The side view gives a better look at the popcorn stitch flower in the middle.
I’m starting on a small blanket making Butterfly Garden crochet squares. You can see a couple of butterflies in the close up above. The pattern is free from Chris Simon here: Ravelry.
I’m loving the way they look so unmatched yet are perfectly paired.
And now am making a matching pixie hat – same wool and with a row of four croc scales at the front. Crocodile rock!
I’ve done ‘Around the garden and back again’ so until things spring to life and burst with colour, there’s nothing more to see here, folks.
It really is a cat’s life. Here’s Gracie in front of the fire in her little bed.
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I’m going to have a boiled egg and soldiers for lunch. I opened the cupboard and saw this cheery face smiling at me. What a happy chappie, eh? He or she is an egg cup and decided the meal.
Made me think – just recently there was a comment in the papers about Theresa May looking like a cat ‘coughing up a fur ball’ in a photo of her laughing. I think it’s the other way round. My cat does an impression of Theresa May laughing.
This Digital Particle Waves tutorial is featured on blogspoongraphics. The tutorial is well-documented and easy to follow (as always :)).
Here’s a tutorial on how to create a 3D object in Illustrator and map some art work onto it to produce a sliced orb effect.
The one is the image above was made slightly differently to the one in the tutorial – I created about 15 rectangles, increased the Shear value to 20º and drew a wrapping rectangle that caught the top of the sheared rectangles on the right and took it down so that it ‘trapped’ whole rectangles instead of catching chopped off ends.
It rendered better. The principles are the same 🙂
I made a lovely big pot of soup.
It’s a colour only bogey men would love but it’s smells and tastes great.
Or Gracie (just joking, she must have been thinking of FISH here).
Roasted Cauliflower and Broccoli Soup
Serve with crusty granary bread – I popped a large granary cob in the oven to warm it through and it tasted like freshly-cooked bread.
Gracie having another nap.
I also made a couple of crochet roses:
The scalloped roses (the orange and grey ones) came from a pattern on Attic24’s blog https://attic24.typepad.com/weblog/may-roses.html and the pale lilac coiled rose came from Pink Milk’s blog http://www.pink-milk.co.uk/2013/11/coiled-rose-crochet-pattern.html
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So, sparkles – frizzante – semi-sparkling rainbows to brighten the skies.
There are times that you want to fill a shape with text or use a letterform as a text container. The letter ‘g’ I’ve used here is from the font family (Pistilli).
I’m detailing the steps for using text as there are some small issues to be dealt with but the principles are the same.
Filling a letterform with text in Illustrator is easy enough when there are no inner shapes to deal with, eg, the letter ‘T’. Then simply go to Type>Create Outlines and use the Area Type tool to type or paste some text into the outline of the letter.
Things get a little peskier when there are inny-bits! It’s not difficult though but you have to deal with compound paths and text wrapping – and creating a separate outline to finish it off.
I’ve written an Illustrator tutorial in lots of baby steps with screen grabs to help even the most inexperienced Illustrator user – download the Text In Shape tutorial here:
I hope it comes in useful for you.
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