Saturday, October 31, 2009

Fall Landscape


October 29, 2009

A Beautiful Landscape Made by Unseen Hands

I'm walking in this beautiful picture. The glorious colors of foliage surrounding me everywhere......reds, yellows, greens and browns in varying shades met my eyes. I thought, I wish I have the ability to capture all these and express them in a canvas, somehow my camera does not capture the breath-taking beauty of what I'm seeing. But who can duplicate the beauty that God has created?

As I walk, a squirrel scampered away in the nearby woods, climbing up a small tree trunk and looked at me with, ooh, so innocent eyes. A bird that I used to know flew away from under the low bushes and made its warning calls. A Wood Wren also flew away and perched on a twig nearby turning this way and that way with its birdy manners.

Ah.... I love the aromatic smell of the decaying twigs and leaves; and of pines and deciduous tree saps fermenting on the ground. The earth is making its fragrant incense and censing the woodlands and anyone who strolls by. Who can comprehend the magnificence of the Creator? Much less explain Him using the loftiest human thoughts and knowledge? Ah, I am but a speck of dust, hardly visible, in His vast canvas of Creation. But here, I am happy not to be seen or known, except in the memory of Him who created me.

Friday, October 30, 2009

Decorative Non-Conventional Crochet

This is my first attempt on making non conventional crochet. Should I call it freeform crochet (scrumbling)? The design was inspired by my Clematis garden. The flowers and leaves are separate motifs which are connected together by slip stitches using a yarn needle. The flower background and border is done in crochet. The whole design is tacked using a yarn needle onto a polyster upholstery fabric. I would like to do more of this type of crochet, using, especially the Fall foliage for inspiration.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Crocheted Clematis flower

Inspired by my Nellie Moser clematis in bloom, I crocheted this pillow cover. My Nellie Moser plant is gone since I have moved to a different location but the memory of its gorgeous blooms remains with me. What do you think? Do you think it is worth taking my time to try to write a crochet pattern for this?

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Discipline, Discipline, Discipline..........

I can see that my blog will keep me very busy and will take time away from my crochet activities but I'm loving the blog and I'm afraid that I'm spending more time to blog than to crochet so some self discipline is needed here. I will limit my blogging time to only 1hr per use of computer and then before I turn on the computer to blog, I will do at least 1row of my current project, this way if I blog 3 to 5X a day I would have finished 3 to 5 rows at least and my crocheting is not sacrificed in favor of blogging.

Okey... time is up. It is time to quit for now and do a row of crochet!

Happy Crocheting and or Knitting!

zoe

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Another FO (finished object)


Another FO (Finished Object)

This Shawl is made from Lion Brand Yarn, medium wt (4), 100% acrylic, "Vanna's Choice". I used only the fl (front loop) on each row to make it more drapeable. The whole shawl is crochetd in one piece (no seams). I used a small plastic hair clasp for buttons. This shawl is very warm and fits well on the back and shoulders. Approximate size is sm. to med.

This is the front view.

Thursday, October 22, 2009

My Fall Shawl



This is my fall Shawl. I designed and crocheted it last year. Unluckily, I did not write the crochet instructions because I'm just now trying to learn to write them; so I cannot duplicate this shawl exactly if I wanted to.

This is the back view.

Fall

Fall is definitely upon us. With it comes the thoughts of Thanksgiving and Christmas Holidays. If you are like me, who is always trying to make things to give away as gifts, time to crochet and craft things for Christmas gifts is really running short. The next best thing to do is to make small keepsakes instead of large items. Hmmm.....let me see if I can do this.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

My First Blog

Hello, Please do be patient since I'm new and this is my first blog. I hope to write and post something that will be useful and inspiring but for now I'm learning my way around here. Hope to post lots of interesting crochet projects and crafts as soon as I can.

Thank you for stopping by and hope you come and visit again.