I realized that since I do a variety of things my post titles get very muddled looking. I don't like confusion, especially when I'm looking at my own blog! So, I'm going to re-title all my posts with headers that are prefixed with:
Dyeing:
Knitting:
Sewing:
Jewelry:
Article on [insert category]: [insert title]
I think it will be much, much easier for me to re-find my information and for others that are reading to be selective about which categories they read about. However, I'll have "regular" titles for posts like this one. I'm also going to spell check, since, in re-reading, I've found I've made some pretty funny typos, which, I presume, is going to happen at 4am.
So, feel free to read about everything I do, because some part will be interesting. Right?
LOL
Showing posts with label jewelry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jewelry. Show all posts
8.12.2007
7.24.2007
So now I begin!
Dahara Dreaming is my love-child idea for a company that offers handmade goodies by mostly stay-at-home (SAH), work-at-home (WAH), or work-outside-the-home (WOH) mamas. I'm in the WAHM category for the most part, though I view being the SAHM the more important aspect.
I've got a fantastic mama, Lissi D., a WAHM herself, and her husband working on the website, http://www.daharadreaming.com/ (of course!), so that I can begin selling the amazing goods that I and other mamas have created. I mainly work in jewelry, sterling silver and gold filled (THE next best thing to a gold product), as well as knitting, dyeing yarns, and sewing. I like to keep busy and I like to share in the income contribution so I combined my love of the creative (see above) and my modest business sense, and I'm following it where it leads!
In the meantime, while I wait for the website to come along, I will begin chronicalling the frenetic quantity of projects I am currently working on. It's what I do. When the site is up and running and selling the goods of other mamas, they too will be doing their own blog as they so choose - both for DaharaDreaming and for themselves.
Currently in the works:
(1) Sewing with a purpose
My challenge to myself to cut and sew 50+ items for myself, my daughter, my spouse, and whatever else has been requested. Since I hate pinning and cutting, I decided to do ALL of that first. It has been a first rate pain in the ass. But I look fondly at the pile growing before me and know that soon I will be using my lovely serger and sewing machine, and it keeps me going. I am currently about to begin cutting peice #41 - YES folks, only 10 more to go and out comes the machines. Thanks goes to my friend Rachel B. who gave a name to my mad method, one I will repeat, but in slightly smaller quantities.
3.b -- A pair of socks for my brother. He was in the Air Force Reserves, so I am knitting him a pair of very warm house socks in Peace Fleece Blue, Peace Fleece Red, and Knitpicks Wool of the Andes (WOA) in Cloud. There will be a somewhat matching set for his lovely wife, and their son. Cheesy, eh! I got the yarn at coop prices and most pleased with it, having never used Peace Fleece before.
3.c -- "Nebula Spiral" wrapo for me in a gorgeous Pure Wool extra super bulky weight yarn that I ended up having no use for, as I sincerely understeimated the extent of "bulky". It will be so very warm, and I think it will be nice. This too I was able to purchase at coop prices, so am pleased that it will find some use, and be quite beautiful in the process.
That's all I have now. I'll be doing some new jewelry pieces in about 2 weeks and will post on that as well. I'm trying some new exciting things. Insomnia doth have its benefits.
I've got a fantastic mama, Lissi D., a WAHM herself, and her husband working on the website, http://www.daharadreaming.com/ (of course!), so that I can begin selling the amazing goods that I and other mamas have created. I mainly work in jewelry, sterling silver and gold filled (THE next best thing to a gold product), as well as knitting, dyeing yarns, and sewing. I like to keep busy and I like to share in the income contribution so I combined my love of the creative (see above) and my modest business sense, and I'm following it where it leads!
In the meantime, while I wait for the website to come along, I will begin chronicalling the frenetic quantity of projects I am currently working on. It's what I do. When the site is up and running and selling the goods of other mamas, they too will be doing their own blog as they so choose - both for DaharaDreaming and for themselves.
