A tour of my craft room

Cody was really helpful over the weekend! He fixed my spinning wheel so it can stand upright. It's not a travel wheel anymore but I can accept that. I don't really travel much with it anyway.

He also bought some really nice wire shelves for my studio/craft room so I can have more storage space!



Don't they look great? Somehow putting the cones of yarn on them made them look really useful and professional to me. I actually had a chance to reorganize a few things Monday and I thought this was the perfect opportunity to take photos of my craft room for the blog. It's not super fancy but I like it.

This is my comfy hand-me-down chair from my in-laws. The skeinwinder is on the matching ottoman on wheels and I roll it around where I need it. The smaller bookshelf was a hand-me-down. So was the desk and the desk chair. And even the bighuge crazy hdtv was a hand-me-down! I don't have to feel guilty about a thing if I mess something up.



This is my dye studio on wheels


All my dyes and pots, dropcloths, gloves, and everything are in these bins with wheels on them and I just roll them into the kitchen to dye. When I'm done I roll everything back in here. Someday I'll install sinks and heating elements somewhere more permanent but since it's just me and my husband in the house - nobody cares really.

Since I'm sure you're wondering: of course I have a crazy personal yarn stash! And a fabric stash. And a bead stash. And a spinning fiber stash. I can usually get it all in this closet and even close the door. I've been trying to be a lot better with the purchases this year though. I think I definitely have that famous "stash accumulation beyond life expectancy" thing happening.



I have several other photos of the room in order with some more descriptions in a flickr set I created.

This time last year we called this The Scary Room. It was full of junk and an old treadmill and we couldn't get more than four feet in the door. Now I actually run my small business out of it and have a lot of fun spending time in here.

Summer Colors sent to Eat Sleep Knit

First off, the fingering weight sock yarn is up at Sonny and Shear now so yay!

I'm sending a big box of 74 skeins of sock yarn to Eat Sleep Knit today :D I tried to make some nice summery colors and (do my best to) repeat some of the old favorites - including Garden Party in sock yarn for the first time!



Here's a guide to the colors
1. Tasty Candy (6 skeins)
2. Eat Sleep Knit (10 skeins)
3. Green (5 skeins)
4. Topiary (5 skeins)
5. Mint Chocolate Chip (6 skeins)
6. Baby Girl (4 skeins)
7. Around the Bend (6 skeins)
8. Around the Bend (6 skeins)
9. Man with a Guitar (5 skeins)
10. Garden Party (6 skeins)
11. Cute Bikini ( 3 skeins)
12. Sour Candy Rock (6 skeins)
13. Grapefruit Breakfast (6 skeins)
14. Berry Tart (6 skeins)

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Cody helped me name some of these and I think he was hungry. He also fixed my spinning wheel this weekend so I finally get to spin some yarn again!

Sonny and Shear Fingering Weight

I shipped off a box to Sonny and Shear yesterday with fifteen skeins of fingering weight. There are four colors available.



1. Sax and Violins (four skeins)
2. BettaFish (four skeins)
3. Savoy (four skeins)
4. Rosewood (three skeins) - there's a fourth skein with too many knots that I'll put up for sale in my Etsy shop as a second.

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Most of the sport weight yarn at Sonny and Shear is sold now :)

I'd come up with a genius alternative plan to get some Louet fingering weight yarn since the dye yarn was still backordered. Not telling my secret though, in case I have to do it again.

So on the day I shipped this order out I got a notice from Louet that my backordered yarn had shipped. LOL Well at least I'll have some of that in stock for the next order.

Today's dye session

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Omg it's louet fingering weight!!
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New Roving on Etsy this weekend

I have five roving braids ready to add to Etsy this weekend. Here's a preview!


1. Sea Shanty is 3.7 oz Blue Faced Leicester Wool Roving, 2. Bruised Gin is 3.7 oz Blue Faced Leicester Wool Roving , 3. Maplewood is 7.8 oz Blue Faced Leicester Wool Roving, 4. Carlotta is 4 oz Blue Faced Leicester Wool Roving, 5. Cylinder is 4 oz Blue Faced Leicester Wool Roving , 6. Cylinder is 4 oz Blue Faced Leicester Wool Roving

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Let me know if you want to reserve one of the braids!

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.

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