Another great day in the studio.  I made a list about 10 days ago of what I wanted to make for Under the Sea II and while I have been whittling away at the edges of the list I have not been making any real effort to knock some items off of the list. Today was the day to knock off starfish. My list said 7 starfish were needed. Way back when I first got here I made two starfish using Icelandic wool and they have sat with the rest of the pieces I made but I was never iin love with them, actually I don’t even like them that much. They just seem too big and clunky so I decided to start making starfish with merino and while I don’t have 7 finished I do have 5.

   
Aren’t they the cutest starfish!  The small ones are really small, the idea being that I can scatter these starfish around the coral reef and they won’t look all matchy size wise. Numbers 6 and 7 are started. I am going to use the marble technique on one of them and the other is going to have “lines” in it.  They should both be done in the morning. 

I had a visitor this morning, Erla who works in the office downstairs brough in her 5 year old daughter Anita and she came to visit me and help me felt.  I gave her the piece she helped me felt, it was a small brain coral so I will have to make another.  Anita drew me a picture of her house so I hung it on my design wall. Erla runs a bed and breakfast about 20 kms from Blonduos. She said they had 4 rooms last year but have expanded to 8 rooms, last summer they were full most of the time with foreign visitors. Erla works here about half time, she was my contact when I was asking questions about the residency. 

I did go water jogging today and maybe that is why I am dragging my butt this evening. I had to stop in the grocery store on the way back from the pool and I attempted to take a picture of the back wall of yarn. It was very difficult as there are lots of other goods for sale around the yarn wall but maybe you can get the idea from these photos. The wall is about 25 or 30 feet long and is quite impressive.

   
   

I am sure you get the idea, knitters heaven. 

That’s it for today, thanks for reading.