Colourful Locks

 

Some of my English Leicester fleeces from the lambs. 

 

The fleece is soft and lustrous and silky

I have one more fleece to hand dye.

 



 

So more colours will be available at Fibre Arts Australia Ballarat Winter School next week.

This Week's Colours

 It is a busy week here dyeing kilos of yarn. I have been winding yarn into hanks on my trusty hanking machine which saves so much time when yarn is on cones.


The dye supply was low so I have mixed colours and have a full range of dyes in bottles to choose from now.

A small sample of yarns which will be available at the Arts Centre Market in Melbourne on Sunday. Some of the yarn I have been dyeing has been for friends who are talented knitters.  Looking forward to seeing the knitted results.

Sock yarn is next to be dyed and after disappointing a few customers I will hopefully put some smiles on sock knitters faces on Sunday.

Have washed a couple of fleeces today.  David has cleaned the chimney so the heater is working again and warming the loft.  I do have to go out to the studio this afternoon to wind more yarn but luckily I have lots of knitting to get done so I'll sit by the heater.