Archive for 'Crafty' Category
Playing with fluff
It’s an obsession that matches my earlier experiences with beadworking. I have collected all sorts of fibers to play with: cat fur, recycled silk fiber, wools, alpaca, bunny down, dog down, and assorted stray fibers from deconstructing garments and weaving thrums. I made spindles, bought large dog slicker brushes to use as budget [...]
To dye for
Quite a while back, I dyed my NZ wool roving using Easter egg dye and microwave steaming to set it. I have to admit I had some doubts, but it works really well!
I did two batches, a little more than half the ‘bump’ dyed (8 oz.?) and half of that spindle spun [...]
Spinning in (and out of) the wind
A few years ago, I was bitten by the spinning bug. Not the bicycle exercise kind, the making yarn kind. It’s surprisingly portable, easy, and addictive. I’ve spun in all sorts of crazy places, including while walking to class, and almost nobody has so much as given me a second look! [...]
Everybody knows about LOlcats, and probably LOLdogs as well, but I has LOLbunnies. I even have a favorite LOLbunny video – Bunny Concert.
I found a playlist of Christmas songs I actually like, but it looks like the service won’t be there for much longer so go listen now. I’m sort of [...]
Imagination
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. -Jules de Gaultier
And I’ve about had it with reality – why did I think it would be as easy this winter to get through the holidays as last winter? – so I’ve really been indulging my imagination. I have melt and pour soap [...]
Classy!
Yup, I’m finally teaching those jewelry-making and beadwork classes I kept threatening to hold at the Hobby Lobby in Rogers. Here’s the page for the class. It needs pictures. But it has all the same info that the class book at the store does, except the sign-up sheet. Twelve classes in [...]
On with the craft
I picked up a Quilter’s World magazine at work the other day, because the cover quilt was so compelling.
I want to make this quilt! But maybe not in rainbow stripes. I have this bright blue and green lily allover print fabric that would make great center squares, and at least six [...]
Wardrobe Refashionista
It’s possible that I’ve lost my mind, but if so, I’m in good company. I’ve been meaning to make, thrift, and refashion my clothing for quite a while; it’s only now that I have a bit of time and the incentive of the Refashionistas!
The Wardrobe Refashion Pledge
I, Kara,
Pledge that I [...]
These are two of the quotes of the day on July 2nd at The Quotations Page:
There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man’s lawful prey. – John Ruskin (1819 – 1900), (attributed)
Human [...]
Squares
The library is a dangerous place. No, really; besides the hazard of losing the increasingly speedy toddler in the stacks, there are books like Elizabeth Zimmerman’s “Knitting Around”, with their intriguing knitting ‘recipes’. Stockings! Mittens! And…the Pi Are Square shawl, which has some of my Omegacryl stash clamoring for the needles [...]