Beads n fibers

coffee cozies

2011-08-08T18:36:00.000-07:00

I have been working on coffee cozies. The yarn I use insulates the coffee cup so that you don't burn your hands.

knit and crochet purses

2011-01-08T08:14:00.000-08:00

New year new projects: Crochet purse and cell phone covers

I am going to post them here on my blog.

This is made with 2 yarns. Mohair blend and a thick yarn. The button is green stone. The purse is 10 x 10.

$25

I do take payment with pay pal. as beadnfibers@yahoo.com

I will have another one soon that will be totally felted. I will post it when it's done.

Dish cloths for a cure

2008-10-04T10:32:00.000-07:00

I am making dish cloth sets to raise money for the Kitsap county's relay for life in May 2009.

Once I have some ready to sell I will put up payment information here.

Thank you for helping me raise money for relay for life.

Knitting for Raidan

2008-03-02T12:52:00.000-08:00

The yarn on the top is blueberry pie and that is what I am making with the cute pattern above for Raidan.

Then I found this cute shirt for Raidan so I decided to get some matching cotton yarn to make her a skirt to go with it.

I love making stuff for her to wear.

crochet dish cloth

2008-02-17T10:54:00.000-08:00

First I would like to thank Ellen for telling me how to start this project. Some times I have a hard time visualizing how something works. She took the time to call me to tell me what I needed to do to start it.

Then I went to crochet pattern central to find an easy/quick towel topper pattern that did not need a button as I could not find my buttons.

So this is what I came up with last night. I have one more to finish then these are going to my daughter Dawn for her birthday tomorrow.

So till then shhhhhh no telling!

2008-02-11T20:45:00.000-08:00

This is the 1st knitting I have done with something I have spun up on my kiwi. It is going to be Dawn's birthday present.

spun up

2008-02-02T19:18:00.001-08:00

This is what I have on the bobbin from the Corridale batt I picked up last week end at Allyn knit shop. I am going to enjoy knitting this as much as I did spinning it.

Spinning on my kiwi

2008-01-30T15:01:00.000-08:00

This is my progress with spinning on my Kiwi. The muli-colored bobbin is my 1st time spinning a whole bobbin full. Then last night I sat down again and spun up some more. It is getting where it actually looks like yarn! I do plan on making up swatches of each of these so I can see my progress as I spin more.

corridale batt for spinning

2008-01-27T22:04:00.001-08:00

I went to Allyn knit shop today to pick out some wool to spin. This picture does not quite show all the colors as they are but it was the best out of 4 pictures.

It goes from a light cream to reddish brown to some brown in it. I felt like I got a pretty good deal on it. Lois told me that if I want more after I spin this up she has more for me ;)

I also met up with Robin who lives out that way. I think she has some socks in her future LOL

More later when I get some of it spun up.

Easter bunny for Raidan

2008-01-20T14:49:00.000-08:00

I am making my grand daughter Raidan Aiko the amigurumi bunny for Easter. This is what I have so far. The head, I am using sugar & cream pink varigated yarn. I am thinking of making the legs, arms and ears in pink then use some fuzzy white yarn I have for the tail. I can't just follow the directions noooooo I gotta tweak it some so it looks different.

Update on Cadbury

2008-01-14T08:34:00.000-08:00

Our poor little Cadbury got real sick from a parasite. So Cadbury is staying with Kim at Blessed farm, she is helping the poor sick bunny get better with her special TLC. Another thing is Cadbury is a she not a he. This is really hard to say she not he.

Anyways those of you who are bunny lovers please send Cadbury healing bunny thoughts.

Whisper bunny

2008-01-06T20:48:00.001-08:00

Updated picture 1/20

Whisper is our newest bunny from Kim at Blessed farm in Tahuya, Wa

She is a blue eye english angora at 4 month old she is a beautiful girl.

She is very sweet to groom as she just lets me do what needs to be done.

She loves to be petted as she nudges my hand to let me know it is time to be petted.

I am looking forward to the day that we breed her.

A new year

2008-01-04T08:40:00.000-08:00

Happy new years, I hope everyone had a great holiday season

I wanted to share some things that my Mom sent in her package to us for Christmas.

The crochet bear and doll were made for my Sister by my Grandmother. My Mom had saved them so she sent them for Raidan to have. Mom saved a few of the things that Grandma made for us and as Raiden grows older she is going to send them to her.
So for my 1st project of the year in the tradition of my Grandmother I want to make a crochet animal for Raidan. Not sure what yet........if any one has any ideas let me know.

Morello and Lily

2007-12-23T23:59:00.000-08:00

I have had Morello and Lily since Septmeber 27 th. They are turning into some beautiful jersey wooly's. They are both molting but Lily has seem to give me the most wool of the 2

skin on frame kayaks

2007-12-23T13:52:00.001-08:00

Dave spent a little more than a month building our skin on frame boats. I asked him to add the yin yang dragons to mine on the bow.

Dave in his boat

Me in my boat

Happy holidays everyone

New bunny

2007-12-21T17:43:00.000-08:00

Meet Cadbury bunny, he is a 8 week old chocolate tort english angora

He is such a sweet little guy. I got him from Kim at Blessed farm in Tahuya, Wa

Grand kids

2007-12-16T17:20:00.004-08:00

Here is Keegan age 4 with his sister Raidan age 16 months, taken with their Aunty Amy

Our tree

2007-12-15T20:57:00.000-08:00

This is our tree this year.....I know there are no presents under the tree but I have small grand kids who might rip into them before they are suppose to open them. I put it up last week end now I have to get to my holiday cards.

Button, button what a beautiful button!

2007-12-09T11:14:00.000-08:00

I realized that the pictures I took of the camera case did not really show how beautiful that button was so I took close up pictures of it this morning. (My camera is awesome in the macro setting)

Knitting projects and new camera

2007-12-08T17:39:00.001-08:00

I bought a canon power shot camera A570 last week so we could take pictures of the race as well as holiday pictures.

So now I can send the great grand parents pictures of our grand kids.

Above is the cover I made for the camera so the strap can stick out. It is really thick yarn so it should pad it pretty well. I had finished my Mom's scarf from christmas with the same yarn while we were at the pass last week end so now I can send it to her in Calif.

Deception pass dash Dec 2nd

2007-12-08T16:38:00.000-08:00

Race

registration

8 am

The race begins at 9:45

Beautiful sunset at the pass

We were up at Deception pass for the 2nd annual pass dash. We arrived on Friday afternoon so we went for a paddle in Bowman bay till we could park our trailer in our camp site. Then off to get the skin for our skin on frame boats Dave is making. The sunset above was from Friday night.

Saturday morning we woke up to snow on the ground and some rain with wind tossed in there from time to time. In the afternoon a few people arrived for the week end. After they got back from a paddle we all went out to dinner at Deception pass cafe. There was about 20 of us with just one waitress. I have to say she did a great job and got tipped well. We just felt bad for the non paddle people who came in while we were all there as this is a small cafe.

Sunday morning everyone slowly gets up to get ready for the race. We had cinnamon rolls which Cathy popped in cuz she smelled something yummy. Once the race began there was food to get ready for the hungry paddlers. There was a lot of wind on the course that they had to deal with so they needed to be warmed up and fed. By the time the race was over there was concern over the wind so we left as we did not want to get caught in the worse part of the storm coming. We made it home within 3 hours.

Spinning wheel for me

2007-11-14T14:26:00.000-08:00

I finally finished my ashford kiwi and put it together. Last night I tried spinning on it so now I have some over spun yarn. I got picture of the yarn on the bobbin so you can see my maroon yarn I spun the other night. The twist has relaxed some.

Books for sale

2007-10-22T23:31:00.000-07:00

I have the following books for sale

Knitting

Sally Melville's Book 3: Color
The power and the glory
New book $20

Vogue knitting Chunky scarves & hats on the go
Some scratches on the cover $8

Leigh Radford's One Skein
30 quick projects to knit
New book $18

Beading

Lynda Musante's
Exquisite beaded jewelry
Like new condition $15

Bethany Barry's Bead Crochet
Like new condition $18

Shipping will be added with total
I take pay pal and money orders

email is beadnfibers@yahoo.com

2007-10-17T23:03:00.000-07:00

Here are a few pictures of the fiber festival in Sequim on Oct 6th.

This was the demo area. Where there were looms such as the triangle loom which I have never seen one till then. We got to spend time with those sweet alpaca's which I took home some of their wool ( Thanks Illaya)

We spent 3 to 4 hours there checking out everyone displays and the demos. We then went over to "Drop stitch yarn shop" Very nice store just too bad I spent most of my money at the fiber fest and the open air market! We went back to Illaya's home and my time spent there was just too short but it was fun!

The next day was my sock yarn dye class with Amelia. I learned quite a bit and met some new people.

I plan on going again next year.

Copper fantasy for sale

2007-09-19T15:40:00.000-07:00

I am going thru my bead work that I have made thru the last few years as I have made up a few things that I don't wear so I am going to post them here for sale.

This is a beaded rope with a blister pearl that has fresh water dangles.

I would like to sell it for $35
I take pay pal & money orders

Please leave a comment or email me at beadnfibers@yahoo.com

Thank you, Helaine

Jersey Wooly rabbits

2007-09-18T18:03:00.000-07:00

Lily

and

Morello

I am excited to say that I am going to be welcoming a doe and buck jersey wooly rabbit's into our home as our starter pair for our rabbitry.

We have decided to name our rabbitry

"Raidan's bunny hutch"

Amy and I will be breeding and showing them.

Angora wool

2007-09-10T15:01:00.000-07:00

Last week I happen to go past a sign that said herbs, plants and spinning supplies. That is all it takes to get me to check it out "herbs, plants and spinning" LOL

By the time I got done at the shop I came home with some calendula soap and some unspun angora wool. It is sooooo soft and it had been dyed blue. I found some slickers to comb it with so I can set about spinning on my spindle.

This got me thinking how I would like to have my own bunnie to have as a pet as well as for the wool. This would give me a way to come up with my own yarn spun from my own pet. So I have been researching raising angora rabbit's and joined a angora yahoo group so I can learn about them.

What I am working on

2007-09-07T21:45:00.000-07:00

After I finished my neighbor's fingerless mittens. I started a scarf using lion brand landscapes yarn for Dave. It is about half way done now. I got this yarn because the colors match the fleece hat I bought him a few years ago.

Raidan is "1"

2007-08-22T12:42:00.000-07:00

August 16th was her birthday and this is what she looked like before and after tackling her birthday cake!

North Olympic Fiber festival

2007-08-21T21:23:00.000-07:00

The 1st week end of October I am going to the North Olympic Fiber Festival in Sequim, Wa. I am excited because I am going to take a class on Sunday for dyeing sock yarn. Which I have been wanting to learn how to dye wool so this will be a fun class for me.

http://fiberartsfestival.org/dyeing_for_socks.html

Fire in Olalla

2007-08-17T21:01:00.000-07:00

Today Olalla is in the news. So far more than 5 acres have burned between Mullenix and Carriage. The latest is that it is almost controlled but they have fire crew and the sherrif dept down here on our road to keep watch as the woods that is near us is part of the DNR forrest that is burning.

PS: I read that the fire burned 10 acres but no homes were damaged.

Here is a link to the news video

http://www.king5.com/video/index.html?nvid=167677&shu=1

Spinning on Knitty Gritty

2007-08-15T07:54:00.000-07:00

Yea! I was flipping the channels around and found that Knitty Gritty was on. They had the editor of Spin off magazine there along with spinners with wheels and spindles. My DH was LOL cuz I had this smile on my face cuz I found it. Now I want to break out my spindle but I have so many other things I have to do before I can do that like finish off a couple birthday presents for this month and bead some felted balls.

Welcome Purely Alpaca

2007-08-13T18:29:00.000-07:00

Ok, I have done it. I signed up with Purely Alpaca to be a new affiliate for them. They have a beauitful line of yarns so check out the link on the left for them.

Baby skirt

2007-08-13T07:01:00.000-07:00

My Grand baby is going to be 1 on the 16th of this month. So I have knitted up a skirt for her. Today I will be finishing it off. I can't wait to actually see it on her other than holding it up to see if it is long enough. There will be a picture added here in a few days. So check back to see her wearing it :)

All that work

2007-08-09T21:51:00.001-07:00

I had spent part of the day working on blog ring buttons. I had about 4 or 5 of them all set up. I thought I did a good job but somewhere along the way I deleted them ugh!!!

So you would think it would be easy to get them back right??? I went to the ring site then signed in but it kept saying that there is no member with that name and password. Soooo I sent for the info so I could log in to get them all back again. The email arrives and it gives me the same info I had been putting in. So go figure that one huh?

I did that the other day with my blog links so I just put them back up yea!!!!

I got a deal

2007-08-08T17:38:00.000-07:00

Today I was out in Silverdale to meet with my friend Illaya while she had a Doctor appointment.
Anyways after we parted I went to Joann's looking for the spin off magazine. Of course they were out and I guess I have to wait till the next one comes out. Anyone know when that is?

I wandered over to the yarn to see what they had on sale. Boy did they have a good deal! I got lion brand landscapes yarn in spring desert for .97 cents vs the regular price of $6.99. Of course they only had 1 color so I bought 4 skeins, 2 will be to make the scarf pattern on the band. The other 2 I will use to make up knitted coffee and needle cozies.

Did I score or what?????

Felted coffee cozy

2007-08-06T22:41:00.000-07:00

I am one of those people who burns easy so I have to have one of those cardboard things on my coffee cup.

So I decided to make one up for my cup. I used lion brand wool yarn using the hdc crochet stitch . then tossing in the wash to felt it.

I enjoy it keeping my hands heat free and it is colorful too.

Knitting needles

2007-08-06T13:15:00.000-07:00

These are some needles I made up last year with dpn's. I got the idea after reading a book on modular knitting. I got these beautiful beads from a swap so I paired them up with the bamboo dpn's to make 7" needles.

Felting 101

2007-07-30T08:30:00.000-07:00

On the Left is a picture of what I now call my fuzzy brain. It all started out as a ruffled coffee cozy like the blue one on the right. I thought I was following the directions on the pattern right but I ended up using a whole skein of yarn. It was one big ruffle so I tossed it into the wash machine. It came out looking like this so I was showing my family and we all thought hey it looks like a brain so that is why it is now known as "My fuzzy brain".

So I got to work making up my own version of the coffee cozy so the blue cozies on the right turned out a lot better and I did not use a whole skein to make them. The one with the ruffle is mine and the one without is for my husband Dave.

I am now working on a beaded version of the coffee cozy to be posted soon. I can't wait to see what they look like once they have been felted.

Drop spindle

2007-07-29T14:21:00.000-07:00

This is the drop spindle I had made for me by Jen at Crowhill House Fiberworks. I have used it a bit to make some nice looking singles. It is done in the om design she has many different designs she uses to paint on spindles and knitting needles.