If your interested.....

Thankyou so much for all you lovely comments, I am so chuffed people like my stuff. I think it feels like competition time again, so keep an eye out. Perhaps some sock yarn...

Anyway this is my ebay link if you want to have a look at my stuff for sale.

Back soon with a sock picture. :-)

I love my new camera.

At last, I can take decent photo', I snapped a couple really quickly this morning just before leaving for work, of the dyeing I did at the weekend, they are not very artistic, but they give you an idea. Most of the yarn is going on ebay.

This is yarn and fibres drying out and needing to be blended, close ups are next.

So here is some yummy sock yarn I dyed:

And here is some lovely soft aran weight yarn in the same colourway:

here is some silk boucle in the same colourway  I really love this stuff, is so shiny.

Can you see a theme occuring?? When i get a colouray I like I try it on all sorts of fibres to see what they look like!!

Up next is some Kid mohair in the same colourway:

Finally are a couple of pictures of other bits and bobs I have been dying:

My yellow and pink sock yarn:

And some pink kid mohair:

Glitch over!

Well, to add to the weirdness of yesterday, both the clocks in my house stopped. But today everything seems to have turned back to normal, and one of the clocks is ticking again so that's something!

So I'm not here to delight you with bizarre stories of my life, what I am here to tell you is, that I have made a decision not to go to the wool fest because it is 5.5 hours drive away, and I can't do it on one day, it's basically in Scotland, and Anth is twitchy about taking time off during the week because he is writing his PhD up........ OK so whats the news??? Well cause I'm not going, I could afford to purchase my new camera, which means photo's, photo's and more photo's so keep your eyes open for tomorrow's post, cause it's gonna be picture heavy!!!! YEAH!!!!

Blah - de -blah

It is definitely one of those days today. It has weird vibes about it, it just feels like there is a blip in the matrix.

Anyway I could post a whole long story about the sick man appearing from nowhere near the railway line, and the missing data from my experiments, that was there a couple of days ago, and that every order I put in for yarn today has been rejected because it's sold out. But I won't, it's all a little too weird.

Anyway I have been dyeing rather alot of goodies a the weekend and have tonnes of things I want to sell on eBay, so I can afford to buy my camera, however there is a slight hitch,  without a camera, I can't sell on eBay.

Now normally, I would have fished my credit card out and gone and brought the damned thing, but you know..... if there's a blip in the matrix, I think it's a sign, 'DON'T BUY A CAMERA TODAY'.

So I'm signing off before my computer blows up and go for my weekly massage.

Tuesday

Well, It's a whole week since posting, I can't believe time goes so quickly.

As usually, I've been dyeing and spinning, the weekend was especially fruitful and I managed to dye some fabulous sock yarns. Where's the photo's you may ask?? We'll I haven't made enough money yet to buy a camera, but I'm working on it. Plus Carmen is in Spain getting married - How selfish! (actually I am making my way to Madrid on Thursday to attend the happy event! YEAH!!) so Carl you need to come around and take some photo's for me sweetie!

So I'll tempt you with words until the pictures arrive.

So imagine you are in a very cold place and just as you were thinking about how much you hate winter, someone hands you a gorgeous warm jumper with the softest squishiest yarn, in purples and pinks, well the yarn I dyed on Sunday will be that squishy warm jumper.

Then imagine a grumpy gray day in need of colour and brightness, then you look down at your feet and see the brightest socks with oranges, pinks and yellows, mmmm, you can almost smell the oranges - my sock yarn will be those socks.

Then switch to a summer evening, watching the sunset with a glass of champers, you feel a little chili so you pick up your soft pink, pure silk boucle wrap with the most fabulous drape and wrap it around your shoulders, - my pure silk boucle I dyed will be that wrap.

Enough! Please! I want to knit now! :-(

Anyway I'm in the process of writing up Carmen's pattern, and the secret project is coming on in leaps and bounds. All will be revealed soon.

Pic's soon.

J xx

Tuesday

Well it's tuesday. Why does it feel like thursday or friday?

What have I been spinning carding??

Well, this is some bit's and peices I carded for Emma:

This is a scrummy blend of silk and kid mohair, I have spun some of this up and I can tell you now the yarn is beautiful!!

Secondly:

  This is a blend of merino, alpaca and kid mohair, it's so soft!!

And finally some merino and cashmere hand dyed and blended:

Hmm, What else??

Ahh yes here is a nice skein I made the other evening with some of the pink rovings from the last post:

I haven't really posted much about knitting have I? I have knitted up my noro into a wrap in siz 15mm needles, but really I have to get started on something for Carmens wedding the weekend after next!!

More photo madness.

So it was bank holiday weekend this weekend, which gave me a chance to do some more dying and spinning. Marie, Carmen and I had a lovely trip to Magor, despite that for some bizarre reason the shop we went to see was closed. So we went to Monmouth, a fabulous little town with a lovely little wool shop. We all brought something, and I couldn't resist some lovely Noro, although I can't remember the name of it, but it does have silk and cashmere in it.

Anyway with her Collinette Carmen made this:

Isn't it amazing???!!

I may try and coax the pattern out of her to post here, any interest?

So here is some (yes some!!!) of the dying and spinning I did over the weekend:

This went from this:

to this:

Yummy lace weight mohair.

  Silk and wool, probably suitable for weaving more than knitting because its very fine, but not that soft.

Some lovely soft merino roving's to spin.

  More fluffy merino.

Some Wendsleydale for spinning.

Here was some of the spinning:

This is Navajo plyed merino and cashmere.

More cashmere and merino.

And this which I am very very pleased with: Cashmere and merino smooth singles.

I just love this photo, on the left is my hand dyed sock yarn, it is sooooo soft!

Refer to the photo album for the rest!!

So I must thank Carmen for taking these pictures for me, I really appreciate it. I am desperate for a camera which will take adequate photo's, so here's my plan. I am going to save up by selling some of my fabulous products. I am starting to list some of them on eBay, if your interested here's the link: