Ever since I bought this book on knitting and crocheting seashells, fish and corals I studied it almost every night. It’s on my bedside table. Like bedtime reading.
So finally I started making the bullion corals. It was a great way to practice the bullion stitch, which I’ve been wanting to learn for a long time but is very tricky, like everyone says on the interwebs.Â
I was maybe going to make a brooch with it, but then it looked kind of oddly shaped and didn’t quite look like corals. So I thought I’d try adding a few of other kinds of corals in the book…
When I looked at it I thought, this could use a bit of yellow. And it was getting too big to be a brooch anyway. So maybe I’ll just keep adding to it, and maybe it will turn into a miniature coral reef! :D
So almost every night I study the book to pick a coral that I want to make. I don’t always have time to add something to it every night, but I still like to read the patterns. It’s a bit dorky, or even strange. But then Mike just told me that when he was a teenager he read the entire Photoshop manual cover to cover. And he still likes to read software manuals. I guess that’s why we get along :D
I wish I can make the knitted ones. That will take some practicing. For now I will go through all of the crochet patterns first.
About a week later I added the brain corals (yellow) and some bubble corals (pale green).
I’m also adding patches of the aqua-colour “seabed” as I make more corals. I love how free-formed this project is.
Will keep posting photos as it grows! :D
Have a lovely Tuesday, everyone!Â
Love it! And it grows slowly and naturally — like coral! :)
Amy took the words right out of my mouth, or my fingers, actually :-).
You should add a yellow submarine… :)
there’s a pattern for a bathysphere, actually! :D
This is so pretty; your color combo is perfection! I love how it’s growing so organically!
(Thanks again for inspiring me to try weaving as well! I posted about it the other day!)
Hope you’re having a lovely week!
Kate :}
Bathysphere; I love that word!