Natural fleece

clockwise top left: comeback single, corrie x merino lamb single, merino hogget single, finn x suffolk sheep.
(excuse the grainy mobile phone photos)

Since moving house and many bags of raw fleece – i have been actively trying to get through all the fleece and wash and card and spin it.

it’s been great – each week i am washing at least 400 grams of fleece and in the summer heat finding it drys almost immediately – so instant gratification there

when i started spinning i had the urge to try to spin every breed of sheep.

hence the accumulation – i am nowhere near spinning some fleece from every breed, but gave it a good try!

my favourite would have to be the corriedale x merino lambs fleeces – especially a fine chocolate brown [hard to see in the pic above but divine to wash and spin], i love the little curly ends on lambs wool.

i have been either spinning from the lock or handcarding the fleece into rolags and the n predrafting it out – it makes it very esy to spin evenly.

loving it

On holidays

Grandad’s beanie

Knitted in the round using dk English Leicester yarn from Tasmania – lovely yarn.

Leetle baby hat knitted in the round using my own hand dyed organic fine merino top that I spindled into a light 8 ply yarn.

A batt that will be something warm and interesting

Lakeside spindling
Organic dyed superfine merino

A night of plying…

All those singles are now matched. Itchy knitting fingers!!

Moving…moved

It’s been a while since I have had the time to update here with pics.
We have almost completed the mammoth task of moving house and office, I say almost because we are still living out of boxes.
Which is all good the holiday rain whilst keeping us all indoors has meant searching through boxes of yarn and dyed pretties, I found bags of singles waiting to be plied and used.

machine knitting…

I have been creating fabrics on my beautiful Singer 200D…

This is a silk piece i trialled last week.

Off to the Village Life Market this weekend

It’s been a long few weeks – I missed the last Village Life market due to my car breaking down – but I have been productive, there are some new hand-dyed yarns coming along to the market on Sunday, I have to admit I did pinch skein of squishy 12ply and made 2 pairs of nappy pants – it was hard to resist!

Also being prepared are some more hand-dyed fabrics, over-dyed 2nd hand clothing, & some kids and adult twirly skirts that are soaking up some dye right now.

’twill be fun I shall be there from 8 am til 12pm

it’s raining

it’s raining – i am in the middle updating/converting  three webplaces and found this posted on facebook aka the great timesink

http://cobaia.net/2010/09/top-funny-source-code-comments/

i love it – i am hardly a code extraordinaire but when i see onscreen blank space and akeyboard is plugged in, i like to type whats in my head

some organic rainbows

this weeks dyeing, drying before the rain came…

the end of autumn

Custom dyes [and overdyes] for Vanessa

My personal challenge – a totally handspun from fleece jacket – i think it weighs 1kg already !!

Mohair, merino and camel