Hi everyone, today I just wanted to share a little of something that makes me really proud of what I do...recently I have received photos of yarn spun from batts/fiber I have made/dyed!  The yarn is beautiful and I love when I get to see something I've made spun up by someone else!  Here is some yarn spun from a batt I sent to Jennifer after she won my blog contest I had on here a while back!

This was spun up from this batt:

Here is a yarn spun by my friend over at Wishfox Dyeworks from some baby alpaca I dyed:

Hi all..I'm going to share with you today some of the dyeing my friend from Wishfox Dyeworks and I did last week during a huge dyeing extravaganza we had!  We dyed so much and I'm going to include the stuff from my end and her pic as well if she lets me include it...so here goes!


Here's a bunch of random fleece and teeswater locks we dyed..(cormo, icelandic, border, and teeswater)

This is some mulberry silk brick we dyed:

These are a bunch of tops we dyed which are either falkland, bfl, or polwarth...

This is more random fleece, (cormo and cotswold x)

This is some milk protein fiber dyed for this month's Phat Fiber theme which is Ice Cream Social:

Here is the pic of everything dyed from her end...huge magnitude of everything crammed on her staircase!

We had so much fun dying all of this stuff!  We thought this would be a one day event, although it turned out to be more like 5 days of straight dying!  We definitely got a lot accomplished, but boy was it a lot of dying all at once!  =)

Hello all.  So, I have decided to try something a little bit different for my blog now.  In the past I have been simply posting a lot of the updates with my shop which I will continue to do, although I am thinking I would like to include some more about myself as well...

I'm not really sure how to begin so I think I will start with showing you all a piece of my home, or rather, my current fiber studio...

Here is my drum carder...yes this thing is a monster and I was not expecting it to be nearly this big when I ordered this!  My drum carder before this was the Ashford wild drumcarder which was maybe a third of the size of this...

This is how I figure out the colors I use in my batts...I put together an arrangement of colors I want to go together and then just add them as I go..=)

And this finally is my dye studio which actually was awesome for me to acquire at the time because before this I was working in the kitchen where my mom also spends her time doing her crafts and of course not to mention any sort of cooking/eating we might do in there which led to me constantly having to break down and set up my dying station again, which trust me...is a very large pain in the arse.

Anyway, so these are some pics of my fiber area at home...I will try to include some more at a later point, although right now it is in a state of disaster because I'll admit I'm not the most organized person, therefore you guys will have to wait until I get this area a little bit more under control.  =)

Hi, I just did the drawing for my contest, and after my mom did the drawing, the winner is JMO!  =)  I will be contacting you on your site which you left a link for as well, please convo me on Etsy so we can set up your $25 gift certificate!  ;)

So, this is going to be a somewhat long post because I have been slacking lately and have quite a few updates!

Okay, so first, I have been doing lots of work on my dying and here are some of the new things I have been working on:

I also have been working on making a few batts and using different photography strategies:

Finally, I still need to announce the winner of my previous contest...I am going to have my mom draw a name from the five entries out of a bowl today and I will be announcing that winner later tonight and contacting them.  =)

Hello everyone!  I have decided to post the new samples I'm sending over to Phat Fiber for the May Greek Mythology theme.  =)  I chose Artemis as my inspiration, (partly because of the new Hunger Games movie that just came out), and more samples and full sized versions are soon to come in my shop...

Hello all.  I know I don't really post much on here, although I have decided I want to try to post more from now on.  I haven't really posted anything because it feels somewhat odd posting when I know there isn't too many people out there who even know about my blog, therefore it kind of seems like I am writing to myself!  Anyway, I am going to write regardless.  First thing is first, I wanted to share my new shop updates.  I have been working hard on my dying...(until recently it hasn't seemed to be going my way), and now I have finally posted some dye jobs I can feel happy about posting.  =)  Here is some alpaca I dyed and just added:

 


(I really wish I knew of a better way to display these pictures! =/  Anyway, these are the dye jobs for the alpaca...I have also been dying some other fiber as well such as mulberry silk noil and some nylon shiny firestar like stuff.  I have decided not to sell those though, at least for now so I can use them for making batts with my own dyed material.  Here is a pic though of some of these dyed fibers all together...I took the picture while they were all still drying outside:

The plum and orange stuff is the mulberry silk noil, and the green and bluish purple are the nylon.  I can't believe these actually came out this bright!  I discovered citric acid crystals which definitely helped in this process...  I also made some batts I included in my shop, although I am going to wait until later today to post about those so I can try to keep my posts consistently being updated...so check back later for that..=)