Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Emergency fungii pots

Friday dawns, and with it the realisation that I need more pieces for a textiles exhibition on Sunday afternoon. This would be fine if I didn't need to go to work on Friday, London on Saturday and a party on Sunday morning (life is good!)... When time is short, my thoughts turn to crochet. And then they turned to fungus (if you've seen my avatars on Ravelry you'll know that I am mad about fungii, lichens and mosses).
Mushroom the first (the rust/purple/grey one) was cranked out during my breaks at work. Mushroom the second (the green/turquiose one) kept me sane during a rather frustrating journey to London. I then nearly lost it whilt at the V&A but happily it was spotted and rescued by some of my fellow City&Guilds students. And the fluffy brown mushroom (I love the way that Noro Silk Garden felts: a silky sheen with a mohair haze) was started at the V&A and completed on the journey home. (This was also a frustrating journey, but whereas the journey out was complicated by a fire at Cambridge station, the journeyy back was jinxed by my hopping onto the wrong tube train, having to backtrack and then finding myself in a carriage full of West Ham supporters. But at least they didn't seem fazed by the crochet...)



And here's my mushroom trio on Sunday afternoon:

I'm absolutely delighted with them.

5 comments:

Ambermoggie, a fragrant soul said...

those are gorgeous:)

Mary deB said...

Very cool. We especially like the bird's nest in the bottom photo.

(This is not the royal we... my daughter is reading with me!)

rabbit faerie said...

They're fab :) I often think to myself, I love fungi so much, I cannot think of my life without them.

Emanation said...

Fabulous felted fungii - nice one Rosie!

Anonymous said...

ooooh I love 'em