I've been making these felted nesting bowls for a while now. Not long ago, I had a request for several sets and I spent some time knitting one bowl after another, while we were catching up on the last season of "Justified". We don't watch much television and have very little tolerance for all the time the commercials consume, so we had used our satellite provider dvr to record the whole season of "Justified". (Do you watch "Justified"? If so, please don't believe that all people from Eastern Kentucky are like that!) Anyway, this gave me several weeks of occasional, night-time, guilt-free knitting.
For me, one of the most enjoyable parts of making the bowls is figuring out the color combinations that I want to put together. Sometimes, I get on a roll and make several different colors in different sizes and then play with them until I find them interesting. I've been loosely naming the color combinations for the seasons, but maybe I need to branch out and use my imagination a little more?
I'm starting to work on getting my etsy shop back open with some handspun yarns, hand-dyed Tanglewood "Fresh from the Farm Yarn"** and a few bowl sets. Plans are coming together for an Open Barn at Tanglewood Farm Day, when the weather is a little more conducive to thinking about wool. That would be sometime in October, I'm hoping. (If cooler temperatures haven't arrived by then, you may be invited to a farm dispersal sale instead!)
**Check out the Echoview Facebook page today for a sneak preview of our fiber before it becomes "Fresh from the Farm" yarn. It's a wool/alpaca blend that will be overdyed to create some beautiful heathered shades.
I love the "spring"? set! Don't know what I'd use them for, and KNOW how dusty they'd get in my house, but love 'em still. :-)
ReplyDeleteThe bowls are lovely and you have great color combinations!
ReplyDeleteOk these are the most awesome felted bowls I have ever seen!! Love the bright colors and the nesting concept.
ReplyDeleteSo adorable!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful!
ReplyDeleteHello from another Justified fan! We just discovered it this season so we are behind on some of the background..we know it is fiction!! Love the bowls as well.
ReplyDeleteDiane-You should get the past seasons from Netflix and catch up. Lexington is the closest big town to us and where I grew up, so it's fun to hear all the name dropping of locations. Plus, Timothy Oliphant is pretty easy on the eyes! ;-)
ReplyDeleteLovely bowls, lovely happy colors.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful bowls. I use them at work to put small pieces in. They don't break, are pretty, and look great when filled with candy. Where can one buy your bowls?
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