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Seaweed, Silver and Rare Sheep
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New colourway "Fair Isle" on North Ronaldsay blend tops Happy weekend everybody and welcome to another rare sheep breed adventure! It was another super full on week here with loads of blending, carding and dyeing and spinning! New colourful wallaby batts, new lotus phangs and new hand dyed north Ronaldsay sheep blend tops in lots of new colourways! The February clubs are all prepped and getting their colourful treatment and next week carding of all the club batts will begin. Shipping will happen later and I am super excited to show you teasers so keep your eyes peeled. i have also...
Mithril Merino Tops
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There’s something mythical about silver and coloured sheep! Did you know that because the wool industry preferred to process white wool, the coloured sheep were deemed inferior and ended up not being used for fibre at all? This was because one colour was and still is so much easier to process on a big scale without having to clean all the machinery after each different coloured batch. Well, I don’t know about you, but I absolutely love natural coloured sheep and their fleece. Not only is it great to use just as is, but also to overdye it. Overdyeing...
Survival and Creativity
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Happy weekend everybody! I don’t know about you, but my week has been chaotic, busy, stressful and served administrative hills to climb. What saved my sanity and helped bringing my anxiety and painlevels down, was a fun time playing with colours and fibres in the dye room. As soon as I start thinking of colours and techniques and how to bring them alive on this canvas of wool and other fibres, everything just seems to disappear. It helped immensely that for the first time in months, the weather was excellent with sunshine and a bit of warmth, so I could hang...
Rhapsody in Blue!
It’s all about Indigo magic this week!
Yakkity Yak !
Get in touch with your WILD adventurous side and play with some Yak or Wallaby 💕 Why not both? 😉