Playing in the Dye Pot...

 I spent yesterday playing with turning this white roving into pretty colors roving. I bought 10 lbs of roving a few months back.

 Can you say "PINK"? I am using Cushing Dyes for the color. Funny how the color looks so different  in the pot.

When you live in a apartment you have to make do with what you have.Two little wood latters in the shower as a drying rack.
I am going to have lots of new colors for needle felting.

Live Deeply and Enjoy Life,
Vicki

New Etsy Shop...

Well I did it! I just started a Etsy shop.I now have three things up for sale.I think I worked out all the bugs so I will be adding things as I get time.

These cute little folkart bunnies are now listed at HardcastleFolkArt please stop by and let me know what you think.The bunnies are needle felted with handdyed wool.

First Day for New Class,Day Six for Nola and I

Is there such a thing as to much wool ? Not when it come to a rug hooking camp.

This is just one students stack of wool. Nola is teaching the class of to do a french knot. Her long then hands work very fast as see demos many new stitches.

Here is Nola showing the completed knot as Charleen McCain looks on.Charleen is moving way out of her box in this class.

Looking over Nola's shoulder as she demos more stitches.I love her hair.

This is the work of Karen Durbin.The colors are great.The gold has been three colors so far.She is having a hard time picking a color she likes.

Eureka Springs Rug Hooking Camp First Day

Today kicked off the firs day of the Eureka Springs Rug Hooking Camp.The first two pics here were taken by Dana from http://calicocatpress.blogspot.com/ and http://cabinchronicles.blogspot.com/ She was in town and stopped by to see what hooker camp looked like.Dana always has great pics on her blogs so when she walked in I just handed her my camera and said "here take my picture."Above is a rug hookers wet dream.Tables full of hand dyed wool and oh yummy it all is.

This is me working on my rug.It is called "I can draw armadillos".I do all the cooking for the camp so I don't get much hooking done,but I listen and learn.

Nola started right in teaching use all kinds of great techniques that we can use to get depth in our rugs.There are 7 ladies in the first class.3 of them are very new hookers and I love to see the delight in their faces as they see all the new things they can do with the wool.

Today was also the kickoff of the Eureka Springs Bluegrass Show.We will have more on that later.
Vicki