So, when you don't see me online I'm usually messing around with textile art -- spinning, weaving, sewing, hand-embroidery, machine-embroidery, knitting.
And sometimes I do things just for the amusement value:
So... about that "Pics or it didn't happen!" thing I was joking with you guys last night. Osi and Thue were much faster on the Draw to post their pics, so please accept my apologies for being so much slower. But here it is, and the process involved in its creation.
For the dog lovers! We recently adopted a Tibetan Mastiff Puppy and named her Jinpa. We saved a couple of bags of her puppy fur after her first grooming last summer because I saw the wonderful texture of the fur itself. She has been an absolute Godsend in helping to heal some of my husband's PTSD (30 years in the USMC and war Veteran), and so I thought I'd do something special with alllllllll that wonderful fur.
First, I carded the puppy fur with some Jacob's Fleece Wool I had picked up at the Estes Park Wool Festival:
Washed the skein, and repeated the process until I had enough to knit a seven foot long scarf. (My husband is not a short man. He wanted a nice long scarf.)
I also started embroidering a traced image of Jinpa from a photograph I took of her at the Renaissance Faire. When we took her to the faire people kept coming up to us and saying, "Can I pet your bear?"
Please pardon the broken links. I usually use Photobucket as my goto for posting pictures, but they've changed their format and apparently moved pictures. I'll fix the broken links soonish.
