Ok, so here are a couple of other things I have been doing. I had a pile of acrylic yarn that i needed to either get rid of or use up. I sold some of it, gave away most of it and saved a few balls for hats. Kylie from spinners was crocheting some great hats and taught me how to do it. So I grabbed some acrylic and went at it hell for leather. This one is actually a lovely pink. I also did a black one, 2 maroon ones, a purple one and a green and beige one.
The bag is another simple market bag. I had knitted up a very simple small rectangle bag with these colours (plus a couple extra colours) and really liked the effect. So I decided a market bag in these colours would be great. I was right. I'm pretty happy with this one. I am now also knitting up another market bag in red and black. I think it will look really good!
Another thing that I have been doing lately is processing mohair for a friend who sells fibre. the mohair is for dolls hair and so needs to be cleaned fully of all vegetative matter before it can be bagged up for sale. The staples of the mohair also need to be separated, sized and packaged up by size into 20g bags. My friend washes the mohair (about 5 times) to get rid of dirt and grease, then dyes it the different colours. she then passes the fleece as it is onto me. I then go through and pull out the staples, place them in piles of similar length, clean the vegetative matter out of it (keeping the curl as much as possible - no easy task) and finally bag it up ready for sale. It's fairly repetative work as well as being fiddily and not a job that would suit most people. But I like it as I can do it whenever I want at home, it is not too taxing and I get to play with lots of lovely mohair. I am also helping a friend and that counts for a lot too.
Another thing I have been doing the last few weeks is babysitting my nephew two afternoons a week. That keeps me busy! Of course, then there is all the normal mummy, wife, friend etc things that one needs to do as well as being addicted to facebook. I haven't had much time to write on here. Hope you are all well and will add something on here again once I have something to add onto here!
Love peace and joy.
