Yarn happened

I'm branching out from rovings and batts, and will also be dyeing millspun yarns.  In the next couple of weeks there will be a number of OOAK skeins as I play with different yarn bases.

My son helped 'model' the yarns.

Here is one called 'Aqua' -  100g of superwash Merino and nylon sock yarn. (It sells for R115 in SA, and $18.50 to other countries) 
Aqua has sold.  Contact me, and I'll do you a similar skein or two :) 

I also did a skein like this in dk weight, but my eldest claimed it :)

I call this base yarn 'Selkie' - it's a silk/seacell mix fingering yarn.  The kids and I decided to call this 100g kein 'Petunia'.

This is a lovely luxury yarn, and is available as two 50g balls for R140 ($22) each.  If you want both balls, there's a discount, and 100g costs R240 ($38).

I have been getting amazing mileage out of my indigo vat.  I love the richness of the blues I get from it.  I found that the dress I dyed in it is fading gently, just like my favourite jeans did.

This skein is is called 'Soft Jeans', and is 220g of Merino superwash fingering yarn. It's huge, and selling for R230 ($36.50).

This is me happening to a ball of Vinni's Bambi  - 50g of Organic cotton and bamboo.  This ball is called 'My Favorite Jeans', and similar ones will sell for R60 ($10). A Friend is test-knitting this one for me!

As always I'll combine shipping, and charge you the actual shipping cost :)  Shipping to the US costs $10.50 for the first skein, and possible additional $5 for more than one.  Any postage overcharges will be refunded after I mail your parcel.

I'm easily found as emtempest on Ravelry, and at the same name on gmail.

It's a cake....

... with horses on.  Happy Birthday, my Junior Wrangler!

Fluffy Little Friends

Here is another etsy treasury, done in honour of my fluffy little friends.  For more than two years Mr Fluffy (You can see him in my Etsy avatar) was my fluffy friend. He passed away earlier this year. Well, late last month my 10-year-old daughter bought me Mme Curie, my new fluffy friend.  She is currently my Ravelry avatar, visible at - http://www.ravelry.com/people/Emtempest .

Tree-Frog Treasury

The kids and I have been watching quite a few documentaries about the amazon rain forest lately.  Now little tree frogs keep catching my eye. :)

Here's an Etsy Treasury about the little creatures.

Thursday Treasury

Etsy Hedgehog Love

If I could right now, I'd have a little hedgie,
To be my friend for just a while,
So here are some hedgehogs to be company,
To share a whimsy and a smile.

I love looking around, window-shopping and, well, shopping on Etsy.  This morning I made a little Hedgehog treasury because I really like hedgehogs. 
Share some smiles!

A blank block for socks....

Here is something new from Goldenwine. Not fluff, but a sock blank.

It's knitted from two strands of superwash sock wool, so you can frog and wind it into two 50g balls of pretty-very-identically patterned sock wool. It would also make one 100g ball were the colours of the second half will be a mirror of that of the first half.

This one is blank, and sells for R80 (and whatever postage is to get to you).
I will also be dyeing some of the sock blocks, and a dyed block will sell for R100 (Same again on postage).

Current sock block dye ideas include:

A slow colour gradient.

A 'faux fair isle'.

Zebra stripes!

Yes, the rovings and batts are still happening :)

I'll be posting the available batts and rovings Really Soon Now.