And sometimes I find something pretty and base everything else around it - souvenirs from travelling, a special trim I only found once, beads collected over the years... or when sewing bags it's that lovely fabric I found only after wandering the unknown streets of a foreign city for hours, the beads and trims and laces which are so much prettier than anything I could find 'at home' or a fabric I first had to haggle for.
Most of my fabrics have their own story, and whenever I come back from an extended vacation my suitcase is packed with fabrics and trims. Or sarees, whatever the country has on offer, lol.
Well, at the moment I have two art yarns planned, but am still rushing around to find the perfect extras.
The first one will be based around these cuties here which I recently swapped with someone:
So far I've got a whole bunch of the chicks and have today felted a few white merino 'eggs'.The second WIP art yarn is for the UK etsy sellers monthly challenge which is for this month 'fairytales'. I always loved frog prince, so I thought I could get started on that, if I could find something suitable enough for the golden ball. Well, I did!
This will be shredded up and spun into the yarn, plus I got some matching sequins:
I love how the fabric already starts fraying. :)
Now all I need for this yarn are the froggies and then dye some green roving. For the froggies I was hoping to get some green children's buttons with frogs, but they don't seem to exist - it's really a lot harder than I thought it would be.
2 comments:
hello snowberry, it was lovely to read your blog tonight - and you gave away your topic for the next challenge..sssh, I won't tell anyone
When do you need the frogs by? There's a shop near me with a pretty good button range - I could check there if you like :-)
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