Every Inchie Monday - Three - Dimensional

Hello fellow Monday Inchie makers and this week's challenge word is Three dimensional, which gave me cause for concern!  Having tried to find the reference to it in the HHGTTG I was faced with mostly abstract concepts, 3D maths, 3D Space, 3D Graph, 3D Integrated ciruit, 3D quartz phenolic, 3D tactics analysis ... need I go on?  There were two possibilities - 3D chess and 3D face recognition but what the heck - in embroidery?!  So I did my own thing - don't know where it came from but I imagined a rabbit coming out of hat - like magic and in 3D!!  So here goes - the hat is stiffened felt and that didn't go too badly but making the little rabbit small enough was my problem this is 3'rD time lucky (get the pun?)  My felted rabbit was too big and scruffy, my second crocheted and sewn was too big as done in double knit so split the wool and did it again and got a smaller bunny but she is still a bit too big - anyway I've sewn her with a string attached so I can pull her out and then pull the string to bring her back into the hat but she's still peeping! Unfortunately the photos never show them to their full worth - she is much cuter in the flesh when you see her!

In - but that's as far as she will go in!

Have a lovely week - the sun is shining here and all is good - My husband and daughter took me out yesterday and, with only two weeks to go I managed to get my mother-of-the-groom outfit... everything, shoes, hat and bag as well and as a birthday surprise when I came out of the changing cubicle my son and new wife-to-be with their combined 4 children were all there as a surprise to take me to lunch!  It was wonderful.  Actually today is my birthday so I am off to enjoy it now.  Thank you for visiting my blog and all your lovely comments - they keep me going and don't forget to visit all the other inchie makers talented blogs by clicking the link.

Out

she looks like she's got a carrot nose!

Every Inchie Monday - Brain

So today's challenge word over at Every Inchie Monday today is Brain!  I really didn't want to do loads of coils of grey matter - in fact I find the brain pretty repulsive to look at even though it's such a wonderful organ so I thought of the degrees of braininess, from a university student receiving their honours, to a not so smart arse who years ago were degraded by wearing a hat too, usually stood on their chair in the corner!  So here are the two hats of someone who has a brain and uses it and someone who does not!

 Please visit all the other creative inchie makers by clicking the link.  Thanks for visiting and for your kind comments - I love reading them they make my day!

Every Inchie Monday - Monkey

 Hi guys, hope you all had a lovely Bank Holiday Monday about which I got confused and thought was Sunday so today is Monday in my book!!!  But it seemed to be a lovely long weekend!!  Was planting stuff most of the time in the greenhouse as it was still so cold but today has been much nicer so it was lovely sitting sewing in the bay window today!  Yesterday's word for Every Inchie Monday is Monkey and as there doesn't seem to be a lateral way of thinking for this word - (except perhaps doing one of my cats or grandchildren who are all little monkeys) - I have embroidered a proper monkey hanging by its tail from a branch (just in case you couldn't make it out!!)

Enjoy the rest of the week which I believe is going to get warmer - hooray! Please click on the link to view other people's one inch creations and thanks for stopping by and for your comments.

Every Inchie Monday - Big

Hi guys!  Over at Every Inchie Monday this week the challenge word is Big.  I was going to do a big wave with a tiny person surfing on it!!  However I have done a wave on an inchie before so when my sister-in-law, who is staying with me this week, suggested an oak tree ....  I thought very nice, all big things come from acorns!!  So here is my oak tree but I think I got a bit carried away with sewing the bluebells and hedges and acorn in the corner.  As they say less is more!  Think it looked better with just the oak tree but I wasn't going to unpick it!!  Please click on the link to view all the other great inchies and thanks for visiting.

Every Inchie Monday - Poetry

Where does the week go?  On Every Inchie Monday this week the challenge word is poetry!  Had this one sorted but no time to execute it and on top of that I had two ideas and went with both!  I know that the poetry in the book HHGttG was supposed to be really bad and made everyone very ill but if you say poetry to me I always think of Rudyard Kipling's poem IF.  I heard it recited on Parkinson's years ago and was so impressed by it so my first effort is a tiny poetry book with the title of that poem it goes like this:

If you can keep your head when all around you are losing theirs and blaming you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait but not be tired by waiting, or be lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, and stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings and risk it on one pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings and never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty second's worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

 

 My second inchie is a mantra that I say to myself that was used in a motivational speech my husband gave and it has served me very well.  Hence I wanted to share it with you guys.  Thank you for visiting and have a great day.

 

   

 

  

 

Every Inchie Monday - Fish

Fish is a prominent word in our household as we have two aquariums plus a big pond with koi carp and two outdoor natural ponds with newts and frogs!  My 16 month old granddaughter can say dada and muma and ganda (granddad) and nana but after that it's all gobbledygook except after her last visit with us when we took her to feed the koi carp - now she puts her hands out and says "ish, ish" in other words she wants to go feed the fish! Her first proper word!  Anyway for Every Inchie Monday this week's word is fish and I opted to take the word in its context in the book, and so this is supposed to be the moment when Ford Prefect slipped the Babel Fish into Arthur's ear so he could understand the aliens - I wish there really was such a thing, I would love to be able to understand all languages everywhere!  Hope you have a lovely week even though we've been forecast rain ALL week!

Every Inchie Monday - Grandmother



 

This Monday's challenge word for Every Inchie Monday is Grandmother and brings to mind a rather idealistic picture of a little old lady with white hair in a bun sitting in a rocking chair with a shawl on knitting!!  How hard can that be?  I went at it with gusto believing I could sew the whole picture on an inch with tiny neat stitches!!  What was I thinking?  I should have just gone with the head!  Anyway this is the result, she's rather a scruffy looking nana!!  Please visit other marvellous inchies by clicking the link.