Black and Neon Hats

I recently made three black and neon crocheted children's hats.  Here they are for you to see:

Pottery Painting

Last spring I won a gift certificate for a Made by You at the Funzine film club, so I used it to paint a beautiful teapot. I brought long my friend Meredith and she painted mug. I really like how the colours turned out. Here are the 'before' pictures:

Me holding the teapot before I put any paint on it

Painting the teapot

The finally product before it was fired

Lastly, I have a photo of the teapot once it was completed and fired:

Re-entering the bloggest phare

I know it has been quite awhile since I last posted on this blog. I have been busy, but I was also breaking from using the Internet to its full extent. Alas, I am back!
Here is a picture of a square which I crocheted for a quilt (if you can call it that), which my hand weaving and spinning guild is making for our 60th anniversary. It is made out of hand spun merino and tencle yarn.

Waste not Want not

Waste is a constant product of our culture. Almost everything we buy or use has some sort of waste by-product. For example when a person buys coffee it comes in a paper cup which is thrown away or when we buy clothing plastic comes attached to it with a piece of paper dangling off. Often times when something no longer wanted it is tossed in the garbage.

The constant discarding of what is no longer needed or wanted was not the norm throughout history. The pioneers had a saying "waste not, want not," meaning if you wasted things that you would want more things. Unlike today they hardly wasted anything.

A while back I took inspiration from the pioneers. I started collecting my old clothing which I no longer wear. The rag rug in the picture is what I produced out of the old clothing. By making it I not only reused my t-shirts, sheets and other clothing I also have a rug to remind me of days gone by.