Finding time to play.

Time to play seems like a luxury sometimes.
I find that if I don't make time to just play with ideas I freeze up- and my life feels like I'm just an observer.
Time to create is so important even the odd hour to rummage through my yarn stash and make a felt pouch just for no reason is joy to me.

Recently I've had the time, just for fun to enjoy playing with different yarns.
When I was rummaging through my yarn stash I found lots of old skeins of tapestry yarn left over from a kit.  The yarn is all pure wool so I knew it would felt easily.
I liked these wild bright stripes! It was such a change to knit with colours I've never put together before.

 The pastel blue pouch needed a friend

So next I made this one in busy pink stripes.

Some alpaca yarn was tempting me so next I made this cute soft white pouch.  The Alpaca was a very hairy yarn but it felted into a very smooth finish. I hand felted this one carefully because Alpaca felts very quickly and thoroughly

And lastly I had fun creating a design to make a brown Icelandic yarn pouch with a cream heart on it.

My play time grew into a couple of days messing about with colours and yarns, and now I feel reconnected and full of new creative ideas.
My little felt pouch pattern is winging it's way all over the world now thanks to Ravelry and I'm really enjoying taking some time to play with new designs and ideas to share as patterns and kits