Rooster Tea Towels

I wasn't satisfied with flour sack towels so I bought toweling by the yard to make tea towels. It comes hemmed on the sides so all you have to do is cut it to length and hem.  The colorful rooster images come from the Graphics Fairy .  Another very quick project.

Cute Christmas Necklaces

I've been saying Christmas is coming and I'm not prepared.  Plan A seems to be too much to get done, so I'm going with plan B.  The pendants on these necklaces are from  Artchix.  All I had to do is hang them on a ball chain.  Done !

A Short Diversion

There was a storm last weekend while I was away from home.  This is what I returned to.

                                         View from the street.

                                    


                                           View from my kitchen.

View of neighbor's driveway.

Luckily, there was little damage done.  Now, I just have to deal with insurance ang get this mess cleaned up.

Baby Mix and Match Wardrobe

The finale of the dyeing adventure of baby stuff.  I think the little hats and booties are so cute. Hope he gets to wear them.  I started out with a dozen pairs of booties and ended up with 3 1/2 pairs. Either the washing machine ate them, or the mice are sleeping in them.  I figure that these should get him through early fall and by then I will have more (and larger) clothes made.  The clothing blanks are from Dharma except for the onesies.

                                         sky blue

                                         lapis blue  

                                          navy blue

Baby Onsies

This a continuation of my dyeing adventures.

This is supposed to be a shade of tan. To me it looks more like gold.  I knew as soon as the stuff hit the dye that it was darker than what I wanted.

This is sky blue and navy blue

Baby Blankets and Sleepers

This is my first real venture into dyeing. It isn't at all hard to get something dyed. Getting the exact shade and even color is a little harder. So far, I haven't quite got the amount of stirring necessary nailed down. You may notice that the solids are rather blotchy. That isn't entirely on purpose.  Since they are all shades of blue I'm calling them sky scapes and letting it go.

                                                                        Sky Blue

                                                                  Lapis Blue

                                                                   
                                                                      Navy Blue

The navy blanket I used the low-water immersion method by Ann Johnson from her book 'Color by Accident'.  I'm thrilled by the way it came out.

This sleeper was dyed with the low-water immersion method with Lapis Blue dye.  The purple bits sprang up spontaneously.  Pretty much all dye colors are a made of a mix of different colors so you don't know what might be in there.  Cool, huh ? 

The mottling of the Sky blue makes it more like a sky.

Baby Bibs

These are real simple.  I just added iron-on transfers to ready-made bibs.  Images are from 
The Graphics Fairy .