Dream Catcher

Weavings

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it;

if you can dream it, you can become it. - Anonymous

This set of lit-up dream catchers.

Seriously.

A bunk bed headwall has never looked more festive.

In Native American culture, a dream catcher is a handmade willow hoop on which a web is woven and adorned with beads and feathers.

Hung above the bed, it allows good dreams to pass through and float down to sleeping children. Bad dreams, however, are caught in the web and disappear.

I have enough craft supplies to make this hanging ornament for the entire population of the city, but I made only three. 

One for each of the precious littles in our life who were coming for a summer visit.

The project was really easy. If I were to rank its difficulty by Netflix movies...

You know.

     A one-Netflix movie project.

     A two-Netflix movie project.

This craft? It took about a fourth of a Netflix movie to complete.

Here was how I made it.

Wrap yarn around an embroidery hoop. From there, tie any number of thicker yarn in a desired pattern from one point of the hoop's circumference and across. Or use a small crocheted doily for its center, attaching it in star-pattern to the circular edges. 

Tie tassels with beads and feathers. Add fairy lights.

That was IT.

I was done.

This plain, white, blank wall twinkled with giggles and whispers and cushion fights and drawing and playing with LPS-es and lazy afternoons and eating unlimited snacks under the bunk on those delightful summer days.

Meanwhile, downstairs around the dining table, their Moms with Hubby and me gathered and talked. Just like so many years ago.

It was my best summer ever.

I give this project the Best of Times Award because it beckons with the promise that you can catch your dream...

Of being surrounded with loved ones - precious grandchildren and treasured daughters.

All at one time.

(To be continued)