Thank you so much to everyone who sent Richard and I warm anniversay wishes yesterday and today, you are all so wonderful and I really enjoy reading all of your comments:)
I really didn’t think I would be able to post a WIP Wednesday today, I have been busy dyeing yarn and finishing off with Caiden’s Native American block and Jenna’s Middle Ages block but I managed to take photos of my wips’ and post them! Yay:)
On my needles at the moment:
This is a custom order photography prop cocoon that I am busy with, I started it this morning and it is going well so far. I love this soft Merino yarn and its varigation.
Jenna’s hat is almost finished! Don’t you just love the pattern? I love how it creates that turned effect, really amazing, I bought this wonderful pattern here on Etsy. This hat just leaves an opening for the face and keeps the neck and head warm. Going to be cozy for winter.
Here is another one for Erin that I am knitting, she chose a soft lilac Merino.
I have had so much fun dyeing with natural dyes this week! The above photo is boucle’ Mohair I have dyed with onions skins, I mordanted the yarn with allum and I think this should be perfect for doll hair, will list it in the shop later for sale. I have also been dyeing with exhaust dye baths and the results are so subtle and pretty!
Outdoor Challenge:
Remember the large box that everyone had so much fun with? Well the last few days it has had another function, as a giant slide. You have NO idea how much time everyone has been spending outside sliding down this cardboard and I must say it does work really well. They cannot get enough of it, they have so much energy, this has really been wonderful fun! Amazing how versatile a piece of cardboard can be:)
Off to visit all your WIPs:) Happy Wednesday!
Warmly
Linda
Beautiful yarns Linda and it is so much fun to watch children play creatively!
Warm wishes, Tonya
The hats for the girls are coming along beautifully! Such a great design. I love the cardboard slide. My kids would love something like that. 🙂
The mohair yarn looks sooooooo soft!
you have so much you are working on, linda! your cocoons are so sweet. i love that yarn! beautiful hair color, indeed.
last year, i went to our home improvement store and got several refrigerator boxes to bring to class. they were so fun! thanks for the reminder. 😉
I love the color of the first knitted creation, it reminds me of Med-evil times, chain mail etc cheers Marie
Such fun the children appear to be having – I remember from my childhood similar slippery fun on hot summer afternoons, down the hill at the side of our home on a tarp with washing liquid and the tap dribbling down the tarp – such wonderful fun! I am so glad you enjoyed your anniversary, many warm wishes for your celebration. The yarns you are knitting atm look beautiful. Your work is wonderful. Thank you for all the beauty that you share from your life, on this blog, I always enjoy to stop by and see your adventures in my ‘google reader’. I have passed to you the ‘beautiful blogger award’ (http://www.wherewildstrawberriesgrow.com/uncategorized/beautiful-blogs/) thank you for your inspiration xxx
Beautiful yarns and knitting! My kids would love that cardboard slide!
Such a fun post. How fun sliding on the cardboard box. You are inspiring me so much to be outdoors. Today I took my son outside and we read for a bit together. It was a bit chilly but delightful.
You are one talented woman!!
The box slide looks like so much fun! I know the perfect hill for this. Thanks for participating Linda!
lisa
Wow Linda, this is all just so gorgeous. I love the slide that your kiddos built as well
great fun, stunning photos xxx
I’m delighted. We bought several large baby-fences when we got the puppies, and I kept the boxes till I was sure the fences would work. Then I had the brilliant idea of using them for PUPPY slides. We had those boxes outside, sloping down from our little deck, and I picked the puppies up and put them on the slope – and down they went, just like the kids. Soon, the pups were running up them, sliding down them on their own, and fighting all the while.
Some neighbors of ours decades ago got a hold of a giant black piece of PVC pipe, molded with a sort of screw thread all around the outside of it. We have a hill in our back yard, and we came up with the (another brilliant) idea of hauling that five foot section of pipe up the hill, sticking children inside of it, and rolling the whole down the hill.
It became a great favorite – and people would brace themselves inside the thing and roll head over heels over and over again till they’d made themselves sea sick.
That pipe is still around the neighborhood – passed from house to house and owner to owner over years. The first people to have owned it have been long gone. Funny.
I want to ask you about dyeing roving. And I want to understand what process you were talking about that would make the yard good for hair?