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27 Jun 2022 04:16 pmYou may remember I felted some eyeballs a while back. Well the full project was completed for a WI croft competition on Saturday. Each branch had been given a wooden cut-out shape and asked to decorate it using the theme of gardening and/or harvesting.
My niece, a member of our WI, suggested we use the WI resolution supporting organ donation as our starting point, and from then on Gnoma took on a life of her own. Almost all of the 30 or so members of the branch joined in one way or another - and here she is - with her donatable body parts labelled, her donor card, and her harvest of organs ready for transplant in her wheelbarrow -
If you click you can zoom in on Flickr. She even had my knitted spring chicks to show she was ours.
To be honest the judging committee were probably looking for something more traditional, as all three that were placed were clearly lady gnome gardeners - but all had been beautifully sewn and embellished. But we were by no means the only branch that took a walk on the wild side - there are more pictures ( under this cut )
My niece and I, and baby Edie, went to see them all, and had tea and cake, and a gossip, before she went off to meet her sister, and I went to a 'crafters' stash-busting sale' where people were selling some of their unused/unwanted crafting stuff. I was very pleased as I came home with 100 assorted blank cards for a total of £7.50, and four bags of assorted embellishments for another £2.50 - which should keep me, and the church children, in cards for the next 2 or 3 years!
We are sometimes asked what there is to do on our island outside of TT - I could also have attended the Fair day at Laxey, A Village Jubilee Day picnic in our village park, a vintage tractor Rally in Port Erin, watched a ride out of around 200 scooters (old mods not modern toys!), or spent an hour or two wandering around a display of vintage Bentleys!
My niece, a member of our WI, suggested we use the WI resolution supporting organ donation as our starting point, and from then on Gnoma took on a life of her own. Almost all of the 30 or so members of the branch joined in one way or another - and here she is - with her donatable body parts labelled, her donor card, and her harvest of organs ready for transplant in her wheelbarrow -
If you click you can zoom in on Flickr. She even had my knitted spring chicks to show she was ours.
To be honest the judging committee were probably looking for something more traditional, as all three that were placed were clearly lady gnome gardeners - but all had been beautifully sewn and embellished. But we were by no means the only branch that took a walk on the wild side - there are more pictures ( under this cut )
My niece and I, and baby Edie, went to see them all, and had tea and cake, and a gossip, before she went off to meet her sister, and I went to a 'crafters' stash-busting sale' where people were selling some of their unused/unwanted crafting stuff. I was very pleased as I came home with 100 assorted blank cards for a total of £7.50, and four bags of assorted embellishments for another £2.50 - which should keep me, and the church children, in cards for the next 2 or 3 years!
We are sometimes asked what there is to do on our island outside of TT - I could also have attended the Fair day at Laxey, A Village Jubilee Day picnic in our village park, a vintage tractor Rally in Port Erin, watched a ride out of around 200 scooters (old mods not modern toys!), or spent an hour or two wandering around a display of vintage Bentleys!
