Inspiration
Most of my inspiration comes from the natural world, our garden and the surrounding beauty of Western Canada. We are fortunate to live near the ocean which can be a place of great serenity and chaos. I...
View ArticleFree Tutorial On Knitting And Felting A Small Decorated Purse
January 2011 More Knitting and Felting from Woolbrain This year I would like to share a little more of how I make the things I do so for my first item I have chosen my felted change purse. This, of...
View ArticleEarth Day Challenge: Make Something New From Something Old
So here is the plan, take three items of clothing and use all of them or parts of them to re-create a new item. This is my challenge, would you like to join me ? For example: take an old wool sweater (...
View ArticleEarth Day Challenge Update
Here is the project I am working on for this Earth Day Challenge, so far so good but I am not sure about the tie! I read an article in the latest Threads Magazine about using old ties for bias binding....
View ArticleEarth Day
So here we are my Earth Day slippers. I did not end up using the tie, it was not the look I wanted but I do think that the bias binding idea from old ties is a very workable option. I will work on it...
View ArticleMarket Bag- Alabama Studio Style
Here is my own design of the lovely market bag from the wonderful Alabama Studio Style Book by Natalie Chanin. I love the designs from this book and the previous one, aptly named Alabama Stitch...
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