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

I have now displayed 3 new lots of beautiful hand dyed Wensleydale locks/curls and also my latest handspun and handpainted slub yarn designs for all the dreadmakers, felters, knitters and dollmakers out there :o)

This time the Wensleydale locks are a good deal shorter than my regular lots. I have used a wonderful quality fleece from the upper thigh region of the Wensleydale sheep which resulted in shorter locks of around 4 inches in length. These shorter versions are perfect for small dolls and felting projects that require only half the length of the "original" curls. They will also be handier for handspinners who wish to card the locks for their handspun yarn projects, or simply ply them straight into the ready spun threads!

The slub yarns I have finished are painted with vibrant oranges, yellows, reds, pinks...GORGEOUS!!

And while I am at it...:oD...I have also prepared 2 new creativity mixed fiber bags with loads and loads of goodies for every felter's and handspinner's desire, have a look:

Those bags can easily be used for several individual projects or for one major project - they are exactly the same fibers I use for my own handspun yarns!

So come and  Visit My eBay Store for more details and fiber information! :o)

Everyone have a very good week!!

Hi, everyone!!

I finished them!! Two new absolutely gorgeous handpainted and handspun yarn designs, so yummy, I almost kept them for myself (not joking!) :o) I am so glad I managed to get them off the drying board for a weekend display, I am really proud of my two beauties! Here they are, both displayed in my Etsy store www.alltheprettyfibers.etsy.com  , the first hank is called "Stardust", a super soft BFL lambswool/silk blend, and the second one is my "Scylla II", a pure BFL wool design:

Please feel free to view my etsy store for more yarn details!

Sorry, I have to keep this blog quite short this time, I need to get back to my spinning wheel because I am still working on one of my custom orders of gorgeous sunset colours painted on a cosy Bluefaced Leicester wool fibre! It's coming along so nicely, I really am pleased with it :o) Later on tonight I need to mordant another 12 rovings for tomorrow's painting session. Yep, it's definitely yarn&fibre season, AND I'M LOVING IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

EVERYONE HAVE A VERY NICE WEEKEND!

I seem to get old...:o(  I am trying hard to keep up with the pace of life, but somehow I am constantly dragging behind - but perhaps it has just got to do with the autumn season where nature and all creatures outside (and inside...) slow down drasticly as well and prepare for winter. The grass grows much more slowly (thank god for that!!), the trees draw their energy back from the leaves, and all wildlife focuses on stuffing themselves as much as possible, no more running and chasing around, can't afford to lose too much of the precious fat reserves . Perhaps I should do that too, eating and sleeping and eating and sleeping.... I would loooooove to be able to go into a 4-month hibernation cycle, oh wouldn't that be lovely, snoring away while the weather turns really ugly outside...SIGH...

Anyway, I am currently loaded with custom orders, that is why I haven't really displayed much in my online stores lately. I am still working on a beautiful black Alpaca yarn order, I've got 6 BFL rovings to paint in autumn shades for a very lovely lady in Finland, and I received another very interesting custom request a few days ago; 3 skeins of handpainted and handspun Bluefaced Leicester yarn with the colours of a Scottish sunset, oooohhhhh, the fibres are already painted, and as soon as they are ready to come off the drying board I will start spinning those goregous sunset shades into a blend of yellows, oranges, reds and pinks. I am quite excited about this order :o) Once the yarns are finished I will certainly display them on my blog, so others can view them too!

Still, I managed to spare a few hours and paint a very colourful lot of Merino rovings, I think I painted a total of 10, some will be displayed in my ebay store and another 3 will be availble in my Etsy store at www.alltheprettyfibers.etsy.com - the rest I am keeping for my handspun yarn projects :o) Here are the ones I will display in my online stores:

You are very welcome to Visit My eBay Store and my Etsy store for more fibre details :o) I also have some handpainted Bluefaced Leicester rovings which I will display within the next few days. And even though I am really busy with my custom orders I am trying to finish a new handpainted and handspun super soft (yes, SUPER SOFT!!) Bluefaced Leicester/Silk blend yarn design. I just work about an hour per day on it, but I will get there, and I will display it on my blog as soon as it is finished - believe me, it will be absolutely GORGEOUS!!! :o)

Well, have to go and do some spinning. Everyone enjoy the slow pace of life while you can :o)

Hi everyone,

I am running a bit late with displaying my latest yarn designs - they have already been sold, but I always feel that I should display them here on my blog as well because I am so proud of my handpainted and handspun yarns; they are very labour intensive and absolute beauties in themselves :o) Plus my oldest sister and her little girl came for a 3 day visit! Was I a happy bunny? YEP!!!! More than happy to see them...and so was Sam - he and my niece were unseparable as long as they were in the house together, UNBELIEVABLE!! Here they are, the two cuddlebums:

Not for one minute did Sam leave her side :o) He is a very good dog indeed.

