𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊 I recently felt like crocheting some mushrooms 𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊
I made some classic spotted ones, a morel, one inspired by chanterelle mushrooms, and a couple of veiled lady mushrooms.
I used a small knitting loom that I made with cardboard, glue and toothpicks for making the veils. The looms don't work very well with yarn, but they work fine with with thinner string <|:)
I noticed a progress in my crocheting skills! I got soo much better in just a week! I made more beads and i also made Chanterelle Mushrooms (their my favourite heh)
I’m slightly worried on how to make this project into a reality.. of course i am making the pieces and little decorations of it but how do i put it all together?? This is all so new to me, it’s abit frustrating, but i love this! I’m very excited. I still haven’t managed to find the time to make all of the 5 model sketches and i still need to figure out what materials i will use! I can’t make the whole 5 costumes out of crochet, that’s physically impossible with the time i have, i still need to go to work and finish school well, yikes!
🏡: are you a forest, ocean, farm or mountain cottage dweller? (Or other) Mountain! Or forest! Or mountain forest! :3
🍁: what’s your favorite season? I love all seasons but winter has a special place in my heart uwu
🥐: what was the best food you have ever made yourself? There was this pie in a cookbook I made once, it was coconut, and it was like magic where you pour the liquid mix of ingredients in the pie crust and bake it, and it turns into a gelatin and it was so good!
🍓: do you garden? If so, what’s the most impressive thing you’ve grown? On and off! I've planted sunflowers when I grew up in Colorado that kept growing year after year (and provided seeds for chickadees)
🌼: favorite wildflower and/or herb? Columbines!!
💐: what is your idea of a perfect date?
Something quiet and intimate, like having a picnic or walking in a park, maybe just reading together (coming from someone who has never been on a date)
🍪: what is your favorite spice to cook/bake with? Nutmeg!
🌱: where do you feel the coziest? Besides my bed? Out in the woods uwu
🌲: if you could make your life more cottage-y by doing one thing, what would you do? Bake bread more, do more crochet, maybe learn needlepoint-
🍄: do you forage? I did a little when I lived in Colorado, but since moving I haven't been able to (although I remember seeing a chanterelle on a walk once, I didn't get it because I couldn't be too sure it wasn't a jack-o-lantern mushroom)
☁️: what weather inspires you the most? What does it inspire you to do? Rain! It makes me want to read uwu (if I still lived where it snows, snow also makes me want to get cozy and read)
🐝: what do you find yourself daydreaming about? Living in a cottage in the woods while making money from a rented apartment in a city where I spend weekends sometimes when I want to go back to civilization... also that I'm entertaining.
🌻: what is the nicest thing you have ever done for yourself? (probably indulging my Yuri on Ice collection) No but for real, I think the nicest thing I've ever done for myself was step out of my comfort zone in Japan and order honey ice cream and tell the lady who gave me it it was "Oishi" because I had to quickly look that word up so I could tell her that I liked it and I felt so proud of myself-
🧺: if you were to pack a picnic basket, what would you include in it? Bread, cheese, grapes, apples, maybe a dessert or two~
🍵: yummiest warm drink for cold cottage nights? It's a tie between hot cocoa and apple cider
🐌: do you have any cores outside cottagecore? Dark Academia and kawaiicore!
Been busy on the homestead. Just because winter is rolling in almost things aren't growing doesn't mean the work stops. Currently prepping what is left growing for the freeze coming up this week and hoping they do okay. My biggest concern is my berry bushes. Also been making a lot of soups and stews. These are dried wild mushrooms. Wood ears, chanterelle, turkey tails, chicken of the woods, oyster, sticky bun mushrooms and porchini. I started out making stew as normal however omitted the tomato paste that I normally put in stew. I used powdered shiitake and beef broth as the base, and then added all of these dried mushrooms 🍄 Then of course there's the beef, potatoes, carrots and onions along with a ton of herbs from the garden ( thyme, sage, lavender, oregano, garlic, salt and pepper) Stuck it in the oven for 3 hours on about 325. The end result was an amazing bowl of comfort and coziness. The hat in the pic is my new design that I will be releasing for free soon. So keep an eye out for that update. #homestead #food #recipe #homesteading #garden #homesteadlife #mushroom #fungi #gardening #crochet #handmade #homemade #urbanfarm #urbanhomestead https://www.instagram.com/p/CXL8G32p1Bm/?utm_medium=tumblr
Comparing alternate color ideas for the Latham shawl, Tuesday's new pattern from our Crochet 2017 collection - from top, left to right: original color Sedum, Clay, Chanterelle, and Petal; bottom row: Maple, Shell, Dogwood, and Canvas. Which one would you choose? 💕🕊 #quincelatham #quincechickadee #quinceandco