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!

March Update at Eat Sleep Knit

I sent off some nice colors to Eat Sleep Knit on Saturday. We're hoping they'll get there today if the mail gods are feeling friendly. Most of them are sport weight but there are a few fingering weight skeins in there. It seems like the fingering weight is the most popular so I need to dye another batch of that this month.

Lots of pretty spring colors! There are two skeins of each color. And six skeins of the special ESK color.



I also have about three pounds of roving to process, braid and photograph for the Etsy shop (boy that other stuff went fast) and my milagro yarn was so popular I've had some custom orders for it! If you're interested in the Milagro yarn let me know I can make more. I have an order in for more milagros and have a variety of thread colors to go with the cream roving.

Valentine's Yarns

They said it couldn't be done..I spun yarn with chocolate. And Milagros. Whee!



I have all my valentine's yarns listed here.

January Updates

I was pretty busy with Shop Updates in January.