A few new yarns have been uploaded to my store, there is a good mix of 4ply, 8ply and chunky there with some lovely colours! Pop over for a look š
4ply, 8ply, chunky!
hand dyed yarn
Always making
It’s true, I’m always making something and more often than not I’m making many things! Here are a few of my recent and current projects:
I’m quite in love with this Primrose already, lots of knitting to go but I’m enjoying every stitch. I dyed the yarn especially for this dress and it looks better than I envisioned. It’s going to be for my littlest woolly lover, she is a most grateful recipient of anything knitted.
Always dyeing yarn….sales have dropped off a little but it’s only natural considering it’s Summer here. Anyway, my Etsy shop is stocked with plenty of yarn at the moment.
I have tea towels on the loom and things are going pretty slowly. I’m hemstitching them on the loom which always adds a bit of time and I’m also using 4ply cotton, so the weaving is not quick. These are my first tea towels so I hope they are a success after this time investment!
I dyed and made a top for me – it didn’t suit me at all so I cut the main part down to make a top for my eldest girl along with some Euro fabrics from my stash and one of my favourite top patterns for my girls – CZM Mareen. This girl just won’t stop growing!
As usual I have about 1000 ideas for things I “must do” but don’t have the time or money for, but they keep me ticking and I’m grateful to the time that I currently have to be creative. I have a couple of exciting happenings cooking up in my mind for this month, so stay tuned for those!
God bless you all š
Christmas woolly special
Shaving cream marbling on paper
This has to be one of the easiest (and messiest!) ways for children to produce a unique art piece.
All you need is paper (160gsm is good), poster paints and shaving cream (the cheapest brand works fine).
Make a layer of shaving cream on a tray. Make dots or lines of paint. Swirl with a chopstick or similar. The more you swirl, the more intricate patterns you will get, however if you overdo it you might muddy your colours.
When you have a pattern you like, carefully place your paper on top and lightly press all over (lightly!) Peel the paper off and use a paint scraper of similar to scrape the excess shaving cream and paint off to re-use. Put you paper somewhere to dry.
Keep re-using the shaving cream, reapplying the paint if desired, until it’s too coloured to use. Then have some messy fun with the leftovers! (Good for making hand or foot prints on paper too).
This is messy. The easiest wash up for hands is to stick them in a bucket of water outside (the hands, not the children). The trays and tools wash up in warm water.
Here are some of our masterpieces.
They can be framed and hung.
Or used as wrapping paper or even for the basis of another project (collage, background for a picture etc).
HAND DYED SALE
Using the code WOOLLY10 you will receive 10% off your order on hand dyed yarn or hand dyed wool felt in my Etsy shop until tomorrow night.
*Please note – you must use the code to apply the discount and it does only apply to wool felt and yarn š
Happy shopping!
Random creativity
I thought I’d share with you a few of the things that have kept me creatively busy this week (and no, obviously blogging has not been one of them!)
A little weaving cotton.
A little dyeing cotton.
A little watercolour painting.
A little cloth dyeing.
And a little photography.
Not bad for one week hey? I squeezed a fair bit of sewing in too, but that is unfinished.
How about you? Did you get any time to be creative this week? What did you do?
Soft and squishy!
Here are my new yarns and they are all guaranteed to be very soft and squishy! All available in my Etsy shop now š
Have a great weekend, God bless!
Darker yarns
I usually do bright and light colours, so I thought I’d delve into some darker colours this time. These are available for sale now, though not loaded to my Etsy shop just yet. If you’re interested you can leave a comment here or visit my Facebook page š
Knit and weave
Lots of yarn activity here lately! I finished a Rainbow Dress using my hand dyed yarns in 10 ply. I love the look of it but I’m not sure how much wear she will get out of it now that the weather is warming up. Being 10ply, it’s pretty thick and heavy. As others have said, it will make a great long tunic next winter.
I’ll absolutely be knitting this pattern again, perhaps a cotton one for the warm weather. The pattern is by Tikki.
And this is my first ever project off my new rigid heddle loom – a stash busting scarf. I intentionally used a wide variety of yarns to see how they perform differently for weaving.
I learned so much from this project, and it doesn’t look nearly as rough as I expected for a first piece. I discovered that hand dyed and handspun yarns are perfect for weaving š
My joy of all things yarn is not showing any signs of slowing and I’m very happy to say that my hand dyed yarns are selling really well. I’m waiting on my next order to arrive so I can start dyeing again, there will be cotton too š
The spring weather is so fabulous here at the moment and there is so much good, productive work to do. I hope you’re enjoying it as much as I am.
God bless!
Cute yarns and cute kids.
I posted this collage to my Facebook page yesterday and was amazed that the yarns all sold within a few hours, that’s a first for me! Can’t wait to order and dye more now. Knitters sure are an enthusiastic bunch, and the positivity and passion is catching.
As for my new kitchen space, it seems to have been repurposed, I should have known!
Hope you’re having a great day, God bless!