Hand Painted Cotton Yarn 500 Yards - Circus

This yarn has been hand painted with love by me. When I dye this type of yarn, I crochet or knit multiple strands together before dying. This allows me to make a batch or lot of skeins that match up. No more fraternal items.

There is enough yarn here for a scarf, towel, dishclothes, hat, neck warmer, wrist warmers, etc. This cotton has been processed with hot water and steamed. It should not shrink. The dyes will fade if the yarn is bleached, so if you are going to make kitchen items and want to preserve the color, instead of bleach I suggest you add some vinegar to the hot/warm wash water.

My Hubby really loves the dish clothes I made him out of this cotton! So I keep him stocked up....I will do whatever it takes to get out of doing dishes! lol

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Offically Updated

Well, I have been working hard to get all of my stuff in my etsy store.

I have some of it up and have made the following collages! It is a lot of work, but I am having a good time and I really want to get done with the admin stuff so I can get back to creating.

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FINALLY!!!

Well, it has been a mighty long time since I blogged! I am working on getting my Etsy store up and running and hopefully will be back here more often!

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Taa Daa!

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Look what I got on my Mothers Day visit to the coast!

Had to Share

I saw this today on Dooce.com and just had to share.  I will have more knitting news later.

Busy as a Bee

Whew....what a busy weekend!

My wonderful hubby made me this skein winder. He was so proud of himself.   lol  I need to take better photo.   This was with my cell.  So I was able to wind some of the TONS of coned yarn I have.  I have a lot of coned chenille.  I have been experimenting with dying it this weekend.  Photos soon.  and I have also figured out that if I soak it and dry it, it fluffs up an looks much nicer.  Hopefully some of this will be up on my etsy site this week.

I also finally got a photo of this Upcycled Jean Jacket.  It will be on Etsy tomorrow, I forgot to see what size it is.  I crocheted all the trim with Brown Sheep Cotton Fleece yarn.

I have another jacket done in pink that I need to photograph and also some yarn posting this week.  I have also been putting books on Amazon.com and have already sold 5 books.  So the spring cleaning is going good and so is my life, busy, but good!