Romney Spinning

Last week I brought some lovely roving's to spin four merino plaits and one Romney ball all are 100 grams and are amazing colours .Over the last few days I have spun the Romney roving which was so easy to spin. Its coarser than the merino that I usually spin but the colour is fantastic. I have plied it with a reel of machine embroidery thread so that I didn't lose any of the colour change.The first photo is how the ball looked on web site and the second and third photo are how mine turned out the hank measures 224 meters.

weaving

This year at the retreat I learnt how to weave on a thing called a weave it . I have found heaps of patterns and how too use the board. There are a several sizes but we were all given the 7inch size which is one of the biggest one. I have made quite a few since arriving back home again. We were all asked to at least six and make something . I still don't know what I will make!!
The wed site is called  www.eloomination.com

New books

In the post today I received these three books from my amazing friend in Alabama. It took a few weeks to get here because we had a few holidays for Easter and Anzac Day. I didn't know what she had brought me but knew they would suite me because she knows me so well . Thanks so much Kathy , I want to make something out of them all right now  :)

Spinning group

The Fibre and Textile arts group that I have started at the Curdnatta Gallery in port Augusta has a display in the may exhibition .



 This year its all my work , I have some things for sale . If I am lucky enough to have a sale I will buy some more fibre to spin. You can never have enough fibre to spin .Next years I hope to have Janet  , Judi and Jean exhibiting there work as well

Beaded Doily

I brought this pattern from https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/dadanyperles?ref=l2-shopheader-name
she has some lovely patterns and completed doily's to buy at a fantastic price.
I brought the princess pattern and changed the colours, I am nearly finished.

Free pattern

Lizard
Here is the first fee pattern for 2014. I hope you like it. Its summer time here in Australia and we see lots of sleepy lizards around our yard and sadly on the roads were they sometimes get run over. They are lovely animals and eat mostly fruit and vegetables. They love strawberry. 

Butterflies Dreaming

my latest Fibrespace work. The inspirational word for this was "Living in the moment". I found it hard to get an idea but once I saw the beaded Butterfly's on Pinterest I had to make one and then I needed three to balance the whole vine. I was going to make a grape vine but could not think of a way to make it displayable so that's when I thought of the dream catcher.

 . Just for interest each butterfly took me four days to bead each section then on the 5th day I made the body and put it together. the flowers were a lot quicker only about 6 hours. 

The Fibrespace group is working with writers group and we make art work to go with there poem or short story, This time we made the art work first now someone has the write something to go with my art work.
I may make a few more of them but all a bit different

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