Star for a memorystick

Felted star I had to make for my memorystick after I had forgotten it in university several times...

Felted decorational stars

These are felted stars hanging inside a door

Material for the felted pieces I have bought from a felt boot factory in Finland, while the yarn I have spun myself with wool from a friend's sheep in Shetland

Football scarf

I knitted a scarf for my partner for Christmas - bit more work than I expected, especially V and R caused some gray hairs...

The white yarn I have spun myself from wool from Shetland, the red I had to buy from a craft shop in Manchester - partly wool and partly acrylic. This is what I find weird in England, I'm having trouble finding yarn that is 100% wool, most of them seem to have only a small part of wool and otherwise acrylic or something similar... And with all the sheep there are in this country!


The other side of the scraf is mainly striped white and red, with one end having the acronym LFC, the other end the acronym YNWA (You'll Never Walk Alone)

Woolly socks

For years I never knitted socks for myself as I have a constant supply from mom (she knits loads and loads of socks every year!), but in 2008 I wanted to makes ones just for myself...



Even though I knitted the socks myself my mom was central in making them by providing the yarns. The yarns come from a closed knitwear factory in rural Finland, their last stock which was donated to a arts & crafts group my mom is a member of.

The socks are knitted with a tree-dimensional pattern (one of the first times I've knitted that!)

Fair Isle 2008 - basket making and felt for a dinner party

Back in Fair Isle 2008 I was lucky enough to be able to participate to another craft workshop - this one was a basket making workshop at Kathy Coull's organised by an American visitor staying with her.
Katherine had visited Fair Isle several times before and done knitting and spinning there, so this time she wanted to give something back and organised a basket workshop.

I've never made baskets before but it turned out to be very easy and the resulting baskets were lovely, as you can see below

[picture will be added soon... as I forgot these photos are on another computer...]

My partner and I stayed in the 'Puffinn', a hut where the workcampers stay when they are on Fair Isle, and decided to organise a dinner party for couple of the families who have been friendly enough to host us before.

While the Puffinn is well equipped for 20 people to eat there, there was not enough glasses - so we decided to use mugs instead, with a small felted piece in each to help everyone use their own for the whole night (and creating less dishes!). Selections varied from the classical such as stars, moons, flowers, hearts and apples to a bit more exotic ones - pineapple, handbag, teapot and my pride a joy - a Fair Isle sweater! (or close enough to one anyway...)

[here too pictures will be added soon...]

Materials

The materials I use are from various sources - there are those I have bought over the years (majority from Finland), but there are also other materials, such as

- white & brown wool from my friend's happy hill sheep from Shetland (used for felting as well as spinning yarn)

- found yarns

- yarns from a closed knitwear factory (through an arts association my mom is member of)

- reused canvases (from old clothes, bed covers, curtains etc)

When possible I'll try to write in the material & source of the materials, although with some of the old yarns I haven't kept this information...

band crafts

Handknitted gloves and a felted pin in the pink and green colours of Rhythms of Resistance