I made this yarn over the last few days. It’s 68 soft yards in length.
It uses a tiny bit of fiber I had left over from the most beautiful fiber I think I’ve ever purchased. I’m sad to see it all gone. I’m not even sure what kind of wool it was other than I bought it here and it has the most beautiful colors and is so soft to touch. With such a small portion remaining I decided to make a very fine yarn and extend the fiber as far as I could, plying it with a wonderful white Blue Face Leicester. There are so many colors in the first fiber, I think the white works wonderfully showcasing them all.
Here is the other yarn made using some of the same fiber. I striped this one with white and then plied it with a black cotton string.
As I mentioned in a previous post there was a knitalong for making tall socks with handspun yarn and I wanted to see if I would be able to make a yarn thin enough to be sock yarn. I have a tendency to spin thin, naturally, but have you seen sock yarn?!?! It’s SO thin! Well, when I showed this complete yarn to Matt he said “it’s like thread” so I will take that as a positive. Maybe I will be able to make my very first socks with my very own handspun someday :)
It is the last day of November and the last day of National Blog Posting Month. I got an email from NaBloPoMo today announcing that next month’s theme is Mitzvah and the challenge is to give something to someone everyday of the month and post about it. I LOVE that idea! BUT, I am so burnt out from this month and of all the things that fill my daily life. If only I had known that theme before I decided to take on this month’s challenge I might have held out for December.
That being said, my sister was so kind to point out to me that SewMamaSew’s Give-Away day is coming up. If I can’t give away things all month long the least I can do is one day and since I had so much fun participating in this in the past there is no chance I’d miss it.
Please check back and see what I will be giving away. I haven’t decided yet. If you have any suggestions I’d be glad to hear them. Anything from my shop would be cool.
We’re wishing everyone a wonder holiday (if you are in the United States) weekend! This is a picture that my sister took of Matt and I with a frame my dad was giving me.
I feel like I’ve had a dry spell of crafty blogs with real content to share in this last half month of November (NaBloPoMo). Part of my list of things to do this year was to turn off the computer for a whole week. I’m so ready for it. I’m ready to just work on some fun stuff (spinning and drawing and just messing about). I’m afraid of how I will handle no internet seeing as I work as a designer on a imac all day long. I’m debating on doing “computer free week” the very last week of the year because I’ve taken vacation time then and I know it will less tempting to surf than during slow/downtime at work. Hmmm, on the fence.
I just found myself browsing calendars on Etsy. I know a lot of blogs have covered calendars, so why not mine? I’ll just share a small handful that have caught my eye.
My studio is still in a flurry of paper. The piles of paper are mounds of randomosity AND awesomosity. This summer I acquired a cigar box of old stamps and was organizing them a bit to add some to each paper kit. I had to capture this picture, well, because you can see, pretty-pretty.
I was excited to see today that my grass journal made it to Etsy’s front page early this morning. I think Cal Patch put it perfectly when she said “In the world of Etsy, being featured on the front page is one of the highest honors” and when it turns out that it was an Etsy curated front page, well, that is enough to gush over.
Today was a very productive day. I barely sat down for five minutes. It was nothing creative, just busywork, like cleaning and errands, but it felt good all the same.
This evening I finally had some time in the studio. Earlier this month I sold my last Paper Kit of Randomosity and have been wanting to put together some new paper packs. The picture above is actually an old shot from a swap I did years back. Assembling the paper packs can look sort of similar, only all the papers are piled up and there are 8 identical piles. The floor of my studio is currently a paper stacking warehouse. This product is pretty fun to assemble as I am a paper fiend. Paper, paper everywhere!
This time around I’d like to get a bit more creative. I am going to get my Randomosity-ization on. I want to include papers with my own patterns I’ve created, and maybe some stickers I’ll make.
Here’s some eye candy from the last collection. I’ll be sure to post again once I start adding them to my shop.
It’s supposed to be a cat free studio. Every time I’m in there though, there are little paws under the door like this.
When we got Bishop I still had my rabbit Theo, and to keep the rabbit safe we gave Bishop a bell collar. Once the rabbit passed, we realized how much WE used the bell to find the cat, so he still wears it. It really has become part of his personality. When we mock him it’s always in a high pitched “tee tee tee” sound that his bell makes. And although that “tee tee tee” might give the impression of light elegant cat, he’s not a graceful cat at all. The term lithe could be used to describe most cats, but Bishop always evokes more of a Chuck Wagon commercial, stampeding through the house. You can say the bell is ironic.
The picture above reminds me how Matt and I were talking yesterday about something that has happened to both of us before. We have a half bathroom right off the kitchen where we often get ready in the morning. We will hear Bishop’s bell and look out into the kitchen, the living room, the breakfast nook, and no Bishop. We call his name, nothing. We’ll proceed with getting ready, and hear his little tink again. Look out and still no cat. This will continue over and over until something in our peripheral vision makes us look up and realize that Bishop is standing on top of the refrigerator, with a perfect view into the bathroom. He’s found a perfect place to hide in plain sight.
