I need to get to the fabric store and make some cute summer skirts. Meantime, I also need to work on this. It’s silk, and it’s going to be a big lace triangle, but I need to put it onto a longer needle
I am very impressed by the Van Gogh crosstitch project.
Here’s a little painting I did today, of some plants and trees in our front yard. I used tempera, those cheap bottles of poster paint from Hobby Lobby. It’s not any good or anything (this photograph distorts the colors a bit, it’s not quite THAT yellow/green), but I’m really glad I had almost an hour and a half to work!
My Halloween costume. It’s four jointed mannequins attached to me with PVC pipes. We’ll all be dressed as the characters from Wizard Of Oz. I’l be Dorothy. The Scarecrow needs some work on the face. The Cowardly Lion needs work on the face and a lot of mane sewing. The Tin Man needs a new face and a torso cover.
After the costume is done I may finally get around to fixing the LED walking stick I made a few years ago.
fessie: the link is telling me the pic was deleted…?
Today I was working on a knit-to-felt hat in the wild and everyone thought it was a sweater in the round 
I reclaimed some of my first useable spinning attempts from a child’s aran sweater that stood up by itself. Clearly, the yarn was too bulky for such a project. Now I’m knitting it with a strand of acrylic fuzzy something or other I scored at the dollar store and if my swatch is any indication it will turn out to be the warmest felted cable hat ever made. It will be my barn hat this winter.
I just had the shearer over on Thursday, so most of my craft work is the dirty prep kind…sorting dung tags out of my beautiful fleeces. But I plan to spend this evening washing and dyeing, and hope to start combing some roving to spin later this week.
I love the process of using the drop spindle, and it’s certainly portable, but after spinning on a wheel I find it tediously slow. It’s probably a case of my not being good enough at it yet. My wool is extremely fine (Rambouillet) so I have a top whorl spindle. I’ve heard from other spindlers, however, that a bottom whorl spindle is easier and faster, so I’m thinking of investing in yet another fiber tool.
Sorry, I was trying to fix it. The colors aren’t quite right.
I’m going to have a booth at a 4th of July fair, so I’m beading like a m$(^f&#% trying to get everything together. Handmade polymer clay beads strung into necklaces, bracelets and earrings, and a lot of glass bead “little girl” bracelets. If some of this stuff doesn’t sell, I’ll be having a bonfire.
Oh wow it’s really pretty! Very impressionist.
And it’s way cool that you can see the thumbnail, so you can see what it would look like from a distance. Great piece!
When you say “my wool” does that mean from your own sheep? If so, would you be interested in selling some wool/carded wool/roving to a fellow Doper? We don’t really have local wool around here. It’s Florida; it’s too hot for the poor sheep to go around in sweaters, and so much rain would make them shrink. 
Finishing up electrifying my ukulele that I put a new finish on last year. From there, I’m going to build a fuzz stomp pedal for it. I’m also in the process of building a light diffuser and possibly a boom mic for my summer film project. All in good fun I suppose.
Hey, thanks for looking OpalCat and feckafree; I’m glad you liked it!
I’m about to start two knitting projects.
One is a simple triangle shawl in Colinette Giotto Fire.
The other is the largest of these three felted totes in red, with a red/green/gold yarn fringe-y yarn as the accent on top. I’ve never done felting before, so I’m excited.
I’m pretty excited about the shawl, too, so I guess it’s fair to say I’m just all geeked up in general.
I love the colour of that. I’m actually using the Jitterbug in Fruit Coulis to make socks. Such lovely colours from colinette.
Thanks, freckafree and Idlewild. :o This is my first big cross-stitch project in about ten years, so it may not be that cool when it’s done.
PerditaX, I’ve been wanting to learn to spin for a long time, but I’ve been afraid to try. Let us know how that rabbit fur comes along!
I know. My poor sheep were gasping for breath in our 80 degree heat wave last week.
I have a little spinner’s flock and I always have raw fleeces up for sale at my website (I’m not sure about the rules for posting links to a commercial site, but our farm is called Cold Brook Farm and we’re a .com) If you want to skip the dirty work, I can send out washed locks and carded roving. This is the kind of wool you can knit your underwear out of. Spins up fine and soft.
Just be sure to share project pics as you progress, pprgrl so we can ooh and ahh!
Inspired by this thread I went and bought fabric yesterday. Took the husband and his wonderful eye for colour with me, and ended up with a sort of loose woven looking fabric that claims to be silk but is almost certainly a blend, in a very beautiful soft purplish blue, and some olive drab linen. I managed to force myself to zig-zag the edges and wash it all yesterday, but haven’t got it out of the drier yet… hoping it will be nice and soft.
I’ve got ten yards of a nice, heavy dark purple/plum cotton jersey that I’m going to start making into various maternity clothes as I start to get bigger. I can’t start until I begin expanding, and have a bit more idea of how I’m going to expand.
I should also look for patterns for baby clothes- or, cheaper and better, buy a couple cheap and then take the pattern from them. Does anyone know a source for light t-shirt weight jersey? The sort of thing they make layering tanks out of?
My most recent very big project was last year’s Hallowe’een costume. I was a luckdragon. I’ve made a couple of summer dresses this year, but i don’t have pics of them.
What a luscious color. Beautiful.
I love it. The color is ocean and goes from purple to blue and back… I might be further along if I didn’t keep stopping to stroke what I have done! (It’s silk, with seacell in it.)
I even bought another skein for a second scarf, this one is much more colourful though, it’s an experimental colour the people who own the store got from the grab bin so it’s lime, yellow, blue and pink. Sounds weird, but it’s really yummy actually.
And I finished my son’s sweater last night! No pictures yet though, but I have a feeling it’ll be hard to get off of him.
