Getting it done

The places you’re not supposed to go

Go west young man

Reflecto Girl 5 again!

That was then, this is now

Epilogue, Part II: Consequences

Epilogue, Part 1

The Great Escape

Let’s do this!

At a quarter to three, it began.

The Next Two Days

Later that afternoon …

Snooping

Conservation? Really?

Now there’s a thought!

Quoting Kelly’s Heroes

Welcome to Ocean World

Venus #5! Again.

Happy Ever After

Comeuppance

Top Secret

Heads up!

Yikes!

Proof!

Power of Attorney

Call the cops!

Waking up

Evidence

And we’re back!

For the story so far, click here 🙂

Use the zoom in your browser to make it bigger for easier reading 🙂

To refresh your memory of where we were up to in the story before the technical hitch, I’ll repeat the last installment and add the new one under it 🙂

Does it? Continues Friday 😉

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Technical Difficulties

Rose

Yellow bus

Focus

Connection

For the story so far, click here 🙂

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Will Megan and Flos and Frances be able to track down Miss Burton?  And will they find further evidence of the corruption at Homestead?  Join us Monday as the story continues 😉

Have a great weekend 😀

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County Archives

The Ambridge Legacy

Filing

Indoctrinated

Nonsense!

It’s All About the ‘Why’

Something weird is going on

Megan & Flos episode 6 starts here!

She just howled all day

There was nothing she could do

New Venus Aqueous Story Coming Soon!

Knit the Andersons’ bus!

Click for Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6Part 7 and Denzel the dog 🙂

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I found this fantastic pattern online and decided to have a go at adapting it to make The English Family Andersons’ bus 😀

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The beauty of this pattern is that the bus can be played with inside and out.  As I type, Miranda is making little people (the Andersons) to live in it 😀

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So, I began with red for the outside of the bus …

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… and then made another piece in multi-coloured yarn for the inside.  The Andersons have decorated their home very colourfully so I did what I could, with the colours I had, to reproduce their bus interior.

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I made the other outside and the other inside long side of bus and then made the front and back ends, inside and out:

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I ran out of bright red yarn, so I had to finish the outside of the bus in the closest colour I had which was a sort of burgundy.  I decided that it didn’t matter because the colour of old buses does fade 🙂  Of course at this point I am not following the VW camper design, I’m trying to make it look like Old Red.

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The outside piece for the front of the bus includes the colours for the headlights, number plate, radiator and the bus number above the window.

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So that was eight pieces done – four insides and four outsides.  Then it was time to add some buttons 🙂

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The Anderson’s bus has two headlights on either side so I sewed some white buttons in position for them.  Unfortunately I don’t have any bright orange buttons for the indicators so I had to leave that for now.  I might add those with yarn later.

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I added some black stitches to the radiator.  Then it was time to start putting it together.

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To make the bus rigid, the campervan pattern provides templates to cut out pieces of plastic grid to fasten between the knitted pieces, however I decided to make these out of card.  I flattened out a knitted piece as well as I could on some stiff cardboard, drew round it and cut it out.  I didn’t cut out the individual windows, just one big window to go between the knitted windows.  The knitted frames is all that’s needed to separate them.  You’ll see what I mean.  The cardboard inserts need to be sized so that the knitting needs to be stretched taut to cover them.

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I pinned together the top and one end of the inside and outside of one side of the bus with wrong sides facing together.  Then I sewed it.

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Then I put the matching cardboard cut-out between them and stretched the knitting flat across it so that I could pin it in place at the bottom and opposite end.  I finished sewing all the way round the outside and then around the window frames.  I sewed the inside and outside knitting of the window frames together, tucking all loose ends inside, out of sight.  As I’ve said before, I am not neat at needlework, but that doesn’t matter.  It seems to work out somehow.

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That’s all I’ve got so far but I’m looking forward to putting the rest of it together.  Then I can get started on the furniture!  I’ll keep you posted 😉

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Big Blue Sky revisited

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Big Blue Sky has been digitally remastered (I don’t really know what that means but it sounds good 😉 ) – actually it’s got a new font and a new illustration and some new cover art – so I thought, seeing as it’s that time of year again, we’d re-tell Clarence and Luca’s story.  It begins here:

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continues tomorrow 🙂

or you can read the whole digitally remastered 😉 story here now 😀

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Consequences?

What’s he talking about?

This is not a game!