fuzzygoods

12:28am: yarn


http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZfuzzygoodsQQhtZ-1

warmers



a new hat




http://www.fuzzybumblebee.com

plus updated yarn and warmer archives
http://www.fuzzybumblebee.com/soldyarn/index.htm
http://www.fuzzybumblebee.com/warmerssold/index.htm

12:20am:

new hat with wristwarmers

a few others also at http://www.fuzzybumblebee.com

a bit of ebay experimentation
http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZfuzzygoodsQQhtZ-1

as well as hopping on the etsy bandwangon
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5004405

a couple dresses, wrist warmer sets, scarves, and a handful hats inches away from finishment and listination.

12:48am: Check out the yarn museum!

http://www.yarnmuseum.com/

The Yarn Museum is, initially, a virtual site whose purpose is to honor the artistry and beauty of handspun yarn.


Spin buddies: Join in on the gorgeousity and submit your images.

There are so many choices of fun shows to submit images for.

I think my fav is:

"Handspun + Surreal
Here you'll see images of handspun in unusual situations: posed with pets, hanging from trees, stuffed into and spilling out of glasses to imitate coffee...if you find yourself compelled to create such imagery, let us see! Open to most anything."

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

9:27pm: Me in the book Spin to Knit
http://www.spintoknit.com/



The book is filled with lots of very usefull information about spinning and using handspun yarn. I am very proud to have a page in it for myself.

My spinning and general yarny efforts have been thwarted lately by a bit of whiplash but I am going to conquer it and I will return with more spinny spinnerton action. I am going to be super careful and work on healing up real good like first though.

3:09pm: a great interview with my crochet hero James Walters

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art31632.asp

4:18am: 3 more yarns

mohair spun in the fluffiest manner with sequins and silver thread


sari silk and wool twisted with aqua and silver thread


a mish mash from my scrap fiber bag.
must start another scrap fiber bag.

all this spinning is keeping me sane.
http://fuzzybumblebee.com/yarn.html

10:49pm: after a sleep of 10,000 years.....
new stuff up at http://www.fuzzybumblebee.com/yarn.html

2 out of 4 pictured below



more to come too. it's boiling in a pot on the stove now.

this is the last of the most fabulous flax fiber. hopefully i will find some that fabulous another time in the future.
working through my lots and lots of sari silk.

it feels good to be back on the treadle again.
i have been doing more science than yarn art the past 1/2 year or more and it is time to turn that equation around.

6:51pm: Go here

http://crochet.toplisted.net/

I am towards the bottom. Click on my fuzzybumblebee site.
Not sure that I have anything to gain from a higher ranking, but this is all a big experiment anyways.

11:08am: Peaches Memorial
My dear friend's dear dear cat passed away. Months before she had colelcted hair and given me a big bag of the softerst, softer than angora hair.
Here is what I did.


Peaches herself.

11:25am: Since I spent a bit of time writing this out in response to an e-mail I got today, I thought I'd put it here in case anyone is interested.

Query I got this a.m.
" i really love ur work and im actually doing a project on u at art college(hope u dont mind!we r doing textiles)i am finding it really hard to find info on u e.g previous work ect i no an insparation is ana voog who i am also studying but where else do you get ur insparation from?as ur work is so unique!
thank u
if u have time i would be realy gratefull if u email me bk thanx 4 ur timex"

My response.
Glad you like my work.
Most of my textile work is up on my site. Prior to that I worked with music and with painting/drawing/print making, and I still do that stuff too, but I didn’t start doing much textile wise until I started to crochet in 2002.
I had learned to knit long ago but it never took off for me creatively.
In 2002, ana voog and I learned how to crochet together. We both wanted to learn so we invited people over to teach us. James Walters wrote an amazing book on crochet that a friend lent me. “Crochet workbook”
Here is his website. http://www.crochet.nu/scjwc/index.html
He was the first big inspiration to go into freeform crochet. I was lucky that I was learning along side ana as she is so creative.
The next big influence is Lexi Boeger of http://www.pluckyfluff.com
Her yarns were the first I saw that really were expanding ideas about what yarn is. She inspired both ana and I to take up spinning.

Over the past several years there have been more and more amazing crocheters and spinners that are popping up all over the place. My links sections has lots of them.

For inspiration, I am often most inspired by the materials at hand. I gather them around me and see what they want to be. I love the freedom of incorporating recycled materials and random objects.

I am a big fan of japanese street fashion, so I know that influences my work, as well as haute couture designers like alexander mcqueen and as four. The natural world is a big influence for me too. And the totally artificial shiny plastic world of the future. So I feel like I incorporate feelings from lichen and moss and sea creatures, as well as robots and space monsters.

Hope these ramblings help you out.

-Elaine

11:03pm: http://www.fuzzybumblebee.com

4:52am: one of my big projects last summer.
a wedding dress.

details at http://fuzzybumblebee.com/clothessold.html

7:36am: small update to site


and another yarn too
need to get pictures of other things too.
wedding dress.
more hats.
someday.

10:23pm: finally
At last I have listed the yarns that have been sitting here not getting enough attention.
I am proud of them.




And two others at http://www.fuzzybumblebee.com

Love to you all.

10:43pm: some of the new things at http://www.fuzzybumblebee.com



yarn and crocheted meatal necklaces to come whne i am back in town in september

2:44pm: i will have my stuff at an art sale on Saturday and Sunday.

Center for Independent Artists - 4137 Bloomington Avenue South - Minneapolis, MN USA 55407
Phone: 612-724-8392 - Fax: 612-724-8421 - cia@c4ia.org

http://www.c4ia.org/events/show_description.php?show_id=63

There is lots of good music going on while I'm there too.

11:33pm: people talking about me
http://www.crochetville.org/forum/showthread.php?t=9060

interesting.
there a couple quotes i would love to have on my site somewhere.

"Interesting. It's not my thing but it's pretty neat."
"That has got to be the most colorful and different stuff i have seen in a very long time."

I love the haters too.

"Oh yuk. I don't like the fuzzy stuff. It looks like they could have used this stuff for some pretty designs. Instead it looks like they used modern day freaks as models. Sure doens't show this yarn off too good. Could be pretty if someone was good at being creative, maybe."

And in my head I am laughing because all the stuff I have up there now is mostly normal compared to what is to come. I don't think I can really get mroe colorful, but I am definately doing more with texture and sculptural abstract shaping.

Someday I will finish pieces and take pictures. i promise.

4:02pm:
http://www.fuzzybumblebee.com

i adore this yarn. it is sparklier than it looks. and shinier. I can't stop scrunching and caressing it.
purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
but i sell it if someone buys it. i hope it makes someone else happy too.

6:57pm: 3 pounds of flax is on its way to me.
so there.
i loved working with it so much. i think everyone should try their knitting/crochet with flax. so i will contribute to this by spinning lots of flax as beautifully as i can and making it available to people.

6:55pm:
http://www.fuzzybumblebee.com
k?

7:40pm: 1 new yarn

http://www.fuzzybumblebee.com

i have now spun all my flax. must buy more.
i love it the most for spinning so far, but there are many many fibers i have not tried yet.

10:49pm:
me posing in my e dress outside first ave. Note the blue up? star.
loves to me sweet blue uppies.
and the rk is the end of the bjork star.
i am also wearing faerie warmers and have a 24 ply or some other rediculously high ply number yarn tied up in my head.

10:48pm:

10:48pm:

10:17am: hello. i will post here when i add to or update fuzzybumblebee.com