Fyberspates

I don't need a man because............

Its true, I don't need a man because.......... wait for it............Oh Yeah BABY, I have rented a rug doctor!!!!!!!!!! Its amazing, I can't stop cleaning all two of my carpets in my other wise wooden house, which means they are a little wet now, still, thats the small price you have pay for addiction.

The evidence of my drinking and debortury has vanished, no longer will people wince at the red wine stains on my cream carpet.

Who was the stupid person who invented 1. carpets, and 2. cream ones and 3. put them in my house??? Nothing remains cream around me for longer than about ten minutes, especially when I've had a glass of wine and I am animated!

Man, it was so therapeutic this morning watching my minging carpet come up nice and bright, I have to confess that hoovering is something I actually like doing, when I was a kid, (eek, hope mum doesn't ready this one,) and my mum asked me to do some hoovering, I would sprinkle flour on the dark green carpet and marvel at how our noisy bright yellow hoover used to suck it all up, anyway that should probably going in one of those lists of weird things about me.

So Dimitrious and Sophie have nearly moved in, and so much for my early night, their last trip was about 2.20am, and I forgot to give them a key, so I stayed up and worked my but off for well, allot of hours, sorted tonnes of things out and filed lots of stuff in my new filing cabinet.

I have to ask, and don't be mad at me if you hate this programme, but how blimin good is big brother this year? I love all the characters, whats wonderful about them is that they are not a complete mess, and big brother has implemented some amazing psychological tactics, I have to be honest, some which I am not sure are particularly ethical, but that they can get away with because the house mates are relatively sound. My psychological job is working on ways to reduce prejudice, but the foundations of that research is group processes and attitudes, which all come into play in BB, so I just find it so wonderfully exciting to watch. Come on, who do you think is gonna win huh? I reckon the twins will!!!!

  Leave me a comment and let me know what you think. lol.

Yarn, a shawl and a new scrumptious pattern!!!

Yep, believe it or not, there is actually yarn content in this post today. I have updated the shop you can see most of them in the new arrivals. These are two of my favourites from this batch.

Silk in September

Bluefaced leicester in hannahs summer.

I was up till 1 this morning working, which actually is becoming the norm now, feeling mildly anxious because I have a tonne of stuff to do for fibrefest at the weekend, still, I am very excited, it is the first year of the show its set in beautiful grounds etc, so it should be a scream, not only that but I will take all my winter designs to finish off seeing as they need to be done for the autumn. I was so tired this morning I drank instant coffee because I couldn't be bothered to make the proper one, thats really bad for me seeing as I think that 'instant' and 'coffee' shouldn't be allowed in the same sentane, I need to go to bed early tonight or i'll start loosing the plot.

Also if you send me photos to go in the gallery, they need to be as an attatchment, sometime people send me flickr pics, but obviously I can't use those, I've updated the gallery with few more pics, I think my favourite one has to be this, I met this lovely lady at Allypally and in Paris, and she even bought me some french biscuits which was so sweet, anyway, she is a phenomenal knitter and I want to show you this:

Its knitted in a huge skein of white mohair laceweight. Stunning!!!!

And finaly, a new pattern made for scrumptious by Katherine from K1 yarns, I totally love this jumper, I am thinking about making it from some hand dyed scrumtious, perhaps in a sandy colour, seeing as it was inspired by the beach, anyone who would like something similar let me know. :-)

 

A little bit wiser with my tongue in my cheek.

I learnt three valuable lessons this bank holiday and they are as follows:

1. Golf is fricken hard, it looks very very easy, but infact getting the stick to actually come into contact with the ball takes alot of skill, which apparently I don't have.

2. It is not appropriate to wear a very short dress to a driving range for the following reasons:

     a) it makes picking up golf balls impossible without putting off the all male golfers

     b) no one takes you seriously,

     c) people pay way to much attention to your golfing strategy.

3. Apparently when you get to 30 (and this is according to my mother) I am;

    a) soon to be over the hill if I don't hurry up.

    b) its not appropriate to wear thin linen trousers with thongs on, its just not done when you get to nearly 30, well mum, I would like to remind you that I am 29 for about another 6 months, so I shall make sure I wear thongs and linen trousers all bloody winter before I am to old.

love you mum, you are such a scream.

Multicultural household.

That time of year is approaching. The one where I basically have a house full of my wonderful friends from all over the world. I have 2 main rules for people coming to live in my house, 1. they teach me to cook something traditional, be it Japanese, Spanish or from Yorkshire, and 2. They learn to knit, or at least have a go.

I hadn't realised but I have been living on my own rattling around in my little house for 9 months now, and I was a little worried that I had got used to living on my own and it might be a little bit odd for me when the hoards arrived. But I am well and truly excited, and when I say hoards I am not joking, heres the plan.

Marco my beloved Italian friend arrives from Milan tomorrow and is coming for the weekend, then Dimitrious and Sophie ( Greek and french respectively) arrive Wednesday for a month, Carmenthita (Spanish) arrives to live permanently on the 10th of Sept, Marchin ( polish) arrives at the beginning of Oct to work in the uni for 4 months and then sole (Spanish and marchins girlfriend) arrives on the 10th of October also for 4 months. So if you want to come and stay I am afraid it will have to be on the sofa! OK?!

