Some Quiet Time

With much heartache, I need to have some time away from business. We lost our son, Davis this past Sunday. You can read his obituary, here.  Thank you for your understanding.

Full House!

We really enjoyed our time with all of you that came to our Fall Open House!  Thank you for your support and for your wonderful friendships!  It is so neat to see what you have been creating!  These gatherings seem to get a little bigger and better each time.  I have to smile when I look back on the first one we had in  2010.  I started this blog the following year.  {This links} to a slideshow on our family blog of our first Open House.  Take a peek at some fabulous Ronda creations!  She is a gem.  At that time I had just started designing projects and only had about a table full of wool for sale.  Our new studio has been a blessing.  Such a wonderful place to work and create as well as a sweet gathering place.

It was great to have my sister's family up for the weekend!  

They were a huge help in getting things ready and organized.

  A few of our guests!  

Shelley snapped these with her phone.  

What would we do without those little wonders!?

Suzanne and Judy shared a beautiful trunk show with us!  

What gorgeous pieces they have created.  We were all inspired.

 Christmas is just around the corner...

  Lots of eye candy!  

 Beautiful stitches.  I should have been better about some up close photos.

 Sheep and 12 months of woolie goodness!

 Pincushion Collection

 I couldn't have done it without you lovely ladies!
(Kaye...the cash register was a dream!)

 It seems there is a spot in the studio for everyone to create :)  Great job, Abbie!

Here is a link to the fabulous Raspberry Cream Cheese Bars my sister made. 

 {She adds a sprinkling of Chocolate Chips before she puts the topping on}

Hope you all enjoy stitching up those those sweet little velvet pumpkins.  

This is such a wonderful time of year!

A few apologies...

It seems we left out the green piece of wool in the kits:

Bountiful

Wool Pillow & Table Runner 

I have had one call on that.  Please let me know if you purchased one of these kits and it is missing green for the stems.   We will get that mailed right out to you!

Cold Days Kit

Will be missing 3 cream wool pieces.  We caught that late Friday night and tried to pull them.  Please let us know if you have one of these kits as well and we will mail the missing wool to you! 

Again, please accept our apologies! 
We want every single customer to be happy and satisfied with their purchase.

Last of all, I have contacted Wooly Lady and Heart to Hand to order some of their patterns.  I will let you know when they are available.  We will be kitting the Autumn Wall Hanging that Suzanne shared with us.  (Pictured in this post above) The title of this pattern is Harvest Moon. 

We would love to hear any suggestions or comments from you!  

Happy Stitching

xo 

Dye Kitchen Rockin

We are really looking forward to our fall open house!  Two talented wool gatherers from the Pocatello, Idaho area will be sharing some of their beautiful wool works.  Thank you Judy and Suzanne for being so gracious about sharing your love of wool with us!  The wool is piling up and kits are being assembled.  Here are a few teasers that you can look forward to seeing in the studio!  More to come ;)  Hope you are enjoying the change of the seasons.  Such a sweet time of year!

Save the Date

The summer has been full to the brim this year.  It's nice to be settling back into a regular routine again.  We are looking forward to our Fall Open House next month.  Details will follow.  We wanted to get the dates out so you can put them on your calender!  Hope you have all had a wonderful summer, too!

A Good Day

We sure had a great time in the studio Saturday!  My favorite quote of the day was, " I hope we all end up in the same old folks home together!"  We relished in the sweet time it is to create with other women who enjoy the same things we do.  Watching a fuzzy pipe cleaner magically form the  armature of tiny little 3" fairy was pretty exciting.  There is a lot of wrapping and sometimes a lot of starting over!   The best is part is making her clothes and dressing her.  We all agreed how we were similar to these tiny dolls; not looking to hot without any clothes on!  I failed as a photographer that afternoon, but I will share a few photos to document the day anyway.  Thanks for coming ladies!  You were so much fun to work with!

 We sure had a great time!  Sorry I couldn't focus my camera...

A few of the wee ones all finished up.

We worked from Salley Mavor's book Felt Wee Folk.  She is currently revising it and will be printing a new edition in 2015.  I understand the distributor is out but she has some copies available in her ETSY shop. Once in awhile one will come up on Amazon. I also highly recommend her newest book, Pocketful of Posies that I blogged about here.  Wonderful inspiration!

