Rainbow craft

Lockdown has been going ok here. Granddaughters have been here for 3 weeks and are keeping me busy and amused and hopefully I’m doing the same for them too. Recently I decided I needed a better rainbow in our window to show our support for the NHS and key workers etc. I had the girls help me find a stick on a dog walk. Also, they helped make pom-poms. They were a little confused at first wondering why we needed a stick but when the word craft was used they were all in with my plan. 

My Glue gun made an appearance  but not until we had unwound, measured, cut and attached rainbow colours of yarn to our stick by tying them on with a loop method. We then took our pile of pom-poms and glued them onto the stick and each other to give a cloud appearance. 


I was pretty impressed at how it all came out. All with yarn I had sitting around and a stick. The girls helped even the ends off so I’m leaving it slightly ragged. The hanger is just one strand of each yarn braided and tied onto the stick. It all hangs proudly in my front window now. 

The girls took the off cuts and continued cutting them to make rainbow ‘cakes and cookies’ imagination is a wonderful thing. Amazing how a few small bits can keep them amused for a long time :-) 

I’m so glad this pair have the craft bug like me. It’s fun to have partners in craft and fun. 

This wasn’t the stick we used obviously. However, it was the one the found and carried home for me to practice using my new woodworking tools on. How lucky am I? 

Bubbles, yarn and vinyl

The plan of working from my list of eight things is falling by the wayside a little. However, I am still using what I have and am being productive. 

Last night I started watching things on Netflix and decided to look through my yarn as fancied crocheting something. Came across this lovely dark pink cotton. Yet again another one of my shower poufs/loofah/scrubby things has fallen to bits leaving me with a long length of net so I decided to crochet up a cotton one that won’t unravel and won’t end up clogging up a landfill or being harmful to wildlife 

It’s coming along well. I’m a slow crocheter so I will carry on and finish this one tonight hopefully and if there’s enough yarn I will make another one up for someone else maybe. 

My younger son has a few jokey periodic table t shirts. So when I saw something similar to this on a mug I decided a shirt must be made and he was up for it. So this evening I designed this in Cricut design space and cut out the HTV vinyl, with my Cricut, ready to press onto the shirt tomorrow. I hope Freddie Mercury would approve ;-) 

Spent some time in the garden with kids and bubbles earlier on. Loving the colours in the garden and the enthusiasm everyone has for bubbles whatever age they are. 

Really has been a fairly busy fun day. Looking forward to seeing what fun tomorrow holds being the half term but might need a rest on Saturday.