Knitting and Crocheting Blog Week~~A Mascot Project~~4KCBWDAY2
Your task today is to either think of or research a project that embodies that house/animal. It could be a knitting or crochet pattern – either of the animal itself or something that makes you think of the qualities of that house.
Alternatively it could be a type or colour of yarn, or a single button. Whatever you choose, decide upon a project and blog about how and why it relates to your house/creature.
What in the hive is a bee to do?
I decided to buzz about around Ravelry and found this.
It's the Busy Bees Doily by Elizabeth Hiddleson from the May,1988 issue of Decorative Crochet.
Ah! doilies! I love them so. The thin thread and the steel needles. They are so pretty, just works of art all. I've been through my bouts of doilimania--here, here, and here. Perhaps it is time to do a new one.
While I have a small collection of old Decorative Crochet and Magic Crochet magazines (with a Crochet Fantasy thrown in for good measure), I didn't have this one, so I brought a copy on Etsy.
...And I dug up some size 2o DMC Cebelia an a size 8 (1.5 mm) steel needle. The pattern calls for a size 7 (1.65mm) with size 10 thread, so I want to go smaller. Naturally, I want and cannot find a 9 (1.4 mm), so I'll buy one. Perhaps, I'll stick with the 8.
Thanks already to the blog week for the inspiration!
To "B" or not to "B"
Today is William Shakespeare's 449 birthday and Talk Like Shakespeare Day, so to that purpose, I put this post on the Holy City Shakespeare page. In the voice of Sir Patrick Stewart, of course.
Lords and ladies, all good greetings be upon you and your house this fair morn. 'Tis a noble enterprise (and devoutly to be wished) to have on this occasion, a celebration of the day when one known to us as the Bard emerged glorious (not untimely ripped) from his beauteous mother's womb some 22 score and 9 years ago.
Therefore and anon, let us rejoice by enunciating the lexicon as to the manner born!
Gentle people, I bid you adieu.
Since I can't get Sir Patrick to record my Shakespearean birthday message, here's a video that ties "Bs" and the Bard together.
Zoons!
Tomorrow: An Infographic
I haven't crocheted doilies in over 30 years, but that bee one does tempt me! So cute.
Posted by: Dorothy | April 23, 2013 at 10:49 AM
Love the bees with thread idea! Oh how cute that could bee (ha ha) in a nursery wall!
Posted by: Becky | April 23, 2013 at 11:05 AM
That doily is beautiful. Almost makes me want to break a crochet hook out.
Posted by: Marie | April 23, 2013 at 01:13 PM
The doily is beautiful, of course, but I'm more excited by Sir Patrick Stewart FTW!!
Posted by: Cyprienne | April 23, 2013 at 02:17 PM
That doily is AWESOME.
YESSS. Patrick Stewart.
Posted by: JQ | April 23, 2013 at 10:50 PM
hi there! i found your blog while looking for information on the busy bees pattern..have you started the doily? i'm curious as to how much thread it actually took in the size 20 thread.....
Posted by: maria | May 15, 2013 at 10:34 AM