Little things

My mum bought me a fringe twister for my birthday... and thus... all loose/leftover yarn in the house is being made into cords. It occurred to me after twisting up some pretty sparkle yarn from Holiday yarns that I could make some darn cute little bracelets/anklets/necklaces for my etsy shop... and so I did! For $2 (plus shipping) you can have your very own little wooly bracelet :)

Fallen Trees

So this weekend we went for a small walk to go shopping.  Coming to the end of our own street (maybe 150 m from our apartment), this was the scene we came upon.  It hasn't been particularly windy or stormy, but it has been raining fairly frequently over the past week.  Looking at the roots, which seem far, far too small for such a big tree, it seems that they just couldn't support the top heavy mass of the tree anymore and uprooted.  

The sidewalk just past the crushed car and before the smashed brick wall is the sidewalk that we walk along every day to and from school.  Whew!

Sadly, these two trees were my favourite trees of all of the trees in our neighbourhood.  Immensely tall with huge canopies and extensive branching, they towered over everything in the area.

Pooling Rainbows

A shawl and a scarf, similar but different :) Now for sale on my etsy shop.

Also some gratuitous kitty photos

Rainy Day

What's a girl to do on a rainy day?
Weave a rainbow of course!

Doctor Who?

 

A little bit of this and a little bit of that...

It's a random Tuesday and we have been neglecting the blog.... so, just in case anyone is reading...

My first lace weaving

 

My first stab at 2-colour weaving... a houndstooth pattern on placemats

Some drawstring tote bags made out of some "holey" cargo pants

The drop-stitch lace scarf I knit for Branwen

The swatch for a brioche scarf I'm designing with some cool colour changing wool!

Front

and back

Not just weaving

Remember that thing I was knitting over Christmas? That green thing that didn't really look like much? Well now it has grown up into a shawl! It took a little longer than predicted but that was due to me running out of yarn 4 rows from the end and having to beg borrow and steal some more yarn!

The pattern is Haruni by Emily Ross. Yarn is Wollmeise 100% merino, Variegated green.