Currently in the works:
(1) Sewing with a purpose
My challenge to myself to cut and sew 50+ items for myself, my daughter, my spouse, and whatever else has been requested. Since I hate pinning and cutting, I decided to do ALL of that first. It has been a first rate pain in the ass. But I look fondly at the pile growing before me and know that soon I will be using my lovely serger and sewing machine, and it keeps me going. I am currently about to begin cutting peice #41 - YES folks, only 10 more to go and out comes the machines. Thanks goes to my friend Rachel B. who gave a name to my mad method, one I will repeat, but in slightly smaller quantities.
(2) For Dyeing
My first "official" foray into the dyeing world. This is complicated - these projects are for my grandparents. Matching hats and scarves. One of which will be mailed to them for Grandparents Day (Sept. 9), the matching component for Christmas. What I did was take 3 skeins of Worsted Weight Superwash from Knitpicks, unwind them, and then wind them into one VERY LARGE skein so that I could dye with greater gradation control. I have done this three, count them, THREE times. It is very time consuming with no swift, but grants a decent amount of exercise. I have also done it a fourth time with 3 skeins of Knitpicks' Bulky Weight. I love fondling such a large quantity! Photos of the dying will be posted as soon as I get my bottom to the thrift store for some very large pots.
My first "official" foray into the dyeing world. This is complicated - these projects are for my grandparents. Matching hats and scarves. One of which will be mailed to them for Grandparents Day (Sept. 9), the matching component for Christmas. What I did was take 3 skeins of Worsted Weight Superwash from Knitpicks, unwind them, and then wind them into one VERY LARGE skein so that I could dye with greater gradation control. I have done this three, count them, THREE times. It is very time consuming with no swift, but grants a decent amount of exercise. I have also done it a fourth time with 3 skeins of Knitpicks' Bulky Weight. I love fondling such a large quantity! Photos of the dying will be posted as soon as I get my bottom to the thrift store for some very large pots.
(3) Knitting
3.a -- A tank top from Knitty.com, "Soliel". My lovely friend Janessa did hers in a gorgeous dark lilac cotton, and it was very flattering, so here I go. I am lengthening it a few inches so that should it fit, it will look more appropriate proportionately. Done in Navy with Plymouth Yarn's Dreambaby D.K, 50% acrylic, 50% microfiber. Very soft. The yarn was extraordinarily cheap, having purchased it at a yarn shop that was closing. Also, since this was my first foray into an actual item of clothing, I feel assured that if it doesn't fit, I won't care much. At which point I will then I happily sell it with some gorgeous beading around the hemline.
3.a -- A tank top from Knitty.com, "Soliel". My lovely friend Janessa did hers in a gorgeous dark lilac cotton, and it was very flattering, so here I go. I am lengthening it a few inches so that should it fit, it will look more appropriate proportionately. Done in Navy with Plymouth Yarn's Dreambaby D.K, 50% acrylic, 50% microfiber. Very soft. The yarn was extraordinarily cheap, having purchased it at a yarn shop that was closing. Also, since this was my first foray into an actual item of clothing, I feel assured that if it doesn't fit, I won't care much. At which point I will then I happily sell it with some gorgeous beading around the hemline.
3.b -- A pair of socks for my brother. He was in the Air Force Reserves, so I am knitting him a pair of very warm house socks in Peace Fleece Blue, Peace Fleece Red, and Knitpicks Wool of the Andes (WOA) in Cloud. There will be a somewhat matching set for his lovely wife, and their son. Cheesy, eh! I got the yarn at coop prices and most pleased with it, having never used Peace Fleece before.
3.c -- "Nebula Spiral" wrapo for me in a gorgeous Pure Wool extra super bulky weight yarn that I ended up having no use for, as I sincerely understeimated the extent of "bulky". It will be so very warm, and I think it will be nice. This too I was able to purchase at coop prices, so am pleased that it will find some use, and be quite beautiful in the process.
That's all I have now. I'll be doing some new jewelry pieces in about 2 weeks and will post on that as well. I'm trying some new exciting things. Insomnia doth have its benefits.
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