6 months after finding a glass "fishing float" in an antique shop on the way home from Lincoln, I finally got around to following some on-line instructions to make a net so it can be displayed properly.
So I did my best and there it is, tied onto one of the 1970's light fittings in my living-room.
(I daren't hang it outside because that's how one got mysteriously broken when we were living in Ipswich, despite hanging happily outside at the smallholding for 2 years).
Bit of a metaphor for life really .............................. not perfect but it will have to do.
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Sue
Looks pretty good from me, and t least you can say you made it.
ReplyDeleteNothing wrong with your efforts. Green glass looks good.
ReplyDeleteYour best looks really good, if you hadn't said anything nobody would know it's not perfect. What's perfect anyway? Overrated, if you ask me. You made it and it displays your lovely glass ball just right.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed seeing your fishing float.. I have quite a collection of them, too. Is yours a real vintage Japanese float or a newly made one? I think you did very well with the knotted twine hanger.
ReplyDelete((hugs)), Teresa :-)
very much doubt it is vintage
DeleteI may be odd, but I like to see little imperfections in home-made things. It tells me that some effort went into making something and that it wasn't mass-produced. It looks fine to me, so well done!
ReplyDeleteWell done anyway for attempting it.
ReplyDeleteDon't the women who knit in the Scottish Isles say that there should always be at least one mistake in you work, because "perfection is the prerogative of the Almighty"? The float looks great!
ReplyDeleteI remember watching a programme about Islamic art on tv, where they said much the same thing.
DeleteI think hand made rugs are the same
DeleteIt looks perfect to me Sue, I remember we got one in an antique shop in Devon in the 1960s and my Dad showed off as he was in the merchant navy for four years as a teenager, how quickly he did the knots, it is difficult so you have done very well. Our one still hangs in my Dad's conservatory. xx
ReplyDeleteI like your family float and have not seen one for a long time. I remember being told that the ladies/men who did the farisle knitting always did a little bit of the knitting wrong so the men knew whose jumper it was in case they had drowned in the storms.
ReplyDeleteWe had a lovely sunny day yesterday I got all the wallflowers in and brought a lot more from the market yesterday.
Hazel c uk
So, that's what they are, fishing floats. I often wondered what they were used for. I love them and you made a good job of the net as far as I can see.
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That looks brilliant, I have done something similar to make a hanging thingy for a plant pot, I just copied off one I bought last year and used bog standard garden string, it turned out fine.
ReplyDeleteI used to have a glass ball exactly like yours, same colour and everything. It's one of the few things I regret parting with, there's something so tactile and pleasing about them isn't there.
I think it looks good :)
ReplyDeleteI hang mine in the greenhouse, protected from the weather, but still catchinh the sunlight. I'm short enough so I don't bump into them.
ReplyDeleteAs long as you like it, that's all that matters. I would have given up at the first hurdle and hung it inside a mesh fruit bag.
ReplyDeleteIt looks great, truly it does.
ReplyDeletexx
Well done, and it works so no problem. I have a box full of these just waiting to be netted.
ReplyDeleteLooks great to me. i think you did good.
ReplyDeleteDon't tell anyone, that it is not perfect. Then no one will know. -smile-
ReplyDeletePersonally, I think that "Perfection" is overrated. What in the world is it, anyway?
And my "Perfection" is not yours. So how can anyone, judge the "Perfection" of anything, but their own things?
And wanting ourselves to be "Perfect"! Eeeek! The silliest of all desires. If one becomes "Perfect," then they are "Done". And just might float away. -giggggles-
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And a very good metaphor Sue when one considers other places in the world.
ReplyDeleteLooks very good to me.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
A few decades ago we used to find glass fishing floats on the beach after a storm. I used to hang the big one in nets outside in a tree until I found out how much they were selling for on eBay. After that I keep the glass ones indoors.....and only use the plastic and Styrofoam ones I find on the beach these days out in the garden.
ReplyDeleteLooks lovely.
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