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I had a dream last night that I was living in this massive house with a big dye studio, in the middle of the welsh country side, and I was drinking oaky red wine out of these massive gorgeous big wine glasses by the fire with my bestest freind in the world. My dreams are always rather telling, perhaps its time to think about moving.......
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There are days when I slog my guts out and wonder why I don't give up and travel around the world and have no repsonsibilities, and then there are other days like today, when I get so excited about the gorgouesness I sell, that it makes it all worth it. Like the knitpics options bags from Du Store Alpakka. So if you are a shop and you would like to stock these please contact me and I will send you prices, if you would like to order some as a customer, either please contact your local shop, or you will be able to purchase them through the fyberspates shop. Want to see them?
OK here goes, I think the thing that delights me the most, is the knit picks options needle bags with little pouches for your knitpicks cables....
Inside the main bag are little pockets for the needle ends to go in, and perhaps things like small scissors etc, they are absolutely gorgeous, and are ethically sourced and produced in india They cost £36.70.
You can buy the pockets as well seperately if you want a few more, they come in 2's and are £11.89 for 2.
Secondly are the needle sets/ or bags you can buy them with or without the needles:
So cute:
The needles start at 2mm, then 2.5mm, 3mm, 3.5mm, 4mm and 4.5mm, there are also 6 of the smaller needles just incase you break one, not bad huh? With the needles and the case, its £37, with out the needles, the case is £10.20.
Next, oh yes, there is a next ;-) there are these cases with gorgeous double pointed (i.e. a hook at both ends!!!) crochet hooks with and again the cases are available with and with out the crochet hooks:
The hook sizes are 3.5mm and 4, 4.5mm and 5mm, 5.5mm and 6mm, 7mm and 8mm, and finally 9mm and 10mm.
The bags on their own are £10.20, and with hooks £34.50.
Yep, there is more to come....
Straight needle bag and bamboo needles:
These are lovely if you like straights,
The needles sizes included are 3.5mm, 4mm, 4.5mm, 5mm, 5.5mm, 6mm, 7mm, and 8mm.
The bags on their own cost £20.50 and with the needles £75.00
ok, So I will put them on the Fyberspates website, but please note, theywill be shipped out to customers in a weeks time because I need to place an huge order of them, lol!!!!!! But after that they will be permanently in stock.
ok, I am slowly getting all the stock back on the website from pally, that means lace, new colours of solid scrumptious, new mother of pearl buttons, du store alpakka, spindles, btu no fibres, I sold out completely!! lol oh and the new knitpicks cases from Dustore for the needles, I nearly sold out of these too!!!
so, I will pop some things on now, and keep adding photo's here so you can see the yummy scrummy things.....
Starting with the large mother of pearl buttons which are hand dyed and completley stunning, and come on so many colours, its vey very exciting.
I am so desperate for the new website to be finished, mine seems so clunky, its so time for the new one to be here, although it will be at least a week or so yet, but still, I can not wait.
ok here are some of the large buttons:
ok put about 4 kilos of lace on, there is more to come, but fed up of it now, lol!
more buttons anyone?
So we are having fun, as we always do at shows, Me, Elly, Amanda, Phil, Mr Wool, baby longlegs, and all have been having a blast, we had a minor trauma setting up because we arrived late and there was just a pile of boxes to unpack and we had from 8am until the show opened at 10am to set up, but we made it, and we are having a ball.
Per from Du store came and made a suitcase delivery of knitpicks needles in new gorgeous needle cases, specially made for them, and boy they are yuuuuuuuumy, the yarn has gone down a storm, so I am so excited about distributing Du Store, I feel very privaledged, and glad I have got such great feedback about the range. I will be selling the cases for the needles and the dpns, and crochet hooks from next week, but I will write a proper blog about them for you.
So, are off out for dinner, and I will try not to drink to much wine, lol,
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Always when I do shows there are so many things I want to make, but I never have time to finish all the little details and decorations, and fulfill all the cute ideas I have for yarn, but the weekend was perfect for doing all the things I normally don't have time to do, well actually, I did nothing on Saturday apart from sit in front of the TV in my pj's and cast on for the February lady sweater in my cherry Aran, its such a pretty pattern, I just had to, and read my Elizabeth Zimmerman books I bought in the USA, it was a super duper day, it was pouring with rain after all.
The yesterday Elly, Karen and I spent the day making things for the stand, Karen made lots of little mini socks, which are gorgeous to go on the sock peacocks and just hang around, and Elly wound lots of mixed skeins with the cashmere lurex and mohair's, for kits and little pretty skeins, they are so cute!! I will start doing them as a regular thing after Ally pally, because they are a bit special. And I made some tubes, printed patterns and signs, worked out all the prices for Du Store yarns, and I think apart from dyeing yarn today and tomorrow we are getting there. lol
OK
I might take some photos later to show you.
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ok, I don't know why, but I am on a total lurex trip at the moment, I can't stop buying things with beads, sparkles and lurex. Hence the new sock yarn which is coming.
But today I have something a little bit fun, Occasionally I get offered something a bit different, and if I am in the mood I buy up the whole stock, this time I only bought 20 kilos to try it out, but I have some lurex/cashmere/wool lace weight. Its spun in the UK, so even though I won't sell cashmere spun anywhere other than peru or here, I am a million time more happy if its spun in the UK.
As with all odds and ends of stocks, there is a mixture, we had some of the colours tested and some of the yarn is definately pure cashmere, and a small amount some has come up as a fine micon wool, but that was only the black, all of it is lovely and soft, but seeing as I can't 100% guarentee that its all cashmere I will sell it all at the same price. (I also don't know the yardage, but I suspect it ranges from 600m per 100gms upwards again depending on the colour)
Cinnomen sparkle
Black and silver
I intend to make some cute mixed yarn kits with this, but there is too much for just those, so we have wound lots of approximately 100gm skeins off and they are all going to be £7.50. I will keep adding them to the shop as we go today and the next couple of days. It a bargain treat for sure, perfect for a little scarf, or stole for a christmas outfit :-)
ok lastly, I have to show you this, remember my grape vine, well I have 3 of these on it, they are quite sharp, but wonderful :-)
ok and lastly...... new pattern for the lace yarns, its totally gorgeous..... and its called lynns diamond shawl, after the designer Lynn.
Didn't bother with the rain yesterday, I stayed indoors and did all the things I needed to do like get my VAT return finished, things ordered for Allypally, sorting transport and shipping for allsorts, and it was such a therapeutic thing to do, what a relief!!! All those things out of my head meant that I just slept so well last night, that I feel totally buzzing again today, probably the coffee is helping, foots stiff as hell, but will just make sure its wrapped up well for todays dyeing session, and the sun is shining in full today, so its just perfect.
So Elly and I are getting into good knitting rhythms, she suggested I stopped working in the nights and had some proper chilling time, and so I have been knitting, and I have been using my tilly thomas yarn, its totally lovely to knit with, silk is my favourite fibre ever, and I am desperate to have a pure silk top, well lots of them, but one would be a good start, so I thought I would show you my progress so far.....
and here is a clopeup of the fabric, with the little sequins...
And this is Elly's amazing arm length gloves she has been knitting, its chunky scrumptious in olive contrasted with a strand of her hand spun, its totally gorgeous, she is writing up the pattern I think and putting it on her blog soon....
ok, so for allypally we have some new treats, sparkly sock yarn, which I will show you some samples of later new scrumptious colours, which I cannot wait to see, (thats if they turn up in time, gulp), the gorgeous Du store yarns and wonderful buttons and accessories to go with it.
right better go and get dyeing,
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