The bags are back at Snowberry & Lime!

Tweed embroidery on plaid
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My sewing machine has been leading a sad life the past few months, dare I say years? I guess that is mainly due to my spinning wheel...

However, my great fabric and trimming stash has started calling out to me a few weeks back and I have very slowly started listening to it. One major push was when Teetante took me to a lovely fabric shop and I ended up buying a huge bag of tweeds and wools in many great colours. ....ooops!

Only little later I went to the same fabric shop and found a great variety of matching, yet entirely different fabrics: Corduroy, cotton jersey and pure silk. I think this was the final piece in the jigsaw, seeing these gorgeous fabrics united and right there in my hands made me get out the sewing machine. Another role was played the most wonderful genuine freshwater pearls and amber chips I bought from a lovely seller on etsy. In this brand new collection of bags I am developing right now, all these great supplies find a use. Plus I was finally able to test out my second-hand wooden embroidery hoop. :)

It is still a long way to the finished bag, but here is a first 'work in progress' picture of the handstitched embroidery, Tweeds on wool with a stunning cluster of real jewels.

Golden girl, finished art yarn

Golden girl
Originally uploaded by snowberrylime

And here it is, a lovely and soft Merino and golden Tussah silk yarn with all the necesary goodies to make this extremely glamourous! :D

Golden girl

Golden girl - ingredients
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Another work in progress of an art yarn.... handcarded rolags of wonderfully soft Merino and golden undyed Tussah silk. Additionally all the lovely trinkets you can see here: golden Lurex thread, ric rac and sequins in gold, copper and an interesting but hard to describe pale iridescent yellow. The yarn is now spun and just setting the twist right now, it turned out absolutely gorgeous and will be one of the first in my brand new 'Ultimate luxury' range, where I really go all out on fancy fibres and elegant combinations. :D

That's how you spell luxury!

No pictures tonight, but I just had to share my latest yarn which just came off the bobbin! It is a light DK weight 2ply pure Tussah silk yarn and just so exceedingly gorgeous I was surprised myself. :D
It's called 'Lavender fields' for its pale lilac and light green colours. The shine is stunning and I am not entirely sure if I am willing to part with it yet... :) It's a 48g/1.7oz skein of 86m.

Pictures following soon.

Veronika

Boys toys - cars

Boys toys - cars 2
Originally uploaded by snowberrylime

Recently I had this idea of spinning yarns specifically for guys, and this is the first result.

This would be so cute on a little boy, or perhaps even cuter on a grown man. :P

Hey, but girls like it too! I had fun spinning all the little cars into this yarn, although it did take a lot of patience. The yarn is soft Merino, commercially dyed and oh so bright... I love it!

Next to follow are a few more yarns in this style, here are the 'secret ingredients' of the next one, after cars the logical next step are tools, right?

Stash enhancement

Ric rac stash
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These are the beautiful sequins, ribbons, beads and ric rac I collected during my UK visit, as I took the chance of going to all my favourite craft stores....

Well, not all of them, as I already spun one skein of a lovely blue yarn filled with sequins and such - it is taking a bath as we speak.

Beads and sequins

Beads and sequins
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Well, well, well.....
I went for some shopping and a ravelry knitting meet-up to Heidelberg and we went to this lovely shop which is sadly closing down. I managed to get some really great beads and sequins which I am sure to find a good use in a yarn for.
In the front are some absolutely stunning real mother of pearl thick but tiny beads.

Yesterday I also got lots of tweed and other wool fabrics, we'll see if they end up being bags or yarns. :P