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

Here are my latest handpainted roving beauties that are now displayed in my ebay store. They are some of the ones that were still drying on the wool rack when I went on holiday, so I am displaying them now :o) Hope you will like the colourways! For more fibre information please Visit My eBay Store :

Everyone, I am having a sale in my Etsy store!! Several yarns must go, so feel free to view them at www.alltheprettyfibers.etsy.com and grab yourself a bargain!!! ;o)

Yes alright, I have taken another long gap between blogs, and I really wish I had much more time in a day!!! Only 3 more days to go until I finally go on holiday - YIIIIEEEEHAAAA!!!! It has been soooooo long since my last vacation, 4 1/2 years without a weekend off, that's why I am truly looking forward to being off for a while. Will I be able to keep my hands off my spinning wheel????? .....I doubt it..... but I have spun ahead tons of yarns and I have painted 2kg of squishy yummy and colourful rovings so I can leave myself in peace ;o) When you are so used to working every single day throughout the year it almost feels surreal not do anything that has to do with wool or yarns and just to enjoy socialising, hanging out, relaxing.....YES.....R-E-L-A-X-I-N-G!! I hope I still remember how to do that, lol. So tonight at midnight I will close down my ebayUK store for 7 days, and I will reopen it on 21st of August even though I will still be on holiday, but people will then be able to place their orders again, have a look through my rovings and yarns, and I will process all paid orders when I return, so the waiting period is actually just 5 days for whoever wants to shop while I am away. I think that's acceptable, right? Anyway, here are some of my latest handpainted fiber beauties I have just now displayed in my ebayUK store and some have found their way onto my website at www.needleworks-pleasure.com :

and the rest of the bulk is still on the wool board, lots of blues, purples and turquoise. I will be taking photos of them tomorrow and display them when I get back from my holiday. Here is also a new lot of handpainted multi layer space dyed tussah silk that is now displayed in my ebayUK store, the colourway is a gigantic blend of loads of blues, purples and turquoise - GORGEOUS, ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS!!

The blues are really marvelous. I think I will use some of this particular lot and spin it into a find lace yarn. Right, there's still lots to do before I can close down my stores tonight, so let me go ahead and finish up.

I wish everyone a great time working your wools and yarns, and let's hope that the rain will stop falling onto Britain for the rest of the summer!!!!! WE WANT SUNSHINE, NOT RAIN!!!!

Feel free to Visit My eBay Store when it reopens on August 21st!! You can always contact me by e-mail during my holiday at [email protected] !

I have been clearing my wool boards all afternoon, getting the dried and freshly painted yarns and fibres off and sorted, and new bulks of wet fleeces back on and into the sunshine, while we have it.... ;o) So here are the latest fibre babes, the first photo shows a custom order in a similar colourway as my "Solway Firth" fingering weight yarn, which is for sale in my ebay store. On the photo you can see the 3 new yarns on the left and the original 2 skeins on the right - I think I have done a really good job catching the same shades, considering that each dye lot is always a bit different, and I never record any dyelots...just no fun and hardly any challenge.... Well, I am very happy with the result. The yarns have found a new home with a very lovely lady from London :o)

 She needed 1200yds for her knitting project, and the two skeins from the store are only 800yds. As the hanks needed to be identical I custom dyed 3 new skeins for her. They came out juuuuuuuust right!

Two more photos I want to display before I hop back behind my spinning wheel (I am currently finishing a new handspun and handpainted elfyarn design....oooooohhhhhh, be surprised, the colours and the silk within the Merino blend are SO stunning!!!) anyway, here are my 2 latest lots of handpainted Wensleydale locks/curls, one in cinnamon-apricot and the second lot in aquamarine-opal, both now displayed in my ebay store:

 Like the colours? Me too ;o) Feel free to Visit My eBay Store for more yarn and fibre details!

Oooooooohhhhhh, my latest soap batch has finished curing, and boy is that a creamy one!!!! I am absolutely over the moon, had to try it out of course, so I went for a shower...didn't need one, but hey.....and I so love the creamy lather of this soap, it is SO fabulous! I think it was truly worth spending a lot of money on that pricy Jojoba oil, it makes such a difference, even in soap. And the coconut scent.....BOY.....it's pure summer and dreamy coconut heaven!!! I have displayed it in my ebay store:

 All I can say is: YUM YUM YUM!!

I have got lots of work left until I can finish up tonight, so let me just show you two more of my latest handspun yarn designs that I personally like very much indeed. The first one is my "Flower Fairy III", a handspun and handpainted extra soft and squishy Merino slub yarn, which I have put onto my website www.needleworks-pleasure.com , and the second skein is called "Smelling the Roses", a handspun  extra soft Bluefaced Leicester 2-ply yarn which will knit up to about DK (double knit). Here they are in all their beauty ;o)

 "Smelling the Roses" is now for sale in my Etsy store www.alltheprettyfibers.etsy.com

I will be displaying more yarns and fibers soon, so feel free to come back to my blog whenever you have time!

Everyone have a really good weekend!!