More dying.....and new packs.

This week has been busy ...busy

Lots of dying!

Creating new packs!

Next week is October break here so there won't be much work

getting done. We will be at home though and Reuben is off work.

so hopefully some days out and decent weather

(keeping those fingers crossed).

But the last few days Rita, Vicky and I have been working on 

new Harris Tweed packs - so lovely!

I have hand dyed the Harris Tweed, and so far we have created

Needle felting packs and Creative textiles packs.

Lovely hand spun yarns by Rita and knitted flowers by Vicky

and dying well that would be my domain!

This weeks dying.....

Chiffon silk scarf lengths are great for nuno felting.

silk rods for creative textiles/altered art

silk hankies

and silk caps......so much silk!

Happy Birthday Mum and dad!

Happy Birthday Mum!

A collaboration with Vicky.

My dying, her knitting and my fringes 

and button additions.

Dad is very pleased with his crop-a-dile....

I am imagining holes everywhere!

Yep it's both their birthdays today.

Whoops and it's not even Friday the 13th!

This week has been a fabric dying week!

Some lovely wild silk - gorgeous texture......

and some super soft Merino 100% Wool pre-felt.

Then Whoops I dropped my camera!

Actually to be more accurate Reuben's camera ....I could cry!!

Broken the screen so not much good.......and I hoped this month was

going to be expense free. It seems not boo hoo! 

Every radiator and the bath!

Beautiful big wigs angora dyed and drying...

I can wait to get felting with this..

Yes another wet and miserable day in Largs.

Everything this week has been drying round the house.

Mohair from Jo in Somerset!

Lovely alpaca...

Kid mohair tops in the hall

More angora in little kitchen paper sandwich drying

in the radiator gap

Some more mohair on the boy's radiator!

The kids and Reuben are quite used to it now.

Just a pain having to empty the bath every morning for shower time!

Meet Dolly the Lincoln Longwool sheep......

Oh so cute Dolly the sheep pre hair cut.

Dolly is a Lincoln Longwool.

Some of Dolly's beautiful fleece after cleaning and dying.

Select Sunday with Sue Welfare and cobweb scarves

This week I am sharing some beautiful delicate

cobweb felt scarves by

Sue Welfare.

Cobweb felt is created with extreamly

fine layers of fibre. 

Sue tells me her scarves weight a mere 25g each

amazing!

Lovely details and you can see the 

blend of different fibres used.

Sue created these pieces using 

some of our dyed tops.

Below a Merino /silk/ flax mix.

Sue works as a full time novelist 

and you may have come across her books

which are available here.

Sue is also on Facebook.

Hair accessories.....doormat.....what next?

Time has been flying by!

I think because the weather has been so good 

and I have managed

to get lots of dying/drying done this week.

Some thick and thin for a 10 year old

that makes her own hair accessories.

Lots of sari ribbon - very popular with Jewellery makers.

Hand dyed silk yarn and thread for lots of

different creative textile uses.

Hand dyed wool insulation!

Thick, hairy and very rough......

I am thinking it may become a door mat?

Oh so soft.....

The Oh so soft Angora and alpaca batts

have now been felted........yum felt.

And become the base of some new

Great British Creativity packs.

Along with 

Hand dyed bluefaced leicester yarn

hand spun yarn by Rita

Wensleydale grey and white locks

hairy Alpaca pre-felt

felt pebbles.

Preparing luxury alpaca/angora batts for felting....

I've been desperate to make some felt with angora since I

managed to get some at Woolfest,

and now have found the lovely Bigwigs angora

who are supplying me for the great British range.

These batts have hand dyed suri alpaca, alpaca noil

natural angora(rabbit), Merino x shetland,

alpaca and mohair. (all grown in the U.K.)

Can't wait to get felting!

New British Needle Felting packs....

The last few days I have been working on dying things

for the British Fluff packs.

This one is a needle felting pack.

It has very hairy alpaca pre-felt

hand dyed bluefaced Leicester yarn

Lovely hand spun by Rita

Teeswater x Hebridean white locks

hand dyed bfl locks

and some of the fun bfl pebbles

Tied together with our British fluff tag

and a hand dyed heart felt button using bfl yarn.

Pop over to see lots more colours in the shop.

Cotton Scrim...drying on the line

Having a wee change today as I have some dying request.

The first is cotton scrim...great for creative embroidery

and nuno felting.

New Luxury British grown felting packs....Can't get enough of this British Fluff

Very excited about our new range of fibre packs.

"I can't get enough of this British fluff"

Luxury fibres grown in the U.K....

not necessarily native British

but nurtured British.

Alpaca, Angora bunny, Merino x Shetland,

Shetland, Bfl, Wensleydale all appear in the first packs.

Along with Rita's hands pun yarn using the same natural fibres.

Tied with Blue faced Leicester yarn and a felt heart button.

Also our Union Flag tag that I was working on a few weeks ago.

Chiffon Sari ribbons and packs....

Today I have been making up packs of silk chiffon

hand dyed recycled sari ribbons.

Also silk ribbon and thread packs.

Mixing Dye's.....

Today's job is mixing up dyes!

Trying to be good and remember the apron and rubber gloves!

I can't believe how long it's taken me today.

Have been an organized girl and labelled all my dye bottles

feeling quite pleased with myself.

Back to school

Sorry about terrible photo's but yes

It's back to school in Largs!

They don't look too distraught either.

Playing...... I just love it!

Wensleydale pebbles.

I set myself the challenge of creating my own nepps.

For those none the wiser....

Nepps are tiny bits of compacted/felted wool 

that add great texture

to yarns and  felt.

In my experimentation I have come up so far with pebbles

which I just love to bits!

Bfl pebbles.....great to dye....I'm thinking jewellery?