Recent Shopping
I have a confession to make…. I love to shop for craft supplies and love a bargain. This had lead to some more items being added to my stash in the past few weeks.
Recently our guild had a destash sale that was combined with our Monday guild social. Of course I found a few treasures to adopt. The top right bag is wool roving dyed by one of the ladies in our guild. The other bags are all silks. (The bottom right is 200g of silk. The small baggies are batts of carded sari silk. And the white bag at top left is silk lapp.) There will be many hours of fun from this pile of fibre. I may even try to dye that white silk.
I also went to Value Village and found a couple of items to adopt. The prefelt fabric was intriguing. It may be for upholstery or sewing. But it seemed like it had possibilities and so got put in my cart. The bags of yarn were a nice bargain. The top bag is Lion Brand Scarfie that I plan to weave with. The bottom bags are random fizz accent yarns that will also find their way into my weaving projects.
I was browsing Ravelry and spotted someone selling a copy of this book about plain weave. The title is Plain Weave (60 Patterns for Mastering the Basic Technique) by Tina Ignell. I had never heard of this book and I was intrigued. My Saori looms have 2 harnesses and so I do a lot of plain weave. I ended up buying a copy of this book from Amazon and it arrived very quickly. I haven’t had a chance to really dive into the book yet. But at first glance it is a beautiful book with a nice clean layout.
Last weekend we went to London Ontario to visit our families. We carved out a bit of time (in between visits) for me to pop into a local yarn store called London Yarns. Of course I found a few more treasures that wanted to come home with me. All the balls of yarn were on sale and only the 2 skeins in the photo were regular priced yarns. I think I did all right.
My CH60 Saori loom is currently empty. Once I put a new warp put on it, I am sure that some of these new yarns will be finding their way onto the loom. New materials provide so many possibilities and spark creative thinking. I think that is why I love shopping for supplies.
9 thoughts on “Recent Shopping”
I love it, new materials spark creativity! A good reason for all of us to go shopping. Have fun with your new purchases.
Shopping for new materials is exciting 🙂 You have a good haul there! And Ruth is right – having some new stuff does get the creative in you fired up to get going.
The ‘happening to come across’ new supplies is always exciting and how many of us say – I’ve enough already so I don’t need any more….but this is too gorgeous not to ignore!
My head is bursting with ideas, sadly not enough time to carry them out 😢and I need a warehouse for my stashes 😇
Oh mouth wateringly gorgeous Carlene!
What I need to do to stop me dribbling is to go and look at some of my stash that I haven’t looked at for ages and then pretend it’s new stuff.
I can’t/won’t get any more and I don’t seem to be able to give any of it away, though I’ve tried. My local IFA group members seem to be in the same StABLE stash state as me.
So I’ll do that, I’ll go and look at my new/old stuff and see what new inspiration comes to me.
In the meantime, I’m looking forward to seeing what you do with these additions to your stash.
Ann
Sounds like your group needs to have a stash exchange.
I agree with Ann… having an exchange can be just the thing. One person’s trash is another person’s treasure.
You are a champion fibre shopper Carlene. We all know that if you want blue fibre you better get there before Carlene. LOL I look forward to seeing your next weaving project.
How exciting! That is quite a hefty haul Carlene. Looking forward to seeing your creations.
Helene x
I’m a big believer in buying stuff, whether it’s needed at that particular time or not, if there’s a bargain to be had. Looks like you did ok on that front Carlene! I had to giggle at the line “found a couple of items to adopt”…..I might use that the next time I’m adding to my stash!