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Shop Update

Shop has been updated, click here for the new arrivals pages

We will be at Wonderwool on saturday

OK, So if you are at wonderwool on sat, please come and say hello, can't wait to see you there :-)

jeni

Fibrefest!!!!

Nope, not the show, the update, there is sooooooo much fibre on there, click here to see there are two pages of it, and  little more to come tomorrow. These are my absolute favourites:

Delicious mohair

Bfl/silk

Merino Tencel in 'faery'

There are two types of merino tencel the one above which is the streaky merino tencel and the well blended one.

They just want to make me spin, so I suggest you get in there quick before I take the whole damn lot of it for myself, lol. Oh there are some new sock as well, and more tomorrow of that.

Hope you have a lovely weekend :-)

xx

Shop update

To start the week, the shop has been update here, whats rather exciting is I have had some solid scrumptious made for me. I only have it in the chunky weight at the moment, but the dk will follow, its just absolutely gorgeous, such intensity of colours, because it is top dyed instead of the yarn being dyed. I have it in cherry, purple, and olive.

I think my favourite of the update this week is some alpaca lace in 'flowers'.....

Right, off to finish of the 'secret' garment for the magazine, its looking seriously good. ;-)

Shop update Nov 31st

Right the shop will be updated later today, have a tonne of cashmere lace, sock and dk for you, but have to go into psychology this morning to sort some stuff out first, grrrrrrrrrrr.

**ADDED LATER** shop is updated with dry things (including new chunky scrumptious), lol, but there will lots more added over the weekend.

However I suppose this is a perfect time to highlight the new clubs in the shop, due to a great success with the fybers and that I often have a tonne of luxury fybers which never stay in the shop long enough for people to buy them, lol, I have a 5 month luxury fibre club which there are memberships for the UK (£50) US & EUROPE (55) and The rest of the world (£60)details as follows;

This is a luxury fibre club, each month you will receive 100gms of a different hand dyed fyber, and info about that fyber! You will receive 100gms of the following fybers: Cashmere, kid mohair, baby Alpaca, Silk and Blue faced Leicester/ silk blend. This is perfect for spinners, felters and people who just love fybers really! If you would like to purchase this as a Christmas gift, I can send you a voucher to pop in a card. Postage is included in the club price. Each package will be posted in the first week of the month starting in January.

Secondly we have a spinners Fiber club UK (£25) US and EUROPE (£30) and The rest of the world (£35)details as follows:

You will receive 100gems of hand dyed fybers each month. The fybers are Blue faced Leicester, Merino and Super sorted Shetland. This club is perfect for beginner spinners because the fybers are nice and easy to spin. The price includes postage. If you would like to give this as gift please let me know and I will send you a voucher.

I also have a 12 month sock club, seeing as the other two are a great success and lots of people renew their subscriptions UK (£99) US and EUROPE (£109) and The rest of the world (£120) Details as follows;

This sock club runs for 12 months! You are saving £36 of the full retail price! Each month you will get 100gms of the new fyberspates 'dream' sock yarn, with hand dyed to colours which are inspired by the month of the year! This club starts in January and will make a wonderful Christmas present for a sock knitter. Each hank of yarn will be sent out on the first week of the month. 12 months postage is included in the price!!!!

And finally a lace club!!! Yay Finally UK (£30) US and EUROPE (£35) and The rest of the world (£40)!

This is a 3 month lace club, for those who love lace, you will get one hank of yarn each month, which will be wound into balls if you want it! Yippee! You will receive 100gms of yarn each month, there will be one hank of silk lace (950m) a hank of lace Blue faced Leicester (1200m) and one hank of alpaca lace yarn (600m). Postage is included in the price of the yarn :-) If you would like to purchase this as a Christmas present I can send you a voucher to pop in a Christmas card. This club starts in January.

OK so I think thats enough for one morning, be sure to check the shop later, there is some great yarn today.

Shipping

Ahem! A cherub has bought it to my attention that the shipping in my shop is a little steep, I appologise, I just checked it and its a little out of kilter, mainly because I've been adding extra shipping zones and its messed all the table rates up, apologies, it will be fixed in the next couple of hours, I had wondered why all my orders were only from Australia and south Africa, lol.  Anyway you can shop in the knowledge that it will be at the normal postage rates for royal mail by lunchtime.

*gets php manual out, and a huge cup of coffee to keep me awake*

(PS, I love feedback, so if you ever experience a prob with the shop, please let me know, I'm not a scary person honest, mwahahahahhahahaha)

(PPS All sock clubs have gone today, 3 month and 6 month subscriptions, I deliberately avoided the postal backlog because I lost so much money on lost packages in the last one)

A date with a shop!

Yippee, been a little while since we had a nice shop update, there are alot of fibres today merino tencel blends, alpaca, merino/silk roving's and blue faced Leicester blends. I have dyed some of them with large spaces of colours so that you can spin up a nice self striping yarn, here is my favourite:

  I don't normally love pinks but this would make such a pretty yarn. To see them all its best to go directly to the fybers section.

I also dyed some scrumptious, and I am completely in love with these greens check out the dk section for all the colours:

There is sock yarn too, Phew!!

PS got price for van!!!! Feel down the loft ladder stairs and got a million bruises, but more importantly did it with my laptop in one hand, suffice to say its gonna have to go get fixed again :-( , on the bright side, I pick up my van tomorrow!!! Yippee!!!

PPS getting some more broaches with sheep, and a little snail!

Skaramanda brooches

On my quest for British made Ethical products (blimey listen to me!), I happened upon a gorgeous producer of brooches called Skaramanda, and I asked if I could have some shawl brooches made by her which reflected the colours of my yarns, mainly because I often don't use buttons on my garments but rather a brooch or shawl pin to complement the colours instead, and often I get as many comments on the broaches as as the finished garments lol!

So I got some for the shop, because they are quirky and very beautiful, and compliment the colours of the space dyed range very well. They are made handmade in Scotland, and are a perfect compliment to a hand made garment or as a gorgeous gift, they have a nice big pin on the back for the pinning of knitted fabrics. The circular ones are about 3 inches in diameter, and are better for a heavier garment, and the hearts and cats are perfect for a lighter shawl! They even come with their own little gift bag!

Here are my absolute favourites;

This is so sparkly!!!

  Stunning!!

So cheeky!!!!!! Reminds me of my little guapita!

Go and take a look at the rest, they are stunning!

Yarn update!!!!

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 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 buscuits 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!!!!

Holidays.

Right folks, I'm off to Italy, I'll be back on the 28th of july, so obviously any orders place after this lunch time will not be processed until I get back. Hope the weather fab for you, I will blog if I get the opportunity, you have no idea how excited I am. Incidently, all orders have been dispatched, so if the are not there, its probably a hold up at the post office. xx