Friday 3 September 2010

Updates!

Well, the sun stayed out long enough for me to take some pictures when I got back yesterday evening which made me so happy!

Au Naturel - 100g/345m Bluefaced Leicester sock yarn £9.00

Waterway
- 100g/345m Bluefaced Leicester sock yarn £9.00


These next yarns are 80% alpaca and 20% silk and it is the most beautiful, softest yarn with a beautiful sheen to it. Each colourway shown below has two skeins of yarn as each 100g skein has 262 metres which I, honestly, feel is not enough for a pair of socks. Because of this, I will be selling them in lots of two hanks, unless people particularly want just one. Two hanks are priced at £21.00 and one at £11.00.

Apricot jam - 100g/262m Alpaca/silk sock yarn £11.00

Fuschia party - 100g/262m Alpaca/silk sock yarn £11.00

Inversion - 100g/262m Alpaca/silk sock yarn £11.00

Harlequin - 100g/262m Alpaca/silk sock yarn £11.00

Rosegate - 100g/262m Alpaca/silk sock yarn £11.00

I hope you all enjoy knitting with these as much as I loved dyeing them!

Thursday 2 September 2010

Happy September!

I love September. Mainly because it means that Christmas is SO. CLOSE. (Although that means that I really have to pull my finger out and get on with the Christmas knitting.) But, also, because Autumn is coming, and I just love the short period of time when the leaves turn and the mornings are much crisper. Summer, my favourite season, is pretty much over. It's still quite warm out, but the mornings and evenings are far cooler now than they were just a couple of weeks ago.

The Bank Holiday weekend was far busier than anyone's long weekend should be. The Farmer's Market on Saturday was brilliant, and it was lovely to see Christina again. On Sunday I went to visit my friend Claire at her farm, and time just ran away with me! And Monday was spent dyeing LOTS of yarn. My space for drying is limited, so the hanks were in the airing cupboard to dry and, while it is relatively warm in there the heating is not on, (I refuse to put it on until next month) so the drying process has been slow. By the time I get home in the evening the light has all but gone, so I will be photographing all the skeins this weekend. This weekend I have a lot more to dye. I'm slightly upset that the fibre I ordered a week ago has not arrived. Yes, it was a big order but I have never waited a week for delivery. It's not as if I NEED it now, but the thought of the lovely squooshiness, which should be with me but is, in fact, either still with the supplier or squashed in a box all alone with Royal Mail makes me sad. What makes me happy, though, is that I will have some beautiful new yarns over the next couple of months, including alpaca/silk and merino/bamboo sock yarn . I love how the different fibres take up dyes so differently.

My alpaca is still on the bobbin, and I just nees to spin up some silk for plying. I also have a rather lovely camel/silk blend to spin, that I have been asked to make a scarf with. Whether I shall knit or weave it, I don't know yet.

Forgive my lack of yarn and fibre photos. I shall, instead, leave you with Schnarfums who managed to curl up in to a tiny ball and almost fit in to the brand new cat bed. Crazy creature...