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Abbey gave me some new yarn. Yay!
It’s so soft and pretty.
I have 178 yards of handspun alpaca yarn.
Abbey got the yarn from the Yarn Lounge while she was on vacation in Richmond.
Here’s a cute bird hanging out on Thebes’ antennae.
Prana brought in a half dead bird to play with the other day. We woke up at 4am to squeaking under the bed. Thebes’ used the bb gun to put it out of it’s misery and I threw it outside. Cats are such killers. Cute, adorable, fuzzy little killers.
August 12th, 2010
I’ve been working on the waterfall and opening of The Portal.
My thick and thin yarn crocheted up into a great textured chain.
I handcarded some fibers for the opening in the waterfall. I carded in some sparkly bronze bits.
Prana loves sleeping on my art.
I’m going back to it now. Time to do more embroidery.
August 9th, 2010
My friend Helen has a farm called Ladybug Farms. She sells her veggies at local farmer’s markets. I made her a cloth grocery bag for promotion.
I think the buttons are a cute touch.
All of the material except for the thread is recycled.
She liked it and I’ve made her some more. It’s nice to be sewing again.
Flying ant season has started so we’re sleeping under our mosquito netting for the next few weeks. Prana sleeps under it too. Doesn’t he look spoiled?
August 1st, 2010
I’ve been working on The Portal. The waterfall background fleece is felted down and the cavern and rock yarn is finished.
My furry art critic likes my new piece.
A close up of the waterfall with Prana paws:
I’m knitting I-cord and doing a simple crochet chain for the ice.
I’m doing some embroidery details now.
July 17th, 2010
I finished spinning up my latest batch of Chaos Yarn. I have 206 yards this time.
I spun up the scraps into a single and then plyed it with some thin Peruvian yarn some friends brought me back from their vacation.
A close up:
Lori from the Yarn Shop saved up a lot of yarn scraps from the store. That really helped with the yardage and variegation.
I’m thinking of knitting up a funky bag with the yarn.
Here’s Prana posing with the yarn scraps that Lori gave me.
June 28th, 2010
Normally I don’t name my yarns but this one became named as soon as I took it off the niddy-noddy. It’s called Stop The World I Wanna Get Off.
Early this spring I was feeling overwhelmed. I just wanted to spin but I had a shitload of deadlines. I finally said fuck it, poured myself a glass of wine and started spinning some roving I bought from the Taos Wool Festival.
“Stop The World I Wanna Get Off” was exactly how I was feeling at the time. At first I was trying to spin thin but the wine and my fuck it mood took the wool in another direction. I just had fun with the yarn and it got funky.
A close-up:
Prana was napping nearby:
There’s only 52 yards of this yarn. I’m not sure what I’m going to do with it. Maybe save it for an art project?
Here’s a pic of the roving.
It’s West by Southwest handpainted wool roving and I bought it at the Taos Wool Festival in 2009. It was 4 oz. I plied it with some purple yarn in my stash.
June 18th, 2010
I finished up spinning my periwinkle roving from Lonesome Stone.
A pound of fiber turned into 420 yards of 2 ply.
A close up:
I’m pretty happy with it. I’m going to spin up my other Lonesome Stone roving and hope to have enough of both for a sweater.
Prana’s happy we’re back.
June 6th, 2010
I finished Sieben’s dog bed. The crochet and knit versions didn’t work but the sewn one turned out great.
To challenge myself I decided to use as much recycled materials as I could. Everything but the the sewing thread is recycled.
I cut up sweatshirts for the top.
Jeans were used for the bottom and sides.
Scraps of linen and muslin fabric were used for the pillow lining. I wanted to make the outer layer washable so the stuffing needed to be made into a pillow.
Old pillows are great to reuse for stuffing. I figured Sieben would like it if his doggie bed smelled like his humans. Prana helped out.
The pillows weren’t big enough for the bed. I pulled them apart to puff them up.
To prevent the stuffing from shifting I sewed in some dimples. This was the hardest part.
The stuffed pillow:
All done. It’s nice and thick and very comfy.
I put a zipper on one end to easily take off the cover for washing.
How does Sieben like it? Very much!
Pattern: Sieben Dog Bed
Source: custom
Materials: recycled sweatshirts, jeans, linen, and muslin fabric, recycled pillows and zipper
Size: custom
Started: April 2010
Finished: May 2010
May 24th, 2010
I have four skeins of Chaos Yarn spun up and there’s still some yarn scraps left. I think I’ll have enough for two more skeins.
It’s tricky to spin but the end result is groovy.
Prana was being cuddly.
Can you believe this cuteness brought me a dead mouse the other day?
May 17th, 2010
Last month I started a new art project. My furry assistant helped me prep the canvas.
This piece will be called The Portal.
It’s based on a magical waterfall. Back in March my friend Helen took me to a beautiful ice waterfall. There was an opening in the ice and water was pouring down.
Looking at it I felt moved spiritually. I knew that I could walk into that opening and be transported into another world. The feeling was so powerful that I knew it was true. But then I started questioning it. Where would I go? What kind of world would it be? How would I get back?
As soon as I started questioning it the moment passed. The portal felt closed and I knew that if I walked into the waterfall I’d only get wet.
Still, the moment stayed with me. It was such a beautiful and sacred spot. For my art piece I want to capture that spiritual moment.
The ice waterfall was huge. I couldn’t get it all into the camera frame so I took two pictures. That’s Helen in the bottom pic.
May 4th, 2010
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