Catching Dreams.

Quite a while ago I had the urge to make a dream catcher for EV. I had it in my mind I would love to put one in her new bedroom. EV often talks about her dreams and that's where the idea of catching the bad ones came from. I had collected the materials we needed but hadn't got around to actually making one. Coincidentally EV's class at preschool had started talking about dreams and EV said "I'm going to make a dream catcher with my mama to catch the bad ones." then she drew a picture of her dream catcher and explained how it worked.

"I think my mum has wire. That's the round circle." According to EV the dream gets caught in the web and goes around the wire and down to the ground. In her drawing the red is the house, the blue is the moon and the yellow is the sun. She was so pleased with her drawing she took me to see it in her book.

Of course we had to immediately start on creating this dream catcher!

EV had a go but it was quite hard because I used a single thread of embroidery floss. After having a try EV decided to let me finish it and she became chief colour chooser and photographer.

It's a bit lopsided, but not bad for a first effort I think. After we finished the web I made little crochet nets to hold the crystals EV had chosen to dangle under the circle. I did forget to put a bead in the web, so I will have to fix that.
 

  But according to EV it's working quite well. Sweet Dreams EV!