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.

BUSY BUSY BUSY....GREY CROCHET and lots of Decorating

To move or not to move...that is the question? So decorating to start with and see if i change my mind about moving.

Buying grey paint has been a nightmare, been using Valspar paint and the colour changes in the room, so in the end we mixed the 2 paints we bought together to make the colour we wanted.... good job we mixed enough for touch up as it hasn't covered in one go...bit disappointed with the paint I'm afraid... 

It changes shade drastically from wet paint to dry too

 and this 'Grey' wall looked blue after it dried...decided to finish to and live with it for now though

 different time of day and it changed again...never had paint look so different from shop to wall and in different times of the day

Double doors are also now painted a pale grey

and the butchers trolly and stool are a dark grey too...the table legs will be dark grey and the top of the table will have a distressed finish on it as soon as we can get to it 

Mangaged a little bit of crochet playtime after digging out all the grey samples to complete for the grey kitchen..

plenty of 'grey' project i can complete for Kitchen sofa blankets

HALF AN HOUR A CHAIR AND A 1/4" OF PAINT USED!

VALSPAR paint B&Q

FEATHER GRASS

GREEN ENERGY

CROWN OF FETHERS

OCEANARIUM

wow! the paint is going to paint a dozen chairs let alone one.....

left: has painted a chair, right: not touched yet

4 done this afternoon, about half an hour a chair with cleaning the brush between colours.

They will need a second coat and then matt varnish but loving the colours so far...