Knitting and art

[scarybex]

On the knitting front, as I haven't posted about that in a while (mainly because I am still trying to finish my 'epic jumper of doom' and have decided I hate long projects).

I have become fascinated with the lovely home spun wools that you can buy online. This is stuff spun from raw materials on a wheel and mixed together, and hand dyed to create really artistic raw materials! Obviously the side effect of it being labour intensive is a higher price, which is a bit prohibitive for me to be buying often. I shall give you some examples of things I'm liking (interesting if you like pretty things or are a bit arty/crafty minded)

Gothic knitting stuff




Swiss wool


wild strawberries

Cooking insired


Seashore

Comments

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I still miss my colinette wool hair extensions. I should get some more. I like the wool with the bobbly strawberry looking things on them (not for hair extensions though!)

[scarybex.livejournal.com]

I made some Colinette ones once, in pink and black to sell. I am such a magpie, I love bright colours and shiny things. I would so wear something strawberry festooned!

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I fancy a big blanket made of the gothy stuff at the top. That would be fab. Where do you get the yarns from?

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Etsy for that one (link is one the name) but I'm weird and hang around knitting forums so I see some cute stuff there too.