Dyeing for Kid n Ewe!

The dyepots have been in overdrive getting ready for the Kid n Ewe Fiber Festival. I have quite a bit planned, including a couple new yarn bases that will be available for the first time at the show, and of course there will be gradient yarns, self striping yarns, project bags, and stitchmarkers. I will also be teaching a class on drum carding if you want to learn how to make batts. Find more info about classes available at Kid n Ewe, or to register to attend a class, visit their website.

This weekend I dyed over 40 skeins of yarn, here are a few of them hanging to dry...

I also listed a couple new gradients in the shop (a bit of a preview to skeins that you will see at the fiber festival)

"Legend" on Melody DK

"Capricorn" on Twinkle Toes Sock

Hope to see you there!

Tour de Fleece, Days 9-12: Fractal Spinning, singles, and rest day

For days 9 and 10 I fractal spun this beautiful superwash merino from Western Sky knits.

I also spun some superwash singles on day 10, Hallucinogenic Lipstick from Lylian Mae Fiber Arts, going to let these rest for a couple days and chain ply I think.

Day 11 was a "rest" day so I dyed some yarn, and worked on sewing project bags, just need to add drawstrings to these...

Day 12, today I spun some merino from Spun Right Round, this is a colorway called "Pixie", not the best picture of the colorway though as there is also a bit of teal-blue hiding in there...

Tour de Fleece day 8: Plying Polwarth

Day 8 of Tour de Fleece was a major plying day, 12 oz of polwarth singles all plied. Is it rest day yet?

Tour de Fleece: Day 7, Polwarth!

More polwarth singles today (top left bobbin is holding my leftovers from plying for making scrappy skeins)...

Tour de Fleece: Day 6 Polwarth singles and project bags

Day 6 of the 2012 Tour de Fleece and I spun about 6 os of polwarth singles from Woolgatherings (4 oz pictured) Somehow this fiber looks much more rainbowy in the singles than it did to me in the braid.

I also got six new project bags listed in the shop, a couple even have windows. Here's a little preview of some of the new prints.