colorful textiles, wool, weaving & crochet.
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Spun from etsy's loop Earth Goddess batts. Corriedale wool, silk, glitz. Kept staring at it, so purty, can't bear to knit it, so I've posted it in my etsy shop.
The Wool House, Southampton, was built in the 14th century for the storage of wool before export to the continent in the galleys and carracks of Venice and Genoa. The wool trade was the basis of Southampton's prosperity in the middle ages. During the Napoleonic wars The Wool House was used to accommodate French prisoners of war, some of whose names may be seen carved on the beams of the roof. The building was restored by the city corporation and opened as a Maritime Museum in June 1966.
It now houses The Dancing Man Brewery.
Weekly Alphabet Challenge 'ancient ' theme. 27/52
On the left in the photo is The Bugle, originally built for the Royal Southern Yacht Club, built in 1846 by T.S. Hack. Pevsner and Lloyd called it "The Finest piece of early Victorian architecture in the city". Built in stuccoed Italianate Classical style with Tuscan colonnades.
It was requisitioned by the Admiralty in 1939, then after the war had ended, the building was taken over by Southampton University’s Air Squadron, which they used as offices until 2013. Sadly dilapidated it underwent renovation and opened as an exclusive use venue in 2022.
Her tutorials are super packed with useful tips and instruction on this week's topic
Dying wool with flowers.
this week. Dying wool yellow using Dandelion, Gorse & Daffodil.
My contribution? the photo.
Steel wool and multiple triggers of flash+blue gel for the colours, and huge thanks to @jwestie (Instagram) for how still he was over the duration of the exposure...
A single toadstool sits on a bed of moss in this little terrarium.
The scene is made of wool that I've needlefelted. I even needlefelted pebbles beneath the dirt, and added cotton thread sporophtyes.
This was a fun project, one I'd like to do again.
I visited my favorite yarn shop today. I'm always inspired by the colors and textures. Many of the yarns are hand dyed by the proprietress.
such wooly goodness, in patterns and textures I can rarely find here, where it never gets quite so cold. I can't wait to work with this wool and see what it can become. Thanks T
Made right here in our apartment by Amber Jensen. The bag is made from wool with a canvas lining. It's very substantial and stylish, but is a tad on the fair weather side. We may be making a removable rain fly for it now that the decaleur's is done.
...a ball of wool, and is now another beanie. I do so love them.
Still playing with the camera. Ordered a book on how to get the most out of it yadyada. What I really lack is ideas!
I purchased this wool felt from One of the Flock on Etsy. It's so yummy and I love the colours and texture so much that I purchased more right after I received it in the mail!
The Wool Packs, Kinder Scout, Peak District, UK
© 2014 Paul Newcombe. Don't use without permission
Taking a break from sunlight on snow, here's photo taken the day after the recent heavy snowfall. It felt really special to visit the Wool Pack on Kinder Scout in these conditions. And no footprints. Lucky me.
A three image stitch.
(43/365) A wool runner from Navajo country (northern Arizona and New Mexico). This one is an inexpensive machine woven rug, but hand woven ones can go for many hundreds (or thousands for larger ones) of dollars. For 119 pictures in 2019 #100, "Stripes".
I don't know if the kittens will ever let me knit in the house again, so who knows if these ever get finished. This is a pretty sad amount of knitting for almost a whole month...
This yarn is part of a series of new experiments I'm performing with color in spinning. This yarn was spun from merino roving that was handpainted in a series of colors that never repeat. I split the roving down the center and spun two nearly identical skeins - they both will self-stripe in the same color sequence, with no repeats. Perfect if you want to make a pair of something - like fingerless gloves/armwarmers or legwarmers - or if you want to make one large piece, like a scarf, you can knit/crochet in different ways to produce different color effects. You could alternate one row from each skein, or you could knit from one end of the first skein and then the opposite end of the second skein, for a mirror effect.
The colors in this yarn are (in the order they occur): pale blue, teal/green, yellow, peach, purple, pink, brown, and mustard/olive.
(I'm so lazy. I cut & pasted this from my etsy shop description. Which is why it sounds like I'm trying to sell it!)
Another image from my afternoon at the Watkin's Mill. It's amazing to think about what went into the entire process of weaving wool and how many laborers it took. As always a big thank you for taking the time to view my pictures and commenting when you deem it so.
Spun from scraps of my handdyed Spicery Shetland, Faded Merino, Ripe Olive Merino/mohair, and Churned Up Falklands.
Aran weight, 470 yards/10 oz.
This is group #1 of the effort to reduce my hand-dyed spinning fiber stash.
This was spun fast and loose while watching movies, including Twilight, which entertained me to no end.