Merlin Magic

My Merlin Annual Pass is not only for entry to the Tower Ballroom but also for free entry in to other Merlin attractions, so one of my dancing friends and I went to the Circus this week. The Circus is situated directly beneath the tower and the tower 'legs' can be seen surrounding the circus ring. No pictures were allowed to be taken of the acts (no animals here) but I sneaked in a few before the performance and during the interval. The Circus is as elaborately decorated as the Ballroom.

During the interval children could go down to the ring to have their face painted - for a cost, of course,

or to buy souvenirs.

The circus ring was smaller than I remembered since my last visit - hmm, hmm, hmm years ago when I was little and I'm sad to say that the water finale was not as spectacular as I remember either. :(

The acts were good but not great and the same acrobats seemed to return for different routines. Acrobats, clowns, acrobats, clowns  - not much variety really. I mustn't moan - the tiles around the area were the most spectacular!

I feel a crocheted square coming on!

Pusscat is loving his new bed.

xx

Keep it simple

Cats simply have to find the comfiest place to sleep. Remember this fabric? Yip yip? Jeanne from Keep It Simple blog wrote a post on making pet beds by re-using garments. Simple and eco-friendly - just up my street.

It did not take long to crochet (but it took quite a while to cut up into a long strip) and the first puss-cat was in even before it was finished.

The other puss-cat of course needed to try out the new bed.

Jeanne, it's been so successful that I'm going to have to crochet a second bed to keep both cats happy!

xx

PS Peg, have you been contacted by Fran re the blanket?

Just finished ...

... my small lapghan sized Tunisian stitch quilt. The idea for this quilt came from here.

The edge is one round UK double, one round treble and one round reverse double.

I recycled some Yip, yip fleece for the back of the blanket.

Puss cat likes fleece!

So does the other one.

xx

Oh no!

I've inadvertently deleted my cushion cover post. Yip, yip. So here it is again.

Remember this post? Yip, yip. Well here's the first re-incarnation of the costume sewn on my little Singer machine.

 

Here's the envelope back.

And here's the front.

Repeat after me - never, ever do patchwork with fleece. Bits go everywhere. Yip, yip.

xx

Yip, yip

The fancy dress party is over and these costumes are no longer needed. No, no. Two large, fleecy throws, polystyrene balls, pipe cleaners, material, wadding and pom poms were sewn and hot glued together to produce these characters. Yip, yip. A large hole had to be cut out of the centre to make the mouth. Yip, yip. Eyes glued on at a jaunty angle. Yip, yip.

After the party they lay discarded in the garage. Yip, yip. Now what?

Make cushions? Yip, yip.

Make smaller throws? Yip, yip.

Make cat beds? Yip, yip.

Throw away? No, no.

xx