Friday, January 30, 2009

sweet jane












sweet jane...and she smells so nice! Single spun thick and thin with lots of slubs...sparkle...spun with a hot pink cotton core, at times co-spun, and fuzzed with core. she's a gold digger, though and has bits of gold locks spun right in...roller derby sparkle spandex meets marilyn monroe (the pink years)


77 beautiful yards of merino, romney, polypay...all handwashed, dyed and carded!

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

metropolis







hello yarn...first of many to be featured here...the lovely metropolis. 72 yards of romney, merino and polypay...all hand washed, dyed and carded with sparkle here and there...single spun thick n thin with lofty bits of fluffy love. This yarn is deep, handsome, and soft...but not too soft...just like a good man....would make a lovely clutch, beanie or necktie (anyone?)

so...my camera is giving me a little trouble, and i apologize for any blur you may encounter...it is not my intention but rather a glitch in the settings on my ancient point and shoot that is begging to be retired.

i am spinning the female counterpart to metropolis, mmmm i love it...here are some photos of the progress so far!







Tuesday, January 27, 2009

grace the alpaca

its filthy, dirty, stinky...and so totally lovely, that I'm cheering it on to dry quickly so that i may spin it. interesting that it took about 3 times as many baths to scour this fleece...which will take me a week because I'm using the one pot method. See, with children around, a huge stinky soapy tub of fleece just isn't a good idea...for so many reasons...don't get me started. so one pot, with a handful of gorgeous locks and squeezable softness gets washed...that way i can keep a good eye on it and let it whisper to me its favored fate. so far, grace, wants nothing to do with sparkle, and most certainly nothing to do with that Romney or polypay...so maybe she'll be pure. a sweet simple knit for the warmest mittens, or baby longies.

Monday, January 26, 2009

this is the end

my fiber friends...


not going to do anything profound my first night...but soon this will be a place full of yarn gossip, wheel whispers, cursed dirty sheep fleece and much more....