Wild life

Tasmanian Devils

Wombats

an echidna

Koala   (oops no that is Martyn)

Trip to town For the christmas parade

Saturday night he headed in to 

town  (by bikes as last year we could not 

get the car close as all streets were blocked of )

But before going I added a bit of tree decorations

to our bikes and we wore out christmas shirts

BlueRobot Robot Scarf

The other day I showed the scarf that i had 

made on the loopdeloom . After doing that 

one I thought now can I use the loopdeloom to 

do  a scarf  with picture on it  and well as it 

was not as simple as the plain blue one it 

was soo cool to make .

(made with store brought yarn)

Poppies knitted

On the website 5000 Poppies HERE

they are trying to get wool poppies from people all 

over Australia  and I thought I would do my part 

So I got out my Matel Barbie knitter and 

made nine of them 

First I will show my knitter

(mine is older than the ones they brought out for matel and does 

not have matel on it at all )

And now my poppies

Christmas Tree OH Christmas tree !

OK  now I can show my Christmas card 

for this year . 

I was a bit distracted this year with pop up cards/books,

embroidery machine and then Spinning machines.

that when it came to late november that I had not even thought about 

the Christmas cards from us this year . Then we had on Wednesday 

morning the Shopping catalogs "YUNK MAIL" arrive 

and Neal was reading them and then said to me  "Susan 

this is you this is a Susan Style " Handing me a picture out 

of one of them . and said "this should be your Christmas

card this year "

being slice form, it was it was cool so I set out to design it 

in Make the cut 

and HERE is the result of what i came up with

 AND how to make in Make the cut you can view 

on this webinar HERE

And this is what inspired it all

 

Peg loom (loopdeloom) Scarf Blue

When I got the spinning wheel I promissed that I 

would use some of the stash of store brought wool

I had in the house as well . So I went looking for 

a "Peg loom" and on the search to find a peg loom 

that I would be happy with. I came across a kids 

toy called "loopdeloom" and of corse I had to have 

some of them (brought two as they join together to make 

wider projects). And here is the first scarf I made on it .

First the loopdeloom

And my first project (will not be my last this 

took me about 30 minutes to weave)

First weaving project (pink Scarf)

Not only have I gotten some Spinning wheels this past

couple of months but I have also gotten a Weaving loom

(only had kids toy ones before ) and this is the first real 

weaving project i have done in over 25 years.

I used store brought wool 

 Even managed a little pattern on each end of the scarf

Spinning a Kris Kringle

Now I have finished my christmas cards 

and they are all on there way around the world .

It then came time to think about what to do 

for our Christmas lunch yesterday 

(for the spinning wheel group that i meet with on Thursdays )

We had to bring a Kris Kringle present.

As my spinning is still in the learning stage I though 

what was I going to make for the present .

And then I had a thought that I would buy a glass jar and 

etch it with the spinning wheel and fill with lollies.

Then I thought I know I will do an 

embroidered towel. Now I had to take my design that 

I had drawn in Make the Cut and into my 

embroidery software and convert it to a 

stitch file ( added more to the embroidery file like 

the wool)

And here is what i came up with .

(all the spinning wheel embroidery paterns I had seen 

on the net were not what i wanted it to look like )

 And here is what it looked like in the box