My sister helped me with naming my latest elf yarn design, I wanted something really special this time, and after having given it a lot of thought she came up with "Calas Galathon", the heart of elfland.  Spot on, I would say:

it has found a new home in the US :o)

And my second design is a cosy and close to the skin soft Bluefaced Leicester yarn, which I have called "Tinkerbell II". Here it is:

I will be working on new yarn designs once I have finished the majority of custom orders. So let me get back to the wheel and do some pedalling ;o)

Here comes my new lot of handpainted Wensleydale locks/curls, wonderfully lustrous, very soft, and perfect for felting projects, doll hair, dwarf beards, and handspinning very special novelty yarns!! All three lots are displayed in my ebay store where you can find a wide range of handpainted fleeces and Wensleydale locks! So come and Visit My eBay Store :o)

I am currently trying really hard to finish 2 new yarn designs, and I am slowly getting there. Autumn is always the start of the yarn season, and I have already been receiving a lot of custom orders which need to be attended to, and which means that other yarn designs will be put on hold for the time being. But before I start on one custom order of 1lb of handspun Alpaca yarn I will finish my last skein of handpainted and handspun ultra soft Elfyarn, I simply want to see this design finished in all its splendor!!! So tonight I will be working on that. I have also just finished painting one Merino roving for a custom yarn similar to my "An Orchard" lambswool design on my website, only that the new lot will be a slub yarn! I am always excited about custom orders that require painting and setting those colours together in a particular way - once it is finished I will display it on my blog too :o)

Everyone have a very good weekend!!!

Okay, I forgot to mention my latest handpainted Merino yarns yesterday, when I wrote my blog about the new handpainted rovings, sorry about that... Well, here they are in their full splendor :o), my fingering weight pure Merino knitting yarns, painted with non toxic dyes and mordants and not treated with any chemicals (like e.g. superwash wool)!

NEMO

LENORE

ROSEWOOD

AUTUMN LEAVES

HARVEST TIME

They all contain wonderful autumn shades in one way or another, even NEMO shows the colours of the wonderful blue sky we have had for weeks during October, it has been an absolutely fantastic and colourful month so far!!! Can't ask for more to give me inspiration en masse :o)

Here are my latest handpainted beauties, fresh from the dyepot :o) They are both extra soft Merino wool rovings and will make fantastic close to the skin handspun yarns and beautiful felt projects! I have displayed them in my ebay store so come and Visit My eBay Store for more fibre information! Here are some photos:

I am also currently working on new handspun and handpainted yarn designs :o) One of them will be another set of gorgeous and ultra soft Merino-Silk Elfyarn, and another one a very colourful Bluefaced Leicester cosy yarn design. I will display them in my Etsy store and on my blog as soon as they are finished.....be surprised!!! :oD

Here comes my latest handpainted and handspun Baby Alpaca knitting yarn, a whopping 4.4oz with 400yds in it, so that's plenty to work with indeed! :o) I went for another range of water shades plus sage this time. I have called the design "Water Nymph IV", have a look:

Alpaca wool always makes wonderful yarns that drape like a dream because it is not bouncy like sheep wool. This yarn would make e.g. a fabulous lace shrug!!!! If it doesn't get sold I will knit a lace shrug from it for myself :oD - the colourway would go brilliantly with one of my  long autumn skirts in dark blues, greys and sage!! "Water Nymph IV" is displayed in my Etsy store www.alltheprettyfibers.etsy.com , feel free to have a look for more yarn details!

Everyone, I would like to leave a small alert message on my blog for all who use PayPal as method of payment:

Every once in a while some "smartheads" try to rob people by sending them fake PayPal messages, the logo is there, the colours and the layout look exactly like PayPal, but it's NOT a PayPal message at all! Today I received a spam message saying that my account had been limited...nothing new, they have sent me messages like that several times before, but in the beginning when I was very new to PayPal I did indeed once click on such a link to get rid of that so called "limitation" only to find that there was no access at all, and I realised very fast that I had just given away my password! So I very very quickly went directly into www.paypal.com and changed my password...and no harm was done...phew!!!!

I have been sending and receiving payments through PayPal for almost 5 years now, and never ever had any problems, nor any hackers accessing my account. It is a completely safe place to do your transactions as long as you never give out your password to anyone - PayPal will never ask you for it! Any real PayPal messages will always greet you by your first and last name, which is perfect proof that the e-mail came indeed from them, the internet criminals wouldn't know your full name registered on PayPal, they only have your e-mail address.

I have simply forwarded the fake message to [email protected] , and I really hope that they will be able to trace those suckers down, FAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And now I would very much like to introduce my lates art yarn design.....YUMMY, YUMMY!!  It's a handspun Bluefaced Leicester yarn plied with tons of gorgeously soft and fluffy hand painted BFL curls. I have called the design "Mimi", have a look:

Gorgeous, don't you think? It would make e.g. a wonderful cosy neckwarmer/scarflette!! I have displayed it in my Etsy store at www.alltheprettyfibers.etsy.com , feel free to have a look :o)