New to Me

(affiliate links to my designs)

I've been trying to add a little bit of variety to my Etsy shop, plus, experiment with new PoD (print on demand) products. I've been doing PoD for a few months now and have netted only a very few sales. But that's okay. Designing is the fun part.

I wish I could sew some of the PoD items I've designed. From my own Spoonflower fabric. I actually made a few backpacks as gifts for the kids I babysat back in the '80s. My corduroy backpacks with hand-embroidered embellishments (and recipient names) were a real hit. But I spend too much time cleaning up accidents and messes these days. I'll have to settle for PoD designs for now.

I've always hoped I could get into weaving one day (and knitting with my knitting machine that hasn't come out of the box since I bought it in about 1997). Lizard bought a loom for me for Christmas back in my Noro fettish yarn days, and I could NOT wait to use my most beautiful yarn on the loom. But the loom, too, has never come out of the box. When Lizard first gave it to me, I couldn't wait to use up my prettiest Noro yarn on my first weaving project. Well, at least I did get a Noro skirt knitted back then, mostly aboard public transportation. The Lanesplitter skirt sold at my very next craft fair. I think that was about 2012.

I did add one handmade item to my Etsy shop, but it isn't something new. I had one of my favorite Wave photos printed on Spoonflower polar fleece back the year or so after our incredible Wave adventure. The resulting fleece was gorgeous, but it seemed so plain. So I crocheted an edging. Then promptly forgot about it. Probably because we were so busy training for a Ride the Rockies or some 14er ascent... I'm trying to prepare to downsize at home, just in case we need to, and I came across this totally forgotten gem. Man, I could have been using it all these years!!!

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