Cotton Spinning

Adventures in Cotton spinning! 

I decided to try my hand at spinning cotton recently. So I hopped on ebay and ordered a sliver of, "Red, green and white" cotton.  I as very excited to play with it. 

I spin on a single treadle lendrum. Here it is covered with the cotton while I prepared. 

The staple of this is very short, and I found stripping it into very thin pieces made spinning it easier. It still came out just a little lumpy and bumpy, but I like it that way. 

Here is the single before plying. 

Still on the spool while plying. I love how it looks.  Once plied cotton needs to be boiled, to set the twist. I boiled it for about twenty minutes. 

Still wet after boiling. The color deepens after being boiled. Though once dry it wasnt a very dramatic change in color. 

Dried after boiled. 

And there you have it, if you have any questions feel free to ask. 

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For the Love Of Owls.

I am expecting a little girl in July, and I have decided to do an owl theme in her bedroom. So this week I couldn't help but craft something up. 

 Step one, gather supplies. I got a 16x20 stretched canvas, some pretty textured card stock. Also some glitter, and paint. 

Not shown was also a sharpie, and some scissors of course. After I painted the canvas my desired color. I cut out some construction paper letters to test what size I wanted them. That way I didn't waste any card stock. 

Then I used these test letters to make the card stock letters. I traced with a sharpie on the back side of the card stock, so no sharpie shows in the finished piece. 

Then I glued the letters down on the canvas and let that dry. While I did the fun part! Making the owls! 

I did the same process of making the letters, sketched the owls pieces on the back side of the card stock. Then cut each piece out and hot glued them together. The hot glue made each piece a little raised. I liked the effect. 

Put your owls where you desire and hot glue those suckers down. And tada finished! Its really easy. But looks so cool. I cant wait to hang it up. 

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