Son's Art work

My son Lindsey is having another go at his art work. He has not been up to much for the last year or so but he still has the skill to do very intricate pen and ink drawings. 

Slippers

Homespun Yarn knitted into lovely warm slippers, This book has some fantastic patterns for the whole family.

My mother's knitting

 Mobius scarf -spun alpaca syringe dyed using landscape dyes, four colours kingfisher, Plum , clematis, and kangaroo paw.

jumper started at shoulder and worked in the round, knitted from homespun dyed yarn. Pot dyed using clematis landscape dyes.  

Modular vest made from left over yarn from jumper and syringe dyed alpaca strips.

Mum did all this knitting while traveling from Adelaide to Perth at Christmas time. they were visiting my brother and his family.

Sorry

I just want to say sorry for not posting much of my craft work. I have been busy trying to get this table cloth completed for my Aunt. I have reached to outer edge's. Its looking lovely and I only have a few rounds to go. I look at the pattern and see only half a dozen rounds but its so far around I am unable to get one round in a day.  

Mum's dyed Yarn

 Mum pot dyed the above yarn . the Pink/red and blue were mixed well in the dye pot but the green was placed into the pot and then the news came on the TV to say there had been an earthquake in Christchurch new Zealand and mum forgot her dye for 15 minutes. when she removed the green it was mottled, a lovely effect. I don't think she will be able to reproduce it. green was Daintree, was two thirds kangaroo paw one third plum. the blue is kingfished     

This lovely yarn was syringe dyed in hanks. all of the yarn on this page were cream commercial yarn. Mum is going to knit slippers for all this yarn for sale at the hills spinners and weavers open day.  

Mum's latest spinning

I visited my mother this weekend. She is very busy with her spinning. she has collected the above fibres for her next project. Alpaca , camel down and natural silk Tussah unbleached. It will be interesting to see what the end produce will be like.Knowing my mum it will be very fine and lace like.

March free patterns

Left Over Beads pen

Free Pattern for march is a pen using up your left  over beads from other projects. I have written this pattern using bead tool 4 and it saves patterns in pdf format. I have a link below to my Google Doc files . Click on the link and it should take you to the pattern. I hope you enjoy this months pattern. As usual any problems just email me and I will try and help you.

Click here for --------- Left Over Pen