Woodland Treasury

I love this “Woodland Skins” Etsy Treasury made by ovgilliesdesigns and featuring Knitkin Bound Wristlets.

Wrapping trappings

After a glorious confetti avalanche of Christmas wrapping paper I’m remembering taking this photo of my Knitkin wrapping of the moment for two pre-Christmas orders. I decided to use the yarn labels around the knit items because as well as detailing washing instructions these labels look nice!

I’m also using long Knitkin tags with personalization where appropriate.

One for the birds

luxe avian design

A small digression from urban yarns and knitting – what are these wool spindle things? Let’s call them garden bird nesting material stations! Here in our wee enclave of Scotland our garden birds including pairs and flocks of blue tits, robins, blackbirds, song thrushes, crows, feral pigeons, collared doves, woodpigeons, great tits, wagtails and dunnocks enjoy the height of luxury when feathering their nests – Alaskan Malamute wool undercoat wrapped round some twigs!

Last year we put a couple of these out a bit late in the nest building season and the blue tits LOVED the fur. We even did a test of Malamute wool versus sheep wool and there was no competition at all: the sheep wool was completely ignored and the Malamute wool disappeared instantly. It is so gratifying on some primal level to watch little birds take and use nest material you’ve offered them.

We put these out and within 10 minutes there was a great tit pulling the wool out. (However he/she didn’t take any and was maybe thinking, “what kind of weird bird feeder is this thing – where are the seeds in here?!”)

one of our resident crows on the birdtable

All things are possible

Baby Angel Pig

If darling angora knit pigs such as winged Baby Angel Pig can fly then I CAN move my blog over to blogspot.

AGAIN WordPress doesn’t allow something blogger does so I am going to move my blog over to a blogspot home. This time it was not being able to put an RSS feed of my tweets onto this page. But it’s easy to do on blogspot. This on top of not being able to add my etsy shop and favorites means it is bye bye wordpress……. *soon*

Twins, really they are!

Twins

Clearly they are not identical but here are TWIN loveys made on the same day, at the same time. Unbeknown to either of us, I made one and my extraordinary galpal M. made the other – at the exact same time and look at how I have managed to unwittingly channel M. who has Covetables and created a similar slightly curlicued head!

I would love to say that I made the elegant lady on the left but then that would be a bit of a betrayal of em, ‘unusual lovething’ on the right who I did make. She was an experiment, made from a second hand Laura Ashley lambswool cardi with machine embroidery and beading. I liked the strange one-eyed look of her face but my daughter preferred she have two eyes and chose two pretty and glittery buttons which I have now sewn on.

The point I have tangented from is that my darling pal M. made Elegant Lady doll for me (!) at the exact same time I was making upcycled Laura Ashley monster sweetie doll for my daughter which makes them TWINS. It does, it does!

New fairies in our home

Dancing Fairies silk mobile

Woo-hoo we made a dancing fairy silk mobile on Monday!

Poppy Fairy

And the day before that we made a Poppy Fairy (that’s fairy – not emperor nor witch – we may have to give her a haircut).

(It is such a pleasure to create something with your child apart from joy.)

Twittering

LullabyLily bird now twittering!

I must stop going online too early in the morning when I am not fully awake. I do all manner of carefree things like opening up 3 online shops and then closing them once awake. So now, this morning I have surprised myself by unexpectedly joining Twitter. I laughed after joining at the personal irony of the continual “what are you doing now?” box: This is the one thing I cannot stand people asking me! It does seem so sweetly twittery on Twitter that I am likely going to gush foolishly into that wee space box. Am off now to see who I will follow (even while I don’t know what ‘following’ is but it sounds good to me). Here I am on Twitter.

Knit slugs as measure of man

The Boisterous Brothers

I cannot BELIEVE I am about to write this post! But here we go…

A LullabyLily friend has just bought a darling knit slug for her Valentine. She convoed me about the possible oddness of such a present. I just told her what another Lullabylily friend said after giving various LullabyLily knit slugs as Christmas presents, including to her husband: (I won’t write her name here because I mean, really, who wants to be seen to be discussing knit slugs in such detail, if at all… em…)

“Husband and I were mulling over whether the new litmus test of good character should be the likelihood of someone finding a knitted slug funny.”

Original garments

Kid Mohair Pony and matching The Bha Top

I’m now making handknitted vests, tank tops, tunics, over vests, pullovers, wrist warmers, cowls, shrugs and tabards for children in my new Etsy shop “vestments”. Each one is a free form One Of A Kind (OOAK), never to be repeated, impossible to copy, utterly unique! You can see them here.

This lovely tangent began thanks to my darling friend freedomRainbow on Etsy when we traded one of her freedomLotusNaturals wool visors for this top custom (pic above) created for her daughter in kid mohair and handspun pure wool trim (plus a little kid mohair pony as a gift).

I am in love with another blog

I am in love with this blog. So am copying a pic from it just to pretend my blog is hers for a moment. *calm*