Art For Your Head "Gracie"

I had so much fun spinning last week. I had forgotten just how much I enjoyed it and how relaxing it is.

Here is Art For Your Head "Gracie" - she came into existence through felting, knitting, spinning and some crochet. She is a lovely for sure.

The neckpiece is not yet finished, but will be listed separately as soon as it is complete. For more pictures please see here:

Art For Your Head "Gracie"



And please... if you have the opportunity, stop by this afternoon/evening for the Wearable Art Market Public Forum discussions

Sunday April 5th, 7 EST, 6 central, 5 mountain and 4 pacific till whenever!

Art will be the subject of course-- inspiration, latest ambitions, recent successes-- or works in progress-- general levels of creativity, chocolate addictions-- Who knows what else and where it will lead? Join us and find out!

The thread will be in the Wearable Art Market public forum--

http://www.1000markets.com/forums/23

TALK TO ME OF STORAGE...............

      i tore my studio apart.

literally

Talk to me of storage.........PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!

i now have an extra room (other than my Studio Treehouse, which i totally outgrew within a year)... so now I have a room for inventory and a room to work in (my Studio).    Here are some pics of the 'inventory room' and the Studio (Treehouse) before being cleaned/sorted/finished/figured out.

These are the pics of the New Inventory Room - not complete, still a mess, not sorted through etc..

     

These are the pics of the cleaned out Studio - not complete, still a mess, not sorted through etc..

 
    

oh...and my wall o' yarn... which will remain where it is because it is just so beautiful to look at up against the rock wall.

I will be using my studio for the computer, books, shipping, photographing and creating/finishing pieces.   In the Inventory Room i have all my rovings, yarns, spinning, etc sorted by colour in cubes... it is the best way for me... it is how i work....When i work on a lot of my pieces i always wind up with small balls of leftover yarns... in fact, i have so many small balls of leftover yarns that they need their own set of cubes sorted by colour!!!!!!

what do you do with those small balls of leftover yarns?  i don't mean, what do you make with them.... i tend to use up even small balls...... i mean how do you store them??? 

The Inventory Room will have floor to ceiling cubes when finished and each cube will hold a different colour... all the blacks together, all the greys together, all the oranges together, etc.  This works fine for full or semi-full skeins or balls, they all fit nicely in there and are easy to retrieve or go through.   

So how do i store the small balls so that I actually can see them and use them?   Suggestions appreciated.

My new Secret..............

from Village Spinning & Weaving in Solvang