I crocheted this vest from alpaca I had spun . It is worked up and down from a central horizontal panel - a design I contrived from several patterns I liked. Then I knitted the hat from some of the leftover wool. The photograph flatters neither me nor the vest!

Bag made from handwoven recycled sari silk, with hand dyed silk warp.
I made this large one and then several small ones as phone/ipod bags - but these all sold quickly at our recent exhibition, before I remembered to photograph them.

A small dilly basket I made at a basketry woprkshop recently.
Made from cane, wool, gumnuts, quandong seeds, string, bangalow palm flower stalks, and reeds.

Reverse side of double weave floor rug

Double weave floor rug. Approximately 85cmX150cm. Made from commercial rug wool. Challenging to get the loom set up to weave this, but quites easy once I got weaving.

Doubleweave scarf, handwoven from commercial 2ply wool.
The scarf is double thickness, with the colours swapping back and forth between the sides.

Jacket and beanie knitted from handspun for Andrew.
He loves them.

2009:
I didn't think I had done much in 2009 until I looked at what I have just put up here. And that doesn't count the stuff I have already given away before I got round to photographing it, and the stuff I have started and then discarded or pulled undone because I didn't like the way it was going. And I have not photographed and put up the many skeins of spinning I did. May be it wasn't a bad year after all!

I rescued a couple of mustard check blankets from Sean's place when I was cleaning it out. Too good to throw out, but too old to give to Vinnies. So I cut one into strips and wove a floor rug ot of it!

This white wool floor rug has patterned ends. I made it with the leftover warp from the fibonacci rug.

I used a fibonacci sequence to create the colour proportions in this rug I wove for Bill's floor.

I made this basket from pine needles we collected from a tree outide Hans Heysen's house when we were in SA.

Back view of crocheted silk vest

This is a silk vest I crocheted for my daughter - it is made from "granny squares".

Rug from the squares we all wove.

The squares we all wove as a group project over a year ago - finally cut, shaped, edged and put together as a rug. There were many days involved just in crocheting the edges! But I am pleased with the finished result. The rug measures about 120 cm X 150cm

another wall hanging - 120 X 60 cm. Running out of walls though....

Handknitted vest, using handspun and commercial wool

2009 and beyond

It is not that I have been lazy over the past year or so - just a lot of other things keep getting in the way. And I have made more than I put up here because I keep forgetting to photograph things before I give them away! But here are a few recent items I have made