CARD Fibre Support Unboxing

I just love how Grace snuggles with it:) I cannot wait to see how she dyes and uses these locks in her upcoming book CARD... so much to look forward too.

The fibres in the box are: (not necessarily in order of unveiling)

BFL Lamb - Handyed - from Chase, BC

Gotland - Natural Black - from Chase, BC

Icelandic - Natural Grey with Brown Tips - from Nelson, BC

Rambouillet - Natural Brown - from Salmon Arm, BC

Rambouillet - Natural Grey - from Salmon Arm, BC

Make sure you check out her first two books ROVING and BATT 

They are chalked full of fabulous instructions and illustrations on how to spin the yarn you want from the roving and batts you love!

Mystery Yarn Spun Before Your Eyes

 Materials Used for the Mystery Yarn

• Corriedale from Custom Woolen Mills, AB 

   - dyed with a repeating colourway and spun on a drop spindle
• Alpaca from Maple Lane Alpacas, BC 

   - dyed in a crock pot and carded into a Wild Batt
• Teeswater Locks from Talon Wool Farms, Oregon 

   - dyed and spun from the lock
• Kid Mohair Locks from Wellington Fibres, ON 

   - dyed in a crock pot, carded into a Wild Batt and spun from the lock
• BFL Lamb Locks from Ranfurly Farm, BC 

   - dyed in a crockpot, carded into a Wild Batt and spun from the lock
• Recycled Sari Silk from Darn Good Yarn 

   - in its natural colour as well as dyed and carded into the Wild Batt
• Icicle Top from Maple Rose, BC 

   - dyed in a crock pot and carded into a Wild Batt
• Silk Hankies from Maple Rose, BC 

   - dyed in a crockpot and carded into a Wild Batt

 Welcome...

 to my new blog. I have many ideas for this blog; they all involve lots and lots of fibre, yarn, and dye. I fell in love with fibre a few years ago. I have always been mildly interested in the fibre world, but after a visit to Newfoundland's only Alpaca farm, a drop spindle lesson at the Fortress of Louisbourg and a rug hooking lesson in Cheti Camp along the Cabot Trail, well I was hooked. No pun intended of course. So here I am, in my small basement apartment, surrounded by two spinning wheels, a room full of fibre, a dye pot on my stove, and a loom on the way. My husband is ever supportive as my fibre obsession creeps into all the corners of our house. I don't want to forget to mention my fibre addict in training, Sky, my daughter. It was her birth that has in many ways propelled me out of my shell and into the world. So there it is, my first post.