Selling My Crafts

I'm about to start selling my weaving, crocheting, and crochet patterns on etsy.com. I've started setting up my "store" but haven't listed anything yet. Hopefully, I'll do the photographing and posting in the next couple of days. At the moment, I have 53 inkle woven bands ready to sell. I'm trying to figure out the best way to photograph my work so people will want to buy it.

When I start posting my handiwork, I'll post the web address for you to see what I've been up to lately. I'm allowed to change the name of the store until I start listing items. I think I've changed it 4 times so far. At the moment, I'm calling it AvidYarnArtist. For now, here is a picture of one of the bands.

Thanks for visiting with me.

Kathi

Planting Trees

In April, Les and I checked out blue spruce trees to plant in the yard on the east side of the house. We discovered how many types of blue spruce there are and how much psace they eventually take up. We didn't buy any that day.

A few days later, Les attended a health(?) fair in our town and somehow ended up with a baby flowering dogwood tree. I planted it in the spot previously set aside for the spruce. It was a cold spring and the little tree stayed dormant for so long that I thought it might not grow.

Well, it finally came to life.

Now if you know me, you know that I may set an idea aside for a while, but usually it will come up again until I finally do something about it. 

I was shopping for birdseed to put out on the old tree stump in the front yard, when I spied some really nice blue spruces in from of the local farm store. I checked them out and the needles were soft and properly colored, so I bought one.

Planted it in the far back yard and put in four tomatoes not too far away.

I was pretty happy about where it was planted until my neighbor poionted out that he had to chop down a tree he planted only two years ago because it was under some wires.  I went out and looked up from the spruce and - sure enough - there were wires not more than 15 feet up. Well, that would limit the life of the tree!

So the next morning, I moved it over about 3 feet to the left of where it is in the picture.

It still bothered me that the wires would be too close. Also, if my tomatoes do well behind the fence this year, I might make the garden a little bigger next year and the tree would start to compete with my garden.

So, the next day, I dug a new hole in the east side yard in part of what used to be my old garden. There are no wires overhead and the worst that could happen to this tree is that it will have to have some lower branches trimmed if it gets out to the neighbor's driveway or our sidewalk. Our porch will eventually be a little more shaded and it's closer to water until it establishes itself.

Yesterday, I promised myself and the little tree that I wouldn't be moving it again anytime soon. lol

Thanks for visiting with me,

Kathi



Inkle Weaving

Now that crochet season is past, I'm mostly trying to keep up with the yard. But in between mowings and weedings, I'm making some bands and sashes on the inkle loom my brother made for me.

Here are a couple of pictures to illustrate:

I haven't figured out how to do the fancy patterns yet, but even the simple ones have an infinity variety of color variations.

I'll post pictures of some of my recent work in my next blog post. I'm thinking of selling some of them at the 4th Saturday Farmers' Market when crafters are welcome to set up a table.

Thanks for visiting with me,

Kathi