Busy Times

Well, it all of a sudden dawned on me that I am down to "weeks" not months to prepare for Black Sheep Gathering. It always sneaks up on me. Yikes!!  I'm going to visit my friend in Seattle on April 14th for a week.  There goes one of my precious weeks.  And I have to be completely prepared by the end of the first week of June because I am going to attend the weeklong Shakerag workshops in Tennessee beginning June 10th.  When I get home, it's pack the car and head up to Oregon with Miryha.  So, it's now serious time. Handpainted rovings in the sink waiting to be rinsed.  There's merino/Tibetan yak/silk, and baby camel/merino/silk, and polwarth/silk and merino/silk/angora.

 Here are some rovings fresh from the drying rack and ready to be split down into hanks.

And after a long day of standing in my studio, dyeing, I relax in the evening either spinning or knitting. I finished the Adamas shawl that I had been working on.  It is really quite lovely and the pictures don't do the colors justice. 

The skein I used to knit Adamas was my handspun yarn, using Blarney Yarn "Orchid", a blend of merino/cashmere/angora, and my "Seychelles", a blend of merino/silk/angora.  It's got quite a little bloom on it from handling the yarn during knitting.  The skein I used was similar to the one below, but slightly different.  

Here's a skein of baby camel/merino/silk that I spun using my "Banana Slug" colorway.  This is a new fiber blend for me and before I sell something new, I always like to spin some to see how it works out.  I love this!  Incredibly soft and spins quite easily.

Now, back to multi-tasking -- making homemade pasta sauce and handpainting rovings -- running back and forth from studio to kitchen, and a couple loads of laundry.