Busy, busy week..........bfl locks

I have been absent from blogland this week as 

I have been making the most of a reasonably dry week in largs.

It takes me pretty much a whole week to clean, dye and 

seperate locks and then dry a complete fleece.

This was my last Bluefaced leicester fleece before

this years clip. 

Hopefully they will start making their way into shop on Tuesday.

Silk dupion and Thai silk ribbons....oh so lovely!

Over the weekend I have been fraying the beautiful 

Dupion and Thai single ply slub silk

that I dyed on Friday......truly yummy!

This is the first time I have worked with the Thai silk

and it has the most wonderful handle and takes colour brilliantly!

More felt pebbles.....

Yep more felt pebbles indeed.

I don't think you can have too many!

Felt pebbles

Yesterday Vicky and I

made some felt pebbles.

The grey is a mix of grey merino,gotland and silk.

The natural is teeswater x, silk, bamboo and bfl.

Dying new fabrics.....

Today I had a go at dying some different fabrics....

Hessian

knitted cotton jersey 

cotton muslin

Finally sorted all the sari ribbon

After the sari ribbon has dried....takes a while at the mo.

I sort into packs

short lengths

and super silk threads from fraying......great for texture in

felt making or spinning.

Yipeee...outdoor drying day!

So pleased to get a decent "drying outside" day.

The sun had gone in by the time I remembered to take pictures.

But it was a lovely sunny day in Largs today.

World book day.....fraggle, horrible histories and Obelisk

World book day at school.

Go dressed as a favourite character.

Jacob - Fraggle Rock....Wembley

Hope - Horrible histories ......Egyptian fashionista

Caleb - Asterix......Obelisk

Such fun! And you take in a book to donate to 

the children of Mankunkha in Malawi.

Organized in partnership with Largs Rotary.

More Vintage/soft shades silk

Silk caps and silk laps (below)

were todays jobs.

Dying silk filature....soft and vintage

A customer request for pale vintage colours was today's dying job.

hand dyed and hand spun yarns

Hand dyed by me

 and Hand spun by Rita

yarn and thread packs

naturals and brights.

stormy sky and blue seas

Harris tweed XL creativity pack

Hand spun and hand dyed yarn and silk

Upcycled wool blanket hand dyed

small creativity pack.