A Crapper of a Wedding Expo
I had to share this one. Now anyone who knows me, knows I’m not really a huge fan of the institution of marriage. I find it a lot more constructive to decide every day that I want to spend the rest of my live with my beloved (awww).
So I was pretty amused by this competition they had at the Christchurch Wedding Expo. The brief was to design a wedding dress with the equivalent of up to 16 rolls of toilet paper. I’m not sure if this was intentional satire or not, but I thought it worked really well in that regard.
Here’s the winner
Crafty Confession
OK so next year I’m going to be a bridesmaid (weee!) for two of my best friends. And the bride has decided that since I’m a crafty one that I should be in charge of making things for the bridal party to wear.
EEK!
I have been posted instructions and materials. I need to crochet or knit a neck choker (3.5cmx36cm) and a matching thing for the wrist (3.5cmx16cm). The chocker can tie on, the wrist one can be buttoned.
The materials I have been given are a ball of gold metallic vicscose thread, it’s probably about the same thickness as un-separated embroidery floss. Six gold angel buttons about 2cm across, 1cm high. And a bag of gold 3mm pearl beads.
I’ve also been given a ball of DMC perle 8 in a dusty pink colour. It’s the colour the flower girls are going to be wearing, and the instruction was ‘feel free to make them something or not…’
So, well, bugger.
I don’t know how to knit or crochet. I tried to teach myself to crochet over the summer break. I was armed with books, websites, podcasts, diagrams and photos. I made something, but I don’t know if it was crochet…
So has anyone out there got any tips? Any patterns that might work well? I have a year to figure this out!
xox