Mmm fiber.

Swiftly becoming a classic, I made a batch of Sapphire Surprise. I like this colorway.

Sapphire Surprise – 4oz x 4 – Combed BFL Top

Some more of the dorset, which I really like. Super duper soft? No. Durable? Hells yes. Near perfect memory? (No creasing, compaction, etc) Awww yeah. Feltable? No! Awesome. Great stitch definition.

A soft, ethereal flowering shrub, this is far more pastel than my usual, but I really like it anyway. Subtle.

Smoke Bush – 4oz – Carded Dorset Roving

One you’ve seen before that I’m fond of. Summer evening, as the dark creeps in, and you snuggle closer to your partner…

Summer Evening – 4oz – Carded Dorset Roving

A new fiber to me, Ramboulliet, or French Merino (It really is descended from Merinos, no cross breeding). Not quite as soft as some merino, but lofty and crimpy, a foundation breed of a lot of the crimpier finewools.

Come summer, we all should let our inner child play a little. And what better way with bright bold colors? Who doesn’t like fingerpaints?

Fingerpaints – 4oz – Carded Ramboulliet Roving

And ah, the lovely summer rose, so light, so airy… this one will spin into a semi-solid rose, though it looks fairly high contrast now, the dark spots are surface dyes, so will blend in to make semi-solid.

Provence Rose – 4oz – Carded Ramboulliet Roving

And because it’s spring, so clearly I’m already thinking about when it will get cold again…

Muted Autumn – 4oz – Carded Ramboulliet Roving

And apparently I was in that sort of mood because I did it again… Incidentally, things like these two rovings will be addressed in my upcoming dyeing posts, as you’ll notice though they contain the same colors, they look remarkably different, and that’s with a dye method that minimizes those differences.

Muted Autumn – 4oz – Carded Jacob Roving

My most requested colorway, in fact a request this time as well (and thus already claimed)…

War for the Oaks – 4oz – Combed Polwarth Top

And, because it IS spring, an actual spring inspired one. Last time I was home these were just beginning to bloom…

Spring Crocus – 4oz – Combed Corriedale Top

And then this. This is a beta test of a colorway. The final version will have a little less dark and much more gradiated mid-greys. For those unfamiliar, when I get the final version done, I’ll tell the story of this colorway.

Nekkid Cowboy Beta Test – 4oz – Combed Corriedale Top

In other news…

I realized I never mentioned dropping off 40lbs of fleece with the mill to be made into roving. Doh. I’ve still got the two best fleeces in my car waiting for me to try handprocessing them.

I also just received two more fleeces! They were supposed to arrive before NH, but the post office decided 2-9 days actually meant 13 days. ::sigh:: Jerks.

Targhee and Suffolk fleeces, 5lbs each

Lessee… oh right, mmm fiiiiiber.

New fiber arrived! This is what’s upcoming in the shop (among the other thigns i have on hand)

Wensleydale, 3lbs

Tussah Silk, 3lbs

Angora/Merino, 1lb (sooo very soft). Keeping a bit of this myself to spin

And…

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Cashmere Silk, 8oz (zomg, that’s really all you can say). Also keeping a bit (half) this to spin myself

Aaaand some other things in the works, but that’s all to post about for now…

OH wait, except that I finally got the supplies to make the requested sock stitch markers.

And that’s it for now. Back to working on my thesis outline.

~The Gnome