Nicole's blogged about this shop before, but I've actually had this etsy purchase under wraps for months til I worked up the courage to send it on to its new home :)
Earthenware tab from circaceramics.etsy.com
I love Circa Ceramics, for the range of handwork that goes into their products and just how neat they are. They start by screenprinting (or gocco-ing) images and fusing them to brightly colored earthenware or porcelain. They make a range of fired items, like magnets, bowls, coffee cups, and tabs like this one.
What's a tab? What to DO with a tab? Fall in love and let it go? Keep it though you haven't figured it out yet?
Onto the fiber portion of our program... seriously, Ravelry needs to get a fiber stash database going; my yarn stash page is the little white angel on my shoulder when it comes to etsy and yarn.* Until that void's filled I keep getting sucked into buying more (and finding new places to stash it around the house...)
Scoured merino fleece from shunklies.etsy.com
Despite the fact I am wrestling with spinning my brown merino fleece I handcarded into rolags (more on that later), I still am interested in handcarding wool. Shunklies had this 3.5oz listing of scoured merino (cleaned of grease and farm grime) and I immediately thought it would be rad to card it with scraps of dyed superwash merino leftover from spinning. There is at the most 2 oz of dyed scraps, and they're all different colors-- once carded the result will look just flecked with color. Can't wait :)
The fleece is very clean of grease, soft with very little vm. And all the way from the UK!
From stateside, a small family Maine farm where they process their own wool...
Merino/silk/sari silk batts from enchantedknoll.etsy.com
I really like batts, and I really like when I can get more than 4 oz of fiber at a time. 4 oz just seems too small for me when I'm not spinning for socks... so when I saw that Enchanted Knoll had 4 oz listed but could card more, I pounced and bought 8 oz total. It's 50-48-2 merino-silk-sari silk-- sounds cool, eh?
A closeup:
Still in love, hasn't waned.
Both Enchanted Knoll and Shunklies sell yarn as well as fibers in their shops for those of you who don't spin (yet!) :)
A few more headsups...
* Jolene (blogless!) sent me a link to a NYT article featuring ikea hacking and handmade; etsy snags a mention but it's interesting overall even though i have a bit of an agoraphobic skincrawl happen when thinking about ikea
* Alyson has rounded up a bunch of shops (etsy based and others) that are having sales on fibers and yarn... you may see some on upcoming etsy fridays :)
* Elizabeth (blog?) showed me this awesome broken plate pendant necklace that i fell in want.love with, a mirror too much into my heart right now
* LORiOLA, one of my favorite etsy glass artists, is still having a sale and listing new items daily. i love this orange bone! she's already shipped my order (whoa!) or it would have been added to my collection of her glass jewelry...
and not etsy but...
* Mags Kandis linked the weaving in ends as you knit tutorial i shared a while back in the comments to the latest Knitting Daily post! i'm a dork, a fangrrl but still-- it made me grin :)
edit afternoontime, 9/7: another link from Knitting Daily!
9/10: Sherry W loves it too :)
9/11: so does Lime & Violet's Daily Chum blog, and Yahoo! Bookmarks
Miss you. Wish me courage and luck...
* Don't be bummed if you're not on Ravelry yet! For the super curious I have been trying to keep all of the stash pics hosted in this folder in my flickr stream.
Earthenware tab from circaceramics.etsy.com
I love Circa Ceramics, for the range of handwork that goes into their products and just how neat they are. They start by screenprinting (or gocco-ing) images and fusing them to brightly colored earthenware or porcelain. They make a range of fired items, like magnets, bowls, coffee cups, and tabs like this one.
What's a tab? What to DO with a tab? Fall in love and let it go? Keep it though you haven't figured it out yet?
Onto the fiber portion of our program... seriously, Ravelry needs to get a fiber stash database going; my yarn stash page is the little white angel on my shoulder when it comes to etsy and yarn.* Until that void's filled I keep getting sucked into buying more (and finding new places to stash it around the house...)
