The Bedspread - a Witch's Craft

After three months filled with the excitement of crocheting, my HUGE project is finished.
     And it really did turn out to be HUGE!
     I have really enjoyed it, not only making the background shapes, but finding out how to do new shapes and new stitches, how to make flowers, trees, mountains and lots of other stuff. How to join pieces or make beautiful textures.
     I already have MORE stuff planned to do - well, I tell a lie, I have already started my next project.
    But first here are a few piccies of the finished bedspread. It is soooo HUGE that I couldn't manage to get it all in at once.

   
It has taken me just under three months from start to finish, and I am really chuffed with it, and so is Graham. To be honest I expected it to take me a lot longer to make.
     There is a Witch's cottage in the deep, dark pine wood at the left, and yes there is a little Witch to live in it. There is also a blue dragon which lives in the mountains at the bottom.
     There is a black field of stars and Moon, and a little boat in the boat house at the top, which can carry you on your journeys. There is a colour wheel, made up of triangular fields joined by little streams and a pool with a spiral in it at the centre. The colour wheel is all the colours of the rainbow and also represents the seven classical planets and colours used in different types of magic.
     There are fields of clover, daisies and of sunflowers.
     The yellow field with the poppy surrounded by a circle of leaves represents the cycle of the year. The colours of the leaves from fresh green in spring, through to the more mature deeper greens of summer, then the bright changing colours of Autumn and the brown fallen leaves of Winter, to the start of Spring again.
     You may also notice that in the sea at the bottom of the bedspread is a whirlpool. The spiral is the simplest form of unicursal maze, a symbol that goes back into pre-history and can be found on our most ancient stone monuments including Newgrange in Ireland. It represents a spiritual journey, or the journey through life, or the magical transformation from child to adult. It can also be the conduit or passage between one world and the next, like the black hole which leads from one universe to another, from waking conscious to dreams, or from this material world, to the spirit worlds.
     This whirlpool is also made up of four interlocked spirals in white and shades of blue, so this also represents the four directions, or the four quarters of a magic circle.
     This is more than just a bedspread, this is also a magical artefact for dreaming and spirit journeys.

     This is a Witch's Craft.


     Magic is everywhere.