finish the latest sunset silhouette that was started back in January, and re-started today, finishing the orange and yellow areas, ready to begin the black rolled brim.

I've found some more 'stuff' for it and taken new pix of the growing 'stash' of 'stuff', maybe I'll re-size them and then load them first. well thought I'd worked out which format to use for photos But No, think again! Stretched the photo of stuff to re-locate the text back to where it was originally.

...and She's Off and ...Crocheting ...Again !!!

It's only been two months since I started my last hat, whilst sitting in the waiting room of the Tweed Heads Fracture clinic, for my mother's broken arm. While out of plaster, for weeks now, she still doesn't have full use of her hand yet , asher wrist and fingers 'froze' while encasesd, and we have been off and into town (25 kms away) and Tweed Heads (50 kms away) 3 or 4 times a week, so adding up the return journeys, I've been behind the wheel, on these very winding, but scenic roads, quite a lot of late. The rest of the time has been taken overby this here computer.

Learning stuff, meeting new fellow crocheter's, and soon opening my first Etsy Shop.now that I have recently puchased a new digital camera, and recommenced taking pix of current work.

Today we got out, I left the computer, and took my trusty basket of wool with me to our local music venue, (on the other side of the mountain) Sphinx Rock Cafe, for a rain free afternoon of music and friends. With my trusty, better than the old camera, I took pix of WIP as I recommenced this fourth or fifth in a series of earthy tones and autumn colours.

So good to get back into work, as I begin to realise it's not that long to the Beaniefest again . Haven't yet made a start on my competition entries yet, although I have given them some thought! Need to make a lot to sell out there again this year as our bus has a broken gearbox along with some other major ailments that need attending to. Lucky we are safely 'stuck here at 'Mystic Lakes' in the lush volcanic caldera of Wollumbin, and not 'stuck' on the side of some highway, in Outback Queensland, trying to sell our wares to the passing few, to buy and fit new gearbox ASAP !
OK, enough for now," to bed, to bed," said Fred