Tara Tuesdays - Part 43
Posted on 19 August 2014
KNITTED FACIAL TOPIARY
I received the KNIT YOUR OWN MOUSTACHE book for Christmas last year from my dear friend Cat and was beside myself with excitement when I actually looked through it and couldn't wait for an opportunity to make some of the delights contained within! The perfect opportunity arose before a recent visit to our best friends and God Children. There has been a bit of a "tache" theme going on in my family for a while now as my hubby often dons interesting facial hair! He has received several "tache" related gifts from our best friends and this visit was no exception when we exchanged Christmas gifts (yes, I know it is August!) A tache ice cube tray and a giant monster tache magnet for the Landy were included this year! Once we had opened all of our presents I was able to finally share my piece de resistance......
Here, we have the WALRUS, DALI, SVEN, CLASSIC, HANDLEBAR & PSYCHIATRIST'S beard all hand knitted by me using patterns from the KYOM book. I can honestly say I have never smiled so much whilst crafting even when I went wrong with my first attempt on the HANDLEBAR. The beard was thrown across the room in a fit of rage and then unpicked as I couldn't work out how to do it! Several deep breaths and glasses of red wine later, I managed it just in the nick of time....the night before our visit! I had written down all of the names onto pieces of paper which we all picked out, I then handed out the taches/beard to everyone...... HOW WE ROARED when we all tried them on! My plan for the weekend was to get pictures of us in the taches/beard and we had several opportunities to do this! Here we all are on the Chasewater Railway at Cannock Chase....
SVEN
CLASSIC
WALRUS
BEARD (my God-daughter bears a slight resemblance to Conchita Wurst...this years Eurovision Song Contest winner in this picture!)
HANDLEBAR (emergency elastic repairs were required for this tache as it got broken due to overuse!).
DALI
I am still undecided as to what was my favourite and had to try the beard on as well!
After several attempts we managed to get a super star jump pose and also this shot of us all! Hubby looks exhausted in this picture after all that jumping and his tache is in action mode too!
2014 Christmas card me thinks!
The author of this book Vicky Eames aka 'Wife of Brian' has her own website where you can find out more about her and her facial wares. I was so impressed with this book and can highly recommend it, hubby has since requested I crochet him a pipe from the book as I won't let him have a real one, oh joy! Another project to add to my ever growing list!