Divinely Crafty

I don’t know how new this is, but its new to me. And I am excited about it.

The Music Genome’s Pandora Radio. They do an impressive job at picking out playlists that are to my liking. You can create them based on artist or song title. It picks out like qualities and characteristics. Much better than a simple ‘genre’ selector. I found myself really being surprised and groovin to some great tunes.

It also has a link to itunes so I can buy the song…so tempting….

Ta Da! My new home on the web. Mine all mine.

Finally ditched blogger and all its muck for my own domain and wordpress. So far so good. I am no wizard with the internets though so I am on a bit of a learning curve with it here, but I am hopeful that I will have it down in no time.

Still working on importing links so that is a bit scarce for the time being. There is some fun stuff I am hoping to give a try.

Don’t be shy – leave a comment and say hello!

Better late than never…

I have decided to join in the fun!

I will be making my felted messenger bag with my new totally hippy handpainted BFL. I am stoked! Originally I thought I would enter a pair of socks that I was working on while watching the England match on World Wide Knit In Public Day but decided that my late entry needed more motivation than a silly pair of socks. As lovely as they may be, I am much more enthused by the idea of having my new bag.

England plays again tonight. Not sure if I will be making it out to the pub for another KIP as I been feeling a bit sketchy in the tummy today. (and I only had ONE lousy pint last night during the Germany/Poland match, I swear!) But I will definately be casting on tonight even if it is just in my comfy bed watching downloads of Jon Stewart’s Daily Show.

My recent acquistion of a kilo of Blue Faced Leicester and a bunch of acid dyes has me playing around with making my own colorways. I think a new addiction has been born.

My first go at handpainted yarn. Calling the colorway “totally hippy” in honor of my lovely hubby who declared it was ‘total hippy colors’ when he first saw it. Thanks for the inspiration my dear!

Just a few pics…who me excited???

Hanging to dry. I was a bit skeptical at this point as the colors seemed to be a bit off from how I envisioned the. Keeping faith I hung them to dry on the patio and crossed my fingers, secretly wondering what I was going to do with 100gms of yarn I couldn’t stand…

Lesson #1: Never judge a color before its dry. I was pleased to find that the colors gained quite a bit of depth and richness as they dried. This is actually more or less what I had in mind when I started. Not too bad considering I mixed the colors without any sort of recipe. Just a dash of this and that and a quick prayer.

Time for test a swatch…

Then felted the swatch…

Success! My plan is to make this into my felted messenger bag, which I promise I will be writing up a pattern for this time!

YEah!