Once again, time has wooshed past me and I haven’t updated here. It’s not that I haven’t been busy or been making corals, in fact, I have been working on some larger pieces.
Recently we had a donation of several skeins of pink yarn and I have been thinking of ways to gain height on the reef. This pink coral (which I have lovingly named “Audrey 2”) is 22 inches tall and stuffed mostly with polyfill. The base is a circle of cardboard with two bags of rice taped to it. On the very bottom is a circle of plastic canvas which I have sewn to the bottom edge of the coral.
This is an entirely free form shape in which I crocheted a big tube and then divided that tube into three branches. By increasing in one side of the tube and decreasing into the opposite side of the same tube, I could make the tubes curve and curl. I then crocheted separate smaller branches and sewed them onto the larger branches.
I feel the addition of other coral forms on top will help to connect it to the corals which will surround its base once it is placed in the actual coral reef.
I have also been working on taller bleached pieces. More on that next time!
