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My almost 10-year-old daughter wanted me to post her latest creations! No patterns were followed, just her own imagination.

A crocheted stuffed bear and his blanket.

Close-up shot of "Stuffy".

The scarf came with the penguin, but he is now a pirate penguin!

A chic cat!

A really cool knitted cotton bag. Love how she embellished it!

Over at my new blog, Lilibeth's Garden, I've posted a new entry on the ball winder I'm going to be saving for over the next few months. I'm in love!

I decided to delete this post....the privilege of a blogger! ;-)

I know I've been very neglectful of my blog. It can't be denied that when I get onto something (like selling felted bags), everything else falls by the wayside.

Here's some dying I did last weekend, on a very neutral light coloured wool:


These are chubby hanks that are around 7-8 ounces each. The first one was done with Dylon Cold A3 Lilac. I found it at our local fabric store. I love the colour, it's perfect. I got very consistent results. I just don't fancy the idea of using chemical dyes, yet I can't deny the results are the best.

The second skein was an overdye job done on some cornflower blue wool that I wasn't in love with. I used Kool-Aid in Strawberry, with some grape thrown in towards the end. Not totally consistent results, but I'm sure it'll knit up fine. A little too rosey for my taste, but that just proves how strong Kool-Aid is!

The third skein was again the neutral wool, this time dyed with Wilton icing colour in Violet. Man you don't need much of this stuff! I used WAY too much and it wasn't even half a teaspoon. There was tons of colour left in the pot. Next time I'll use much much much less. I see the potential for a very nice muted violet. I wasn't going for ultra violet! But it's very pretty.

The orange below used to be orange from Kool-Aid, but it was too soda pop orange. I overdyed it with turmeric (an Indian spice, also called 'Indian Saffron), and threw in a bit of the neutral wool and boy what a yellow! The orange is still too orangey, it'll become part of my wool embroidery stash.


Dying is fun!!

I'm so excited, I just purchased this walnut yarn swift online from Knitting Notions. Jon (hubby) is buying it for me for our 18th wedding anniversary. It looks like a piece of fine furniture. It is finished with "a blend of tung oil and linseed oil, followed by a topcoat of beeswax". It'll be such a relief to give my shoulders a break from unwinding a skein from around the back of 2 chairs. Now all I need is a ball winder!

A bag with a destiny

I had a bag listed at my etsy shop that had at least 570 views and yet it sat unpurchased for a month. I had come to the conclusion that it must be awaiting a special destiny. On Saturday I had a woman in Helsinki, Finland ask if I shipped internationally. I had never shipped overseas but I offered to look into it right away. Later that day I was mailing off my little green bag to Finland! I was so pumped because it made me happy to see it go to a place where the Scandinavian culture embraces colour. It feels like it's going to where it belongs.


The buyer said that she wouldn't be my last overseas buyer, which was such a sweet thing to say. Can't deny this is all very fulfilling!