Mira Design: cotton

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2010/04/24

Happy go knitty

I have now launched my new brand for all my knitted goodies.
They will sell under the name

2010/04/19

Colourful beanies

Big changes are coming for this blog,
but it will probably take another week or two...

In the meantime, here are some new beanies. Cute, eh!?

2010/02/26

Colours, colours and more colours

Last weekend we dyed even more yarn. Sometime you get really surprised

when you start mixing colours and/or putting in already dyed yarn.
Luckily we have no bad surprises just amazing, beautiful colours.

The purple to the left is a hot pink hank that went into the bright blue (middle).
It’s got lots of different pink and purple shades.

The short green one was an old kinda dirty yellow with some orange,
that I decided to redye. It also went into the blue bath and at first it looked like
a really ugly boring brown... But we left it in the bath a bit longer and after
washing and drying it came out a stunning olive with some brown shades in it!

The dark purple to the left are is a blue that went into a red bath
and then we poured in some more blue dye! The light one is just
a lighter shade from when the bath had cooled down.

I have some much beautiful yarn now that I will make into
kid’s beanies and other things. I will hopefully be back at the
Devonport Craft Market in a couple of months.

2010/02/13

Hot pink dye bath

Well, with all that cotton yarn and dyes lying around,
it’s difficult to keep my fingers off!

Today we mixed a hot pink bath and put in some unbleached and some
yellow from last time. And look! Different shades of pink and the yellow
hanks turned out in shades from coral to fiery red.

Stunning!

2010/02/10

Yellow and green

Mum and I dyed some cotton yarn in the weekend.
It’s so much fun!
And it came out beautiful, didn't it?

Some of the yellow will go in a red dye batch
and I will try some in hot pink, just for the fun of it!

Mum brought 4kg cotton yarn from Sweden.
Stay tuned.

2010/01/03

Pink, purple and blue

These 4 beanies now live in different houses here in Devonport.

I have heard back from the lady who ordered them for Xmas and the
kids really liked them. Phew!

2009/11/25

Xmas market

I had a table at the Devonport Craft Market Xmas Spectacular
on the 15 November. Here are some images from my table.

Kid’s beanies made of hand dyed cotton.
(The amazing shawl on the chair in the background
was made by my sister. I got it for my birthday. It’s lovely, isn’t it?)

Knitted merino cuffs, some with beads, some without.
And some knitted flowers on hair ties and brooches.

Kid’s necklaces – beads on a linen string, some with fairies or angels.

Beaded Xmas ornaments and wine charms.
My gorgeous daughter made me a sign for the Xmas ornaments.

I had a very good day at the market.
Met a lot of crafty friends and sold bits and pieces.

I came home from the market, tired but happy.
Made myself a cuppa and put my feet up.

Later that evening I received an email from a lady here in Devonport
with a custom order! She ordered 4 pairs of cuffs and 4 beanies! Yay!

2009/11/10

Pooh and Eeyore

Side effect of the swine flu
(Pooh and Eeyore decided to have Piglet put down)

Tapestry (16.000 stitches!) with knitted frame.
My own lovely hand dyed cotton yarn. 50x40cm

Knitted art

Say it out loud three, four, five times and listen to the words.
Isle of view. Isle of view. I...

Bead knitting, black cotton yarn with more than 1600 silver beads knitted
in to it. Stretched over a canvas and stitched on to it with metallic seed beads.
Fluffy yarn on the sides. 45x25cm.

Knitting with my own lovely hand dyed cotton yarn.
Fluffy yarn around the heart and seed beads on the inside.
Stretched over a canvas and stitched on to it with seed beads.
Fluffy yarn on the sides. 15x30cm.