Eat Sleep Knit Aran Weight

Shipping a box of 60 skeins to Eat Sleep Knit tomorrow! Some were special orders from Ravelry friends :)



1. Garden Party dye lot 2 (four skeins available)
2. Livet (four skeins available)
3. Signal (four skeins available)

4. Purple Prose (four skeins available)
5. @ the beach (four skeins available)
6. mucho macho (four skeins available)


7. Australian Expressionism (four skeins available)
8. Isle de Capri dye lot 2 (four skeins available)
9. Juicy Dye lot 3 (four skeins available)


10. Candy Rock dye lot 2 (four skeins available)
11. Flamingo Boogie (four skeins available)
12. Vandy's Variant (two skeins special order may be already sold)


13. Vandy's Vision (two skeins special order may already be sold)
14. Full Spectrum dye lot 2 (four skeins available)
15. Full Spectrum dye lot 2 (four skeins available - same color just skeined differently)

16. Taos Sunrise (four skeins special order, some might be sold)
17. Taos Sunrise (four skeins special order, some might be sold)
18. Indigo Superwash fingering weight (four skeins available)

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A good day to dye

A good day to dye, originally uploaded by Noelle Noodle.

sent from my blackberry

Sport weight is up at Sonny and Shear

Just a quick note that the sport weight yarn is listed on Sonny and Shear now :) I'm still waiting for louet to stock its fingering weight so I can dye that for her too. Damn guys it's been like two months.

Tiny Etsy Update and A Tinier Spinning Lesson

Just a quickie update to the Etsy Shop this weekend. Here are two roving braids of handpainted Blue Faced Leicester.

The first one is Ancient Oaks with some rich russet browns



This one is called Love Me or Leave Me and has lots of the white space I'm sure you've noticed I love playing with.



Depending on how you spin that will produce either very light shades of color blends or a barberpole effect. I usually go with the barberpole effect, here's a good example of what I mean by that term.



The way I get that effect is pretty much using the inchworm technique of drafting without letting the colors blend then letting go of my hand closer to the wheel and let the colors twist back on themselves.

Sonny and Shear

Yep! I'm selling yarn to a new online store, a great one called Sonny and Shear, The I've got Ewe, Babe Yarn Shop. My supplier is backordered on fingering weight yarn, grrr! But I did get some Sport Weight dyed and shipped out to Kris on Monday. There are sixteen skeins in all, 250 yards in each skein. They're a nice buttery sport weight. I'm using a new dye so I've managed to get some great vivid colors going.



1. Bevan (4 skeins), 2. Sonny and Shear (4 skeins), 3. Everglades (2 skeins), 4. Cross Creek 2 skeins), 5. Moroccan Nights(4 skeins), 6. Moroccan Nights (4 skeins)

I've been really inspired by those crazy Araucania Ranco Multi yarns lately. Their colors are just SO INSANE! Their skeins aren't reskeined after dyeing, but I can't stand not reskeining my yarn after it dries. It just looks so much prettier that way. The reskeining debate is actually a big one in the yarn dyeing field.

My electric skeinwinder has made the whole process a lot faster so really the most tedious part in the whole process for me is twisting the skeins so they look pretty. I have a hard time with that with my bum wrist, I've started using some metal size 13 knitting needles to hold both ends and that helps a lot.

Today I'm waiting for 50 skeins of Aran weight yarn to arrive today to dye up for Eat. Sleep. Knit. I'm hoping to have that done by May 1st. Hopefully! Hurry up DHL I need to get to skeining!

April update at Eat Sleep Knit

I'm shipping out 30 skeins of fingering weight superwash yarn to Eat. Sleep. Knit. tomorrow! Here's a preview. There are 4 skeins in each color except the first yellow one which has two.



1. 2 x Harvest, 2. 2 x Harvest, 3. 4 X Sakura, 4. 4 X Sakura, 5. 4 x Man with a Guitar, 6. 4 X Man with a Guitar, 7. 4 x First Thaw, 8. 4 X First Thaw, 9. 4 X Juicy, 10. 4 X Juicy, 11. 4 x River Rocks, 12. 4 x River Rocks, 13. 4 X Bollywood, 14. 4 X Bollywood, 15. 4 x Cinco de Mayo, 16. 4 x Cinco de Mayo

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Finally some spinning fiber!

It's late and I'm having trouble sleeping so I thought I'd post some photos I edited today of the roving I'll be putting up in the shop this week.

The pink and green one is already sold. I usually list one a day to keep my shop in the top listing at Etsy so let me know if you want to reserve one before it goes up! Some of them haven't been named so just tell me the colors or the weight from the flickr set details.



This is not all of the roving I have, just what I finished processing and braiding. I decided to just photograph and list what I had ready to go. But there's more. Oh yeah there's like an organizer binfull of more. And more ecru roving on the way from Louet too.

Cool news: I'm going to be sending 30 skeins of fingering weight sock yarn every month to Eat.Sleep.Knit.! I'm busting my butt to get a shipment out by April 1st. Hard work but really exciting!