#moss bed

Some mushroom/leaves on the ends need to be attached but over all she is coming along and largely flattening from modifications.

My moss bed has a lot more decorative stuff now; more than double what it started out with. I've picked up three more leaves, two mushrooms, and a Crow Time plushie for it. I'm also eyeing an oversized fox plushie as something to maybe get. Though I might wait until the fall for any further additions, as we're starting to get into warm enough weather that things like the duvet and its shaggy cover will be going into storage soon, as will all the pillows except the flower. Because, as previously mentioned, its bowl-like shape makes it a great rallying point for things like my reading glasses, cell phone, bluetooth speaker, and so forth.

Been working on my crochet vine on and off. Getting a sufficiently strong stem has taken some trial and error; a single chain would obviously be too lightweight, but the cord making tutorials I found also had rather slim results. I experimented with a few things before falling back on just doing a row of single crochet into the chain, which gave me something more of the size I was thinking of (about as thick as my pinky finger) but was too flat and also still a bit small for the sizes of leaves I've been crocheting out of green yarn. Okay, I decided, I'll do a second row and then fold it in half and bind the long edges together to get something closer to a thick cylinder.

At two rows of single crochet it was much closer to what I was thinking but too stiff to fold over easily; I managed only a few inches of it before frustration had me ripping back to the end of the second row and adding a third one. At three rows of single crochet it folds with only a little struggle into a relatively tubular shape, but is also about as thick as my thumb, so rather bulkier than I had in mind. It at least works with the scale of the leaves, but unfortunately not with some very pretty but small crochet flowers I'd bought with the intention of fastening them to the vine at intervals.

So I'm now considering doing TWO vines. This bigger rather sturdy one to be the main base for everything. It'll eventually have a bunch of leaves like the ones shown and maybe some tendrils of spiral crochet attached to it, as well as single chain ties at intervals for fastening it to my bed frame.

Less than 48 hours since ordering and the shaggy comforter cover set has already arrived. In the second image you can see how much darker this actually-sage-green thing is than the supposedly-sage-green fuzzy blanket. Also the colour difference between artificial light (left) and sunlight (right).

Shaggy thing (which looks amusingly and mildly distressingly like I bagged and skinned a very large muppet for its fabric) is still perking up from being compressed during shipping. I’ll probably run it through the dryer on low heat cycle to fluff it up properly (and blow off any loose bits of fibre) before using it. I figure if I don’t insert a comforter in it, I can get some use out of it as an extra-thick and fluffy blanket before it goes into storage until next fall.

Meanwhile the sheet set only just finally set out from Salt Lake City in the US southwest yesterday. The quilt set should be arriving tomorrow. The two remaining pillows (coming from China) passed through Toronto on Monday, so they could probably arrive here any time from now until Friday.

...I am feeling so tempted right now. Was poking around on Etsy looking for more things I could maybe get for my own moss bed, and when looking at crocheted vines (outside possibility - they'd be cute for wrapping around the top bar of the headboard and/or footboard but are otherwise a strangulation risk) I found out that there's people who work vines around USB charging cables. This is just one of many possibilities out there (and yes people also sell the patterns for same, if you're more craftily-inclined).