The black paint I used is my Acrylic Paint Dabber which I actually brushed on. The final green coat is Viva Precious Metal in Olive and the Gold is also Viva Precious Metal in Orange Yellow. I also put a little of the green in a sprayer mixed with a little water and dribbled it onto the page.
I have to say though, even if it didn't turn out quite how I wanted it, and even though I've whinged about how often I had to re-do it, I actually had a great deal of fun making this. I just hope I haven't put anyone else off from giving it a go. I'll probably hang on to this just as a show and tell piece, and I'm definitely going to try it again, but this time with pretty colours and lots of flowers. YES!!!!
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marion, thank you so much for this pattern, now Im getting the hang of crochet I love trying new patterns and am sure will love doing these and so needed by so many charitable organisations - thank you again your a star xxxx
What gestation baby angel will this fit please? And I just noticed you posted this on my little angels 8th birthday x
Thank you for this beautiful pattern. I wish I had it when my grandson angel was born. I will be making some for the U of M (Mott's children's).
It’s a good thing Roger Federer has an equable temperament because, these days, he can hardly draw breath without making headlines.
We have to return to last Christmas Eve for the cause of the biggest flurry of excitement in recent months, to the news that wife Mirka was expecting a sibling to their four-year-old twins. Immediately fans and paparazzi alike were checking calendars.
It was, as Federer’s well-oiled PR machine has been for many years, a smart and timely announcement, made just as the family retreated from the spotlight for the holiday. Twitter could flutter away, Facebook could bubble to its own rhythm, and the world’s media could report and move on.
When he emerged a few days later, ready to head to his first tournament of the season in Brisbane, he played his ace: the announcement of his tie-up with Stefan Edberg. It was the kind of news to divert headlines from fatherhood and channel them into Federer’s ambitions for 2014. And it was further stoked by the bigger, blacker racket he was now wielding.
Not that interest in his wife’s pregnancy flagged. Indeed Federer was questioned with predictable regularity in press conferences—three times in this correspondent’s hearing at Dubai alone—about the date of the birth. Every time the answer, usually accompanied by a wry smile, was the same. Well-tuned as he is to the pitfalls of saying too much, he made sure that silence was golden:
But in the absence of facts, conjecture filled the void, especially as Mirka made her usual courtside appearances through the months. And in fairness, it became increasingly clear that this baby would arrive before Wimbledon rather than after, as the Federer twins had done. Eventually, in Monte Carlo—with Mirka a rare absentee—there was no denying the likelihood of a clay rather than a grass birthday.