Future Woolly Blanket

I use wool yarn to make everything I sell on Etsy. The toys are wool. The cowls are wool. The mitts are wool. Wool is durable. It cleans well. If it gets wet, it still keeps you warm. I think it's magic.

But all of that wool yarn going through my hands every year. I have lots of left over bits I don't know what to do with and they end up in an ever growing pile.

Problem solved. Now, between projects, I'm slowly knitting those bits of yarn into mitered squares for a future snuggly wool blanket.

I think the final blanket will be lovely (once I have enough squares and I figure out how to piece them all together.)

Is It Weird to Love Felt So Much?

Is anyone in the same boat as me? I think it's similar to the love of sequins still in containers waiting to be sewn on? Or maybe like loving rows of embroidery floss all lined up together in rainbows? Or maybe like coveting shelves of jewel-toned high cotton fiber content papers?

It's the future promise of beautiful things. . . the potential of the things and your creativity making something marvelous, if given time.

I've started working on a project that takes both into consideration. . . my guess is that the final products will be Christmas ornaments, but for now, it's just the fun of laying woolen colors against one another.

Pincushion fun

Trying a new color for pincushions. I have a very specific color family I like and I worry sometimes that rather than being a cool aesthetic, that maybe I'm just limiting my spectrum or being a color snob. This new pincushion. . . as I work on it, I think it's pretty. But it does feel off in some way and I think I can't wrap my head around the brighter, more robust blue. hmmm.