Patterns coming soon!

If you have been following on instagram, or Facebook and you are interested in purchasing our embroidery, filet crochet and crocheted apparel and home items patterns, you will be able to find them here. Thank you!  November 2023 Pattern

Farm supplies that we have found user friendly.

In April 2024 we will celebrate 8 years of farm stewarding.   This is an amazing privilege that the Lord has allowed us to experience.  We still have tons of ideas and plans that we are hopeful to successfully implement here.  Over the years we have always worked toward using tools and products that help us manage the farm as user friendly as possible.  Here are some tools that we have used:  maybe they can help your homestead as well.  

1.  The Nurture Right 360 incubator:  this incubator comes with the 21 space chicken egg turntable,  additionally quail, turkey and duck turntable.can be purchased.  We will list all three here.   Nurture Right 360 Incubator

2. 20 Egg Space Turkey/Duck Turntable

3.  Quail Egg Turntable 50 egg capacity

4.  Plastic  hotwire insulator posts:

Hotwire insulator posts

5. Teragate electric fence prewound reels.  These are proving to be very user friendly and helpful to us as we graze different parts of our property during different times of the year. We also like to keep our livestock separated for ease of managing them.

2 pack prewound electric fence reels

6. Barrel Stove Kit:  We have used this barrel for clean up on our farm and also for heating frozen hoses, so that we can continue to water our livestock.   Barrel NOT included. Barrel door Kit

Affordable tools for fiber arts

Designing and creating beautiful pieces does not have to break the bank.  These are some of the small and inexpensive tools that I find useful In creating with fiber.  This little pendant is beautiful and functional for quickly cutting thread and embroidery floss.  You can find it here Thread Cutter

For the bulk of my crochet projects I like to use SIZE H,  I will use size P for such things as purses and placemats.  This set gives a wide range and you can find it here:  Affordable Set Of Crochet Hooks

I recommend owning a Turkish Drop Spindle as well as A Top and A Bottom Whorl Drop spindle.  This is a nice little starter kit, and a great gift for your fiber artist.  Be sure when you are spinning, to draft out your fiber first, so that your yarn is not too bulky.  You can find this kit here Turkish Drop Spiindle Kit

If you would like to begin carding wool and spinning this is a very affordable kit.  Affordable carders and drop spindle

When you are ready, these carding combs are a bit more expensive, but they are a great resource! Ashford Small Cotton Hand Carders 

These next combs are definitely not needed at first, however they are a wonderful tool for making finer worsted yarns, and are used for getting out wool Nibs which are not wanted when making worsted yarns.  

Wool Combs

Thankful for this pile of scraps.

Thankful for this pile of rag strips.  Yes, a pile of fabric scraps is a tool that I create with joyfully in times of quiet, in times of waiting for the direction of the Living God.  He is my hope and my anchor and He is the author and finisher of all my days and my future.  He opens doors for me, according to His plan for my growth and for my being conformed to His image and quickened to His Corporate Body in the earth.  Thankful for this pile of scraps.  

About the tools that I use for fiber arts!

I have been working with fibers ever since I was a small child.  Crocheting was, for the most part, the secret world I would design and created and imagine.  As I grew in my skill I began to create things for other people in my family and in my community. This gave me great joy, as I was able to share an expression of love with others, through the things I had created in my home.  As the years went by, I created blankets and rugs and then I began creating clothing and heirloom banners.  In the beginning of this part of my journey, I found books to help me learn.  Throughout my fiber arts journey, I have found specific tools that have served the purpose of helping me to create the yarns and felt pieces I use in my designs.  I will soon start posting here the tools that I have used in the core of my creating.  I hope this is useful to others.  I will be posting on my Instagram each time I add another item.  These tools can be found on Amazon.  If you click on and purchase from my recommended list of tools and art products, I, as an affiliate will earn from qualifying purchases.  The tools that I recommend will be tools that I actually use on a regular basis and prefer.  Thank you for checking back.  Fiber Artist~C. Foley.

This year I have begun designing my own embroidery designs!  This has been very exciting to me, because I love to lift others up with encouraging words and colorful designs.  One of the tools that I have found to be very easy in creating and publishing my designs (coming soon)  is the Ipad Pro.  Yes this is an expensive tool, and there may be other tablets available, however, I have found that this tool, along with the procreate app has given me the freedom to begin a pattern by drawing it, and to save it as a pdf which is easily published and sent via email.  So the number one tool that I think has been worth the purchase is the 

iPad Pro (works with Procreate) to design patterns with ease

 If this is something that you would like to add to your artist toolbox please click the link above

I would also like to recommend this Ball under from Stanwood.  I use it to wind the yarn I make and recycle into center pull balls.

Stanwood Large metal Ball Winder

Another handy tool I use to count yards of yarn I have made and to wind the yarn is the

Stanwood Amish Style Tabletop Yarn Swift

Satisfying Stitches