Workshops are on the way

We hope your as excited as us in our upcomming workshops. Weve got the supplies on hand and I am working on booking the space. Very shortly I hope to announce our first workshop dates. you can sign up for a workshop as I post them or get a group together and I will run a private workshop at a location of your choice. If you have any ideas please post a comment or if your interested in a private workshop email me anytime.

The first in our series of workshops will be a wet felted purse. A one day workshop held right in beautiful downtown almonte, you might even fall in love and move here like I did ;). 

Future felting workshop ideas include felted slippers, birdhouses, artistic vessels, nuno felted scarves, flower broches including our lovely poppies, and even christmas stockings.

What are you looking forward to the most? Any ideas of what you would like to learn? Weaving and spinning workshops are to come as well as I get the interest and demand so please let us know what youd like to see.

Sitting around at the arena...

Im sitting on an arena for the first time in well over a decade and thinking of all you moms, dads, wives, girlfriends and good friends who show up at all times to a cold arena, wet field, or curling club. Now what do you work on while sitting on the sidelines chearring on your loved ones. Im on a second date and here I sit to blog since I completely forgot my knitting.
    See if I was a true hockey girlfriend I would have emergency knitting in my trunk for just this case. Hopefully this is only one in many late evenings spent in an arena watching a sport not because I adore it but because I want to be supportive. Ive been worn he leads in penalties in his league so Im going to need some simple knitting for when i get worried that he got hit in the head which is my biggest fear in general.
   Now I want to see your selfies out there knitting away and any suggestions on arena knitting would be really great.

Sam

A project for your garden

I know most of you probably arent thinking of spring yet but I am very much looking forward to gardening this year. No I dont have space for a garden but I hope to find a space somewhere nearby. Today I finished over 60 plant tags and a small stepping stone out of leftover and reclaymed clay and have spent time researching how to grow potatoes in a pot which is where this post came to me.

Heres a project for that acrylic someone gave you that you have no clue what you can do with. Yes I know I havent gone nuts but I am recomending acrylic for this project  but its a way to use up those scraps. Planting potatoes in bags is great for small spaces and makes life easier as well. You cants make the bags out of wool or cotton because these will biodegrade which is great for everything else but not in the garden.

I havent written a pattern yet since I only just came up with the idea but I invite you to join me on this journey.

Basicly its a GIANT tuque that you can line with landscaping fabric if you wish before starting to fill it with soil and your future potatoes. I promise to post pictures as I go for this piece of functional garden art.

Wow one hell of a last few months

Well ive spent months healling from a concussion that happened in August during twist. After reading the facebook page of a knitwear designer ive adored for years she has inspired me to come out in the open. To all my Canadian followers youll understand when I tell you Im 1 in 5. I suffer from mental health issues. Depression and anxiety can comsume my life but thanks to meds, an incredible yoga instructor and life coach (Barb from Coaching Horizons) and my weird brain treatments after my concussion (HPN has changed my life) I can finally say im getting better. Ok i still get upset and depressed but I can deal with life changes with much more ease.

So Ive been up to lots of fun things lately. To all my southern Ontario fans youll be able to find me this spring at Fibre Frolic in Toronto and ill have some new products for you including kits as well as buttons. Yes ive made nearly 500 buttons and now need to glaze and card them all. The yarn has been ordered and ill be starting to dye this years stock shortly. Gues what that means ive got last years stock still around so keep an eye on our website ;). Oh yes go check out the website now, not all the good pictures are there yet but our website is taking shape. For christmas I got a proper light box and will actually be able to get good pictures which will make your online shopping experience not only possible but also pleasurable.

We are waiting to apply to some more fall shows as well as a new farmers market for the summer and hope to be able to announce good news to everyone shortly. For now we have confirmed fibre frolic as well as twist.

Ive been meaning to tell you all this news as it has come along but finally got over my anxiety and just did it.

Since I need to share even more joy here is a picture of my succulent babies. My best friend is getting married so I offered to make the centerpieces and favors all in one. Everyday I wake up to see if there are new roots or baby plants forming which is very exciting.

The baby wrap project has launched!

Our big news is out. We've launched the newest venture for Trailhead Yarns. We are looking for support for our baby wrap product line through the kickstarter campaign we've launched. If you'd like to get some great rewards from our cotton project bags or a handwoven tea towel or even a really well priced baby wrap please check it out. 

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/trailheadyarns/handwoven-baby-wearing-wraps-by-trailhead-yarns?ref=discovery

The first baby wrap is off the loom

So I haven't taken many breaks from weaving lately. My last post I had just put on the warp for the towels and now I have 5 finished and this week I put on a warp for 2 baby wraps. Well today I took off the first wrap and fell in love with it.

I have no babies and don't intend on any in the futur but Ginger seemed to really like it and I think I just might be one of those crazy dog parents. It was our first time trying it on so we still have work to do but it feels great.

Weaving has been keeping me together this week and I feel bad for those people out there who don't have such a great therapeutic activity in there life. This will be a short one since today has been a long day but I'll tell you in my next post what I've been up to ;)

Make sure to check back this week, big things will be happening.

I'm back and here to stay

I want to start off by apologizing on not blogging. This has been a huge fear I have needed to overcome. My ex husband was emotionally abusive and writing is one thing that I did before we met and now it makes me incredibly anxious. Please don't judge my literary skills and if you do keep them to yourself as I learn and grow into being able to write again.

So now to the exciting items. I've been dyeing and silk screening but have decided to add in mother product to the line.

This fall I started weaving and have jumped in with both feet. I love weaving with cotton but plan on loo weaving with some great cotton linen blend that is spun and dyed in Quebec. So the new product will be beautiful hand woven baby wraps. Since I have no baby ginger will be the first test subject. Don't you think she'll be cute ;)

So the plan is to get my startup funding through kickstarted and we would love your support. We have some great thank you gifts planned and the first one is being threaded on my loom. For your support you could be choosing to get a beautiful hand woven dish towel. I'll keep you up do date on the progress as it goes along.

Other gifts to come will be some beautiful yarn, screen printed bags all of which will be ready to ship before we start the campaign. Also the very first of the baby wraps available will be preordered at a discounted rate so tell all your friends to keep an eye out.

Well that's it for today but look forward to an update in the next few days.