Ah, spring!

I seem to love spring more and more each year as it rolls around.


I love the warmer weather, the sound of birds chirruping from dawn and the smell of cut grass.

I love the way it makes you feel, like you're ready to conquer the world one lazy brush stroke at a time.


I love that fresh green colour that seems to sprout from every corner of the garden, and the bright colours of the flowers that seem to take forever to grow from when you lovingly planted them way back in July.

No, maybe I don't love spring, it's not the right word.... I adore spring.

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OK, I've had my little gush about how I am madly in love with my little part of the world at this time of the year, but there are other things that must be mentioned...

• I've been spinning! Watch this space as there may be something pop up within the next couple of weeks with any luck.
• I've also been dyeing, so there will be more goodies for those of us who dare to bask in the darker art of spinning! These should appear this weekend if all goes to plan so as to coincide with those lucky, lucky people who managed to get their hands on the Ewe Beaut Sampler boxes - I hear that the first lot were snapped up within 2 minutes!!!
  

The Christmas countdown...

Before you know it Christmas will be here! I know lots of people are starting to gather a few small things together here and there - and I'm no exception. I'm gearing up for the mad market season with sewing, knitting, spinning and cooking.... unfortunately that means that I cannot accept any more spinning orders at this time - but that's not to say that I won't be spinning something special to sell here.

Spinning is an addiction and a method for calm in my life, so I'll be at the wheel plenty!

Watch this space...

Look what I found hiding in the cupboard!

I've been trying to keep a little ahead of things by spinning up some extra when I spin an order - so now I have some full skeins sitting here, as well as some baby skeins that could come in handy for edging a garment or adding a feature.

"Cold Rock Candy" merino/angora and bamboo viscose, 1 skein x 135gms (SOLD!), 10 ply weight

"Sweet Nothings" merino/angora and bamboo viscose, 1 skein x 115gms (SOLD), 10 ply weight, $26

"2 pot Screamer" 20 micron hand dyed merino, 1 skein x 110gms (SOLD!) , 1 skein x 90gms (approx. 165 metres) $22, 10 ply weight

"Bubble Gum" 20 micron hand dyed merino, 1 skein x 100gms (SOLD) $24, 1 skein x 96gms (approx. 195 metres) $23, 10 ply weight

"Magnolia Weekends" 20 micron hand dyed merino, 1 skein x 100gms (SOLD!) 8 ply weight


"Bo Peep" silk, merino/angora and bamboo viscose/optim, 34gms, 3 ply yarn, 10 ply weight $10

"Storm Brewing" merino/angora, 1 skein x 60gms, 3 ply yarn, SOLD

"Raspberry Wine", merino/angora, 1 skein x 50gms, 10 ply weight SOLD

"Froggy Bog", 10gms, 5 ply weight SOLD

"Ocean Depths", merino angora, 1 x 64gms wound into a yarn cake (approx. 170 metres), 64 gms, 8 ply weight $15

"Ocean Jewels", merino/silk, 35gms 10 ply weight SOLD

"Vintage", 100% wool, 1 skein x 50gms 10 ply weight SOLD

"Sand Drifts", merino/angora, 44 gms, 3 ply yarn SOLD!


"Llama, llama, duck" optim/bamboo viscose, merino and alpaca, 3 ply yarn (wound into a yarn cake), 8 ply weight, 28gms SOLD

I also have some handspun from my sister who calls herself "River Coo". A "coo" is a gorgeous, big, shaggy cow that hails form Scotland and we have quite a few here on the farm. Here's a pikky of one of our beasties "Misty", who's about to give birth any day now... along with the rest of our herd of coos and then there'll be more little hairy beasties frolicking on the farm!!

"Bush Walk", merino/angora, 1 skein x 60gms (approx. 175 metres) $15, 1 skein x 70gms (approx. 155 metres) $12, 8 ply weight.

"Stormy Dawn", 100% merino, 1 skein x 135gms, chunky 10 ply weight $25

"Lavender mist", merino/silk, 1 skein x 30gms (approx. 90 metres) $8, 1 skein x 73gms (approx. 230 metres) $18,8 ply weight

To buy any of these beauties either PM me on Ravelry (I'm phezzit) or email me:
jo.pybus@education.tas.gov.au.

I take Paypal or Direct Deposit and postage and postage and packaging is extra.

Spring has sprung, the grass is ris...

It looks as though Spring is definitely on it's way down here in the Huon Vally - though it hasn't felt like it at times with all this blasted rain! The sun decided to show it's head today so I took the opportunity to take some photos of my latest spins and to let you all in on something exciting.

Here's "Magnolia Weekends", an 8 ply weight yarn that is destined for a lovely lady in Tas...

... and here's another one of hers: "Love-in-a-Mist", another 8 ply weight yarn


OK, the excitement.... I'm taking part in the Ewe Beaut Fibre Sampler Box this time around. Here's some pikkies of what I'm sending to JD.


Here's the Ewe Beaut Blog address so you can all stalk the next sale. The first one was a roaring success and sold out pretty quickly, so you'll have to be fast when they come up for sale:

http://www.ewebeaut.blogspot.com/

Mmmmm, fibre...

Hi all, Couldn't help myself and have posted some goodies here early - there's still a few to be fully dried and posted yet, but here's a sampling:


All are 100gms lots and I have dyed up 300gms of each. Prices are $16 for the 20 micron merino and $17 for the 18 micron merino.

Left to right, top row:
Bubble Gum (20 micron merino), Frocked Up (SOLD), Sparrow Fart (20 micron merino, 200gms left)

Middle Row:
Seahorse Whimsy (18 micron merino) , Denim days (SOLD), Cheap Drunk (18 micron merino)

Bottom row:
An Elegant Mistake (200gms left, 20 micron merino), Flora Grande (All sold, more coming!), Morpho (SOLD)

Naughty Boy, 20 micron merino (300gms available)

Magnolia Weekends, 20 micron merino (200gms available)

I intend to dye up some more "Frocked Up" and "Flora Grande" within the next few days too!

You can contact me either on Ravelry (I'm phezzit), or email: jo.pybus@education.tas.gov.au

Payment is through Paypal or Direct Deposit. postage and packaging are extra (please quote postcode for prices).

Have wool, will dye!

Orright! So I may have gone slightly overboard with the dyeing.... but I got into my groove and the dyeing mojo was flying thick and fast. So this is what happens when I have a biiiiiig dye up:


I can't believe that there's still more out on the line drying! Hoooweeee, there's going to be a big update this weekend folks!

Catch a tiger by the tail...

There's new stuff bubbling away this weekend, so a heads' up for everyone that I'll have some new stuff here next week....

In the mean time, here's some silly pikkies of me on our special school safari day for book week "A Book Safari" at school....
Just in case anyone's wondering - I have the bestest tool belt - bull whip (for those pesky tigers), an egg whip (for the eggs, ya silly buggers), and a spatula (be silly to have this without the egg whip dontcha think?).
HOLD THE FRONT PAGE! I do have something woolly on offer... 200gms of 10 ply handspun in the bubblegum colourway:

Here's some of it knitted up in roughly 10X10cm square to show you it might look knitted up: