Recent Posts Tagged With 'diary of a textile crafter'

• Hop on a stone my friend...

  Posted on Friday December 18th, 2009 at 03:07 in sara's texture crafts, diary of a textile crafter

  Last night my little friend finally had something to sit on...- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone.See you soon, Sara x www.sarastexturecrafts.comFind out more about the company at www.SarasTextureCrafts.com...

• \'Tis finished!

  Posted on Friday December 18th, 2009 at 02:30 in sara's texture crafts, diary of a textile crafter, working with felt network, working with felt

  Just waiting for a tree to put it on!Then I can take a picture for http://workingwithfelt.ning.com and get that posted in our Christmas challenge!- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone.See you soon, Sara x www.sarastexturecrafts.comFind out more abo...

• Stocking is coming on...

  Posted on Tuesday December 15th, 2009 at 12:53 in sara's texture crafts, diary of a textile crafter, working with felt

  I've just finished my base colour layer...Along with some holly.- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone.See you soon, Sara x www.sarastexturecrafts.comFind out more about the company at www.SarasTextureCrafts.com...

• Features tonight!

  Posted on Monday December 14th, 2009 at 14:19 in sara's texture crafts, diary of a textile crafter

  Starting to sculpt my little friend's features tonight.- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone.See you soon, Sara x www.sarastexturecrafts.comFind out more about the company at www.SarasTextureCrafts.com...

• Working with felt challenge Christmas Stockings

  Posted on Friday December 11th, 2009 at 10:42 in sara's texture crafts, diary of a textile crafter, working with felt network, working with felt

  I'm hosting this month's challenge on working with felt at http://workingwithfelt.ning.com/ So I'm starting my very own stocking entry.I'm using Norwegian batt from my Etsy shop at http://sarastexturecrafts.etsy.com/ to create my needle felt base.- P...

• A moment to play...

  Posted on Wednesday December 9th, 2009 at 14:55 in sara's texture crafts, diary of a textile crafter

  I think I was feeling a bit fraustrated at not being able to spin on Monday, so even though it's 8 o'clock... Out came the wheel.And I actually think I'm improving. I had a lot less problem with my joins and wasted much less fibre to recard... Yay! N...

• I\'m all put away!

  Posted on Tuesday December 8th, 2009 at 11:52 in etsy, sara's texture crafts, diary of a textile crafter

  My wonderful spinning wheel hasn't seen the light recently...So I'm no further with spinning myself some hand painted Shetland yarn... roving sold at http://sarastexturecrafts.etsy.com/ ... :(Maybe I'll get a bit of time over Christmas... Let's face ...

• My little friend is chilling out!

  Posted on Sunday December 6th, 2009 at 14:42 in sara's texture crafts, diary of a textile crafter

  Just watching the tv with me.- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone.See you soon, Sara x www.sarastexturecrafts.comFind out more about the company at www.SarasTextureCrafts.com...

• My little friend sat up last night!

  Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 07:40 in sara's texture crafts, diary of a textile crafter

  He's now got a bit more colour in his skin too!- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone.See you soon, Sara x www.sarastexturecrafts.comFind out more about the company at www.SarasTextureCrafts.com...

• Knitted scarf is coming on!

  Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 13:16 in sara's texture crafts, diary of a textile crafter

  I've finished knitting it, but need to decide on the next stage. Last time I posted about the knitting, one of my blogging friends suggested some decoration and I agree...So I knitted a fan on each end of the scarf. The idea is that I will have an ar...

• Say hello to my little friend!

  Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 12:40 in sara's texture crafts, diary of a textile crafter

  He started out as an idea from a dream and took shape in pipe cleaner form (you can find these in my eBay shop)... While I watched tv.Then I started the body with a small selection of my Norwegian batts (available in my etsy shop).I won't get chance ...

• Limited Edition Carded Batts on Etsy!

  Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 12:29 in shopping, etsy, sara's texture crafts, diary of a textile crafter, shopping grab, diary of a fibre supplier

  My range of carded batts seems to be doing quite well, so I had myself a carding day not so long ago and my results are now part of my new LIMITED EDITION pieces on Etsy.I have got 6 already listing tonight and 6 to follow.Please do pop over and see ...

• Back to work tomorrow

  Posted on Thursday November 12th, 2009 at 11:05 in shopping, sara's texture crafts, diary of a textile crafter, diary of a fibre supplier

  Yep, feeling a lot better... Just so tired! I will be back to work tomorrow and will start shipping on Saturday morning. Thanks for all of your warm wishes while I was off.- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone. See you soon, Sara x www.sarastexture...

• Knitting...

  Posted on Tuesday November 10th, 2009 at 11:07 in diary of a textile crafter

  I've picked up some knitting I started a while ago, only managed a few rows before I gave it up... So tired today. I thought I'd show you though, because I'm in love with the colours!It's an Ashford's yarn I'm testing it for the shop.... Lovely isn't...

• Extending the week off...

  Posted on Tuesday November 10th, 2009 at 09:03 in shopping, sara's texture crafts, diary of a textile crafter, diary of a fibre supplier

  I've been told to stay home 'til Friday so I'll be posting now on Friday or probably Saturday when D is home to help. Sorry folks for the delay, if this causes anyone any problems do give me shout through the shops and I'll help sort something out.Ju...

• Testing my new phone app

  Posted on Monday November 2nd, 2009 at 14:42 in diary of a textile crafter, diary of a fibre supplier

  So here I am just checking my new phone app. Let's see if it works... :)You should be seeing a recent picture of me and D.- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone. See you soon, Sara x www.sarastexturecrafts.comFind out more about the company at www.S...

• My personal piece for the International Day of Felt

  Posted on Monday October 26th, 2009 at 02:02 in sara's texture crafts, diary of a textile crafter, art and craft projects

  Excuse how windswept I look, it was quite cold back on October 3rd... the International Day of Felt. I just wanted to show you my personal Day of Felt piece... the butterfly. The butterfly can be worn as both a brooch or a hair pin.My orginal idea wa...

• Playing with colour in Spinning

  Posted on Friday October 16th, 2009 at 01:17 in sara's texture crafts, diary of a textile crafter

  I did a little more spinning, this time I wanted to play with colour as well as keep an eye on those spinning tensions. Here they are; This is some hand dyed Merino, using a new all-in-one dye stuff which I will be selling shortly. This is a commerci...

• Knitting with my set yarn...

  Posted on Tuesday October 13th, 2009 at 23:56 in diary of a textile crafter

  I used my biggest needles... size 15mm, as the singles were really quite chunky in places and I was thinking that it would help me to see how consistent I had been with my spinning... or not!Now the green and pink and you remember was spun on my spin...

• International Day of Felt is tomorrow!

  Posted on Friday October 2nd, 2009 at 12:51 in diary of an art piece, sara's texture crafts, art and craft exhibitions, diary of a textile crafter

  The Felt United Team is showing their work on the Ilkley Felt Trail, Saturday 3rd October 2009.If you are going, please print out the flyer below.Enjoy!Sara xhttp://www.sarastexturecrafts.com/Find out more about the company at www.SarasTextureCrafts....

• Merry go Around: So what is my next chapter?

  Posted on Thursday September 24th, 2009 at 21:39 in diary of a textile crafter, merry go round, diary of a fibre supplier

  This month we are writing about what our next chapter is...I had to take a moment to think about this, it's been a constantly changing year so to define my next chapter isn't quiet as easy as I thought it might be at first. I have long term plans and...

• So how's the spinning going Sara?

  Posted on Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 at 23:26 in diary of a textile crafter

  Not too badly, truth be told... it sure is a learning curve though! So much more technical than feltmaking, well as technical as you want it to be really and you know me sometimes I get caught up in the technical and I loose my original creativity......

• Felted Vessel Challenge

  Posted on Wednesday June 10th, 2009 at 11:17 in sara's texture crafts, diary of a textile crafter, working with felt

  Felted VesselOriginally uploaded by Sara's Texture CraftsThis is my felted vessel for the Working with Felt challenge... I started with Baby Pink Merino which you can find in the supply shop at http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Saras-Texture-Crafts and then f...

• May's Merry go Around...

  Posted on Friday May 29th, 2009 at 00:00 in diary of a textile crafter, merry go round

  Our question this month is... Did you think you'd be doing what you re doing now (craft/selling) say 5 years ago? What has surprised you the most?Five years ago... 2004, I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar... hey no that's not right!... co...

• Learning something new: Space Dyeing Wool in the microwave! Update!

  Posted on Sunday April 5th, 2009 at 23:48 in sara's texture crafts, diary of a textile crafter, diary of a fibre supplier

  All dry now... the colours look lovely! I used Heather and Coral.Now I need to think of something to make with them to test the colour fastness in wet feltmaking and then it's off to plan my new range of dye kits and supplies for the shop!Sara xVisit...

• Learning something new: Space Dyeing Wool in the microwave!

  Posted on Thursday April 2nd, 2009 at 02:00 in sara's texture crafts, diary of a textile crafter, diary of a fibre supplier

  In the corner of the kitchen sits a fibre junkie, with a fibre dying book in one hand, a note pad and pen in the other... a strange daze has come across her, but she seems happy enough... no doubt planning what shade she will be dyeing her hands toda...

• Learning to Nuno Felt with Working with Felt... Update!

  Posted on Wednesday April 1st, 2009 at 00:31 in sara's texture crafts, diary of a textile crafter, working with felt

  You might remember my recent post on the learning challenge we have going at Working with Felt... well here's a few close up shots of my next attempts. This is Merino on hand dyed cotton gauze.And this is Merino on Silk. I'm still working on the fina...

• Learning to Nuno Felt with Working with Felt

  Posted on Tuesday March 24th, 2009 at 02:37 in diary of a textile crafter, working with felt

  I've been working away at trying some new techniques for feltmaking and at Working with Felt the community has been pulling together to help teach each other as part of our new challenges... That's what I love about the on-line craft community we're ...

• Learning to Card my fibres...

  Posted on Friday March 13th, 2009 at 01:33 in diary of a textile crafter

  I promised myself that this year, I would try and learn a few new things and carding fibres is one of them... I love the idea of blending fibre bases and colours you see... never satisfied with just plain Merino, I thought carding might help my felt ...

• Spinning myself in knots!

  Posted on Saturday March 7th, 2009 at 01:07 in diary of a textile crafter

  Ok, here's a picture of what I did so far... I'm using a top whorl spindle and a Merino and Wensleydale blend I carded... I only made a small rolag of fibre, just to test my first attempt.I think my spinning was too fast in some areas and too little ...