Do you remember me telling you about a course I had booked on to? Well the course was yesterday, it was amazing, and I have to tell you all about it. I arrived at ArtisOn just in time for a quick cup of tea before the course started. Our tutor Julie Glaze started by showing us some of her fabulous works, as inspiration. My favourite piece, was a beautiful vine of sliver flowers…
Then it was our turn! Julie started us nice and slowly, by getting us to crochet chains, so that we got used to crocheting wire and got even sized stitches….
Once we had mastered crocheting a chain, we threaded beads onto the wire and started to work them into our stitches…
By lunch time, this had become my first ever crochet wire piece of jewellery…
Julie was great at teaching and so flexible, this allowed us the freedom to crochet whatever we wished, earrings, necklaces, pendants; the only limit was our imaginations. We paused, to give our fingers a rest and for lunch. Lunch was AMAZING, a real treat: baked veggie risotto and salads, followed by three (yes three) choices of pudding. I have to confess that I had a little of each pudding: choosing which to have would have been far too difficult.
After lunch we went back to crocheting. Give my love of crocheting flowers; I had to give it a go in wire. Crocheting trebles and double trebles, in wire, proved a little trickier than the morning’s chain, but I am glad that I persevered. Are you ready of a ta-dah moment? Ta-dah…
After some uming and erring (brooch, hair-clip, brooch, hair-clip) I attached the crocheted rose to a kirby-grip and popped it in my hair…
I am chuffed to bits with the result, a grown-up formal version of the hair-clip I crocheted a couple of weeks ago.
There is so much more that I need to share with you, not to mention the GOURGOUS work created by the other very talented ladies on the course. You will just have to come back and read my next posting…
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