Button it :)

The collection

With only a week left in the beloved caravan, (Haaaallelujah)  my brain is already rebooting into backpacker mode as I peruse the multitude of utter crap Ive collected in my stationary time and remember (with a little twinge of pain) what its like to lug around your life on your back. So the cull is on and its no surprise that I find myself with an entire bag full of leftover wool. All those little rejected balls of wool that didn't make it into anything, left behind, useless. So, I have come up with a semi-functional use for them. Button decorations!


Oh yes brother, my stubborn infatuation with creating decorative, pointless items has returned with a bang and already I find myself with a plethora of them. Not wanting to add more bulk to my already bulging backpack, I conversed with myself (quite the common occurrence) in ways to attach my little decorations to ones self without the need for buying a supply of pins. Like in the movies, I spotted my little bag of buttons and the proverbial energy saving light bulb clicked on above my head.Why not just add a little decoration to whats already there? Well, I thought it was genius. So I made these little fellows to slip on over your buttons to spruce up any old attire with a little woolen bling! :)

Good for bags too!

Now granted, this does limit their already slim use to items of clothing which actually have buttons and decorative buttons at that and also discovering that I myself had only 2 of such items in my entire backpackers wardrobe, I realised that these may well be a disciple of my egg hats in that while they're pretty to look at, they are also pretty useless! But, I wasn't to be dismayed, deterred or disheartened, clearly as I've made so many, I shall as ever continue with my staunch quest to defy the functionality of everything needing to have a practical purpose and plough on with my prettifying pomp! So, with two items to display the button festoons I intend to spruce up each one with a dabble of colour to suit the occasion or just for the craic! 

God bless buttons :)

If you are a fellow wool enthusiast and would like to join me in displaying some woolen bling then you can find some of my stuff here > 
http://www.etsy.com/shop/Woolenitbelovely
Why not? :)

Production by Destruction!

A whole week! Oh, how have I survived 7, no, 8 days without crocheting, or even more astonishingly without divulging it all to the world!. To say nothing of how you, my most dedicated readers, have managed to struggle through life without hearing of my deep, woolen reflections! :)
I must attribute my delightful return to writing such long winded nonsense about my crocheting endeavors to my decision to quite literally throw Cervantes' Don Quixote out the bloody window and pray that he and his suit of rusty armour may disintegrate as quickly as the Norwegian summer did! I tried, for 198 pages to stubbornly persevere and have my imagination captured, or even just my mind occupied, but to no avail. My lack of wool was leaving me with little alternatives, so instead of taking up that wedge of absurd chivalry, I sewed every item of clothing that had even a hint of a hole, leaving me looking on whole, like a relation of the artful dodger!

The bomber hat

While I was during the week in such dire straits, I simply had to crochet something and production by destruction was the only method remaining to me. To my loyal followers the news of my first creation is known, a wooly hat as a birthday present for my shivering boyfriend way back in March. While the hat was perfect in every way, of course, the recipients head was, well quite frankly too large for it! It has since, after the ooh's and aah's of initial admiration quite akin to my egg warmers, been sitting idly in some corner, protecting only the floor from gathering dust than any head from any elements. So, a decision had to be made between Don Quixote and pulling apart my embryonic article, three guesses which one I pounced on with cat like reflexes, resulting in my newest item, the bomber hat!
I had seen some pictures of this style of hat and thought it lived up quite well to its name, being the bomb! I dived with relish at the challenge of coming up with my own pattern, as there was absolutely no way I was going to pay 6 dollars for one! The pattern that is, because of course we'd all pay much more for a hat!!!!! ;)  
Taking more care and paying more attention this time to the proportions of my beau's crown, I vigorously, with tongue protruding in that terribly unattractive manner, proceeded in making a wearable hat, though I do think it took me longer to unravel the first one than it did to make the second!
Needless to say I am much more pleased, as is Matej having his second usable item of clothing, with this bomber hat than its predecessor, indeed he is in great danger at this rate of being completely bedecked in wool before we leave Norway. The hat is getting good use already as entering the caravan in the mornings is similar to stepping into central Siberia, ice included! I'm sure he's feeling more upbeat about the white frosting in the mornings now that his noggin has a bit more protection. Though getting him to pose for photos was the greater of all the aforementioned tasks combined!

Matej, my rather reluctant model

Thankfully, with enough wool to clothe a small elephant and a stack of new books, today being my weekly respite from the rural confinement, I shall be merrily entertained and blissfully ignorant of any more acts of chivalry and can refrain from eying up anything that is sitting idle for too long...but all those egg warmers are already transforming in my minds eye. Is this not the best reuse and recycle scheme possible? I shall have to dub it the Green Bomber hat in light of my environmentally friendly methods. Here's to taking apart everything in sight and making it anew! :) 


 

Obsessed much?????

The Family together!

 Lord almighty whats wrong with me...Ive made more! It seems that having useless egg warmers on every flat surface in my caravan wasn't enough for me, as I now have come up with a whole new line! 

Pondering this apparent obsession with egg hats I may see the reason. Mostly my time is taken up with my Stepford wife like caravan maintenance, cooking, cleaning, washing bloody dishes, but also crocheting and reading. (you wouldn't believe I'm only 28..stressing the only part!) Regarding the latter of these amusements, I am attempting to better my book repertoire and have undertaken some classics, for example, Bram Stokes 'Dracula', which was actually a brilliant read, so, thinking myself some sort of Literary academic, I boldly checked out the infamous (at least to all those 'Ten books you must read before you die' lists) Don Quixote from the Library and now we arrive at my reason for so much crocheting. Needless to say it seems to be one of those 'can't pick it up' books rather than the opposite. Immersing myself therefore in my crocheting is my attempt to avoid reading a book which according to the cover, has 'captured the imagination of generations'...I think it skipped my one!

The scood, or snood or some very cool term!

So here I am again, this time with actual hats for eggs and not one unadorned one left  in the fridge. Though I'm not sure if its the hats I like more or the little faces? Talk about a great way to play with your food! So enough of this blabbing, I just wanted to share the latest hip fashion for eggs, they're all the rage these days.