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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...

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...

A new fabulous Shetland dream blend with soft grey Shetland, mulberry silk and cashmere; all hand dyed with love. Fantastic to spin, wear, knit, crochet, felt and weave with.

Happy New Year to all of you !✨ Thank you for making last year amazing ✨ Whether you bought our hand dyed fibres or yarns or hand spun or spindles, or, supported us by showing your enthusiasm for all the crafty fluff and stuff: you all have made our world brighter 🌞Even when I was struggling with physical stuff and also mental doubt -as all creatives do I guess- you have showed me kindness, love for all things fluffy and colourful fluff and yarns I created. You’ve made my job the best in the world and I am super grateful...

A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell)  once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the centre of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise." The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, "What is the tortoise standing on?" "You're...