My Workspace

I cleaned today (gasp!) So I took some pics of where I work. This is my art room, complete with the work table that Bri made for me out of a door, all my fabric, and my embroidery machine. We are still trying to figure out a way to get the books out of here- It would be really nice to have this room as a combo work/ guest room, but there is no place else that we can fit all the books. Not to mention fabric... There are still toys on the floor for Ellie, and a few WIP scattered around, but it looks pretty good! The pics are clockwise around the room:
All the bookcases, with mostly non-art related books, but there is a good deal of fabric there as well. My sewing table, with computer for the embroideries, some work in progress, and all the odds and ends.
My desk and storage bins: stamps, patterns, ribbons, stencils, odds and ends, my two snap setters.
The closet, with all the fabric, plus all our gift wrap stuff. I can't close the closet doors.

Ok, not a craft project

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This is my niece on her first pony ride! Just wanted to share this!
I guess it counts as a craft, since I did take the picture, and I did crop and edit the picture...
Anyway, Here it is!

a table cloth...

I got this tablecloth, along with 8 napkins, at an Estate sale. The tablecloth is hand embroidered, and the napkins are blank. My plan is to machine embroider the napkins in something complimentary. Haven't decided what yet! I oxy-cleaned the whole set and line dried it, and it is looking really good!

Current Projects

I have been knitting quite a bit lately- here are a few pics of what I have been working on.

Here are my first pair of capris that I made- These were made with Donnegal wool (which, ironically, was spun in the US from wool

that came from South America) These were really a first try at usin

g this pattern, and I think they turned out nicely. I learned a lot from this

project, including how NOT to graft knitting together! Overall, the colorway is OK, but not my favorite. I really don't like the patterning of mass-dyed yarns. The seed stitch cuffs took me forever (having never used the stitch before) but I am

really proud of them!

I am currently working on these, which will fit Ellie in the fall

(hopefully, she is such a tiny thing!) I love this wool, it is hand-dyed licorice twist, I got it from Mamaz Luv Creations on Hyenacart, Shirley is a great mama to work with and dyes the prettiest yarns. I have another colorway of hers that I will work up soon! This one is called Sunset, the other one that I have is Gumdrops.

The grafting went much better on this set, and I am loving how the yarn is working up. Licorice Twist is a really soft yarn, it is made using four plys, one of which is a different type of yarn, so it takes the color differently than the other three. I have been knitting this straight off the ball, and not alternating skeins or anything. No pooling at all! Like I said, this is great stuff! Though it is a worsted weight yarn, it is a fairly light worsted, I would say, and is a little lighter than other stuff I have worked with.

Here is an up-close pic of the licorice twist. This one is the gumdrops yarn.

This has got to be one of my favorite yarns, I am seriously considering using it to make a hat for myself instead of longies for Ellie. I might have enough to do both, though!

My First Post!

My first entry! Ahh! A blank page!
I decided that I needed a place to post all of the projects that I am working on, and to start, I will dedicate this first project to my friend Carrie! She motivated me to try to make something new, so I searched the web, came up with a lot of patterns that I didn't like, a few that had elements of what I did, and came up with this:

As usual, I didn't really use a pattern- I based the sizes on an apron that I already had, and the limitations of the denim that I have access to. Basically, just used the width of the fabric whenever I could, and went from there. I did actually take the time to iron down my seam allowances, something that I have learned is well worth my time!
Now... to see if I can link this to any place that anyone will read it...