FO Friday 110: Bloody Vlad Lives !

Victorian Flower Oracle

 Many apologies for the return to rubbish photos - it is dark, grey and raining today, and the Bloody Vlad turned out to be so large it wouldn't quite fit on the table how I wanted it to.

You can see very clearly that there are no points - when the designer says 'bind off loosely', she means 'bind off like knickers without elastic'. But hey, it still looks fine, a non-knitter would never know.

 

You might be able to see the beads if you squint and use a magnifying glass  ...

Detail of the 'wing'

 The yarn - 'Mistoffeles' merino/nylon 3ply sock yarn from Black Cat Fibres was lovely to work with: soft with a very slight stretch, washed and blocked easily (although it bled a little, I forgive it, since this is a vampire shawl it seemed appropriate).

And here is my other creative work for this week, completed at Destructo Boy's Savannah Sharing Day: 

 

 

Which inexorably reminded me of this:

Hop on over to Tami's Amis - hopefully any music will be less dodgy than my selection remembered from childhood.

FO Friday 109: Big Sighs

Tarot of the Magical Forest

     So Auntie Fashion's Seaweed Blanket is complete, although this dreadful photo does it no justice at all - it has been raining;
I popped out when there was a short break to take the photo
in spite of all the greyness, and then attempting to drape the blankey artistically over the fence but at the same time also desperately trying not to let it slip and fall onto the sodden patio ... in the end I was just happy to have any kind of photo of it at all !

I promise you, it truly does look so much better in real life, it isn't all crookedy or on the huh at all. And it does have sparkles in it. Really.

I had been hoping to be able to show you some photos of Bloody Vlad today as well, since I've been knitting it rather than doing any housework this week; however, it seems to have been earning its sobriquet - with a mere 4 rows left to go, I put down the crochet hook I was using for beading, put the kettle on, and when I came back, I simply could not find that hook again. 

I looked in all the sofa cushions, under all three cats, the dog, the sofa itself - even in the adjacent fruit bowl - but nada, zip, nothing. 

Well, except for a very few choice curse words - I'm sure you know the kind.

 So this morning I did an emergency run into town, and picked up two more teenytiny crochet hooks: a 0.75mm and a 0.6mm one as well, since I wasn't quite sure what the size was of the one I lost: darned small is just darned small, yanno ?

However, there is always a bright side: at least I'm almost guaranteed a FO for next week. Barring anymore unexpected misfortunes, of course. Pop over to Tami's Amis to see good pictures of beautiful things ..