The Crown and Twigs......
The Crown and Twigs......
Tuesday, 2 October 2018
Sounding rather akin to the name of a trendy ‘designer’ pub, this is what I’ve been up to over the past month. Admittedly, not really a great deal to show for a month’s work, but this has been brain addling stuff!
Regular, but insane, readers will no doubt be aware of the finished Nut Tree* which, as I was working it, seemed to cry out for another ‘one of a pair’** to match it......
Since I had already been working on a Silver Crown***, thinking how wintery it looked, it was really only one tiny step for a lacemaker to work on a pattern for a Winter Nut Tree.
Cue the Twigs!
This is where the Twigs arrive on the scene......as I’m typing this, leaves are already starting to fall, revealing their twiggy structures, leaf-obscured since last winter. More usually seen as silhouettes against grey background skies, twigs possess the most wonderful array of colours, often passing unobserved as we scurry along out of the winter weather.
Viewed from a distance, twigs may appear to be just dull grey, dark brown or black, but look more closely and there are purples, pinks, blues and greens......and then, as with the icing on a cake, there’s the white crusty coating of frost glittering in the sun, spot-lighting their twiggy forms!
*See September’s Blog
**Pear? No, that’s been done!
***A slightly different version of ‘I Had a Little Nut Tree’s Golden Crown