Here's a little peek at what I'm sending my swap partner wicked.wicked in Brazil. Hope she likes! Skull & Cross Bone Fabric, Stickers, Skull Patch, Badges and Bandages. A skull lollipop and knitted scarf from my handspun...
Here's my pirate yarn knit up- I edged it with a commercial yarn called "punk" and added some pearl bobbles, plastic kitchey skulls and real coins in the fringe. This can be worn as a scarf or sash. Savy?
Here's a peek at what I've sent my swap partner for the Buggin' Out fiber swap. Can't wait to see what everyone else put together for their partners! I had way too much fun putting this together. Can you read the card?
WOW! One year on blogger already... Well, since I'm in the celebrating mood- leave a comment/reply to this post by September 30th and I'll enter you in a drawing for a cool prizer! I'll announce the winner October 1st. The winner will then have 1 week to get in touch with their mailing addy or give up their prize to the next runner-up. No anonymous posters- you must have a screen name that I can write down and put into a hat.
Ok- I just had to steal the magic yarn ball swap idea and give it a new twist!
This swap is for spinners who's primary passion is spinning funky, unusual, wild and over the edge handspun art yarns.
As you all may or may not know, the idea is to wind up trinkets, treats and other cool stuff into a yarn ball and send it to your swap partner. For this swap we will be using our own unique handspun yarns. Try to include items that could potentially be spun into yarn along with sweets, cool stickers, charms, badges, buttons and other crafty little items. Use and stretch your imagination!
Sign-up deadline is November 1st and the swap dealine is November 30th. For more details or to join this swap: http://www.swap-bot.com/swap/show/844
This yarn was created for a pirate swap I'm participating in. One item in the swap has to be handmade. I'm going to knit this into a skinny scarf (there isn't much yardage) and embellish it with some booty in the fringe. I've got some old looking coins and plastic kitchey skulls and funky beads and stuff. It has me inspired- so keep yer eye open for my line of punk yarns coming to a website near you!
Here's a little peek at what I've been up to this weekend- spinning up that last skein on the right and setting the twist. Wait till you see the pirate yarn!
Mohair & wool blend spun with novelty eyelash snippets. Plied with mini-sequins on purple thread. YUM!
I've just posted a themed fiber swap for art yarn spinners on swap-bot. If anyone is intrested in participating, follow the link:http://www.swap-bot.com/swap/show/810The theme for this swap is Buggin' Out- with halloween just around the corner I'm thinking creepy crawly inspired fiber! Feel free to include non-spinning themed items- stickers, sweets, buttons, etc in your swap. It's not required, but is lots of fun! Deadline for signing up is September 21st. See ya!
This fiber pack contains an assortment of fibers that can be spun in to art yarns or used for other fiber art projects. To view the details of what all is in this assortment, please visit my etsy shop: www.yarnpunk.etsy.com
Proof positive of my fiber addiction- no more living in denial. I found these bits of felt stashed in an unused tea cup in my kitchen cupboard. I had no idea they were even in there! Waste not want not- I'm going to work these little strays into some wearable art- I found more bits to match- I'm thinking a little beadwork on the felt bead, some additional felt and wire...
What's a fiber pod? Recycled packaging and left over fibers from my spinning projects! Each pod contains 3 oz of blended wool and/or mohair, alpaca, silk, angora, mylar, angelina and other fibery goodness. I've listed 3 pods on my etsy site: www.yarnpunk.etsy.comand will be adding more in the near future. I have plans for pods with snippets, sparklies, bobbles and bits for art yarn spinners, so stay tuned!
Finished this lastnight- it's still a little damp from setting the twist, but I'm shoving it in my suitcase and plan to mail it to miss crumpart from FreakPods! in Australia when I get down to Oregon. I ran out of time to get a skein from the shop in the post to her and didn't want to wait until I got back from my trip. I found a vintage clip-on earring with white, bone and pale baby blue bobbles in a round cluster this evening and clipped it into the skein. Wish I could have gotten a pic- looks delicious! Well, I'm off- first flight out of Kodiak in the morning... See ya!
Life is crazy busy right now- I'm getting ready to take a trip south to Oregon for 2 weeks to visit my sister who is moving to Wyoming. Looking forward to seeing her- it's been something like 2 years. Not sure if I'll be able to check my email or post to blogger while I'm gone, so here are some shop updates:After this week, The Rookery will only be open for normal business hours on Friday, August 18th & Saturday, August 19th. All other days we will be closed. The same goes for the following week: the shop will only be open on Friday, August 25th & Saturday, August 26th. Not to worry though, Sarah will be teaching Tuesday evenings from 7-9 pm and said folks could stop in to pick up supplies and stuff during that time. Elizabeth Lehmer will be teaching Wedensday evenings starting at 6:30 and will also be available. As for my shop www.yarnpunk.etsy.com : all orders placed between August 11th and August 25th will receive free shipping when I return.I'll try and post again before I leave on Sunday- I'm hoping to finish up the yarn I'm working on before I leave and get pic's uploaded.
Blended wool, mohair and angelina plied with soft fuzzy green kid mohair slubs and thread.
A blue alpaca single triple plied (chaos at its best) with lime green wool thread, sulky holoshimmer thread, purple vintage thread and snippets of yarny bits, sequins and lime green fluff. Just grabbed what was loose in my shelves at home and went for it. Ran out of spinning projects and needed a fix.
