Better late than never
When I started this blog I added in some of the crocheted folk I made years and years ago. They are made from scraps of yarns and crocheted on hooks that are too small so that you are constantly fighting the yarn but you are also making incredibly stiff and mostly self-supporting shapes.
They sort of grew as you crocheted and shaped themselves – bit like Hogepotche Hall I suppose.
I don’t seem to have completed the posting up of what photos I had of the collection, so as I’m sitting here next to the phone waiting for the call to go and collect the car from the garage forty miles away, I thought I’d add one of my favourite pair of figures: the judge and the barrister. You can tell from my fingers in the photos that the pieces are about 12 – 16 cms long.
Lord Denning was a judge very much in the news probably for as long as I can remember. I think he died in 1999 aged 100. Sometime in the late 1970s there was a radio programme about one of his, then, more recent rulings and I, for some reason I can no longer recall, took up the crochet hook and produced these.
The Judge
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- Laying down the law and climbing on his chair high above the court
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- Determination writ large on every feature
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- and staring down the barristers and it would appear here flashing his knobbly knees
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- His Y fronts are embroidered with ‘Judges Rules OK’
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- The crocheted lamp has a bit of florists wire inside
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- as does the somewhat eccentric chair
The Barrister
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- Gives a whole new meaning to pleading his case
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- Gown swirling out. You can tell how stiff the yarn becomes when worked on a small hook
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and how sore your fingers can get doing the work too!
Rear view of flaring gown
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- He has the legal neckband and a waistcoat that doesn’t quite cover his little tummy. His trousers slip down a little too revealing his undies when he leans back to see his Lordship up on the bench
These two characters compete the set of remaining photos of the old work, I think . Have fun.
