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I was feeling a little... pink. :D

Maybe make these little guys into a cell phone charm?

I'm Dyeing!

So the other day, I decided to try something I have never tried before. I decided to try dyeing wool yarn. With Kool-Aid. In my kitchen.

It was surprisingly easy and rather fun!

Now one of the tricks in dyeing wool is to not over agitate it, or it becomes very grumpy to downright wrathful with you and will felt itself in revenge. I did manage to slightly over work the yarn and I got some felting. When I unwound the skein, I had to pull it apart from itself. Some areas were only slightly felted, some places a little more so. Nothing too bad. The yarn is still soft and workable.

These colors were accomplished with Grape, Tropical Punch, and Berry Blue Kool-Aid. It didn't dye as evenly as I had hoped, and where I had tied the looped skein together didn't take as well either (tied a little too tightly), but I am calling this a success. I now know what this is all about, and I know what I shouldn't do next time.

These will be made into little fingerless glove/mitt things for the baby water dragon. Wrist warmers? Something of that nature, hence cutting the yarn length in half. I didn't find a proper pattern to follow, so I don't trust myself to leave enough yarn for a second glove once the first one is done.

Before I start, I need to go get myself some new knitting needles. Most of mine have mysteriously disappeared, and I have hunted desperately for them.

It's rather frustrating.

Next dye project will be for making a Mad Hat. I am leaning towards a drastically dark purple red that has a lot of black influence. I'll need about 350 yards of yarn for that. I can't wait to start dyeing some more.

Blood, A Little Sweat, And No Tears So Far

I have been a busy bee the past week. Some of it was spent poking through the wool and into my fingers. I bought some finger guards. I don't always wear them when I need to. :P

This little session back on Sunday was inspired by my planning my garden for this year. I have a plot in a community garden and I can hardly wait for the renewal e-mail to be sent out! :D

Patch got himself a little play area. I LOVE that mushroom. I need to take some more photos of it.

Wild 'N Wooly

I have really been enjoying needle felting. A lot. I love the fact that I can have multiple projects done in an evening. I love the fact I can do tiny little things. I love, I love, I love!

So here is what I intend to do with my new craft. I want to work on it to the point that between this, and my other arty things, I can have my own art business. I want to be able to sell these things. But more importantly than that, I want other people to be able to enjoy them too.

Patch is sad because the birdy got dibs on the cherry.

Cheer up Patch! You can call dibs on the frosting!

Little Mice

Santa Claus didn't bring me everything I wanted for Christmas. Some of what was not in my stocking was my very first needle felting supplies. So, I went and played Santa for myself.

Today I picked myself up some felting needles, wool roving, wool felting yarn, and some little black beads. And after arriving at home, relaxing for a few, and half an hour of only poking myself in the finger hard enough once to make myself bleed, we have this little guy.

His name is Patch.

I can has some cheez?

I need to sort out the whiskers thing. That would be so cute.

"I iz so small, it makes me cute!"

I should get the felting foam block, because that will make flatter things like ears a lot easier to make.