First fibers.

 I've been hard at work trying to practice my spinning skills. Which I haven't used in a year.

Theres nothing like the cravings to spin as a deprived spinner with a new free wheel and NO FIBER.

Everything was in storage and had to wait a few days to find a ride over.

I was able to find a fluff in with my yarn. It was mostly felted and almost completely unusable. But I worked at it and this is what I got.





I spun it without the tension on. (still had to put that together and who has time for that)
Then plied it --->
Despite all it came out quite well.

After a few days I went to storage and got the rest of my fiber and got to work.
Once again spun without the tension on.

Then plied that, and made fingerless gloves. ^_^
Uneven, and a bit lumpy, but wonderful.

Part of the challenge is finding ways of taking care of what needs to be done without the tools I lost in the move.

 Behold! Setting the twist!

Fiber Macgyver time! Using bottles of body wash as weights.

It ended up though I needed more weight.
So added a towel and Mr. Timer Frog.
Which made once of my nieces day when she found him swinging on my yarn.

And here is how my last bit of spinning turned out. :)

The black came out a little uneven but the red/pink came out really nice.

















The kinks in the wheel have been worked out and works like a dream. :)
Now if the yarn is messed up I know its spinner oops and not the wheel. So I need to just keep practicing.


Stay crafty everyone!

YBGenny

Found a free spinning wheel!

Some of you who witness my ramblings on facebook already know this, but my sister found something amazing.
I came home to find her waiting for me. She had spotted a free spinning wheel on Craigslist and wondered if I would like it. I started flapping my arms around freaking out. (guess thats my way of saying yes...)

She said that the guy giving it away said that it had a few issues, and he didn't know if it worked or not.

I replied that regardless I wanted it. (keeping fingers crossed though)

And somehow we got it! BEHOLD!


It did have some issues. But I was able to "Fiber Macgyver" things together.
I've made a drive cord out of some cotton yarn.
And was able to find bolts and washers for everything else.

I decided to not sand down where someones puppy chewed on it. Oh well. ^_^ just part of the charm. haha.


It took about a week of testing and then testing again but its finished!

And it seems to do a really fine job.


And the only times that the yarn isn't working out isn't because of the wheel. It's the spinner... (getting there but yeah my yarn is still a bit uneven)














Keep crafty folks!
YBGenny

 

ARG!

Ok looking around and making sure things have settled down some.

Alright, as you noticed I havn't been on here for a long time.

Life fell apart and we lost the apartment and switched states and yeah... Madness

I guess it doesn't help that I deleted my folder that had my passwords and such. Oh well back now.

I'll be posting again and if I don't feel free to let me know that I'm missed on facebook. :)

Hoping to a bright day a head and things being a little more even.
But regardless I'm back.

Return from a forced break

Greetings everyone! Great news, we got our laptop back (long story) and have internet again so I'll be able to update my Blog.

 Hope everyones summer is going ok.

Lets see, I have about 6 months + of stuff to update you on.

Things like this years Birthday Yarn Crawl back in Jan.

Helping with a project in the UK back in June. Which was awesome, beautiful and somehow starting a battle of loving locals vs city council people. (look mom I must really be an artist now, I helped start a riot...)

Exciting news involving me on news stands. (woot!!!!)

And random updates, patterns, and lord knows what.

I'll be posting updates throughout the day. Hoping to get you all updated for the most part by midnight tonight. Thank you all for checking out my blog!

YBGenny :)

Photos from International Yarn Bomb Day

This year as alot of you know was the first International Yarn Bomb Day.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/International-Yarn-Bombing-Day-June-11th-2011/104441312968198
I realized that I never shared photos from it on here. So here are some of mine.

Made up a mess of masks and pompoms and headed downtown.

(theres a pompom on the door knob)

There where others in town. Some I have been able to tack down some I havnt. One bomber or bombers I want to find out more about is who did the tree sweater downtown with the scarfs.

Love this idea, its a little book to sign in.

 

I found this bit of awesomeness wile looking for more statues. Saw a bright bit of color as I was going up a little hill. Even from that far away I knew what it was and took off running. xD

Its the first tree sweater/cozy I've seen in town that I didnt put up.

There where other yarn bombs, but in different parts of town.

OH! In other news, a friend of mine that loves to yarn bomb moved back to town. Things should be getting more colorful. >:)

1st Contest is over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All the names are in a hat.
Drum roll please.

Ok the name i pulled out is Jen! Congrats!!!!!!
I'll contact you and ship your new babys to you as soon as I can. :D

To everyone who took part thank you so much! Remember even if you didnt win first place i may randomly contact one of you guys and send you a random itty bunny. :)

I'll have more contests in the future. So keep checking back here, twitter and facebook for more info.

And if theres anything you guys think will make a fun giveaway feel free to post your ideas. (books, yarn, random dolls)

Hope you all had fun with this, :)
I know I had a hoot!

In randomness and yarn,
YBGenny

1st giveaway!

I've reached 25 followers!!! So true to my word LETS START THE GIVE AWAY!!!!!

The prize is........

Itty bitty bunnies! :) The prize is 3 tiny bunnys!

Post your name, and email or just some way 
to contact you if you win.

