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As I spin up the camel and gold wool I have a growing concern that there might not be enough of this batch to make the hat. Then I filled up the second bobbin, there might just be enough. I was planning on doing contrasting bands in the natural color. I did dye some uncarded [...]

My singles from the dyed roving are coming out a little fuzzier than I’d hoped. I’m  adding a little extra twist for a harder more defined yarn. Sometimes dying does a little to correct the texture, this time that was not the case– I’m sure I’ll live through it. Pretty sure at least. Today is [...]

I bought some lovely hand dyed and combed Suffolk wool muffins from Theresa over at Come Yarn Over, my new (and most favorite) LYS here in Klamath Falls. The picture doesn’t do the squish and softness justice. Theresa definitely has talent working with dyes and raw wool, and it was a delight to spin up [...]

I pluck it right from the tiny sheep in my living room. Where he got it was from FiberOptic on etsy. He’s a wise little sheep with very good taste. My other fiber order got lost in the mail. This is a 50/50 blend of bamboo and merino, handpainted in shades of brown, deep brown [...]

The two skeins on the left are from the same colorway as the one on the right. Superstition from FiberOptic. I just finished the two on the left (the one on the right is from before.) The new skeins are sock weight, and Navajo plied to keep the colors in solid blocks. I am also [...]

Things couldn’t be better. The Black Coffee roving from FiberOptic is almost sock yarn now. Please excuse the greenish hue, my camera does that under fluorescent lights. The greenish hue doesn’t exist in real life and I’m sure it could be corrected in Photoshop except that my attempts at correcting it turned out far worse [...]

I just don’t like waiting for it to dry when the torment is done. I’ve shocked it in hot water and cold, thwacked, soaked, and snapped the snot out of this yarn so that it’ll be as tough as the hubs of hell. All the torture has felted and blossomed it just a little, forcing [...]

Yummy yummy yarn guts. Doesn’t this look like fluffy shiny deer guts? The effect is far more realistic in real life than I was able to capture with the camera. I thank goodness that the smell is not that of authentic intestines. One of the things I like about dying silk is that it’s fairly [...]

I’m usually not so cranky with my color choices. Hindsight being what it is, I think I should have chosen something a little more uplifting than heathered gray merino to put on the wheel. During our morning errands I grabbed a set of paint brush pen things and a sketch pad for Lexi. I’m undecided [...]

Days really should be a bit longer shouldn’t they? (Pictured at left is the former Evil Clown roving, transformed into the kind hearted gypsy princess yarn.) It’s still winter and I live  in a valley. I should know by now that the day light will always be a little shorter for us, I just wish [...]