Worked with 26 gauge navy wire (Darice craft wire) to make a round thing. The bottom chain was reinforced with a slipstich, then two rows of single crochet with a 5F hook.
I think i’m getting a crochet callus.
I’m going to post some photos from the Morro Bay trip off with the belated Yule cards.
I decided MA2006.OAP.Jan should be a lemon for the “come to your senses” theme as i find Meyer lemons to engage all my senses! I think this will also get me my lemon icon i’ve been wanting.
Created MA2006.CBTI.Jan.01: Pine. A photo of a pine tree (probably Christine’s, from the photo drawer), vintage green velvet ribbon with gold back, cut into narrow strips and crocheted around the photo. Slip-stitched to a pale blue card stock margin for binding. Once i scanned it in, i added cork stamping along the card-stock margin in yellow and green.
PIF to “By The Sea,” with an added ATC2005.02.09 and a home-made envelope (greycat & mariposa artistamps). I was very pleased with the orange and purple colors in the stamps and addressing.
Packaged up LMAO2005.09 to send off in a 9years-9lives envelope.
Experimented with crochet and gift ribbon. Single crochet of wire ribbon sliced in half. (I was hoping for an eyelash effect, but i’d need to fringe it even more. Still — it’s a possibility.) Open stitch with curling ribbon. I can imagine making a recycled shopping bag from a collection of ribbon like that. Pretty neat.
Mid-day went to take photographs starting Roll2006.01 (TMX 135-36, 100 speed) through frame 19 at Crittenden trailhead & Crittenden marsh. Experimented with the lightweight tripod, which would fit in the new camera bag. The tripod is too short, too wobbly — more so than the aluminum yard-sale tripod. Fiddlesticks. Christine took some shots through frame 30 at La Avenida.