Behold! my stuff

Overall really happy with this one!

So after many hours of hand quilting it is finally finished and I now have room for all of my equipment!

So next time you are in your local emergency department, ask one of the doctors or nurses if you can steal some spare blood tubes!

Doing some fibre prep with my wool combs to use up all my beautiful blues pinks and purples, hopefully I have enough for a cardigan!

Pattern by Khuc Cay www.ravelry.com/designers/khuc-cay

Spun up 200g of dyed merino roving in a green/blue/purple colour way with patches of pink and yellow. It’s not my usual colour scheme but I kinda love it! I’m thinking of using it to make a hood for winter because beanies mess up my hair !!

I made this little bucket for my spinning wheel so I can keep bits and pieces handy and store excess fibre. It has a pocket on the front made from a cross stitch I made a while back, and the main bucket part is hand quilted. The top has a drawstring that can be folded down into the bucket, and the leather handle has a snap so it can be easily detached from the wheel.

Some more attempts at leather craft, the first green pouch and the yellow pouch were gifts for my sister, and the second green pouch is for my stitch markers. I’m loving the green dye, I mixed some blue and yellow together because I was not going to buy another bottle of dye when I can make the colour myself !!

I made this cozy jumper using Bendigo Woollen Mills tweed 8ply yarn and their pattern Pt 8503. The buttons are replicas of Bilbo Baggins’ from The Hobbit films, made by BarefootSewing.

This is my attempt at a granny square jumper. I didn’t really use a pattern, just made the 6-sided granny squares (granny hexagons??), added some length to the arms and torso as I am very tall, and then free-handed the border and cuffs in single crochet. It’s so heavy to wear as it’s pure wool from BWM but I love it!!

This particular project is near and dear to me, as it is the result of my first attempt processing a fleece (freshly shorn off the back of a merino sheep at the Sydney Easter Show!). It was so full of dirt and veg matter that it probably wasn’t the best for a beginner but I persevered and got enough clean carded wool to dye/spin/crochet into a scarf.

I won this fabric in a raffle and thought it was perfect for making big quilted pillows with. They are 55cm tall and wide so are nice and comfy. I made 2 of the yellow/blue/white and 4 of the red/blue/cream ones.

Hexagon quilted case for my knitting needles. Every part of this from the zipper to the end seams were all hand sewn, there was no sewing machine involvement!