Icy Sun Catchers

Martha had these in one of her Christmas issues with evergreen branches and berries  frozen into them, but a friend of mine was making these long before Martha ever did, only she used jar lids and garbage can lids with twine or rope loops frozen into them by which to hang them.  The ones in the top picture are the first ones we did (The crystal in the foreground is hanging inside the window, btw).  The bottom picture is our next batch in progress.  Hopefully it will stay cold long enough for them to freeze!

Olympic Knitting Update:  After 9 repeats of the lower basket chart, I'm into the edging chart!  Just as I was finally getting the hang of the pattern, it'll be done soon.   The other evening, we had dinner with Shannon and her fiance while they were in town at her (fabulous!) parents' (fabulous!) house and I saw the FBS that she made for her mom, as well as her Kiri shawl, both made from Socks That Rock yarn (her STR Jaywalkers, too).  They were both beautiful and so different than this one I'm making from alpaca.  We even watched a tiny bit of bobsledding on T.V. and both worked a bit on our Olympic Knitting projects, hers being a pair of fair isle socks in STR yarn, of course.  I can hardly believe it:  I got to sit and knit with a real, live knitting blogger!  We got to talk yarn as only those who are obsessed do!  Fun, fun.

Comments

[Dianna]

You have such wonderful crafty things for your sons to do ! Great memories, great traditions. Kudos.

[Chris]

Those icy sun catchers are amazing!

Sounds like a fun knitblogger meeting. :)

[say_ivison]

What a terrific idea!!!

[Pattie]

I like those icy decorations. Those wouldn't last but a few days here. It just gets too warm.

[shannon]

I love the sun catchers - it's starting to get warm here. If I'm going to make some, I'll have to hurry.

[Barb]

Very pretty. What a great craft thing to do. Here in Hawaii I'd want to eat one on a warm summer day;)

[jillian]

Those are so pretty! I've never seen anything like it, and I grew up in a cold climate!

[may]

brilliant!! that's so awesome! too bad it's 50 degrees here in texas :(

[larissa]

Hey Siri. So pretty, I had to write about these on blogging baby today.

http://www.bloggingbaby.com/2006/02/20/cheap-family-fun-for-a-super-cold-day/

[julia fc]

What a terrific idea. I like the glitter version very much. Thanks for sharing.

[Christy]

this gives me reason to enjoy the fact that it's 20 degrees. very cool.

[Nadia]

So simple, but so beautiful.

[Cassi]

So pretty! We'll definitely give this a try and hopefully it will brighten up our all white landscape :)

[megan]

Oh, how great are those? Cute little hand poking the sparklies in!

[Blair]

Those are beautiful, much nicer than Martha's. Wish it got cold enough here to do some of these.

[Helen]

This sounds like such a wonderful activity, not that we could make them at any time of the year in the climate I live in :) Love all those sparkles :)

[Emy]

That sounds so fun! Wish we have snow to play with...

[Nancy]

Your knitting and your photography knock me out.

[Julia]

Wow! Those icy suncatchers are amazing! I'll have to file that in the ol' memory banks for if I ever live in a cold clime. So cool!

[Beth S.]

So those are actually real ice, and not polymer something-or-other? That's just so neat!

[jacqueline]

these sun catchers are absolutely gorgeous. i know it sounds stupid - but i have never ever seen them before. we don't get snow over here.

[Jennifer]

You are an inspiration in creativity, activity, photography and motherhood.

[Kat]

Very cool. If only it would stay cold here for more than a few days.

[knitteriam]

Pure Magic, Siri. Yes indeed.