Showing posts with label vibrancy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vibrancy. Show all posts

Friday, May 9, 2008

Meet the extraordinary Jenny Love





Jenny, an avid Tapestry Crocheter for many, many years, whilst raising 5 or 6 children on her own! is an amazingly bright cheerful soul, whose laugh can be heard whenever she is around.




I first met Jen nearly 30 years ago, when her family was just small and growing. Later when we re-met we discovered that not only were we born in the same year, a few months apart, we were avid tapestry crocheters, ('tho neither of us knew that until recently). Jen used to make Boots, and Back-Packs out of thick rug wool, (don't know how her hands coped with the roughness!), as well as long pointy hats, all with incredible long triangular star type tapestry patterns. I don't know how she found the time with all her kids.







These are photos of some recent works, Skirts, with her Butterfly pattern. Over the years she has made beautiful Belly Dance Tops, using exquisite fine cottons and sparkley yarns, and large mandalas, bags, leggings, Lower-leg Flares, wristlets, and has made a lot in fluoro for the "Doof" crowd. I shall hopefully take more photos of some of her other stuff tomorrow at the market, if she brings some, and post them next week ,

Megan

Saturday, October 20, 2007

Come share the bubbly.

Nice venue, but where are the guests?

Have you ever had a party, but nobody turned up? Happened to a friend of mine once. He made the house look wonderful, put out great refreshments, brought in a band, lighting and even set up a fountain, bubbling & spotlit with pretty colors, in the entrance.
But everybody had gone to a festival over by the beach. So he opened the French champers & sat watching the fountain...but hey...they all rolled in around 1 am by which time he was a very merry host indeed and it became an all night rave.


This is feeling a bit like that. I hope the other tapestry crochet aficionados get here soon.

Vibrant talent from Finland.

Meanwhile I'll share this bit from the Carol Ventura archives, sent to me by Google FeedBlitz, about the beautiful precise work of Maarit Aalto from Finland. If you read it and follow the links you'll find your work can become as precise as hers. My own work is a case in point. From now on I'll be working her way and creating clear and precise images.

Also today a new Flickr Tapestry Crochet Group member me si, also from Finland, arrived with her vibrant hats. Must be something to do with the northern lights!

Hope you'll join me here soon, a party of one is very limited fun.

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