a new crochet project & the granny square at newtown

I've started a new crochet project. I'm crocheting a hexagon granny rug for Emily.

I bought some lovely wool from a little wool shop I stumbled upon in Newtown recently, called The Granny Square. It has apparently been open for a while now, I'd just missed it on previous drives along King Street. The Granny Square is a cute little shop full of wool... think of an old fashioned candy shop, and replace the shelves of lollies with beautiful coloured wool. It's inviting and homely.

After chatting with the lovely lady serving in the shop, I found out The Granny Square is part of the Morris and Sons group. If you're in Sydney, that's the gorgeous wool shop in York Street, Sydney. That lovely lady I was talking to in the shop... her name was Ruth, and I'm thinking she owns the business after reading this page.

If you follow this link, you can read a little of the background of The Granny Square (the images seem to be missing, but the story is good). The Granny Square does have a website which has it's class schedule.

Anyway... back to the wool and my crochet project.

The wool Emily choose is called Morris Arabesque Sugar Plum, which is a lovely verigated wool with pink, plum, dusty blue and tan.

Here's a little close up of how the rug is coming along...

Thanks for dropping by, til next time...

Cheers

Fiona

bakers twine at ribbons galore

I've been re-photographing all the bakers twine which I have for sale at Ribbons Galore, thought I'd share all the new images here including the new colours which have just come in... such pretty colours for spring and summer!

Here's the individual spools, with some comparisons between the new colours and some older bakers twine colours.

   

New raspberry & white bakers twine (above left) and pink & white bakers twine on the right, with the two shown side by side below...

   

New peach & white bakers twine (above left) and orange & white bakers twine on the right. Peach and orange bakers twine comparision below...

 

New teal & white bakers twine (above left) and aqua & white bakers twine (above right). The two colours below...

Here's all the existing colours:

 

Red, pink & white bakers twine on the left, and red and white bakers twine (right).

 

Christmas bakers twine (red, green and white) on the left, and green & white bakers twine (right).

 

Blueberry & white bakers twine (left) and red, white & blue bakers twine on the right.

 

Purple & white bakers twine (left), brown sugar & white bakers twine (right).

 

Oyster grey & white bakers twine (left), black & white bakers twine (right).

 

Haloween (orange, black & white) bakers twine on the left, yellow & white bakers twine (right).

So that's it, the full set of colours currently available at Ribbons Galore.

If you'd like to see some creative uses for bakers twine, I have a Bakers Twine pinboard over at Pinterest if you're interested in seeing some ideas. I keep trying to add to it whenever I find a good idea for using it.

I just love using it to tie up my ribbon bundles these days...

 

Thanks for dropping by...

Cheers

Fiona x