And then there's a touch of sparkle.....

sparkle rust

With just a touch of trilobal rainbow nylon

the sparkle range are combinations of Shetland and Merino.

pink

blue

red

purple

green

Custom blends......just sooooo excited !

Antique 1 (Rita's favourite)

bfl/soyabean/flax and merino

How excited were Vicky and Rita and I yesterday

as our custom blends arrived at last!

Darkest

We did track the poor delivery van man "Chris"

round Largs for 10 of his deliveries before us.

Yes he did look slightly concerned when we told 

him we'd been keeping a close eye on him.

But the wait was oh so worth it.....

My favourite above is Pebble peace.

It's tussah silk/flax/baby alpaca and merino.......

Forest Woodland

Heather(with wonderful added linen texture)

Pebble marl feels amazing with Gotland in the mix....

 can't wait to start felting!

Scarf base lengths

Something new this week 

in the Ebay store

is hand dyed Merino and silk

pre felt scarf based lengths.

Great to wet felt into or embellish with needle felting.

Wonderful soft 80% 19.5 mic merino and 20% silk

so fine almost cobweb like in areas.

Dyes beautifully.....

Working on some new ingredients for my packs......

Over the last few weeks I have been working on some new

ideas to include in my creativity and felting packs.

hand dyed pre felt fringing with my hand dyed locks

Hand made pre felt combining hand dyed wool 

fibres with silk...this is really lovely.

the blue piece is roving felted with several silk hankies.

Hand made pre felt from hand dyed fibres made into a batt.

This has a base of wonderful fawn suri alpaca.

There are more new things to come!

Vicky, Rita and I are having such fun.....

Some holiday pics.....Oban was just lovely!

We had a great break at Melfort Village.

Outside our lovely cottage - Quarry Cottage - just everything we needed,

Stunning views

Found some great shells here......

Exploring!

Digging!

Walking....Hope went on loads of walks exploring the hills

around melfort.

Kite flying......

Easter Egg hunt.

Just perfect! Feeling very excited about being home 

and loads of new ideas in my head......

Starting to get organized for our holiday.

We are all very excited to be heading off to

Melfort Village

in Oban on Saturday for a much needed family break.

We have never stayed here before but it looks lovely and

the kids are really excited as there is a small

swimming pool onsite and some other activities.

Will put shops on holiday mode

 and send paid orders out Saturday morning 

before we head off.

Silk noils and degummed cocoons

Lovely fluffy silk de-gummed cocoons

Some last minute dying on Thursday.

The kids are now off for two weeks for Easter Holidays

so I won't have the usual time to dye. 

Great textural silk noils.......

Woolfest 2014....10 year celebration!

We are thrilled to have been accepted to show at 

Woolfest 2014.

It's their 10th Anniversary show this year.

I have been sorting our advert for this years programme.

We head off on holiday next weekend so trying to get a bit organized.

Woolfest 2014

is the 27th and 28th June at Cockermouth in Cumbria

and with less than 12 weeks to go we are starting to make up all the 

display elements for our stand and of course new ideas for

packs to sell.......

Happy Birthday Vicky.....One in a minion!

It's minion Vicky's birthday today......

Big Birthday hugs as she is at her other job(teaching)

today so we celebrated yesterday.

This is the necklace I made her and we had cake!

I would be lost without the minions (Vicky and Rita)

We have such fun picking and packing orders

and all the creative parts in between!

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