On Friday I'll write the names down and put them in a hat and post the results. :D

Open to everyone, international too!

Im covering shipping!!!

Let the games begin!!!!!

Over 1,000 views!

Just found out that since this blog has started its received  1,078 views! 

I just want to thank everyone that has visited. :)

Thank you so much, you have all made my day!

Happy Birthday TattingChic!!!!

Happy Birthday TattingChic!

For you guys who have never been to their blog check out the link below.

 tattingchic blog!

One of my fav blogs of all time! The best one I've found about tatting! And just a awesome blog all around. :)

Just wanted to share this. :)

I love finding stories online about people learning to knit, crochet or other needle craft.
Came across this the other day and thought i would share it with you guys.



http://www.parentcentral.ca/parent/education/article/914814--boys-and-girls-bond-in-high-school-s-knitting-club

If you guys have any awesome stories like this or whatever feel free to share them and i'll post them up here on my blog. :)

Grandma's Beads

Lookie! My Mom gave me something awesome that was my grandmothers. These beads came from my dad's mom. (oh why does such a crazy lady have to have such mad skills, maybe i can find that photo of her at her pipe organ she rebuilt)
Like a lot of things in life. This starts with one thing and ends with something else. Takes a sec to explain.  :)

First it started with a baby. Then family going and seeing the baby.
To explain something first, my family is spread over 3 states. We are in Washington, Bro is in Oklahoma and Sis, Mum and the rest are in Oregon.

Everyone in Oregon made plans to see the baby in Oklahoma. We couldnt... (poor)
A few weeks before them heading out I got a call asking if the trip was payed for would we come down to cat sit for my sister. It was Mom, feeling bad about us not being able to go but knowing someone was needed to watch a small army of kittys.

During the call she said that she found some of grandma's beads. Which at the time I thought she was talking about the weird plastic ones she had later in life. In any case Mom said she wanted me to have them. In truth I wasn't so sure I wanted them... In a nutshell I was thinking of the wrong beads.

The  night before they left Mom came to me and left on the table two bags, a small coffee can and a old old candy box. She made a comment that I should wait until after they left so I could have some time to enjoy them.

I walked over and looked. I opened up the box and knew right away what i was looking at. In these bags, candy tin and can, where the old glass beads I wasn't allowed to handle when I was a child. 99% of these are over 70 plus years old.

I opened the containers, like they would break with just a touch. Opening little bags and looking at the skill that went into these things.  One bag held necklaces, and an other held beaded leaves.

What was in the candy tin.

No idea how long it took to make some of this stuff.

One of the craziest things she ever made where her beaded purses.

 Im really excited to get these things. And dont worry all my feelings aren't hurt from getting to see the baby yet. If things work out we may get to go at Christmas time. Which between you and me gives me more time to finish gifts. :)



In yarn, randomness and this time, awesome beads.
YBGenny

I'm baaaack!!!

Sorry everyone for being gone for so long!
I'm still alive but I've let the blog lurk un-updated for months. Well no more!!!
I'm going to challenge myself to update at lest once a week. So keep dropping by to look for new goodies.
Theres going to be more going on here then just yarn bombing (still a lot though ;) ).
But going to make this more a normal blog about what random things are out there.
If nothing else i going to work at making this thing fun to read.

Oh! Almost forgot! Along with the updates, new kind of posts and etc. There are going to be some GIVEAWAYS!!!!
Craft Supply's, Random stuff, Old school patterns. :)
etc, etc :)

So a lot to come. :) And open to ideas so feel free to post here or find me on face book. (yarnbomb genny or yarnbombgenny@yahoo.com)

In randomness and yarn, YBGenny

My Birthday yarn bomb photos!

Here are the photos from my late night yarn bombing party! :D
As others around the world were out making their towns more colorful, me and a friend (plus one friend she kid napped) spent our time being what we are... weird :D

The order of my hits!

Birthday @ 4:30.
     Hanging out at Hearth and yarn bombed a lamp.

After a thing of coffee @ Atticus went to game night then ran off with a friend to go on her first yarn bombing party :D
(oh and her friend she kidnapped, hes behind the tree hiding from the camera)

10:30 ish11ish, something ish
River Front Park, The Runners

Thank you Spokane for having such awesome random public art work. And to the guy who made the runners thank you too, you made my birthday fun. xD

All the running statues are naked, at lest this one isn't anymore.

Love this shot

Had a little helper with a spiffy hat

First tree cozy woohoo!

you will see this blue thing later

Size 50 knitting needles + birthday yarn party = no more pink yarn in my apartment! yes!!

Last one of the night.

The smoke is from us breathing in the cold cold air... or the thing is haunted

After the fun in the park we left and dropped off her poor friend that had to put up with us and we went to a market to grab some snacks and I had to do a special yarn tag.

In the mess of photos I've gotten from around the world one set i thought was funny were the ones of the apple, pear and potato wearing hats. (look at the post before this to see photos)

So in honor of them I give you bananas with scarf!

 

Thank you so much to Flora Nora for spending my birthday with me and for thinking of

bringing your camera! 

And thank you everyone that took part or are still taking part (sillys) !!!!!

(what do you all think anyway, please comment)

As aways, in randomness and yarn

YarnBomb Genny :)