Back in May, when I was filming the video to accompany Week 7 of my Beachcombing Blanket crochet along, I came across the most beautiful sea anemone in one of the rock pools along our local beach. It really was the best one I’ve seen in all the 9 years that we’ve lived in our coastal location…
So often they are closed up at low tide so we don’t see them in their full glory! But this one was just perfect. I did a little research and discovered that it is a ‘Beadlet Anemone’ and you can read more about it here… WildlifeTrusts.org
Well it got my creative juices flowing and I felt inspired to somehow replicate it using crochet! I am still slowly working through Part 2 of the International Diploma in Crochet which I started a few years ago and one of the final samples I need to submit is for a piece of crochet using 4 different thicknessses of yarns in an artistic way. Well this fitted the brief perfectly!
I chose yarns I already had in my stash. From a very thin cotton thread through to a 4 ply cotton, a DK weight linen and an aran weight cotton.
And I just loved letting my hooks get going! No pre-planned stitches, no instructions to follow and no pattern writing… it felt wonderful and quite liberating! 🙂
And here’s my progress…
Some essential blocking – this photo was taken late in the evening so apologies for the poor picture quality…
And there it was! My crocheted version of the beautiful sea anemone…
I had so much fun with this! As a crochet designer I’m so often having to think about recording my step by step progress as I crochet so that the design can eventually be written up as a pattern and replicated by others. But just crocheting this sea anemone for the pure pleasure was an absolute joy… 🙂
I went back a couple of weeks later to see if the anemone was still there. I had remembered the exact location of the rock pool. And I was delighted to see that not only was it still there but it had been joined by some others!
It was a fabulous discovery to find this particular sea anemone on our local beach and a joy to replicate the image of it in crochet… hope you like it too!
Happy Crocheting Everyone… 🙂 🙂
