Decoding the Improvisation

In the wee hours of a recent morning, I created a flower. As I worked to put together this freeform piece BLOOM for an artist's call, I found this new blossom really compelling.

So I began to look for the pattern. and look and look.... turns out i passed it twice, as I sufficiently amended/reinvented it, that i didn't recognize the source....

So then I tried to do it again. But this is two ripply and wild


And this was too open, airy



But the originial riff was just right... so now to decode what i did
and to name it... I think it's a dahlia....

Cold Autumn Much Crochet

Loss, Loss, Loss. My Daddy, my fluffy cat. So now, between bouts of tears, my hands create again, the fiber path.
I've crocheted hats for unknown babies in need, squares to join others who create to heal the world. And tschatskas-- not quite amigurumi, but not real either. Birds, pumpkins, gnome/elf/santa, and a mouse.

My leaves have joined quartz crystal on earrings and I have necklaces, fiber garlands. I'm working on a trio to
be the fall garland. I'll amend this with pix.

Praise for Hat

as my neighbors are all older than me and I'm not young, I never expect there to be even a glancing coincidence of esthetic. BUT
whooee! "fancy hat" said three different people about the purple free form.

I added more topstitching and my own tiny leaf, which with three fibers held together is not all that tiny. I love it! but it was so hard, lol! I may make myself another purple hat....

In the interim, I had some scratchy rug yarn that I snatched up and corcheted into a long tube to cover the mailing tub that i just realized would be the perfect draft block. I am so pleased with this bright and neat looking draft stop

Purple MagnifiHAt

I've been yearning for a purple hat. I miss my purple hats that are in my home. I want to go home. Anyway, I was gifted with lotf of gorgeous purple bits. I started out sad that I did not have more blue purple and then, dug through to find more of my favorite true purple and amened where i could, the red/pink purple with shiny bits. This is a free form form -- there are many more pieces than it seems as some fo the traingles and rectangles just fit in so well. My head is about 2 inches bigger than the form's so it sad that having finally acquired one, I couldn't use it for pieceing in the way i had hoped, I had to take it on and off my head......


Furthere, this involved my first unraveling/redoing in a looong time. But it is such a cozy comfy fit on me,,,, i want to sleep in it.
I think I may make another purple hat... i love these yarns!

Leis

I love flowers, flower forms and now, the epiphanic form of LEIS!
wow! So insightful and so so lovely,
So 3D, so many applications. for me--- having had cord joy, the lei as a pierced cord makes me want to think of other rearticulated/pierced/amended cord forms....

I will make some for the Tree of Life challenge in FF Crocrochet group.
I made some leis bracelets-- they are so precious!!!! i see connecting different forms with cabone rings, if i ever get some lol!

http://www.amazon.com/Hawaiian-Lei-Crochet-Roberta-Wong/dp/089610334X/sr=8-1/qid=1170716281/ref=sr_1_1/002-2550471-2745665?ie=UTF8&s=books

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1597000159/ref=sib_dp_pt/002-2550471-2745665#

There are other lei crochet books, but I read on another site that Roberta Wong's are the best--- which I suspected.love it when they let you sneak a look at the books on Amazon! ... the yarn is a pinky purple--- so much nicer than the pink, to me and a yellowy green.....

I did buy the book as they had one for $6.77, but now i regret it, because money is so tight.... i lost control...