Evolving cacti’s

Well you may have seen my cacti that I have been making over the last couple of months. They have gone from being based on actual cacti forms to starting to show that they can have a character all of there own by adding some small black safety eyes.

Now as I have spoken about before I really like plants but am not very good about keeping them alive hence starting to crochet them. The addition of eyes and little mouths on the green cacti started to give them their own personality which led me to experiment with different colours. Great for stash busting! I love how the pots have also evolved over time with going from metallic gold or bronze to black and white to all sorts of colours and trims around the pot edge.

So to the latest evolvement. Whilst in my local garden centre (they also have a craft section) I noticed a basket of yarn that had been reduced. In there was a couple of balls of the most gorgeous red fluffy yarn that was half price as they were missing the paper bands that show the brand etc. That didn’t bother me as I knew I would be making something small and cute so wouldn’t need to try and match up dye lots if I needed some more. Although at this point I was not sure what I was going to make with it I thought it was too good a chance to miss so snapped them up. I thought I might make some more of my “tinsel squishier” as spoken about on a previous blog or maybe work out hearts that might have a twist, faces etc, because of Valentine’s Day being only a few weeks away.

However, once I had got home I looked at the latest crochet cacti and noticed that one that needed finishing off was red. What would it look like if I used the fluffy yarn? There was only one way to find out. The fluffy cacti was born.

Well, you can make your own minds up which you prefer. Me, I like them both. I love the Matt black pot and the ribbon in my opinion just finishes it off, especially with its little red heart gem glued in the middle. I want now to see what other colours I can do using fluffy yarn that replicates fur. That then is leading me to see if I can add other features to them. They may have started out as cacti but they are going to evolve into potted .................




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