Crafts and hobbies

things I do
when I don't have any better things to do
H-D handlebar

H-D handlebar

16 Sep 2012 421
Of course this thing had to be tested too.
17 Jul 2012 386
(early summer 2012)
17 Jul 2012 345
Peeling willow bark for plant dye projects. The shirt of choice..
24 Jun 2013 381
Matkustuspaita is becoming, in all senses of the word
Pipo

Pipo

06 Jul 2013 3 1 632
comes with silly looking pheasants and one mutated desert plant. Mostly made of plant dyed yarn including nettle, madder and alder bark with iron oxide. Very good time of the year to knit warm woollen garments.
Smena

Smena

22 Jul 2013 1 449
Tape repair before the upcoming tour of Northern Finland.
31 Jul 2013 1 374
Making the pheasant pipo was so fun I thought I'd make another one too.
08 Aug 2013 1 499
Peeling alder bark for plant dye projects
Resin

Resin

26 Aug 2013 1 3 512
Last year's spruce resin that was foraged from a fallen tree for various things; incense and balm, mainly.
Raspberry

Raspberry

18 May 2014 451
raspberry leaves for tea
Contact dyeing

Contact dyeing

01 Jun 2014 1 477
1st of June. Getting in touch with contact dyeing / eco printing a la India Flint. In the end it was easier to discard the sticks and just wrap the fabrics onto themselves. Also completely ignored the zen aspect of it and instead jumped on the bundles etc.
Contact dyeing

Contact dyeing

01 Jun 2014 433
Various eco dye bundles getting boiled.
Onion

Onion

01 Jun 2014 1 488
Dyeing cotton yarn with onion skins; by far the easiest method of natural dyeing, and the one I had never tried before. With wool yarn it produced everything between deep orange and golden yellow, and cotton yarn which got the rest of the bath turned out yellow - pale yellow.
Hey shirt

Hey shirt

01 Jun 2014 403
something will come of you.
137 items in total