ALL these months later

and where have i been?

working, store owning, house buying, drinking, decorating, cooking, cleaning, organizing, making, yelling, crafting ...

it's finally all coming along, falling into place, so i'm trying to get back to the posting the things i make.

here's a little something i made for a friend that had a baby. A little Knitty doll dress plus a dash of Black Apple Doll head + body/legs cut to fit the dress and I had created my own little angel, in my favorite colors (in case you couldn't tell). I used a very nice Classic Elite bamboo yarn for the dress, very soft but split a bit.



tomorrow ... a herd of elephants.

Felted Tote - start to finish

Here is a felted tote that I just finished. My first felting and knitting on cable needles - in the round (untwisted after 3 tries)! Good job, me. I love the yarn, I used a combination Lumpy Bumpy by Farmhouse Yarns and a double strand of Cascade 220 Wool, because my yarn shop does not carry the Berroco.

Before I felted:


After I felted - it shrunk from 16" x 24" to about 14" square. I wasn't sure whether to have the knit side out or the purl side out, but for now i have the knit side.

First Knit and more...

Here is my first knitting - a fuzzy hat and scarf combo made from Paton's Divine yarn in yummy Orangina. The pattern was from the Michael's web site, and turned out to be pretty easy. I'm knitting a second set for a birthday present for a friend.

Here are bookmarks I received in a swap, they're so pretty (and professsional)! Thank you, Kat.



Here are a couple things I have sent out this week for a handmade journal swap and a ribbon swap. The ribbons & fibers were from my stash, but the books were newly made. I recently took a book binding class at the Creative Arts Workshop and hope to take another one in the fall. The book covers are made with a paper from EK Success that is called LetterPress, but is really just debossed. It has a nice texture even though it isn't real letterpress. In official bookbinding speak, the journals are single-signature hard cover pamphlets.