I have been away from the spinning wheel for a long time, over a year.  I was missing it so this last week I plied what had been on bobbins...

Four new roving colors from Ashland Bay, now listed in my etsy shop for sale Dusty Rose, Mulberry, Forest and Graphite

I've spent the past two days fondling roving..........only it's not as fun as it sounds. I've been weighing, bagging, tagging, u...

I finally washed and blocked the merino I had been spinning. The top 3 skeins were my hand-dyed plied with Ashland Bay merino in the Seafo...

Yesterday I start spinning some of my hand-dyed merino - I had stashed this colorway before anyone could buy the last 8oz, am wishing I ha...

I spent the better part of the day fondling roving. I had a huge order to weigh, bag and label that I had ignored for two weeks......decided...

Sizzle....that's what we're now doing in this extreme heat. Yesterday it was 105 in town, only 101(hah) here on our property since w...

Yesterday morning and then again today I started dealing with a big Ashland Bay roving order - photographing, weighing, bagging, labeling,...

This is the last of it, the last roving I dye to sell - whoo hoo. I've been cutting back the past 2 years from the hundreds of pounds I...

I finished spinning mini sample skeins of the new colors of Ashland Bay rovings. Don't look too closely at my spinning, this is quick a...

Well, I have learned that with an employee I get what I pay for.......a gold bricking shipping/receiving/inventory control employee........S...

The other day I put up a pic of the new Ashland Bay roving colorway  Fiesta .  Here's a picture of a sample handspun - I love it.  It...

Finally did some photography work for the etsy shop - I needed 4-5 shots for each scarf listing, took many more than that to get 4-5 decen...

The other evening I plied this handspun, got it washed and blocked yesterday. It's from Ashland Bay roving - Merino in the Baltic col...

The temperature was below 90 today so I decided to do some dyeing, below 80 is even better for me but that's not going to happen for ...

Finally I finished with the photography work on the recently dyed merino roving, all are listed in my esty shop along with a picture of ...

Whoo-Hoo! I've put away the acid dyes for the season. The dyeing from the past week is now braided, weighed, labeled, photographed and m...

Today's accomplishments.....merino roving........all of it was playing except the center light yellow which is my colorway called Butt...

This is my current spinning, since I usually only spin in my spinning group and when demo'ing it will take a while to get this spun. Thi...

Here's what I'm currently spinning - it's a blend of 80% merino/20% silk hand-dyed by Shelley of Butternut Woolens . The colorw...