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The warmth of light

Posted in felting, knitting, tagged Bobbles Bobbles Everywhere, felted lamp, felted lampshade, Noni bag pattern on December 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

I played with felt and lighting. I always wanted to do this and now with darker days and colder weather upon us, light shining through a felted surface gives a very cozy glow. I am very happy with the results. The lampshade is seamlessly felted to size and can be taken off for washing.

And this is the lamp in daytime:

The colorful bobbly thing in the background, by the way, is a Noni bag pattern (“Bobbles, Bobbles Everywhere” pattern) that I knitted/felted years ago and turned into this “bowl” rather than a handbag. I am not quite the type to carry a loud handbag like this, but I love the splash of color in my living room.

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Hat for the boy

Posted in family life, knitting, tagged knitted hat, knitting on November 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Knitted with a supersoft merino/cashmere blend (who likes itchy hats?) to keep ears warm, when we are cycling to school. I expect that at some point the weather will turn colder, even here. It is well into November, after all. I don’t use a pattern, by the way, I just cast on and go from there.

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Forgotten treasures

Posted in crochet, knitting, spinning, tagged art yarn, crochet, hand-spun yarn, knitting, Lexi Boeger, Pluckyfluff on October 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Deep down in a container of wool and roving I found a bag of hand-spun yarn that I produced during a Pluckyfluff Art Yarn Workshop a few years back. Lexi Boeger is kind of a local girl (near Placerville) and a lot of very direct, outspoken, hands-on fun. She is also the one who “invented” this extreme style of art yarn, at least in this part of the world. It seems to me that the craze for art yarn has altogether died down a bit, but it is a lot of fun spinning such yarn, looking at it – and now finally making something with it. Legwarmers? A hat? A cowl? Fingerless gloves? The chicks (middle of the three skeins) might be a bit too scratchy, though…

You might not be able to see it, but this one has shredded dollar bills spun into it!

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Baby Gift

Posted in felting, knitting, wool felt, tagged baby gift, felt baby boots, felting, wool felt, yarn on October 7, 2012 | 1 Comment »

A gift of for a special baby born to very close friends of ours in Germany. The booties are wet-felted; to keep baby’s feet happy I used a very soft merino wool on the inside. I added a cuff knitted with a cashmere/wool blend to keep the boots on the feet.

Welcome to this life, little one!

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Global Knit Graffiti

Posted in knitting, tagged knit graffiti, yarn bombing on September 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Turning a corner on a walk into Galway town this summer, expecting to see Eyre Square’s landmark metal sculpture, I was delighted to see this instead:

Rain or shine – truly a global phenomenon!

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The beginning of summer

Posted in crochet, dyeing, embroidery, felting, knitting, pen-and-ink, sewing, travel journaling, watercolor painting, wool felt, yarn, yoga, tagged amy butler pattern, at home, cooking, family life, felting, Forks over Knives, meditation, pen-and-ink, Sew Liberated, sewing, watercolor, Wiksten tank top pattern, wool felt, yarn, yoga on June 14, 2012 | 4 Comments »

Today is the first day of the summer vacation! Nearly three months of finding and playing to our own rhythm, open-ended days, fluctuating bed-times, spending time with each other…oh, yes!

A few of the things that I postponed and now can’t wait to dive into…