The coral reef is continuing to grow and proving to be a great way to use up scrap yarn. I’ve used all sorts of yarns with odd textures and colours that I can’t imagine making into a garment or useful object, but they all work with coral. I’m not going to share all of them now; that will have to wait for the grand reveal when we put them in the window display, but since this is my big scrappy endeavour at the moment, here are a couple, plus some bits that are destined for the next. I’m currently using small oddments and making multi-coloured coral with tentacles. I start with the hyperbolic style (two stitches in every stitch) and make a ‘core’ (which you can see in pale green in the picture of the part-completed one second from the right) before making crochet chains in all sorts of colours to give an interesting effect.

As I mentioned last month, we have started receiving contributions, including some reef residents. The two pictured below are a couple of Canadian shrimps that came from Quimper Hitty. Aren’t they amazing? I’m sure they will enjoy their new home.

Mr Snail has been working on a somewhat larger reef resident, which you can read about and see here.

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I’ve been inspired to write this (and future) ScrapHappy posts by Kate,  Tall Tales from Chiconia. On the fifteenth of every month lots of folk often publish a ScrapHappy post, do check them out:

Kate,  Gun, Eva,  Sue, Lynda, Birthe, Turid, Edi,  Tracy, Jan (me), Moira, Sandra, Chris, Alys, Claire, Jean, Jon, Dawn, Jule, Gwen, Sunny, Kjerstin, Sue L, Vera, Nanette, Ann, Dawn 2, Carol, Preeti, Viv, Lynn and Tierney

If you fancy joining, contact Kate and she’ll add you to the list. It would be lovely to see more non-sewing posts, but any use of scraps is welcome.