Hope your gardens will have magic all summer long!

Acorn Fairy Class

Mark and I leave again tomorrow afternoon.  All 3 oz liquids are still in their appointed ziplock baggies and our suitcases are filling up.  We are giddy with excitement to meet our newest little grand daughter, Layney. (Given name will be Kaelyn Alayna but they think they will call her Layney.)

She is a perfect little bundle of cute pinkness! 

She came into the world May 7th. 

Our kids are back in the DC area so it is always such a treat 

when we can go spend some time with them. 

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I have scheduled a class on the Tiny Acorn Fairies that I have sitting in my window sill. 

Please leave a comment or email me if you are interested in the class.  

There will be room for about 10 participants.   

Lunch will be be furnished as well as a few drawings for fabulous prizes :)

June 8th

10:00 am - 2:30 pm

$30.00 (includes kit for 2 Fairy's )

I will be back in town and back to normal life on May 28th.

Spring Projects

I have not been great at posting very often.  I have been tweaking my book and preparing for two really special trips! The book went back to the printer on Tuesday so I am hopeful it will be finished before I leave so I can get some copies to some very patient stitchers!

If you bought a copy at our Spring Open House, 
please contact us so we can get you a 
fresh new copy with ALL the patterns in it ;)

This past week I got to teach at Peace By Piece Quilt Guild's retreat.  They are the happiest group of ladies in the valley!  Such a treat to hang with them.  The retreat theme was scrappy so we worked

on projects with our wool scraps.  I brought this little Wool Crazy Sewing Kit for the girls to create.  Everyone had their own inspiration and I can't wait to see what they do!!

The front cover is the one with the beehive and the back cover is the one with the owl.  The photos don't do this little piece much justice.  It really turned out cute!  I love the buttons above the pocket.  You can keep your assorted threads organized by wrapping them around the buttons!  So handy when you are stitching in the car!  Wool crazies are a blast to do and  such a fun way to use up all your bitty scraps that seem to multiply by the day!!  Try one!  I have seen pincushions and other little projects all over Pinterest.  There is a great tutorial on The Painted Quilt blog. Her blog is really fun to visit!

I also found this adorable pillow pattern in this publication:

It was so much fun to work on and possibilities are endless.  

It looks absolutely adorable on the couch or tucked in a chair! 

Picasa has not been opening for my on my computer.  I like doing collages and so I went searching for something new. I found Ribbet!  You can also download the app to your tablet or phone.  It is so fun and easy to use!!  Try it out and see for yourself :)

We will soon be leaving to visit far away lands.  My cute hubby and I are  taking my mom to her Motherland, Poland and then we are going to visit his sister and brother-in-law in Vienna with side trips to Prague and Budapest.  We are giddy with excitement!  It will be so incredible to visit the towns where my mom's grandparents come from.  We will be  home a week and then it will be off to the the East Coast to spend time celebrating the birth of our new grand baby!  They have on e of each so baby #3's gender is a surprise and we can hardly stand the suspense!  I will be around May 9-15 between these two trips...and then home to stay after Memorial Day.  You can contact me via email.  We will have our girls here keeping the home fires burning, if you have a wool emergency while I am away.

I wanted to take some little woolie gifts in case we meet a distant relative or meet a new friend along our journey.  I decided to make some little pocket size journal covers.  They are delightful to stitch up and won't take up precious cargo space.  They are all constructed by hand so I can take some to stitch on the plane.  (Sorry the photos are a little dark.)

I made the beehive first and then remembered I had pinned some adorable needle cases.  I'm taking inspiration from those to make some cheerful covers.  I cut my background 11 1/2 x 4 1/2 to cover the small composition books.  (Purchased at Staples) Everything is blanket stitched with Valdani thread after I applique the front motif on.  The journal is just as snug as a bug in it's woolie cover.  I may or may not add a button closure.

Inspiration Photo:

If you haven't visited mmmcrafts, you really need to!  

She is overflowing with creativity! 

Enjoy your Spring, whatever you are doing! 

We expect to come home to luscious 

green and flowers in bloom!!