Willow Ware Birds

Giveaway Winner!

So everyone wants to know who won, I used a random number generator and counted down the comments.
I am pleased to announce that the winner of the handdyed fabrics is……..
Lynda! from String Alongs
Thanks all for playing!

WW Knit in Public Day 2009

This Saturday was World Wide Knit in Public Day. The Berkley Knitters made a good show of it and we headed out to a local park to enjoy the sunshine (although we all forgot sunscreen and ended up a bit pink).

There was a great spread with chocolate chip cookies, couscous salad, brie, baguette, tomatoes, cherries, [...]

Fiber Files: Cotton

The touch, the feel! Cotton is one of the most used fibers in the world, from your BVDs to your Egyptian 3,000 thread count sheets and your stonewashed whiskered bootcut low rise jeans.
The journey from field to garment is quite an amazing one, but I want to get a bit closer, if you know what [...]

Handdyed Fabric Giveaway!

Remember back in May when we did tie-dye for the WEF and I said we also dyed some fabric? Well here, finally, are the pictures! I am very happy with the way they turned out, the best part it they are so simple to do and a great way to use up the last bits [...]

Solar Surface Design

This weekend Libby and I had some fun with Cyanotype sun printing. We used Blueprints on Fabric squares and a dried sea fan I got a while ago from Urban Indigo. Rather appropriate for Ocean Day.

Tied and Dyed

Some color for a Monday, these are the other tie-dyed shirts that we wore to the Whole Earth Festival.

My tank top. Raspberry, turquoise, golden yellow and avocado green.

Libby’s T-shirt. Golden yellow, avacado green and azure blue.

Dye Me Mine

This next Saturday is the Whole Earth Festival at UC Davis. It is a giant low impact festival with lots of craft vendors, live music, vegetarian food, drum circles, solar panels, improvisational dancing, and it is lots of fun; a mini Woodstock if you will. Of course there will be lots of tie-dye being sold [...]

The Upcycled Fingerless Gloves

By popular demand, here are the fingerless gloves with the stockings.  They where made with the extra sleeve ends by cutting a 1 inch snip about 1-1.5 inches down from the edging. I cut them so the seams of the sleeves ended up on the palm side. Now they are keeping my hands warm while [...]

Upcycled Sweater X-mas Stocking: A Tutorial

Well it is that time of year again, time to hang up those stocking in hopes that someone will come along in the middle of the night and fill them with goodies.
Last year I threw away the ratty acrylic $0.99 cent stockings my BF had promising that I would make new ones worthy of actually [...]