I loved Willow as a kid. When I heard the series was coming out I made my husband watch the movie since he hadn't seen it. The series is really really different from the movie. While the movie had a broad audience, the series is definitely geared more towards a younger audience and the pacing is off.

All that said I became obsessed with the scarf/shawl/sweater(?) that the character of Dove wears. Hers has a hood which I didn't feel like I needed. I also thought that having the arms as long as they are in the series (they sometimes drag on the ground) was impractical. I really liked the idea though of a scarf that effectively has arm holes in it which make it more like a shawl/sweater/


This worked up really quickly and isn't really complicated. If you wanted the arms to be longer then you would just chain more to start and adjust the arm hole placement. This pattern uses 2 skeins of Big Let's Twist in Peacock II from Ellyn Cooper's Yarn Sonnet. Each skein is 560 of worsted yarn so if you had another worsted yarn that was about 1000 yards you could use that. I used a 5.5 mm hook.

Stitches:

ch - chain
hdc - half double crochet
fphdc - front post half double crochet

Chain 237. I am 5'3 and on me this crosses my shoulders and nearly touches the ground
Row 1: hdc in the second chain from the loop. hdc to the end
Row 2: ch 2, fphdc in each chain across
Row 3: ch 2, hdc in each chain across Row 4: Repeat row 2
Row 5: Repeat row 3
Row 6: Repeat row 2
Row 7: Repeat row 3
Row 8: Repeat row 2
Row 9: Repeat row 3
Row 10: Repeat row 2
Row 11: ch 2, hdc in the first 76 stitches, ch 18, skip 18 stitches, hdc in the net 50 stitches, ch 18, skip 18 stitches, hdc to the end
Repeat rows 2 and 3 until you run out of yarn. I ended up with 26 rows









If I made this again I'd probably want another 500 yards of yarn to make it both longer and wider, but I'm really happy with how it came out.

As I was cutting vinyl for some mugs I had some room for "skinny things" that would fit to use the vinyl better. I decided to try out various trees that could be put around a mug. Have two mugs in my next glaze firing to see how this work.

A while back someone asked if I had any soap dispensers and I didn't, but it was something on my list to make. That little nudge pushed me over the edge and I made a few to try. I bought the soap dispenser plungers on Amazon and since they came in a pack of 5, I made 5 options. They all worked, but one was a little short which can be solved by just cutting the bottom of the plastic.

These were made with DeLa Designs Small Cone. The top was too small just using the cutter, but I stretched it and made sure that the cork would fit the top with a bit of room for shrinkage. We will see whether or not these sell, but I love how they came out.

In my last glazing I had a ton of crabs, this one has a ton of birch trees and cardinals. I think the birch trees and cardinals were slightly easier than the crabs, less small parts. I'm really starting to feel like I'm building up inventory for the first few shows of the year.

Of course, I have no where to put this inventory. I need more shelving in the basement, but before we can put that up I have to create space. It's going to be a process. I have a ton of glassware that I just don't use and there are more efficient ways to store it than in the 1970s monstrocity that was passed down from my grandparents.