A Single Stitch - AKA Nikki at Select Sunday post!

Today I thought I'd show you another customers work.

We haven't done a select Sunday for a while.

So today we have

Nikki AKA A Single Stitch

You can find Nikki's really lovely cards

and creations at

  A Single Stitch

on facebook,

where she has also been

creating some very special poppies.

Nikki can also be found at the following craft fairs

16th November - Earlston 

18th November - Jedburgh

23rd November - Kelso

28th,29th and 30th November - Galashiels

1st December - Newtown St. Boswells

5th December - Earlston

Good luck Nikki!

Texture and colour and a bit of baking soda

A few more beads....playing with colour and texture.

Still haven't got a steady hand for it too much

oohing and ahhing...lol.

I bought some lovely broken glass - 'frit'

from Beadbug to add spots of colour.

Texture created with Baking soda....I love it!

Working with colour and texture - such a joy!

I love the variety of fabrics and fibres I dye for customers.

From lovely cotton scrim above for a customer

to use in Nuno felting.

Harris Tweed packs for a customer that needle felts.

Recycled silk chiffon sari ribbon

for a jewellery designer!

Lampworking....oh my!

I spent a truly wonderful day on Friday on

a lampworking course in West Kilbride

with Louise Nelson

( I have linked to her flickr pics)

I cannot express the wonder of molten glass

it was quite spellbinding.

My efforts were indeed somewhat wobbly but I just had so much fun!

School pic and some carving!

Hope's not her normally smiley self 

but really pleased with their school photo

it's rare to get both the boys smiling!

Below their handy work yesterday.

Thanks to Granny and Grandad for

pumpkin carving kit....such fun!

Happy 11th Birthday Jacob!

Jacob at 7!

He loved his long hair...lol

Jacob 7, Caleb 5 and Hope 2

And Today!!!!!! He's 11...what happened.

I feel like I blinked and missed it.

Very happy with his Kindle that he wanted for his Birthday!

Out with the kids at Blair Drummond

Lots of fun yesterday on a day trip to

Blair Drummond Safari park.

I love otters.

This gopher was rather cute!

A very cheeky teeny weeny friend we made.

Giraffe's what can I say ......so elegant!

Then there were those Phillips children!

More dying.....and new packs.

This week has been busy ...busy

Lots of dying!

Creating new packs!

Next week is October break here so there won't be much work

getting done. We will be at home though and Reuben is off work.

so hopefully some days out and decent weather

(keeping those fingers crossed).

But the last few days Rita, Vicky and I have been working on 

new Harris Tweed packs - so lovely!

I have hand dyed the Harris Tweed, and so far we have created

Needle felting packs and Creative textiles packs.

Lovely hand spun yarns by Rita and knitted flowers by Vicky

and dying well that would be my domain!

This weeks dying.....

Chiffon silk scarf lengths are great for nuno felting.

silk rods for creative textiles/altered art

silk hankies

and silk caps......so much silk!

Happy Birthday Mum and dad!

Happy Birthday Mum!

A collaboration with Vicky.

My dying, her knitting and my fringes 

and button additions.

Dad is very pleased with his crop-a-dile....

I am imagining holes everywhere!

Yep it's both their birthdays today.

Whoops and it's not even Friday the 13th!

This week has been a fabric dying week!

Some lovely wild silk - gorgeous texture......

and some super soft Merino 100% Wool pre-felt.

Then Whoops I dropped my camera!

Actually to be more accurate Reuben's camera ....I could cry!!

Broken the screen so not much good.......and I hoped this month was

going to be expense free. It seems not boo hoo! 

Every radiator and the bath!

Beautiful big wigs angora dyed and drying...

I can wait to get felting with this..

Yes another wet and miserable day in Largs.

Everything this week has been drying round the house.

Mohair from Jo in Somerset!

Lovely alpaca...

Kid mohair tops in the hall

More angora in little kitchen paper sandwich drying

in the radiator gap

Some more mohair on the boy's radiator!

The kids and Reuben are quite used to it now.

Just a pain having to empty the bath every morning for shower time!

Meet Dolly the Lincoln Longwool sheep......

Oh so cute Dolly the sheep pre hair cut.

Dolly is a Lincoln Longwool.

Some of Dolly's beautiful fleece after cleaning and dying.

Select Sunday with Sue Welfare and cobweb scarves

This week I am sharing some beautiful delicate

cobweb felt scarves by

Sue Welfare.

Cobweb felt is created with extreamly

fine layers of fibre. 

Sue tells me her scarves weight a mere 25g each

amazing!

Lovely details and you can see the 

blend of different fibres used.

Sue created these pieces using 

some of our dyed tops.

Below a Merino /silk/ flax mix.

Sue works as a full time novelist 

and you may have come across her books

which are available here.

Sue is also on Facebook.

Hair accessories.....doormat.....what next?

Time has been flying by!

I think because the weather has been so good 

and I have managed

to get lots of dying/drying done this week.

Some thick and thin for a 10 year old

that makes her own hair accessories.

Lots of sari ribbon - very popular with Jewellery makers.

Hand dyed silk yarn and thread for lots of

different creative textile uses.

Hand dyed wool insulation!

Thick, hairy and very rough......

I am thinking it may become a door mat?