What I did on my day off

Today was my turn to run the craft activity at the village youth club.  I wanted to take along some completed examples, so I spent the afternoon turning some of this

into these.

 

It was such a sunny day I was convinced everyone would be off outdoors playing frisbee or football but in the end I had 8 out of the 13 attending sitting down quietly for 45 minutes.  Now the village is overflowing with felted bead bracelets.  Of course, my children were amongst the 5 not interested in taking part.

Roving from Wingham Woolwork at last year's Woolfest.  Felted bead instructions from Knitty.

Have a good weekend.  I'm booked in for driving test mark two on Monday morning, so think good thoughts for me.

Comments

[Tracy]

You can always count on your children to help you out ;) Good luck Monday, I shall be keeping all available body parts crossed for you (could make sock knitting fun!)

[Brigid]

Extra good luck for Monday (I passed 3rd time, so I'm sure you can beat me!)

[WillowCaroline]

Oh, best of luck!!!! I hope the second time is a charm. I have heard how difficult driving tests are over in Great Britain - contrast it to the 15 year olds here who pass easily, and I think maybe we need to rethink our driving tests and perhaps we wouldn't have so many teens involved in major accidents.

Anyway, I hope it all goes your way.

And cool activity. At our kids school, we have done the felt balls year after year, but not the beads - I think many of the kids would enjoy those even better.

[angie]

Good luck with the driving test. Love those beads. How easy are they to thread after felting?

[yvette]

I love making felted beads, if it was me, my kids would have not been there either but they would probably want to have a go once we got home! Good luck for Monday.

[dawn]

Good luck! I'm sure you'll pass this time.

[Anita]

Good luck with the driving test - hope it goes well for you!

[jennybear]

Hope Monday went well.

Are you going to Woolfest this year?

jb