My main reason for being excited is that we are all very good friends, and to be honest it will be 4 months of partying, generally always a couple of large dinners a week, and just all the wonderful cooking and laughter and fun that we have. We all take it in turns to cook gorgeous food, and its a wonderful way to ease me into the winter. In addition, sole knits, and carmenthita will too, and Sophie expressed that she wants to learn, of course the obvious advantage is that they have access to the fyberspates stock, I think I might get away with never cooking again with a little trading. LOL!!!

I will blog alot about it and take a tonne of pics, cause I want to document it for myself really, mainly because last Oct - Dec was such a special time in my life, I will never ever forget it, and I know the next 4 months will provide me with very very special memories that I will cherish forever. :-) OH, and I'll publish the recipes if anyone is interested?

PS shop is due a rather much needed update later, its been a little neglected, but I have some dyed fibres and yarns etc.

Happy knitting folks. :-)

Cashmere and much more

I get asked at least a couple of times a week if I will ever sell cashmere. No, has always been the answer because before today as I couldn't get it made in the UK.

From now on the answer will be YES!!!!!!!!

I have now managed to get some cashmere yarns spun in the UK! Not only that but the fibres are also processed here, which means I know it will be processed with out any harm to the environment and the people who live around it. I'm starting with a few trial yarns, a lace and some sock weight, these will be available for wholesale too, so watch this space. Its taken alot of work and effort to get this so I am extremely excited about it, I hope you will be too.

Ps I also have managed to source some gorgeous silks spun in Europe, more soon.

xx

YEAH BABY, YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I got it back today, how happy am I??? I can use punctuation again!!!!!!!

YIPEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yuk!

So I posted a post this morning about being sad because its my three year wedding anniversary but not actually kind of married any more, then I got over it and read it this afternoon and thought yuk!, shut up with your muchy moaning and deal with it, lol.

xx

Cygnet yarns

Right, all the sock wieght cygnet has gone, but I do have some DK left in white, if anyone is interested, its 100% superwash merino, white in balls, it takes the dye like a dream, same price as last time, its £10 a pack plus £2 postage.

I also have rather alot of coloured cygnet sock yarn as well, its 25% nylon, 75% merino (superwash) I think I was going to make kits from it, but its not really in the scope of what I do any more, its £1.50 for 50gms, or £10 for a pack of 10 50gm balls, i have it in lots of colours, pine greens, pinks, mauves and reds, and blue and black I'll check tonight, sorry, still havent got laptop so no pics. its perfect for fairailse work especially if you combine it with a hand dyed yarn.

Thats all, trying desperately to clear space for house organisation, becuase from the 1st of sep I have 3 lodgers arriving, and there are various people coming inbetween as well, so it will be madness, so in order that I am organised and stay on top of everything I need to shift some old stock.

Oh and have been analysing results from knitting experiment today, seeing as its pretty much finished, but have a little problem because knitters are a little bit more motivated to try harder than the control group which was mainly students, and it shows, so its mildly annoying. Still, we'll see what happens.

This weather is so odd, I came to work in the pouring rain in jeans and sandles because I don't have any shoes, how weird is that? I actually don't have any shoes, I haven't bought any for about 3 years and my red kickers have big holes in the bottom. Perhaps its time for some new green kickers, as they are my favourite, OOOOOHHHHH, maybe I can find something kind of cute and ethical!!!!!! does anyone have any good ideas for ethical shoes? if you do leave a comment, I would love to know, seeing as I am trying my hardest to wean my way off of evil multi national corporations. xx

Randomness as usual.

Some of you may occasionally get the impression from my blog writing, that I am a bit of a princess. Hence why Sole calls me princi, *sigh* I suppose I am when it suits me. Andy, if you dare leave a comment to that effect you'll be in serious trouble. I never used to be, I think its the hair that did it, you can get away with murder when you have blonde hair and flutter your eyelashes a little. Mwhahahahahahahaha. I can't actually remember what my point was now.

So day 6 of no laptop, I decided to stop screaming last night and look to the world beyond my laptop, yes, apparently there is one, a very interesting world, which perhaps I should spend more time in because I get a wholelot more work done in it. So much so, that once it comes back it will only be switched on between 10 and 5, and a couple of hours on the weekend. I packed a tonne of orders, did some knitting, and nearly finished a new design for some kits, and had a lovely relaxing evening. A side effect I never thought would happen, and I consider this a negative side effect, was one of excessive cleaning, normally I get up from my laptop, look at the washing up, think hmm, I should do that, then think oh I just need to check my emials..... and forget the washing up. However last night I did all the washing up, looked in my cupboards and felt embarassed because not only were they a mess but the shelves need cleaning and I needed to sort out all the teas, I also discovered that I have a ghastly habit of saving ramekins from little deserts, I now have a collection of about 20, wasting space, but I can't actually bear to part with them; Just incase I have a soufle party.....it could happen!!!!!! I even cleaned and polished the rings on my cooker, the urge just took me, what can I say, apart from the fact that I am mildy disturbed.

I had better mention something wooly hadn't I! Anyone coming along to fibrefest in devon? I'll do a proper post about that soon.

Right I need to go and find a spoon for my raspberry jelly, seeeing as I nearly choked because I was sucking it out of the plastic tub.

xxx

I'M SCREAMING.

SCREAM SCREAM SCREAM SCREAM SCREAM SCREAM, SCREAM.

I NEED MY LAPTOP, I CAN'T STAND IT ANY LONGER, I FEEL LIKE MY WORLD IS FALLING APART WITHOUT IT.

PLEASE LAPTOP FIXERS, HURRY THE HELL UP!

SCREEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM