Apologies for the long absence – having a bricks and mortar shop just sucks up time. I am, however, still finding time to make things out scraps, so there would be plenty to write about each month if I could find a few extra hours.
At the moment our ScrapHappy focus is on two collaborative projects – one for Christmas and one for the summer. I’ll save the festive one for later in the year when we’ve made a bit more progress, but the other one is starting to take shape:
Our coral reef so far
Yes, that’s right we are going to fill our shop window with a crocheted and knitted coral reef, made entirely from scrap. There’s a lot of window, so it’s a big project, but the Knit Nighters are on board and I’m sure we’ll have help from further afield. Mr Snail is doing some very mathematical corals, which you can read about here, whilst mine are mostly basic hyperbolic crochet. We’re not just sticking to coral, though – you might spot a tiny octopus and an anemone in the picture too and we have a couple of jelly fish. There’s even talk of a puffer fish. The corals are a great way to use up random scrap yarn and we’ve already managed to incorporate some textured stuff that may otherwise languish in the scrap bag forever.
If you fancy joining in, we have a leaflet that we can email to you, which explains how to make the basic coral shapes, just message us.
We are hoping to have a wonderful display to show you in the summer.
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I’ve been inspired to write this (and future) ScrapHappy posts by Kate, Tall Tales from Chiconia. On the fifteenth of every month lots of folk often publish a ScrapHappy post, do check them out:
Kate, Gun, Eva, Sue, Lynda, Birthe, Turid, Edi, Susan, Cathy, Tracy, Jan (me), Moira, Sandra, Chris, Alys, Claire, Jean, Jon, Dawn, Jule, Gwen, Sunny, Kjerstin, Sue L, Vera, Nanette, Ann, Dawn 2, Carol, Preeti, Nóilin, Viv, Lynn and Tierney
If you fancy joining, contact Kate and she’ll add you to the list. It would be lovely to see more non-sewing posts, but any use of scraps is welcome.
The Snail of Happiness 
DawnGillDesigns
/ February 15, 2024That looks like a fun project. I could have a go, if you think you might like the odd very random bit – it will be a great little project to make at fairs whilst demo’ing the hookerring. Do ping me any links / instructions and if I achieve anything I will post it on 🙂. Nice to see you back, x
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The Snail of Happiness
/ February 15, 2024I’ll send you my info sheet.
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Wild Daffodil
/ February 15, 2024Ooo yes! I love a collaborative project. It will look spectacular. Please send me the pattern. Shall I also make some Seahorses for you?
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The Snail of Happiness
/ February 15, 2024I’ll send you an email with the patterns. I love your seahorses, but we are looking for 3-d objects, so they might not be suitable.
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Wild Daffodil
/ February 15, 2024I will sew a couple together and put a bit of stuffing in them and send you a photo.
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The Snail of Happiness
/ February 25, 2024Thank you
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Quimper Hitty
/ February 15, 2024It will be like visiting a wonderful giant aquarium, looking in at your window!
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The Snail of Happiness
/ March 7, 2024Oh… thank you so much for the shrimps. They are little works of art.
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Quimper Hitty
/ March 7, 2024Thank you so much!
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Going Batty in Wales
/ February 15, 2024Can I join in too please. I can do corals like Jon’s but if you want anything particular ask. Or maybe fish etc. would be more useful? let me know. As you say it is a big window!
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The Snail of Happiness
/ February 15, 2024Oh, thank you. We are going to need lots more coral, anemones etc than fish, but anything is welcome. I’ll send you an email.
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Going Batty in Wales
/ February 16, 2024Just put your order in and I will do what I can.
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The Snail of Happiness
/ February 25, 2024Anything would be gratefully received – they are quite nice to make when you don’t want to have to concentrate
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Going Batty in Wales
/ February 25, 20243 made so far and I think it would be a good project for my novice crocheters so I there will be more! 🤣
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katechiconi
/ February 16, 2024I can’t do any hooky type stuff, sadly. I hope there may be some lovely little fish; Nemo would find himself quite at home amongst these corals. I’d love to see some spiny stonefish, a Maori wrasse or two and with the right yarn, a crown of thorns starfish… or am I being too Great Barrier Reef-centric here?
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The Snail of Happiness
/ February 25, 2024They all sound lovely… and I’m sure a sewn fish or two would not be out of place!
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rutigt
/ February 16, 2024Love this idea! I´ll send you my email address and then I´ll start on a coral of my own 🙂 I still do have a lot of left over yarns.
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The Snail of Happiness
/ February 25, 2024any contributions would be most welcome.
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rutigt
/ February 27, 2024My emailaddress: gun.adrian54@gmail.com I forgot to write it 🙂
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nanacathy2
/ February 16, 2024What a great project, Would you like a knitted fish?
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The Snail of Happiness
/ February 25, 2024A knitted fish would be lovely.
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iamsimplyhooked
/ March 15, 2024I missed this! Happy to contribute a sea creature… Jellyfish? Crab? Octopus?
Hendry010@btinternet.com
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