A Tuesday Ta-daa

On Friday, in between having physio for my knee, getting things ready for Yarnival and having to go off to work earlier than usual to cover for a colleague on leave.....I did a random bit of crafting.

We'd planned to have a jar full of knitting needles at the knit and natter corner for any one to pick up and use and it was up to me to sort it out. I just did not have anything suitable and had been racking my already over-stuffed brain and could only come up with this.....

A hand thrown pot I have had for years and years and has gradually moved further to the back of the cupboard as colours,taste and fashion changed. I never got rid of it as there was nothing wrong with it - I had just become tired of it. In desperate need for a container for the needles and rapidly running out of time I had resigned to using this pot. Then it hit me - 

A few years ago, when I was still learning to crochet I made this - 

 

I blogged about it here and since then, this piece of crochet practise just hung around not doing anything, not becoming anything until Friday. I grabbed it, stared at it for a brief moment ~ and remembering the success I have had in the past with cutting crochet ~ I got hold of a pair of scissors and cut about a third off, wrapped it around the jar, stitched it tight and turned it into this.......

To say I am pleased with the results - is an underestimation of how surprised and happy I am at how it turned out. 

So a happy me skipped off to work (happy with my jar that is!) and on Saturday I was really chuffed to see it sitting there in the knit and natter corner filled with needles.

And now?

Well - funnily enough, it is now still full of needles and sits pride of place in the centre of the rumpus-room table, look - see what I mean!

Happy? - yup.