November 11, more poppies

Today was an important day for me. I turned in my manuscript to two prospective publishers. I hope they find it enjoyable to read and want to consider publication.
I've been busy preparing the manuscript these last weeks, and now I realized that I did not have a title page. So I made a collage of a photo on my moodboard (with a small piece of knit poppies), some wool, some sheep and Monet's Poppies in Argentueil. All these have a part in the knit novel I wrote. This title page is in Dutch, but translating the title is the easy part (I only need to adapt Klaprozen in december to read Poppies in December)... translating the book is the next chore on my list, but will take some time.

November 7, poppies

I got an easy crochet pattern yesterday, so I tried to make a poppy (did not quite succeed because there is one petal short).

So I decided to make some more but slightly different (the heart is the same, 12 single crochet in black), but then 6 petals of 4 chain stitches and single crochet back to the heart, sling stitch in the black stitch. Second round of single crochet around the petals.

I planned these poppies on the clogs of the statue I want to dress up with yarn bombing, but since it it still raining I did not get round to that yet. I will post is as soon as the poppies are in place.