Be Busy, Be Productive, Be Creative - Project 2

Lena Wurtz's Baby Octopus

Octopus

Late last fall, a friend posted a cute crocheted octopus with spirally tentacles on her Facebook page.  As soon as I saw it, I fell in love with it and also wanted to crochet one.  

When COVID-19 started creeping around Canada in early spring and I was searching for a project to keep myself busy, productive and creative, I remembered the baby octopus project.  After doing a bit of research and web-browsing, I was able to find a pattern!

I crocheted one for my niece, Abigail.  As I was working on it I was reminded of a project from many years ago.  My aunt Susie who is an avid handy-craft person, used to crochet bookworm bookmarks that were similar to this octopus' tentacles!  When I called her to ask for the pattern, she unfortunately didn't know what I was talking about!  However, that phone call set us off on another creative journey.  

Bookworms, Butterflies, Hearts and Flowers

A Bookmark for every Songbook!

I cruised the web searching for more crochet bookmark ideas and soon found more than I knew what to do with!  I began with flowers, then moved on to hearts.  My all time favourite turned out to be multi-coloured butterflies.  After a conference call with Aunt Susie, she climbed aboard the floral bandwagon and soon churned out dozens of them! 

As I was working on my butterflies, I started planning what I would do with them all: back-to-school trinkets for my students, small gifts to include in a greeting card...

My sister Joanne too came on board, taking over the squiggly bookworm production. A phone call and visit from aunt Susie found me with dozens more colourful flower bookmarks.  Thus I decided that I could also give away some at a book launch once my Colony Alphabet Book would be published.  Although my publish informed me, "Not sure what the future holds for launches."   Not to be discouraged, I promised him we'd think of something and my illustrator quickly agreed.

Flower Bookmarks from Aunt Susie

My Butterfly Bookmarks

A Mixture - ready for back-to-school!

Butterfly and Hearts

 The Brennan School staff and students are already marking pages with some of these projects, a few have found their way into the hands of family members and friends.  Now for that book launch! 

 

Ah, COVID-19, you sure can get us to be busy, productive and creative!