GEOMETRIC ART...

Wow! its been 4 months since I last posted. Double vision, hospital appointments, and not being allowed to drive and now arthritis, affecting several joints I'm continuing to look for alternative crafty projects.

A mad moment as i'm no party animal, I decided to have a joint Birthday party with Phil at the end of June and making lots of giant paper flowers for the party filled hours with fun...

 CROCHET BUNTING: took me ages to make because of the arthritis in my hands but you can't have a party without bunting can you? 

Tasseled bunting too...fun to make

I made table cloths and cushions sale bought Moroccan style duvet coverts and even cleared and redecorated my work room. 

About time too, it's now a fabulous space i can actually get into again...space for one or two workshops maybe?

My workroom wall decorated with a Moroccan look tile wallpaper and I love it...

 I'm reclaiming my workroom slowly, although 50+ boxes of wool/samples are still to be sorted

MOROCCAN TILE WALLPAPER: From B&Q, @£10 a roll a bargain and looks fabulous, went up really easy and the wall took 3 rolls to cover with some bits left over to decorate trays etc...

This wallpaper has sent me on a journey, into the world of Moroccan geometric art and architecture, colour and design.

 Couldn't find my compass, my ruler had chunks out of the edge, no hard pencils...its years since i had done any geometric drawings.

 It took a while to engage my brain in this rewarding mathematical fun..

Simple [i thought], 12 point rosette, typical of the Moroccan tiles in the wall paper

The seemingly simple shapes are intriguing, although not quite so easy as you think to draw, or is it that i've not used a compass and ruler and delved into the geometric world for such a long time?

All you need is a compass, a ruler and a few pencils, time and a brain! lol. 

No idea where its taking me, but as i'm unable to crochet for more than an hour at a time at the moment, its entertaining me between sewing [never thought i would go back to sewing again], paper crafting and decorating.

A Fabulous week...a crazy cool phone app, Local radio, my books and lots of crochet fun

Life has turned a little crazy this week... 

with lots of new ideas for crochet, fun outings, shows, magazine interviews and local radio chats and I now find my books have been translated into German and Finnish too....I thought things came in 3's...more like 33

I've just got to tell you all about this new phone app...who would have thought it ME and a phone app!

PRISMA 

Is a real cool phone app, my new addiction is so much fun i cant tell you..

Pmacs looking cool

 A new crochet wrap in my 'easy' version of a lattice stitch, its called...

Summer Kisses

PRISMA, turns your photographs into works of art, great on people and crochet too

 motif below from Book 1, Granny Squares, given the PRISMA Love  

Thanks to Phil's lovely niece Tracey...you started some thing here, I'm now totally addicted to a phone app, not so long ago I hardly ever knew where my phone was, let alone using a phone app...now with my new iPhone, my sons old one he now has a super new i phone, everything is so easy and I am addicted to this fun app 

MY BOOKS IN GERMAN AND FINNISH 

I don't understand a word of the new books but they look wonderful 

Thanks GMC Publications and the German and Finnish publishers too, a fabulous job.

I was on the Local Radio Shropshire, they were asking for anyone who blogged and it had been a life change thing for them, didn't want to miss a opportunity so I called them and chatted for about 5 minutes with 

Jim Hawkins...thank you Jim.

When it was over the show asked me to do a more in depth piece on Jim's show on September the 5th....from 10am in the morning. A difficult decision, lol...I jumped at it, Thank You Jim Hawkins Show

You can listen to the 5 minutes from this week, if you want but only for a few more days and then its replaced with other things. HERE I'm on after Adele, about an 1 hour and 55minutes into the show.....How's that for famous company! lol

The Crochet Work keeps piling in and I've been a little overwhelmed with it all, so I have had to think hard about the direction I want to go in, while still honouring the commitments I have made already....so there are going to be changes, i hope you will enjoy them all, watch this space.

The New Carousel CAL with Stylecraft will be announced soon, I'm over the moon with the design so I hope you will all love it as much as i do..full of colour of course.