** NEEDLEWORK'S PLEASURE** SPINNING & FELTING FIBRES, HANDSPUN & HANDPAINTED YARNS

For the past 4 weeks I haven't been able to add anything to my blog because a major bug had found its way into the system and had been messing with all the data...VERY VERY FRUSTRATING INDEED.... and it took forever to sort out the problem. But now my blog is back online, and I am a happy girl :oD

I certainly wasn't sitting around idle for the past month, in fact, I was busier than never before!!!! For some reason I never stopped painting fibers and yarns, and my spinning wheel slowly started smoking I was pedalling so fast....lol....PLUS I have started including my handmade natural soaps to my ebay store, oooooohhhh I was so excited!! I had been making my own soap for a while, and they are really magnificent, lots of frothy lather, great scent, GREAT ingredients, and completely chemical and preservative free of course. So far I have added four types, a wonderful rose soap, a yummy "good enough to eat" cinnamon soap, and a mouth watering vanilla soap and a gorgeous and sweet smelling tropical soap, all of them made by me in my cosy kitchen and now for sale in my ebay store:

I have also made a really beautiful new set of space dyed pure tussah silk rovings to bring even more colours into my range of silks ;o), here they are:

I love all three of them but the top one is my favourite, the shades are so deep and earthy, just great!!!

I also took one day off during this month, and Sam and I went...yep, you guessed right....to Caldbeck, where I looooooove to walk along the little stream and the waterfalls, and the bobbin mill of course. It was a fantastic day out, I really needed a break from spinning and painting and washing fleeces:

I was very tempted to join those laid back sheep under that very inviting tree for a chill-out session....but Sam had other plans and so we moved on.

Anyway, I am really really pleased to have my blog back, YEAHHHHHH, I was so devastated for weeks because I wasn't sure if all the data was lost forever or if it could be rescued. So let me go back to work and make more fabulous yarns, fibres and soaps, and do feel free to Visit My eBay Store and my Etsy store at www.alltheprettyfibers.etsy.com for a really great range of woolly beauties!!

Everyone have a very nice weekend! Enjoy the summer while it's here!!!