Been in a puzzling mode kind of a mood. This Globe Leaf Bowl has more negative space than the ones I've done in the past. I'm starting to push the limits on it.


Now sure how well you can see it, but I also textured the inside of this one for the first time. Thinking I'll do more of a shiny glaze.

This will be the most colorful kiln opening I've had this year. I feel like the last few have been a little boring with little variation. There are some birch trees, but also some flower bowls, morrocan tile, and a gaggle of gnomes.

My two little bird baths look really cute on the top. They were meant to be earring holders, but they dried too fast before I could put the holes in them. I broke two before I decided - they are now very fancy trinket dishes.

Also in here is a gift for a friend with the puppy prints you can see on top and another one of my puppies prints. I feel like this is something I could sell locally for pet owners if I figured out the logistics.

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.