WIP Wednesday 1

Okay bear with me here, well don’t actually because the pain in the bum behind the scenes stuff doesn’t bother you I suppose. I can’t upload from wordpress at the moment, because someone broke the doovalaki, so I’ve had to do these manually. It is a terrible strain, but I am sure I can cope.

So. Welcome to a thing I’m doing now. YAY! It’s called WIP Wednesday and since in theory I will always have a WIP I will yak about it here, on Wednesdays. For those who don’t know, a WIP is a Work In Progress. Things that are currently being worked on, but are not yet finished (this is not at all like a UFO – Unfinished Object. These are usually somewhere along the line to finished, but have been abandoned due to boredom or other more exciting projects).

Let’s get cracking, shall we? Okay first up we have the Eiffel Tower:

This is being done in freeformish embroidery on cotton. It’s a leaving present for Di at work who has found herself a brilliant new job and is therefore running as fast as she can from the building. Since she loves all things French I thought I’d go the iconic Tower. It was a bit of a rush, but I’ve just realised I have a week longer to finish it than I thought, which is pure bonus. It’s nothing like as neat and tidy as I would like, but then again at least it looks handmade, right? (Work with me here)

Part two of Di’s leaving pressie is shaping up:

I only started it last night when I realised there was NO way I’d get the tower finished by Friday. What is it you ask? It’s a star, dur.  Okay you have a point, right now it’s a circle, but it WILL be a star once I’ve done some more circle and added some points. The reason is that Di and I always demand gold stars when we do a good job, so when I found this pattern I had to make one for Di.  I freely admit my crochet is wonky. I have given up demanding perfection from myself on the basis that I’m improving naturally, and it’s easier to woodge and hide mistakes than start over