Scoured merino fleece from shunklies.etsy.com
Despite the fact I am wrestling with spinning my brown merino fleece I handcarded into rolags (more on that later), I still am interested in handcarding wool. Shunklies had this 3.5oz listing of scoured merino (cleaned of grease and farm grime) and I immediately thought it would be rad to card it with scraps of dyed superwash merino leftover from spinning. There is at the most 2 oz of dyed scraps, and they're all different colors-- once carded the result will look just flecked with color. Can't wait :)
The fleece is very clean of grease, soft with very little vm. And all the way from the UK!
From stateside, a small family Maine farm where they process their own wool...
Merino/silk/sari silk batts from enchantedknoll.etsy.com
I really like batts, and I really like when I can get more than 4 oz of fiber at a time. 4 oz just seems too small for me when I'm not spinning for socks... so when I saw that Enchanted Knoll had 4 oz listed but could card more, I pounced and bought 8 oz total. It's 50-48-2 merino-silk-sari silk-- sounds cool, eh?
A closeup:
Still in love, hasn't waned.
Both Enchanted Knoll and Shunklies sell yarn as well as fibers in their shops for those of you who don't spin (yet!) :)
A few more headsups...
* Jolene (blogless!) sent me a link to a NYT article featuring ikea hacking and handmade; etsy snags a mention but it's interesting overall even though i have a bit of an agoraphobic skincrawl happen when thinking about ikea
* Alyson has rounded up a bunch of shops (etsy based and others) that are having sales on fibers and yarn... you may see some on upcoming etsy fridays :)
* Elizabeth (blog?) showed me this awesome broken plate pendant necklace that i fell in want.love with, a mirror too much into my heart right now
* LORiOLA, one of my favorite etsy glass artists, is still having a sale and listing new items daily. i love this orange bone! she's already shipped my order (whoa!) or it would have been added to my collection of her glass jewelry...
and not etsy but...
* Mags Kandis linked the weaving in ends as you knit tutorial i shared a while back in the comments to the latest Knitting Daily post! i'm a dork, a fangrrl but still-- it made me grin :)
edit afternoontime, 9/7: another link from Knitting Daily!
9/10: Sherry W loves it too :)
9/11: so does Lime & Violet's Daily Chum blog, and Yahoo! Bookmarks
Miss you. Wish me courage and luck...
* Don't be bummed if you're not on Ravelry yet! For the super curious I have been trying to keep all of the stash pics hosted in this folder in my flickr stream.
15 comments:
another great installment! You always give me plenty to look at for the next few hours... :)
I love Enchanted Knoll as well.. her batts are so interesting and fun to spin! Bits of this and that put together to make beautiful rustic looking handspun...
Hi - Check out what is now Issue #824 in Ravelry. I submitted that last week as a spinning component to Ravelry, if they wanted to use any of it. See what you think, if you'd change anything. It sure was fun to plan!
whoa deja vu...
i was just at the Bucktown Arts Festival last weekend and Circa Ceramics was there! I was oggling he tabs, but the bowls are amazing and so are the mugs. oy. I didn't have cash so i had to take a business card. Thanks for showing me their etsy shop!!!
Lots of cool stuff for me to surf while working a boring Friday night... :)
Who me? Ran right over to etsy and grabbed a couple-few bits of fibery goodness from Enchanted Knoll?
Nah, couldn't have been... :)
No wonder you had all that fiber you could pass along to me! Of course, I still haven't figured out how to use it. But, I will someday.
That fiber is just beautiful :-) Have fun spinning it :-)
I just discovered your etsy fridays - serious shopping pron. I'm in trouble now! Thanks! I love it!
The awesome broken plate necklace, hmmm...something you wish to share or am I reading too much in to it? *grin*
I'm totally keeping a list of all of your favourite fibre shops on etsy :)
Now that I have a wheel, it's all I want to buy!
Not that I'm important in the blogosphere, but I think it's weird I just linked to your end-knitting tutorial too!
I would love to see Ravelry put up a fiber stash section! Great idea.
If you like little glass pendants from etsy, I bought a wonderful spinning wheel pendant from etsy seller Squid Glass
Thanks to one of your previous posts, I have become addicted to Frost Fish Cove's soaps. Wonderful stuff.
need a time so i can plan accordingly.
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