News — spinning

  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...

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...

  Another busy week at the funny farm....eh I mean fibre farm...lolol There has been a huge amount of blending and dyeing happening again plus prepping all the september club fibres and yarns but more about that later. This week I have a very special blend to offer you: Happy Bunny Tops. I have put this blend together because I found that there were hardly any hemp fibres or blends with this amazing plant fibre available in Australia at all..In 2019, at the Bendigo show I showcased the Happy Sheep blend for the first time and now it’s the time...

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...