Dyer’s Rants

Hi Everyone,

This is the crazy time of year that Mom Nature is a bit schizophrenic. The 1st of this month we had 13 inches of snow on the ground and nights (without power by the way) was getting down to 9 degrees. The next weekend is 70 degrees and the daffodils are in bloom and my husband and I are breaking ground on our new veggie and fruit garden, planting cherry trees and raspberry bushes and wearing shorts.

OUt my kitchen window looking at the studio

Of course-the 3-4 days we were without power-not much was happening in the dye studio. We focused on survival and snowmen! And I started my yarn spinning challange for my spinning guild

me and my snowman!

Sammy snowman-master of all he sees

Often the craziest weather happens in March. Of course I was thinking the worst was over when we hit March 1st. Boy was I wrong!

Some examples of the "Give it a Whorl" Drop Spindles

Well-all things are back to normal and much is going on. I am in the process of working on adding a store to the website.

We are adding a line of hand made drop spindles based on the colorways of our WoolPaint. They will bee reviewed in the August edition of Knit N Style due out in May.

And all this while working on a large order for the Loopy Ewe (whos is adding our line of roving by the way!) and working on 2 more trunk shows.

Before the big snow…I had a trunk show at my spinning guild in Richmond-Clothos Children. It was a blast-and very successful. Here are some pics of the event.

In't she cute?

There is a bit of a trunk show going on at Holly Spring Homespun now and a big trunk show happening on April 4th at the Knitting Basket.

And all through this-dying is going on and planning for TNNA in June.

Here are some pics of the dye studio inside….a dream come true for me!

Looking towards the door-yarn drying.

Dying has always been fun for me-but now it is a true joy and time just flies by as I am working. It is so nice to have the room to work and I do not have to clean up before dinner-I can allow roving and yarn to soak in color overnight. I think this settup has improved my results!

Upstairs where I skein, label and ship.

Patterns ready to go

As you can see-my head is all over the place. Lots of exciting things happening. Stick around-it is going to be a bumpy ride!

Thanks for visiting!