I missed June...

but Happy July! LOTS of things have been going on, very good, busy things!

First of all, I got accepted to vend at the Michigan Fiber Fest in August!!! I am so excited! This will be my first time vending, so I've made my list (actually several pages of lists) and I'm plugging away at to get ample supply of both my regular line and OOAK batts made. If you're going to the festival, check out my booth and say Hi, I'll be in the back barn!

How about some Dyeing updates?

I bought some new dye colors and had to try they ALL out immediately. Love them!!!


I was interested to see how well some medium brown alpaca I have would overdye, Here is the results of that experiment:

The back right is the natural color of the alpaca, the back left is how the same dye concentration turns out on white merino, and the front is the overdyed alpaca. It's good to know I can get a variety in tones using this process!

Also, the weather was so nice and HOT this weekend I decided to give solar dyeing a go! HUGE success!!! I will be posting a tutorial on how I did it, low budget, very soon!

Raw Fleece anyone?!

I made my yearly trip to the local alpaca farm to pick up my loot on June 13th! I get what I get, no picking and choosing colors, but the deal is so amazing I can't pass it up! Here's the haul from this year!

Some of it is already off to be processed, some of it is waiting on blending decisions to be made, and about 10 fleeces or so will be available for sale raw in my booth at the fiber fest!

I also purchased a WONDERFUL Coated Cormo Fleece from Spinning Dreams Farm in Kentucky. I am absolutely amazed at this beautiful fleece!!! Customer service, shipping/packaging, and the quality of the fiber is above and beyond expectations! How about some pics?! This is Lucy:

Gorgeous huh?! It's already off to be processed into Pencil Roving!!! Cormo Pencil Roving, how exciting is that?!

Well I guess that's all for now! I will be posting again soon with the Solar Dyeing Tut. Have a happy 4th of July!!!

My week in Pictures! (Reverse Order)

Fiber Friday! My favorite yarn of the week from Jazzturtle's My Little Pony SAL! I plied with some metallic silver bling yarn and added about 2oz total of 4 different colors hand dyed merino and when I came to those stripes of color I made HUGE granny stacks! I had to push them through the orifice on my Lendrum jumbo bobbin then were so big! There are random coils in there too and some humongo spots of glitz and bling! I think I got about 100 yards in the 2 skeins.
Fun with the puppies in the yard Thursday!


Shop Update Wednesday!

Nap time Tuesday! (Sydney)
Hammock Monday! Hubby in MY (early) Birthday present! Garage sale find for $50 including the stand!!!

Shower Sunday! Had a Bridal shower for Nichole in the morning and a Baby shower for Emily in the afternoon! Here are me and my girls (minus Katie who didn't make it home)

...and on of the Baby Blanket I made for "Baby Boy" Glass!
Good Week! Have a nice weekend!!!

More Batts!

Now that the drum carder is fixed I can't stop! Here's the latest batch!!!

Back in Action!

My Drum Carder has had a broken part for the last 2 weeks and it finally came and I fixed it over the weekend! YAY!!! Here are my latest batts.

Where in the world have I been?!

I haven't been a very good blogger...or photographer lately. Sorry. :(

I am going to challenge myself to take a picture everyday in May and blog it! Some might still be fiber related, but I am going to strive for non-fiber, ie. Friends, Family, the Dogs, Flowers, SOMETHING everyday! Should be fun!!! Maybe it will get me out and about more too, searching for new and interesting things to photograph, heaven knows there are enough beautiful things (and unique things) to take pics of in our area!

What's Up Doc?

This weekend was kind of busy so no carding got done :( I did write down some ideas for batts that I hope to make during the week! One includes LOTS of Firestar and Sari Silk!!! I did dye up some rovings, Merino and BFL choices in the same colorways, and hope to list those this week. I am also in the process of dyeing up some colors of firestar with matching merino! I have been trying to work on measuring and labeling my yarns and also hope to list some of those this week as well.

I have an event to attend this Saturday at a LYS in Holland, MI. My spinning group is going to be there spinning and Coby of CJKopecCreations and I will be carding up some batts. The LYS, Lizzie Ann's, is hoping to start carrying spinning wheels and spinning supplies, so maybe they will want to carry my batts! *crosses fingers* This is an “intro to spinning” type event and should be pretty fun!

How about some pics?

Recent Batts:

Recent Yarns:

It's February

It seems I only do monthly updates to the blog...sorry about that but I don't really see it changing much. So what's new?! Well for starters my etsy shop was a featured "Yarn Pron" on Lime and Violet's Podcast Episode 80!!! I am super excited and thankful to them for squealing about my goodies! Check them out here:


So what else?! Nothing really, just doing the normal...spinning, carding, and knitting! Sorry this is such a boring post, thought I had more...maybe February will be a two post month...but don't hold your breath! lol OK how about some recent project pics? (That the fun part anyway right?!)