All Sewn up

Do you recognise these?.... The fabrics were previously blogged over when they had left their dye baths here.

Now all sewn up and awaiting some photo styling we have long scarves and circle snood scarves...

Tricky ones to photograph, especially the leaf printed one, as some of the details are so light to capture!

I'm hoping to get some photo styling done very soon....the weather has not been very friendly to us this August and therefore is messing with our schedules !!

They shall appear in an online shop near you soon... styled or un-styled...

Knitted Goodness

From the Lissi knitting fairies....

Scarflette

Gloves

Wristlets

They will be listed in the Lissi shops soon!

We are also writing up the pattern for the scarflette and that will also be available soon.

'Who will buy...'

Yesterday was Lissi Naturally Dyed Products very first offical stall holding at Slaley Show in Northumberland.

The day went well and our stall produced a lot of interest....

The weather hadn't blessed us though and lots of fellow stallers were saying it wasn't as good a turn out as in previous years. It was a good experience as I knew from my set up that I would have benefitted from having more scarf stands and a professional banner.

I met various members of various guilds who have invited me to join them at their monthly meetings, and may teach me how to spin my own yarn! Lots of people picked up business cards and commented that they would have a look and keep us in mind for gift ideas.

All in all a good, yet wet and tiring day was had!

Located in the beautiful county of Northumberland, Slaley's annual country show is on Saturday 14th August 2010. Lissi Naturally Dyed Products will be holding a stall in the craft tent of all the latest products on offer including an exclusive of the long awaited dyed yarn that has been blogged about over the past couple of months.

A great day out for all the family. For more details about the show and how to get there please visit the Slaley Show website.

Would love to see you there!

Slaley

Hexham

Northumberland

NE47

From the pots...

...the dye pots that is!

Here is a selection of what I got up to with my dye pots the past weekend....

From the eucalyptus pot...

Eucalyptus leaves wrapped in silk and boiled to create a subtle print....

Silk wrap tie-dye and clipped with bull dog clips....

From the Sanders wood pot....

Scrumptious peachy Merino yarn....

Vibrant tie dyed silk....

Wish I didn't have to go to work and could stay home all day creating instead!!!

Local Talent....

I have been spending a bit of time trying to get to know my Etsy account better and all the links and extras on offer on the site.
I recently discovered that from adding my location to my profile and then clicking on the link that it brings up all the shops on Etsy that are in the same location as you....brilliant!

There were 45 shops in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK at the time of searching and below are just a handful for you all to visit...

Still Tree Jewellery

Sitting On The Wall

Paperfaerie

Dolls and Molls

Handy Little Me

This is just a small selection with big variation....please visit their shops !

Illustration

Taken from my portfolio for my university final major project....where Lissi began.

Photo merged with an ink drawing, edited in photoshop.

I haven't drawn in over a year.....

Camera Crisis Over!

Would you believe that I found our prescious camera in a place I looked several times?!?!....the car.
It wasn't there when I looked and out it popped the other day.
So at least we don't have to bother purchasing a new one....well for now anyway!

Colourful Yarn!

Finally i have dug out my camera!!!
It is still quite a good picture taker so I'm happy I had held on to it.
Below is a mass of colourful yarn I was busy dyeing a couple of weeks ago for you all to see....

All together...

Golden Rod - Pale Sage, Limes and Lemons

Madder - Two-Tone, Peachy and Bright Oranges

Eucalyptus - Peachy and Two-Tone with Madder

Logwood - Pale Greens, Burgundy, Navy and Dark Navy

It was really interesting too see how different methods produced such variations.

I have recruited a couple of knitters (my mum and my gran!) to make a couple of knitted items that I hope to add to my collections from Autumn, and I shall be trying to teach myself back into it as I haven't knitted since I was young!

I will be adding the skeins to my shops from September, they are dyed in batches of twos weighing approximately 100gms each. Dye methods are repeated but cannot always guarantee exact matching colours.

Please get in touch if you would like to request a colour from above or would like more information.

Kitten Gone Home

The cute kitten has returned to it's owner!
After being with us for a week and having no response to notices and enquiries we were starting to think we had now adopted her (much to Rosie's dismay!), but it was the other night when some kids passing my garden asked if i'd seen a missing dog so in return I asked about anyone missing a kitten, and they knew someone. It's amazing how many people kids can know! So off they went to fetch the owner and the little yappy cuteness was handed over.
'Tinkerbell' was her name.
Hopefully she'll watch where she wonders from now on.

Still no sign of my camera. Lost forever. I must start looking for another as product listings and experiments look really dull if you can't see them!

Oh, I thought I'd lost my mobile last night too. Well I did for five hours. It was later found in the shed?!

Kitchen has been demolished and is slowly being rebuilt. It was hard living without an oven and a freezer before, but now even harder without a washing machine and sink too!
It will be all in by the weekend hopefully, then there's the finishings to do......

Lost and Found....

Lost...

I have lost my camera :(
It was the O.H's degree show on Friday night and I remember taking pictures of his display then I don't know where I put it! My bag wasn't big enough to house it so it was separate and now we are separated. Sniff.
It was a lovely Olympus one that we got at a really good price.
I have another older one to use but it is tucked away in a box still somewhere so who knows when we'll find that one!

Found...

We have found a kitten!
It was hanging around for a long time on Sunday and later on I saw it being tossed out of someones garden just as a bus went by.
We went out to comfort it and after much debate we have taken her in, fed and watered her and reported her as found to local shelters but no news yet.
She is very cute, very vocal too but too small to be out, she can only be six months at the most.
Rosie of course is not happy and does not want to socialise with anyone except me!

I have been busy dyeing yarn in many colours; oranges, blues, trying for yellow but it seems a bit mellow(!) and greens....hopefully when I find a camera I can post you all some pictures :)

Craft stall in about six weeks and I have so much to do.
The kitchen has arrived and is being fitted next week.
Time is not my friend of late!!!!

Summer Solstice Sunset

Our view over the rooftops from the back bedroom gave host to this fiery night sunset. It was quite spectacular!

Sad to think now though that the nights are gonna be longer and the days will get shorter, and that Christmas is no that far away...maybe I shouldn't have said that out load just yet!

The First of Many...

...yarn dyeing experiements!

From the left over stems of eucalyptus I had from testing out the new eco prints as previously posted about I now have my first samples of dyed yarn.

A couple of lovely shades of burnt oranges on DK Merino yarn, created solely from a eucalyptus dye pot.

What do you think? Would you wear these colours?.....

New Prints

Some quick photos of yesterdays experimenting with eco prints.

I was trying to create new designs to use in my greetings cards collection....

Apologies for the creases and various shades of white due to my camera settings!

Delayed...

Yes, sorry about the delay in getting these photos online!

Can someone please throw me some extra time though, as all of mine keeps getting swallowed up too quickly....

Anyhow, here's a few pic's of the festered silk.

As I said in my previous post the marks hadn't given the depth i'd hoped for but still make for some interesting viewing...

The Result

Well I did it, I opened the jar...

And it smelt terrible!

As you can see above, two months of damp rotting in a jar don't make for a pleasant exit.

Here she is airing away in the wind after a good rinse through

A quick close up of marks made from time in the jar.

I must say I had hoped for more, and now think I should have left it alone to fester a while longer!

I'm gonna post some clear photos of the details tomorrow as the rest of the day was spent decorating again...