stitching through two pots of coffee and a few cups of tea

Another pouch finished today.

Pink evenweave exterior stitched with silk thread. I dyed the lace with easter egg tablets, and the interior of the bag is a repurposed dinner napkin.  Drawstring made of recycled tapestry wool, and the felted beads are my first attempt at felting something other than flowers. I embellished these with glass seed beads. 

A little bigger than the other two I have made, and a bit more whimsical.

Quite a bit of progress also made on Tangled today too. My goal was to see this new design finished by the 18th. I might just make it!

hey hey kool aid

I have wanted to try dyeing some of my own yarn and while I had heard about using Kool Aid as a dye for protein fibers, I had not really considered goofing around with it until a knitting friend of mine mentioned it. Neither of us were sure if it was something that would work! So after doing a bit of research over the weekend, I went and got a skein of natural wool and some Kook Aid packets and proceeded to break the skein into two hanks.  One I dyed on the stove top using a mix of black cherry and pink lemonade with strawberry...

And another I did in the microwave in more of a "hand painted" fashion...

The wool sucked up all the Kool Aid and the water turned clear, and when I rinsed the yarn, no color ran free of it.  It was really quite fun and I look forward to experimenting some more!