July finds in the scavenger hunt

I’m making steady progress with Rinda’s scavenger hunt with another 4 items collected this month.

I captured 2 versions of a metal bridge (number 6) on a train trip – above is the view of a large metal bridge out of the window of a moving train as we cross the bridge (the now Word Heritage Forth Rail Bridge – as in the river Forth, not mis-spelled fourth)

Then the people bridge over the tracks at our destination

Plenty of public toilets I could have used for number 12 but I was waiting for something eye-catching and found that this week in the Modern Art Gallery – particularly pleased to have captured the black floor tiles distorted in the metal bin as I was there to see an Escher exhibition

My trip up the Shard when I was in London provided a perfect opportunity for a panoramic view from somewhere high – this is the highest viewing space in London – on the 69th floor

Also in London, at the Victoria and Albert museum I found an ornate door-knocker – after looking through the metal work collection with no sight of a door knocker, I asked one of the staff members who said they had never been asked for an ornate door knocker before but suggested the big doors on display in the ‘big objects’ gallery

Hopeful of capturing several more in August but have no idea where I will find a flagpole with 3 or more flags and not at all sure about people playing a game. And I still need to actually take the one I see most days – a person walking a dog

Thanks Rinda for another great photo hunt.

retro Pairs

looking out of the window at the buddleia I realised it would be perfect for a revisit to last year's meme of zoom in, zoom out

I think the yellow ball at the bee's tail is a collection of pollen.

Looking forward to seeing what treasure you have collected this week in your pairs

me on Monday

ignoring the rain outside to wave to you all, and an extra wave for Sian home from her holiday.

with wind and rain outside I was happy to settle down to some crochet – inspired by a necklace worn by our tutor at the gallery and using the wool we were allowed to take home from that event I crocheted a chain – no not the basic chain that starts every crochet project but a big funky chunky chain made of links

more evidence, if any is needed, that crochet lends itself to many forms and some crocheteers are nutty / highly creative

with no let up on the rain likely today I’m anticipating an afternoon of crochet on my jumper (doing the sleeves). 

Hope you all have opportunities for some creativity this week.

an evening at the art gallery

I spent an interesting evening at a gallery creating crochet objects.  The idea was that we drew inspiration from their current installation and then have some creative play.  There were 20 of us – knitters and crocheteers – although about half the women there primarily create with other medium such as jewellery or plastics or sculpture. 

after 2 hours of concentrated play we displayed all our pieces

the original idea was to create several combined pieces but we ran out of time for that – I think if the same group were to meet regularly it would happen.

Mine is the cluster in the middle with the 3 small balls inside a frilled thing (its creative play, not identifiable or useful objects!).

I really enjoyed the collective playing and creating things from yarn just for fun and the chat with creative women.  I often see notices about creative events in galleries and then realise it is for kids so was very pleased to have one for adults.

I wasn’t taken with the installation and I don’t think many people really used it as inspiration.  The gallery was pleased with the enthusiasm from us so will probably do it again, hopefully with a more inspiring exhibition as the starting point.

Do any of you have local galleries that host creative events for adults?