Thrifted

On saturday I went into an op-shop looking for some knitting needles and came out with several peices of cotton and two sheets in fantastic condition (the blue fabric on the left). It was my lucky day.

Also found: a small cluster of mushrooms.

I made a knitting bag for a friend for her birthday, complete with homespun yarn, needles and the promise of knitting lessons.

Thanks Mum

For the bunch of flowers you sent for my birthday.

Q. When is a zucchini not a zucchini?

a) When it is (almost) a marrow

b) When it is a chocolate cake

I’ve been wanting to try this recipe for a while. A friend has a garden at work, and when this beauty grew over the weekend I jumped at the chance to make one of these cakes. So moist and rich (all white flour, no chocolate chips, slightly more zucchini than called for.) Delicious.

I can spin a rainbow

My rainbow dyed singles from the other day have become wool.

All wound up into centre pull balls for plying.

Curly-wurly straight off the bobbin.

After a nice wee wash’n'dry. I must use these scales to photograph wool more often.

What to do with approx 1.5 oz (my scales don’t do metric) of rainbow dyed wool?

Nice DOF right? (More on that note to come….)

Fibre Dreams

A distant ocean crashing against my spinning wheel.

A rainbow emerging from my microwave.

Incredible depth achieved by 3 ply.

Love Love Love

Street stencil + Pedro

I need to go back with another set of hands and get low and close.

A good weekend filled with Love to all.

::yellow+white::

I have neglected you so colour+colour. Here is a poor attempt at photographing a moving flower.

And because I took it:

Also not as good as it could be. But it’s better than nothing right- because that’s all I have to offer you otherwise.

Trying my Luck

at Etsy.

I’ve got 3 necklaces up there. Who knew adding items took so long??!!

My Favourite Christmas Gift

Gift from Michael, currently holding my alpaca/wool.

There hasn’t been alot of crafting going on. A little spinning (alpaca/wool, destined for dying) and some sewing yet to be completed. Maybe tonight?

I’ve been trying to get back into the swing of things- and on top of things. Now that I’m not a student I should probably do housework more often.

Like a few other people around the blogosphere I may just pop in with a few photos over the next few days? weeks? until the crafting gets back on track. Peace to all.