Yea it has been forever since i was last on here i know! but so much has been going on in my life both good and a little bad but there are a few huge things. like learning finally how to spin. yay!
Which means by wool and spinning fiber stash has grown and i am not trying to sell a lot of that as well as my crochet items. i wish i had more time to chat but sorry have to run to clean more of the fleece i just got.
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Monday, April 11, 2011
Erraven's Addiction
My heart sinks but i do not let the tears show, do not let my gaurd down. The pain that should not be their stabs threw my heart and soon i am i mess. I should have none better then to dream, then to hope. but i do not let it show i lie and fake my way threw to the other side.
Oh well i'll just keep my head down, my dreams closed, my heart locked away now as i throw myself into my work again.
Oh well i'll just keep my head down, my dreams closed, my heart locked away now as i throw myself into my work again.
Friday, April 8, 2011
Stash Monster
Is it something about me or is it every knitting/crocheting crazy person that has the huge stashes. Oh that stash monster has me in it's grips and wont let go. But i must admit not all the yarn is just mine and i did not buy it all. Though i am guilty of adding to it.
The stash monster i am now sitting in the middle of does not look to bad... that is until you count. I have over 200 different skeins of yarn. Yes i said over 200 because i have not done a count in some times. How did i get this much. Well most is thanks to my grandmother who i love dearly. She is why i started to knit. I saw her doing it at around 9-10 years old and wanted to do it to. Sadly she lived to far away to learn from her but another elder woman in my church was happy to teach me and my younger sister to knit.
But over time i lost interest and even when we went up to my grandmothers and helped her redo a room, her yarn room, none the less. She had bags... I MEAN BAGS. like garbage bags of unwanted yarn and we gladly took them and stored it not to see the light of day.
That was until i took up crocheting and needed the yarn. I blew the dust off the boxes and brought down four large totes of yarn cracked it open to find.... Some very interesting things. some yarns i think are older then me or my mother. Even ravelry has a hard time finding the yarn. But also newer ones that are now discontinued but look so beautiful it breaks my heart i can not buy more.
So yes I do have a lot of yarn, but even worse i can not help but make a weekly trip, when fam is out grocery shopping i go to the craft stores. walking around getting lost in colors, and feel of yarns. Fighting with my inter self not to add another skein to my growing stash but the idea of having a new color or brand, or feel to my stash brings me so much joy I just have to pick it up and put it in my basket.
Will this need ever stop... do I want it to stop... maybe not maybe deep down I am very proud of all my yarn and having the ability to just walk up stairs and get what ever my heart wants.
The stash monster i am now sitting in the middle of does not look to bad... that is until you count. I have over 200 different skeins of yarn. Yes i said over 200 because i have not done a count in some times. How did i get this much. Well most is thanks to my grandmother who i love dearly. She is why i started to knit. I saw her doing it at around 9-10 years old and wanted to do it to. Sadly she lived to far away to learn from her but another elder woman in my church was happy to teach me and my younger sister to knit.
But over time i lost interest and even when we went up to my grandmothers and helped her redo a room, her yarn room, none the less. She had bags... I MEAN BAGS. like garbage bags of unwanted yarn and we gladly took them and stored it not to see the light of day.
That was until i took up crocheting and needed the yarn. I blew the dust off the boxes and brought down four large totes of yarn cracked it open to find.... Some very interesting things. some yarns i think are older then me or my mother. Even ravelry has a hard time finding the yarn. But also newer ones that are now discontinued but look so beautiful it breaks my heart i can not buy more.
So yes I do have a lot of yarn, but even worse i can not help but make a weekly trip, when fam is out grocery shopping i go to the craft stores. walking around getting lost in colors, and feel of yarns. Fighting with my inter self not to add another skein to my growing stash but the idea of having a new color or brand, or feel to my stash brings me so much joy I just have to pick it up and put it in my basket.
Will this need ever stop... do I want it to stop... maybe not maybe deep down I am very proud of all my yarn and having the ability to just walk up stairs and get what ever my heart wants.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Erraven's Addiction - Whats going on
been a while since i posted and that is do to the crazyness going on here. I got my spinning wheel and Carders the middle of last week and so have been going mad over learning both new skills and it is so fun. I am suprised how carding is so much fun and i coulf spend all day dying wool, carding it and seeing what comes out. But in teh futer I might like spinning more.
Over that I made a baby blanket that should be in the store as soon as i make a few last touches. I am getting my stash all out and neatly put into a spot. Also winding up balls into cakes and snippets and ends. Maybe they too will end up in my shop. The tangled messes beyond repair are being cut down into flowers to be sold or used.
What else, oh yea and i am making three scarfs for mothers day two for my BF's mother and step mother and one for my own mother.
I got a lovely shipment of hand made soap off of etsy and once i can type it here i will be. I can never remember how to spell it off the top of my head but the soaps are amazing like always.
I got an order for some older supplies i was selling and shipped them out only to have another made to order go out on my hanging stork pouch - photo prop today. Stitches and Bitches was tonight and that is always a lot of fun. Watched my sister who likes the knitting more then crocheting learn to make socks and got to talk to a very cool lady who owns a whole stuidio of weaving looms, and spinning wheels just down the street from me. She was so nice teaching my sister to knit socks like she did.
Thats about it I am planing once my brother comes down and makes my lil pinkie all pretty to post pics and have a contest to pick a name for him. Crossing fingers.
OH and thursday get to go watch some sheep be sheared ^^ to later by their raw wool and hopefully sell in my shop. Hopping to talk more with this woman and try and learn a lot from her so one day I too can own sheep.
Over that I made a baby blanket that should be in the store as soon as i make a few last touches. I am getting my stash all out and neatly put into a spot. Also winding up balls into cakes and snippets and ends. Maybe they too will end up in my shop. The tangled messes beyond repair are being cut down into flowers to be sold or used.
What else, oh yea and i am making three scarfs for mothers day two for my BF's mother and step mother and one for my own mother.
I got a lovely shipment of hand made soap off of etsy and once i can type it here i will be. I can never remember how to spell it off the top of my head but the soaps are amazing like always.
I got an order for some older supplies i was selling and shipped them out only to have another made to order go out on my hanging stork pouch - photo prop today. Stitches and Bitches was tonight and that is always a lot of fun. Watched my sister who likes the knitting more then crocheting learn to make socks and got to talk to a very cool lady who owns a whole stuidio of weaving looms, and spinning wheels just down the street from me. She was so nice teaching my sister to knit socks like she did.
Thats about it I am planing once my brother comes down and makes my lil pinkie all pretty to post pics and have a contest to pick a name for him. Crossing fingers.
OH and thursday get to go watch some sheep be sheared ^^ to later by their raw wool and hopefully sell in my shop. Hopping to talk more with this woman and try and learn a lot from her so one day I too can own sheep.
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