Girly and Pink

My wares for the flea are looking quite girly these days and I'm totally into it! Most of these are from two Fleas ago and long gone... but some are still available!




(sold!)








(sold!)

Many thanks to all who braved the rain in the early hours of yesterdays Flea. It meant so much to sell even just a few items, huddled under the tent and our umbrellas! Then, when the sun broke through, so many lovely faces! Thank you for coming out and thank you for your purchases and sweet comments! It perked me up to no end at a much needed time!

This group of friends met up with each other right in front of my booth and I just had to take their photo. Look at how beautifully their outfits coordinate!

Knitting for miles...

I've often stopped to wonder, just how many miles I've knit. Maybe someday I'll do the math and count up all the yarn used for my various projects to see how far my hands ave traveled. I'd have to look at old pictures and guess, but I'm sure I could get a rough estimate. In the meantime, here's a sneak peak at the result of my current mileage:

Well, I didn't do my laundry as hoped since I was fresh out of cash and too lazy to go get some. Instead I decide I needed to start making a crochet blanket...? I find it strange that I picked these colors, I'm not usually a fan of blue, but somehow they work for me. I wanted it to be mostly white with a splash of color here and there. To me it has the effect of an old, worn out quilt bleached by the sun and you know I love that!


I'm basically just treating it as one big granny square. Eventually it'll get too big and then I'll probably start making smaller squares instead. I made those littler guys thinking I'd put them at the corners of this piece, quilt style, and then keep going.

I like the free form nature of crochet. I'm not going to plan too much with this, just kinda go and see what happens. On a big scale, I think it will look lovely.

Goodies in the mail...

Today I picked up two packages filled with treasures...

My mom has a lovely habit (which I love) of picking up things for me at yard sales and flea markets:

There's a vintage glass turkey baster, an old curling iron, a shoe polishing kit, a little box with cuff links in it and my favorite... a bunch of spools of woolen thread. There's just a few here, but more are on their way and I can't wait to make stuff with them! In fact I already have!!!

She's pretty good huh, that mom of mine. She's getting better and better at picking out not only the little dusty things I love, but materials that help me make my "stuff." Thanks MOM!!

One of the things I've started collecting are old picture frames. I don't like to spend too much money on them or have them be worth anything because I like the ones that have been around the block a few times better. My only other requirement is that they be smaller than a breadbox. Well, I've gotten bigger ones in the past for using in my craft booth, but mostly I like tiny. So, when I was home visiting I picked out a whole slew of them at the flea market and Mom sent those a long too. As I unpacked them, it erupted into a whole re-decorating frenzy. I created a new 'tiny things' collection above my bed, which is nice because it exhibits some great lace items I've been wanting to show off.


Those stockings are amazing. Tiny tiny cotton knit sockins that only cost me $2! I feel kind of bad because whoever priced them must not have known what they had, but at least I'm giving them a happy home. Sometime people don't get old items like this. They think of the cost of a new pair of socks and that it would be crazy to ask say, $10 for an old, used pair.

This pair might not have been knit by hand, but I can tell they've been darned a number of times, which means they were well loved and important to someone. Unlike the socks we buy for $2 a dozen and throw out with little thought, right?


Last, but not least, I got a little yarn package from Blue Sky with the colors for my next project...Yippee! I love them!

What I made today


That's right. It's a knitted mushroom necklace. I must have been inspired by all my nintendo playing in Maine... because I've been thinking about mushrooms a lot lately.

This little guy is wool with mohair spots and underbelly. (Not really sure what the under part is called on a mushroom!)He's about 3/4" on an 18" chain. Um, yeah, people will comment and you'll be super cute. Putting 3 in my ETSY store now!

The Life Aquatic

I'm kind of in love with sea creatures. The world underwater is such a mystery and it seems almost as if anything you imagine might be down in the dark there somewhere... I love the crazy electric colors, the translucency of jelly fish, the gracefull waving of anemones in the current and I want to try to recreate that somehow. I like the challenge of imagining and constructing my own slimy beasts. I've found that the yarn, on its own, gives a sense of structure and movement at the same time. I will, without a doubt, continue this exploration and employ all the techniques I can find to mimic those of the sea.

Feel free to send me your suggestions!

Urchin