wiggle...wiggle...

I saw this a little while ago and was just taken with it for some unknown reason.  It is sooo old fashioned, it's charming! It looks a whole lot harder than it is, so when I find things like that out, I like to share....'coz you know the saying

"If I can do it....."

So, if you want to know how to do this, I'll show you....

I am sure there are places on the Web where you can find patterns and such, but if you don't know how to do the basics then patterns aren't much good!

If you are new to crochet, it is "do-able", because there are no complicated stitches or instructions. You just have to know how to do double crochet and think in 3-D!!

For the above sample I...

ch 20

dc into 8th ch from hook

(that makes the first dc and ch2 )skip 2ch

dc/ch2,sk 2ch into the remaining chains across

you will have 6 dc and 5 spaces.

ch5 and turn

dc into next dc,ch2, skip 2ch and continue across as before.

When you have 5 spaces across and 5 down

you have a workable base on which to do the wiggles.

this is much easier to do than to write....

take the new colour and attach it to the right hand bar

in the centre of the base with a slip stitch.

Making sure to position it so you can go UP the bar, make three dc in same space.

make four dc in the bar at the top

(the bad drawing shows which one I mean!)

four dc down the left side

four dc across the bottom bar

four dc on the right hand bar of the space underneath

across the bottom of that space

up the left side

across the bottom of the space on the left

up the left side

across the top

up the left of the space ABOVE the centre

across the top

down the right side

across the top of the space to the right

down the right side

across the bottom

and join to the begining 3ch and end.

There I told you it wasn't hard.

!!!

It's like following a maze and you just can't lose your place or you will roam for evermore!!

O is the starting place and the ending.

Now the outer wiggles

join new colour to one of the outer corner spaces with a slip stitch

ch 3 3 dc in same space

4 dc in same corner space

4 dc on left side of space

4 dc across bottom of space to the left,

4 dc up the left side

so basically you will be zig zagging along the edge to the left

wiggle wiggle

all the way back to the beginning.

When you get there join to the top of the starting 3 ch and end.

I took the middle out so you could see the edge a little better.

and the photo below is how you wiggle your way around.

Going to the left ....

you can go the other way I suppose,

just be sure to zig-zag.

I only hope this is understandable

I haven't written a crochet pattern before

and probably never will again....

but if you read this and understand it

then that was my only intention.

If you have a problem,leave a comment and we'll see if we can work it out.

I intend to make a little rug to put my dainty feet on while I sit at the computer, but we all know who is going to end up taking it....

rug...wot rug?

Clouds

are the subject of the day.  I stepped outside a while ago and discovered it was almost warm! The storm we were supposed to get hasn't really arrived as described, but we did get rain overnight, and now it is bright and shiny and cloud-filled. One of the reasons I have my camera is because in days gone by I would stand and look at the clouds floating over us and mutter, wish I had a camera, and now I do, and this is what I wanted it for.

I do not pretend to be a photographer, but I love these snapshots.

The blue and white sky is just lovely.

It is windy, so the clouds are scurrying by and changing shape and form as they float over me.

I love the wind, the warm and the fluff.

Will they...

still taste the same?

Cadbury is being sold to Kraft!!

Please DON'T change the recipe!!!

Why couldn't it have been the other way around?

Sunlight

has been in short supply of late

so, the last time the sun actually shone,

I just walked around the house and took some pictures. Mostly because of the shadow-play.

This is an orchid I have had for a while.

It has only bloomed once for me, in the dead of winter. It is a Jewel Orchid and I love the leaves enough not to care that there are no flowers!
(That is not dust on the leaves. Really it isn't!)

This plant is a form of Rabbit's Foot fern. It is quite "mature" now and it seems to be doing very well sitting on the edge of the stand where the light can get to it.

It has curious blue stems that get quite hairy!!!

I like unusual plants.

These looked lovely in the sun and I loved their shadows on the wall.

face on mars!!

This was my mothers..

as was this.

Isn't it annoying to see the dust only after the picture is taken??!!

Oh well, just keeping it real!

I did dust thoroughly after I saw this,

but I'm pretty sure it's all back by now!


An old Chinese vase with a "glint"




and a pretty blue bell

And last, but by no means least,

my Tibetan bead, that husband bought me a couple of Christmas's ago, hanging about in the sun. The grain of the wood in the old mirror really shows.

Lovely!

Have a sunny day, even if it isn't shining...like here.

Is it Spring soon?

Birds, yes

BUT, not water birds!!

This is a Red-headed Woodpecker

and he is a Blue Jay, who is either very tired or contemplating something?

Then, of course, we have the king of all birds!!

and his queen..

Waiting their turn

I took these from the window. It is too cold, and they are too skittish, for me to stand outside, in 20 deg. weather and shoot their portraits!! But I was privileged to be allowed to take these, because I swear they can hear the camera clicking behind the window, so I had to put them up and show them off.

Oh and last, but by no means least, we have him, watching it all from above!!

Until, the next time.

:-)