this weekend's spinning

berry picking

green tomatoes

piquant

emily carr's forest

my '56 chevy bel air (part 2)

finally finished my bel air shawl yesterday and put it up on my etsy shop. this shawl was made completely from my own dyed and handspun yarn. it has merino and shetland and bfl wool and mohair and angora fibre locks and angelina and strips of cut up vintage chenille bedspread. it's warm and heavy and so so soft. i love it's chunkiness - like the car. it makes me not mind cool nights...

a new creation

i want to spend all my time dyeing and spinning now. so i need to have simple items to knit (so that i can get back to dyeing and spinning!). yesterday i knit up "rosebud" cowl from one of my favourite skeins. it's large enough to be worn just as a scarf or slipped over your head for added warmth. i've just listed it in my etsy shop.

the weather was fine

the plan was to spend this past week sewing (i still have 6 little chenille jumpers to make for an order). but the weather has been fine. bright sun and gentle breeze. so instead i've spent my time dyeing and spinning. as the fall comes on, these days will be rare...
today is cold and grey so i made the right decision.

david hockney's swimming pool

when i did my 1st art degree in the early 1970's i chose to take 1/2 my courses in art history and 1/2 in studio. i'd just come home from a year of backpacking in europe and didn't want to stop looking at art.

alot of my world is referenced and organized by art i know. i see a fra angelico sky. a grant wood field. colours also. georgia o'keefe's poppy red. emily carr's greens. and turquoise always brings to mind david hockney's california swimming pools...

into the swing of things

it only took a couple of days but now i'm back in the swing of things. yesterday i finished off the 10 pair of baby booties (part of a larger order for the craft council shop) and also my "manly" scarf which i'll post on my etsy shop today as "felix cove" scarf . i finished cleaning up my studio (i had some studio visitors yesterday) and sold my "frida kahlo" wrap on etsy (to a woman from alaska who will wear it to her wedding!) so with a little extra money in my paypal account i put in a large order to beth at whorlingtides for some of her deliscious hand dyed fleece. i'm all set...

full swing

my summer holiday is over. i've had my anxiety parked for the past few months but now it's kicked in to overdrive. the past 2 nights i wake and lie for hours. my brain racing through lists of what i need to accomplish over the next little while. orders are coming in and i'm nowhere near where i should be for product for the toronto show in december. yesterday i sewed 12 chenille bibs for the fort mcmurry order and today am finishing off a dozen baby booties. and working on my "manly scarf"...