Flower Gardening~Popular Pandemic Project

July has been somewhat of a busy blur! 

My blogging time has been setting up and stocking my Online Shopping Venue.

I put off trying any kind of marketing after closing Sue's Fiber Arts Studio

at The Chicken Farm Art Center.

Finally, I got my Home Studios and Myself together and Got-Er-Done!

Here are July's Shopping Posts

 

BAGS and TOTES

Serape Crossbody Bags

Big Button Rag Bag

Scrappy Stripes Plus

 

QUILT BLOCK and VINTAGE LINEN PILLOWS

Basket and Butterfly ~ Quilters Flower Garden

 

QUILT

1940'S Flower Garden

 

Coming Soon to Sue's Fiber Arts Online Shopping Venue

Vintage Hankies, Lace and Doily Runners!

I've been reading and hearing that Flower Gardening

 has become the number one COVID19 stress reliving activity during this pandemic.

What fun I've been having digging in my Flower Garden Fabric Bins!

Keep Calm and Weave On in June

Typically weaving with wool and wool blends is for winter months.  For sure they are winter wearables.  In my situation of thinking ahead for having an inventory to sell during the winter months weaving with wool in June makes sense.  It's like they say about Christmas...you know...Christmas in July. 

So, here I am in my home garage weaving studio with no AC weaving with wool. 

Thankfully, the mornings are cool, fans are blowing, and I am weaving away.  

And with all that is going on in the world...I'm going with this...

"Keep Calm and Weave On". 

I Felt Like Felting

I've had very little experience with felting, but it's been on my bucket list for awhile.  After sorting through several large bags of wool yarns, I came up with a basket full of scraps.

Most of the scraps were rolled into a yarn ball and were enough to make several passes on Bonda...knitting machine.  The smaller scraps were balled with bits of wool roving and made ready for dryer balls.

All of this scraping out wool was for a reason.  In the process of setting up my Home Weaving Studio, I came across a long forgotten book...The Chicks with Sticks Guide to Knitting.

Bingo...Inspiration on page 79.

The first two practice felted pieces were light to medium felted.  I wanted the knit stitches to show as well as the felting to be solid enough to be stable.  To add more stiffness to the case, I stitched in a stabilizer under the fabric liner. 

I think the next panels of knitted wool will need hotter water in the wash cycle for at least 20 minutes.  Then after the cold water rinse to set the felted fibers I'll toss in the dryer on high heat for a few minutes.  Next will come a bit of block shaping to finish drying.  Time to go experiment.

Felting is Fun...Glad I Felt Like Felting!