Emma's Yarn

100% Punta wool, hand-dyed and hand-spun by yours truly. I am really digging the drop spindle these days.

Thick and thin single, 236 yards. This yarn is for Emma, who saw me spinning it at our knitting group and insisted in her very charming way that I let her buy it.

Clouds outside, clouds inside.

Rain clouds outside, soft wooly clouds inside.

Merino top that I dyed up yesterday.  The loft in this fiber is incredible.  It's so soft.  Kitten soft. Baby soft.  Cloud soft.  Absolutely delicious.  I really don't know how I'm going to be able to sell it. It's like I'm selling bundles of guaranteed happy thoughts.

Spinning this top will be just like spinning a cloud.  Or a kitten.  Minus all the scratching and biting.

Quick -N- Dirty Post

This is what I've been up to:

This is the roving that I've been dyeing.  The temptation to sit and spin this up has been tremendous!  

Here's some of the yarn, all fingering weight.  There's 100% merino, merino/silk blend, and superwash/nylon blend.  Each yarn takes the dye differently, so there has totally been a learning curve involved.

I took these photos this evening, whilst fending off five cats.  That was a trick, let me tell you. Here's Jack trying to weasel his way onto all that lovely wool. 

I can't allow kitty contamination, so I quickly bagged it all up again.  Not such great photos, but you get the general idea.