Some loom projects

The scarf was made from the softest yarn you can imagine called Moda Vera Parade. I made it on the blue circular KK loom in the round. It took 2 x 50 g balls and extra for the fringe.










The mittens were made on a mitten loom with the thumbs made separately on a homemade loom that just happened to have the right number of pegs to create a thumb! These are made from alpaca, natural colour. I think one is slightly bigger than the other - but who cares!

Spring is sprung.....!

It's been pretty busy lately with goats kidding, lambs lambing and a baby alpaca too!

Not to mention baby budgies too! At the last count we were hand feeding 3 lambs, 2 budgies and suplementing the baby alpaca, Nimbus.

Two finished projects!

Two projects I've just finished are a knitted alpaca cushion worked in natural colours in the traditional patchwork log cabin pattern, and an acrylic on canvas - "Poppies". This is my second attempt at painting and my first on canvas. Both these projects are for my daughter's house!

The cushion is knitted on 2 needles in one piece starting with the middle square. Stitches are then picked up along the side of the square (grey) and knitted. Then stitches are picked up down the side of the grey and the middle square (light fawn) and knitted, and so on .......

From L toR this is Adrian, Clancy, Latte and Brian. The kids of 2006! They are 10 days old here.

This might be a good oportunity to add some pictures of previous projects made out of handspun alpaca.

Sleeveless waistcoat.

Grey jacket.

A lot of water has flowed under the bridge since I made all of these from handspun sheeps wool

I made this soon after my Mum died in 1993, so I call it my "Therapy Jumper!" It used up a lot of bits and pieces and I could just lose myself in it.















This my daughter modelling the tropical fish jumper in 1995


I made these Jumpers in the 1990s - maybe I had more time them, I don't know!

This jacket was knitted sideways.













This a front and back view of a jacket that took forever in handspun sheeps wool! It has Sturt Peas (Australian native) on it that were knitted seperately and added sewn on when the garment was finished.

Some handspun stuff in sheeps wool

These are some Jumpers I made in the 1990s out of handspun sheeps wool. The designs are all my own. I used Dylon powder dyes for dying the bright colours.
Front of Lorikeet jumper.


Lorikeet back

Back in the early days....

Jacket made from squares, wildflowers.

Handspun natural wool jumper, possom
Back of same jumper, ram's head

Natural and dyed handspun wool

Natural and dyed handspun wool (knitted sideways)

Pink & Grey Galah

Where did it all begin....?

Soon after arriving in W.A. in 1985 I joined a craft group where I reluctantly learnt to spin and, after the obligatory few weeks of neck and shoulder tension, everything fell into place and I haven't looked back since!

I learnt with sheeps wool, then some mohair and now 100% alpaca. Although I have been known to incorporate some commercial yarns into my creations to add texture and variation. There are so many interesting new knitting yarns on the market now that is hard to resist them! This is a picture of me and "Sheridan", a bottle fed alpaca.