Showing posts with label Tour de Fleece. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tour de Fleece. Show all posts

Monday, July 4, 2011

Spinning and Sewing

I don't know about you, but we are great Tour de France fans, Richard and I have been watching since it started, the scenery is breathtaking and the race exciting. I have joined in with the Tour de Fleece Group on Ravelry again this year and I am spinning with Andrea's team called Team of Wonder. So far I have spun up this beautiful fawn baby Alpaca roving that I bought from Juno Fibre Arts. It is so wonderful to make spinning a part of my everyday activity while the tour is on:) This roving weighs 3.5 ounces and is 186 yards long.




I have been meaning to share this beautiful piece of embroidery that I have hanging in my entrance hall. It was gifted to me by my mother-in-law for a past birthday. I just love it, the stitching is so fine, it almost looks like a painting at first glance but when you look caerfully you can see the stitches. This is such a treasure, I just adore it. She must have worked for many hours to finish this beautiful piece... she is an amazing woman...



Jenn and Erin have been transferring Kye's drawings onto material and then carefully embroidering little sewn pictures. We will be hanging them up around our home soon, too precious....

I am off to spin more rovings for the Tour de Fleece, just love it!

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Black and White Wednesday and WIP Wednesday...

Black and White Wednesday is fast becoming a lot of fun, I am so thrilled that some of you have been taking part:) This special boy below is Charlie. He is extremely sweet and more human than cat. I swear he seems to understand us when we talk to him and looks right into our eyes with such understanding... He is Erin's cat and he adores her... He is so clever, he will come into the bedroom early in the morning, stretch out his forearm and proceed to move the door backward and forwards because he knows it will creak if he does this and he KNOWS that we will get up out of bed and feed him! See, told you he is clever... I just loved this photo and had to share it:)


Now for our WIPS'


This is Erin's blanket she has been crocheting in a Merino yarn, it is almost as big as her at the moment...


This is Jenna's blanket she has just started crocheting, it reminds me of ice cream, lovely...


I have started knitting unicorns again, I love knitting unicorns, they are so magical...


I have also joined the Tour de Fleece on Ravelry, I am really loving this. Every year, during the Tour de France cycling race, Ravelry has a Tour de Fleece. Everyone who joins, spins something everyday, just as the cyclists spin, we spin our yarn on our wheels! Tremendous fun! You join a spinning team and share your spinning photos each day on Ravelry. Awesome stuff! I am also getting to spin up my huge stash of rovings that are in my yarn cupboard:) The photo above is a Merino Bamboo blend. Today I am finishing a camel silk roving that is called Midnight, the deep blues, reds and purples in it are wonderful...


Don't you just love these! I saw the tutorial on Ariella's blog and now we can't get enough of them! Jen and Erin are sitting here now working away with pentagons, glueing them together. They look so amazing at night, all bright and glowing little stars:)

Have a great day everyone:)

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