Dark Kitty Crochet

 My little pots that I use for my crochet cacti have gone through a few developments since I first started using them. I originally started painting them using a bronze metallic acrylic paint which I sealed using a yacht varnish. Although I really liked the result i didn’t like the amount of time it took for the paint and varnish to dry. It needed a couple of layers (at least) and there needed to be a few hours in between as otherwise the paint wanted to try and peel back off again. The varnish as well would take at least a day before it was really dry.  To do that method back then I really needed to have multiple pots on the go so that by the time the last one was painted it was time to start on the first one again. However, back then I wasn’t making the number of cacti that I am now. I wanted to experiment with different colours of pots, especially as my cacti themselves were starting to be made in different colours themselves. I then discovered paint pens. As most of my pots are qui

 The last year has seen so many changes to the world around us. When I look back at what I was doing twelve months ago and compare it to what I am doing today I realise just how far I have come, and how the path I am on s a very different one.  I have always loved the colours that are found in a rainbow and as a child I remember being mesmerised see shafts of pretty lights in a prism that we had at home. Last year, when I would go out for exercise, I remember seeing rainbows starting to show up in peoples windows. Often these were drawn by the children that were living there, with added messages of hope and thanks. These rainbows again would catch my eye. There are still rainbows in windows to be seen whilst out walking and it inspired me to develop my current painted terracotta pots using a rainbow theme. Rather than using the bright range of yarns I decided that I would use my pastel shades. To create a set of pastel rainbow cacti. Because these shades are subtle I did not want to us

 So this year I decided to take part in the monthly challenge on Instagram that is the brainchild of Joanne Hawker. If you have never done one before it is really simple to follow and there are lots of different ones to take part in. For this one there was a prompt for each weekday and the weekends were set as free.  I had tried to do it last year but then I ended up giving up as mine and everyone else’s lives took a dramatic turn and I just couldn’t face trying to fit it into my “new normal”. Because of this I was determined to get further this year and it was easier where the weekends were left up to the poster to decide what they wanted to post about. I didn’t manage to get every prompt done but I did manage to do the majority which I am really pleased about. I also managed to look at and follow a whole host of new pages and seen some amazing makes that people do. Each day Instagram showed me different pages in my feed that had either the #marchmeetthemaker hashtag or the hashtag of