The Christmas break is nearly over and I will be back at work on Monday. If has gone by so quickly, we had my mum staying for the first week and while she was here paid a visit to my brother in Norwich. All the photos that I took while there are out of focus apart from a few of my nephews gang of toys! (slightly strange) I don't know if it is the gloomy light that has dominated recently or if I just can't work the camera but the photos I have taken have been very disappointing.
Rob did a fantastic job icing the Christmas cake that I had made back at the end of October. Most of the cake has now been eaten.
I managed to do some carding, I had planned to call this one 'Copper Penny' but on reflection there doesn't seem to be enough copper in the resulting yarn. The batts were made from black and rust merino and gold angelina. All from World of Wool.
here it is being spun. I am just about to ply it.
I also created these batts that I intend to spin as singles using the Westbury wheel. I seem to be returning to the Westbury. For reasons unknown to me I seem to be overspinning and creating yarn with too much twist on the Louet.
I have just ordered a big batch of fibre to dye up from World of Wool, it might get here before the end of the weekend in which case I will have a dyeing session.
Tea dyed paper
While I have been on holiday I have been watching craft videos on Youtube, it is surprising what you come across, normally I keep to soaping videos but recently when browsing came across a bizarre rendition of the 12 days of Christmas from a firm in the North of England who produce Epoxy Resin.
I also came across a paper artist The PaperAddiction who has some lovely videos for paper crafts.
Armed with old tea bags I set about distressing some paper this morning. Here are the results.
Initial selection of paper, the Christmas wrapping paper was too thin.
Teabag bath
Results
I am quite pleased with how this came out, although I am not at all sure what I am going to do with any of it.
Happy New Year everyone!
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