Yarn to Dye For

I've also been playing with the microwave and dying wool with vinegar, water and food colouring. All good fun with my daughter:

This was our first attempt using a nice chunky wool, then came:

 

which was more of an adjustment of the knit love bonus yarn, a lovely mix of 65% Cashmere 35% Silk bravely microwaved to suit my taste.

This one was given away as part of the sock club swap.

Christmas Leftovers

Continuing the theme, I also made this tree as part of a Ravelry Christmas Swap:

It's knitted and felted and was quick to do: the pattern is here.

This was the content of the parcel I sent out, which I'm pleased to say went down well.

Catching Up

I have been rather slack on this blog recently, many apologies, work and life have got the better of me. I am going to attempt to do some quick catching up on the 'makes' I've not got around to putting up, so expect lots of pictures in the next little while.

I'll start with the left overs from Christmas, before it seems too unseasonal to mention them:

I made a lot of these knitted and felted mistletoe pieces and added pins to the back to make broaches. The pattern can be found here, but I did do a bit of tweeking as I went along to get the leaves to be more of the shape that I think of as mistletoe like.

 They made cute little stocking fillers along with a nice lip gloss.