A Selection Box of Colour

I'm on a mission to make a bed spread out of crocheted Granny Squares, here's a selection of those completed so far. I have to admit I much prefer doing this on an evening in than staring at 'ballroom celebrities on ice to the extreme'.

(Notice the crocheted throw I bought from Ikea in the event that this takes the next five years to complete, I'm covered for all eventualities.)

Stripes

I actually feel a bit guilty about this one, I'm afraid that I've condemned him to a life of being unable to even scratch his nose if he has an itch, hopefully to lovely bright stripes on his skin (courtesy of Matalan's socks) will make up for this. Also the tail, who wouldn't want a multicoloured dinosaur's tail?

Dougal

I spotted an advert on the YCN Creative opportunities website, and after a 3 hour labour, little Dougal was born, I'm very proud to be a parent, although I will soon be sending him off to the mean streets of Cardiff to fend for himself. The details of this venture can be found below:

'Chapter is excited to be working on an exhibition taking place this April, by the artist Helen Frik. The exhibition, entitled ‘Difficult’ will run from 2 April - 9 May 2010 and will feature the installation 'Higher Up, where to', which will fill an entire room of the Gallery. The room will be darkened with a vague light emitting from a greatly enlarged bedside lamp and an array of 'toys' will be trying their hardest to reach the lamp, to soak up it's warmth and energy.

We are in the process of collecting hand crafted toys and we really hope that you can contribute to the art work as we need to gather up to 200 toys! The toys can be made out of any material as long as it is hand crafted, for example fabric, knit, woven, wire, wood etc. The odder the better, just let your imagination go wild! Current entries include knitted critters, colourful fabric monsters and wire dolls.'

I think it will be rather exciting to go on a little day trip later in the year to see the exhibition myself if Dougal is chosen.