Posts Tagged Fiber

Photo Friday

Mar 5

Posted by Theresa in CCFibers | 1 Comment

Happy Friday once again to all my readers! It was a big Photo Day today, so I will just show you some of my favorites. (and darn it, I still forgot to take pictures of the last couple yarns I’ve spun… but I am aching too much, so they will wait till next week)

"Thunder Storm Skies" - these are layered batts with blue, white, and grey merino. They also include firestar, angelina, and corn fiber.

"Blue Skies" - Merino and Bamboo

Lots of orifice hooks, of all sizes and lengths. Most will fit in modern or antique wheels alike! These will all be hitting the shop in the next few weeks.

I have had these stitch markers made up for a while, but could not find a way to photograph them well enough... I think I have now. Hello to the bunnies!

Can we say Flower Power? Sweet and pretty, these would be a great gift for a young knitter, or just fot the young at heart!

Ok, so this will be all the hint you need to discover my theme for April's Phat Fiber contributions... Yup, you guessed it! ladybugs! The only Cute bugs I ever saw.

Was that enough pictures for one day? I hope so. I’d like to remind you if you don’t think so, that I do after all take many pictures for every one I actually use… I have been standing over the camera and lightbox for the last 3 hours! (ok, and then hunched over the computer in photoshop choosing and cropping photos too)

Till Next week,

Later, Gators!

Tags: Fiber, orifice hooks, photography, stitchmarkers

Photo Friday

Feb 26

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Ok, Sorry, once again, I am pretty late with my Photo Friday… but, at least it’s still Friday, right?

So, here are the pics, stuff that got hit with the camera today:

"Sunshine" - This is 3oz. of dized roving straight off my drum carder. Merino and Firestar. Because during a winter like this one (and here we don't get much sun) everyone needs a little extra sunshine.

"Surprise Me" - Batt 2 in the series. Another one of my whatever falls into the carder batts. this has a little bit of anything I may have carded up anytime in the past, leftovers and stuff. Full of color, its lots of fun.

THis one doesn't have a name yet. but it's a luscious soft merino dyed in pinks and purples and even a bit of blue. I haven't measured the WPI yet, but this is over 7oz and looks to be somewhere around a heavy worsted... YUM

So there you have it. The fruits of my afternoon’s photo session. Don’t worry, I did other things too, I just didn’t do a ton of photos today. I did lots on Wednesday, and you have seen some of those already in the shop. Today, when these were done, I finished spinning some low twist singles yarn (that I am still not sure how it will come out when it dries) and played with some other fibers…

Tags: Fiber, photography, yarn

Photo Friday

Feb 19

Posted by Theresa in CCFibers | 1 Comment

Yikes! I had a very busy Photo Friday today! But, I have pictures. Later than usual, but here they are!

I haven't come up with a name for this one yet, maybe you can think of something. This is Merino/Silk yarn, and there is about 450 yards in 4oz here. Lovely, lovely yarn!

This one is Superwash BFL, 3 ply. I haven't measured the WPI yet, but looking, I think it is probably about a sport weight, and there is somewhere between 250-300 yards here. (I promise, I do have it written down, its just not here in front of me at the moment.)

Merino yarn, spun somewhat thick and thin on one ply (mostly towards the thick side), and thin on the other ply. It has a really cool effect, that wavy look I am starting to love.

This is my very first Art yarn, all washed and whacked. It really came out very cool, and is basically a thread-wrapped yarn with little coiled cocoons every few inches. This was spun from my own layered batts, one of which will be in the shop very soon.

A close-up shot of that Art Yarn

Sherbert Swirls - This is Punta fiber I got in a swap a while ago, one white ply and one blue and green ply. Very pretty!

Uraguayan Merino - so pretty and soft!

Finally, the Fiber! This one is "Electric". It is a blend of merino and firestar, and it was MEANT to be peacocky batts... but you know what? This does not say peacock to me. It says more of-- Electric! So there you are.

And this one. This is a blended Batt version of my Earthy Princess colorway. I haven't done Earthy Princess in a long time, but it was a colorway I very much loved. So here it is again, with a happy blend of about 70% merino, 30% bamboo!

Ok, so I was late posting my Photo Friday pics. But you know, I really think you can understand why, with all these new things ready and waiting to be listed in the shop. Each of these will be listed at some time over the next 2 weeks, so keep an eye out if you like something. I will try to get at least one of them listed over this weekend, and then more after that!

Tags: Fiber, photography, spinning, yarn

New Workspace, New Yarns

Feb 17

Posted by Theresa in CCFibers, Crafting | 1 Comment

So, we know I’ve been working on my craft room. As it turns out, I’ve made a lot of progress with it. I won’t bore you with old pictures, you can see those on older posts. But I WILL show off some new ones.

Of course, I still have a few things left to work on. But we are making GREAT progress here.

See the difference here? I have WORKSPACE! and the laundry monster is gone, lol... for now. I still plan for some shelves over the laundry space.

I've since re-cleared the desk and the table (and re-uncleared them too, lol) But really, on the desk, all that is full time is the sewing machine, lamp, and phone, so that is pretty good I think.

A Close up of the space over the desk, with my new cork boards and organizer. Total cost of these pretties? $7 for the corks that came in a set of 4 (still have 2 left) and the thumbtacks I turned into pins with beads and buttons. WIN!

This basket I made at a basket weaving class. It was meant in this space to hold only current carding projects and carding tools. I think I went slightly overboard on my dyeing day, and overfilled my ready-to-card drawer. So now the basket is holding some pretty colors of ready to card fiber too.

Ok. Have you seen enough pictures?

Well, how about one more. I wasn very productive this weekend. On the spinning front. Over the course of the weekend, and Friday, I finished spinning and/or Plying all these yarns: