CROCHET REPETITION BY KAREN NIX

Hello lovlies, 

Karen Nix is going to become a grandmother very soon!  She has been a very busy lady of late, making a heap of crochet hexagons.  

Thanks Karen! x

Hi, just sending in my very late submission for 'repetition'.

The wait is nearly over! It won't be long now before I become a grandmother for the first time!I'm so looking forward to experiencing all those maternal emotions again - but differently this time of course.

So after repeating the same stitches many times over, there are now enough pieces to join together to make a colourful blanket for the little one. Yay!

108 hexagons in all and only a few that are identical - that's going to be a lot of sewing up! Luckily the cooler weather is still a little way off.

CROCHET BIRD BY KAREN NIX

Being a teacher I guess that my daily goal is to make a difference for the kids that I work with - to connect with them and help them discover something new about themselves and what they can do.

 

When reminiscing about the teachers that did that for me, I thought of my Year 5/6 teacher, Sr Rose. Sr Rose had a real love of birdlife which she passed on - in fact, imposed on all the students in her class. We wrote about birds, drew birds and embroidered birds. She talked about birds with a passion that had along term influence on me. She was also the one who had the patience to teach such a young group of girls how to crochet -not with wool, but with cotton as we pain-stakingly crocheted around our bird embroideries.

Even though I probably had little appreciation of Sr Rose at the time -all those years ago, I know that she passed on skills and passions that I have loved and shared over many years. So here is my reminisce project.

 This is an embroidery and crochet piece that I made with Sr Rose when I was in grade 5/6.

RUSSIAN DOMES BY KAREN NIX

Here are two lovely Russian lino prints from Karen Nix.  Inspired by the magical buildings in Russia, Karen carved lino and hand printed these.  Each print measures 15.5 x 15cm.

Thanks Karen!

BOWER BIRD BY KAREN NIX

'The bowerbird decorates it's bower with bright blue coloured objects that it collects; blue clothes pegs, drinking straws and bottle tops are among the favourite stolen items, while bright blue parrot feathers, flowers and brown snail shells, make up the majority of decorations away from human habitation'.
I guess that I could be considered to be a bit of a 'bowerbird' as I have seemed to have collected lots of 'blue treasures' over the years.
These treasures have been given to me by family and friends - how nice it is to have precious things all around.