here and there {naturally dyed yarn}

I'm still around, somewhere. here or there.

Happenings:

It's Wednesday. Life has less structure being a homeschooling family. I'm trying to see if we can work some structure into our days, but it's not naturally me; so perhaps it won't happen. Maybe time will tell.

There is much full-ness at the moment. Making and planning and organising and preparing for two markets this coming weekend - one at the Tweed River Art Gallery on Saturday, and the other at the World Environment Day festival in Knox Park. Both in my home town of Murwillumbah. 

I must admit that these rambly days work well for the way I work - I can dabble with bits here and there. Putting some silken threads into dye pots and tending to them over the days, bit by bit. Not requiring more than that from me. 

I'm so pleased with the colours that came out of the dye jars yesterday. There's more there still soaking up the colour. I'm hoping that people will enjoy these as much as me and use them for crochet or embroidery or simply as lovely string for tying presents.......

These are the silk yarns before dyeing, and then after. The purple is from a red cabbage dye batch, and the yellowish / brown is from tea. 

The most best thing about these yarns is that they are not tangled. I have taken time and care and space from receiving the skein and wrapping them into smaller lengths to keep them from tangling. This is good for me - and also in my mind an indication that I am untangled / not tangled (somehow?? Well, it works for me anyway). 

The weather has been rainy and sunny and in between cloudy and cold.

Where have you been lately friends? How are things treating you? 

E xx

Tweed River Art Gallery Handcrafted Market

It's that time of year again! The upcoming Handcrafted Artisan Market has me thinking of new products and what we'll make for our own stall; as well as the lay-out and set-up of the market itself. 

Being a market organiser is scary and wonderful. There's lots of pressure to give the local handcrafted makers the best day possible, and also present the most interesting and design focused work to the customers. All while having a fun day, meeting new people and hopefully coming home with some delicious wonderful new treasures (and some extra house-hold cash!).

I do hope you can come along to visit us at what will be the fourth Tweed River Art Gallery Handcrafted Market. Since my initial idea, and the excited response from Gallery Director Susie Muddiman, and Friends' President Lyn Stewart, it's been such a wonderful experience to showcase the amazing work within the region. And even better to present as a maker, creator and artist within the walls of the beautiful art gallery that we are so lucky to call our local!

Check out the facebook event page for a little snippet of what will be there on the day. I'm also hoping to update the Market Blog over the coming days.

tomorrow - come to the Gallery Artisan market

Can I tell you that I'm really excited to be setting up for this market. I'm headed in this afternoon to hang out at the gallery and organise all the tables so all the stallholders can come along and set out their lovely tomorrow early tomorrow morning. 

Then you can come along, at the reasonable hour of 10am, and look at all their goodness and loveliness and amazingness. You can buy some too! Yep - bring along your pocket money and take home some handcrafted wares; all made by local artists, craftspeople, makers. {Cash only}.

I'm still frantically sewing and making, and stupidly planning new products (yep!!). I think this is the most dis-organised I've been personally, for a market. But that's ok - I'm good at making it look good and pretty on the day! Come along and hold me to that.

Enjoy your weekend my friends, here's to some sunshine. It's the other side of the Solstice now, so we're spinning back the other way.

*the image on the poster is by my good friend Jo Olive.