Every Inchie Monday 2016: Galaxy

Hello Fellow Inchers,

Happy New Year Everyone.  I wish all of you health and happiness for the coming new year.  May all your dreams come true.

This week's word at Every Inchie Monday is Galaxy.  What a beautiful word.  It evokes such awe in me when I think of how tiny we are in the vast universe -- even if this is how Douglas Adams describes our turf:

"Far out in the uncharted backwaters in the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy, lies a small unregarded yellow star" with it's "insignificant blue green planet".

I love the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and am looking forward to all its wonderful words.  Thank you Trillian.  If you haven't heard it, I highly recommend the BBC TV adaptation [edit - I originally pointed to the radio version which wasn't what I was remembering.]  Here's a link to the first part.

It was too difficult to chose between two images for my first inchie - one the beautiful milky way:

And the second, which I must admit I thought was too clever not to use (ego, ego).

My Galaxy S4 phone.  You can see from the date that I started inchie-ing when the list first came out.

(And I was going to make my pictures not blurry this year - but that's because I blew up the actual inchie size so you could see it better.)  

I'm still quilling inchies.  Hopefully the two previous images, make up for this rather lame attempt.  It's too big a word to do justice to in a quilled inchie.  At least for me.

That's it for this week.  Looking forward to the journey through 2016 and one of my favourite books.

Every Inchie Monday: Next

Hello for the last time this year Folks, 

Next, this week's word at Every Inchie Monday is such an innocuous little word.  Four letters, not very threatening, but again this week I had a lot of trouble with it.  Best I could come up with was on inchie representing next year: 2016.  I put it on sparkly, New Year's Eve-ish paper, which made it difficult to photograph with the flash on the camera.

My quilled inchie really isn't quilled but it is tiny and made with paper.  I thought I would pay tribute to Trillian's brilliant idea of picking all next year's words from The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

I'm looking forward to next year's list.

Here's wishing you and yours a happy and healthy New Year.  My first resolution - and I'm someone who never makes resolutions, but I have a lot this year - is to take better pictures of my inchies.

Thank you everyone for visiting my site and for the wonderful comments.  They really make my day - and year.

Every Inchie Monday: Evolution

Hello Folks,

This week's word at Every Inchie Monday is evolution.  I think this may be one of the hardest words I've done since I joined mid-2014.  I could not think of anything to draw that would fit into one inch.  The best I could come up with was the evolution of the telephone.

If the drawn inchie was difficult, the quilled one was nearly impossible.  Best I could do was blue circles evolving in size:

It's pretty lame, but after A LOT of thought, it was the best I could do.  Some weeks you have it, some weeks you don't.

I think I need to evolve into a better thinker this week.

Hope your holiday preparations are going well and are not getting you down.  I confess that I often feel lonely at this time of the year.  I have  a small family that I will see once.  The rest of the time is empty.  Guess I shouldn't expect life to be like a movie.  Ah well, I will work on next year's inchies.  I thought I was pretty clever recognizing that some of the words are from The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy until someone pointed out that they are all from that book.  Way to go Trillian.

Every Inchie Monday: Locomotive

Hello Folks, 

This week's word at Every Inchie Monday is locomotive.
I love riding on trains, even subway trains when I'm in a city that has them.  Don't know why, just always have.  Here's one of the better known locomotives, Thomas the Train:

I really love this week's quilled inchie.  Thought the steam added a special something, even if it does go off the inchie square.

I can't think of a  thing to do this week that has anything to do with  locomotives.  Oh well, have a good week.

Every Inchie Monday: Angel

Hello Folks, 

I took a slightly odd approach to this week's word at Every Inchie Monday:  Angel.  I once again mine that special world of Doctor Who.  This is one of the bad guys on the show, a Weeping Angel.  They only move when you are not looking at them, so one of the catch phrases of the series is 'Don't Blink'.

My quilled inchie is along more traditional lines.

I'm delighted to see next year's words up.  Can't wait to get a start.  I'm going to work hard on photographing my inchies better this year - too many of mine are slightly out of focus.

At this time of the year where tensions can run high because everyone is so busy, let's try extra hard to be angels to each other (and especially store clerks)...and remember, Don't Blink.

Every Inchie Monday: Tea

Hello Folks,

This week's word for Every Inchie Monday is tea.  I was recently invited to a high tea wedding shower and we were asked to wear hats.  I had a tiny witch's hat on hair band because it was close to Halloween, and that is what I wore.  So my first offering is a hat for that most famous of tea parties - Alice's.

I have two quilled tea inchies.  The first is a tea bag (sorry for the blurriness)

And the second is a teacup and saucer, with steam coming off the tea,  that I copied from a picture on Pinterest.  I'd had considerably more time quilling when I made the tea cup than the teabag.  It is almost exactly one inch square. 

Personally I drink neither tea nor coffee, nor alcohol.  Nevertheless, raise your beverage of choice in salute this week.  Can you toast with water?

Every Inchie Monday: Crochet

Hello Fellow Inchers,

I love to crochet.  I love yarn and the many colours it comes in.  I love the feel of it.  I love watching the progress as yarn becomes a sweater or scarf or amigurumi.  I want to make some of these tiny critters that pop up on Pinterest - just haven't found the time yet.  And I have trouble following a pattern!  I also want to learn Tunisian Crochet.

My first inchie is a tiny ring of crochet.  If I can make a ring the size of an inchie, maybe I can make amigurumi after all.

And, of course, you wouldn't get very far crocheting without a crochet hook:

I'm going to try and find time to do some crochet this week.  Hope you can too.  This is an example of amigurumi in case they are new to you:

Have a good week everyone.

[Editing note:  I replaced the picture of the crochet ring because I didn't realize the first picture was so dark and you couldn't see the pretty colour of the yarn.]