I have been wanting a yarn bowl, so when we went for another round of ceramic painting and there was an unpainted yarn bowl, I took the leap.
Yarn bowls are a solution to round wrapped balls of yarn. They keep the ball from rolling all over the floor. They work with other yarn preparations too.
One more comment on ruffle scarves knitted from machine lace “yarn”. Here are two scarves, one using six stitches (purple) and one using 4 stitches (faded glory).
Really it is a matter of personal taste when choosing how many stitches to use.
This is a wrap bracelet that I made for my sister in April of 2015. It is made from red leather cord, 4mm garnet and quartz beads, and beading thread. The remarkable thing about it is that it was sitting next to my chair next to the fireplace when the house caught on fire in March of 2015. I had been working on it and it was in a project bag. I needed to give everything a rinse to get rid of the ash, but I was able to complete the bracelet.
I really missed an opportunity to do a morse code message in the beading.
We’ve done another round of ceramic painting. This time I tried for flowers, daisy on one side and a sunflower on the other for my mother-in-law.
It was interesting how the flowers changed after firing, and something to consider when painting again with glaze.
The other interesting thing is the apparent shape of the mug. In the pictures above it looks like a standard straight sided coffee mug, but it isn’t.
My favorite part is the ombre interior. It really amuses me to have the inside painted like a patina of coffee has already built up.
Thor the gray tabby is still afraid of the cat flap. I think it is the click of the magnets, so I had the idea to use a clicker with treats to desensitize him to the click noise. Could I find my dog clicker? Nope. So I used a canning jar lid.
The lid insert is designed to pop. The intention is to show when a glass jar is properly sealed, but the action in the steel can be manually manipulated. I push the can lid in, it gives a small click, then I give Thor a small piece of chicken, and push the center of the lid the other way and it makes a louder click. It isn’t as loud as a store bought clicker, but with my scaredy cat, that is better.
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