♥ W O W Z E R S ♥ RockeFeller ... !!

I just HAD to share this with you... isn't it A M A Z I N G ?

A customer, and friend, made this awesome shawl, Rockefeller in my sock yarns...
My jaw literally dropped when I saw it, isn't she so clever!!!!

(all photographs used with very kind permission of their owner)

For those about to Shop (on Sunday) ... I saluuuute you :D

As well as this WALL of Yarn, I will also have lots of NicsKnots Project Bags, and a couple of signed copies of WoollyWormHeads 'Bambeanies' up for grabs too :D
Also, don't forget to bring your 10% off vouchers, as I will be writing your names on the back of them, putting them in a hat to win a prize draw at the end of the Trunk Show !!!

See you on Sunday, at Purl City Yarns in Manchester :D

Stuff, and myTrunk Show at Purl City Yarns

I am sorry to have been so quiet lately, things, as always, have been pretty chaotic around Casa Longlegs, what with House Renovations, Rock Concerts and Royal Garden Parties, I've hardly had time to think, let alone concentrate on dyeing wool! This is all set to change, as I have two very popular trade customers keeping me on my toes, and two upcoming public appearances... hehehe *GRiNS*

Husbeast is still unemployed, *Sigh*, but is keeping himself busy with his music, and I am also trying to train him up to take over the Shop Update side of things. For me, the dyeing is the easy and exciting part and he is much better at the techy side of things, so it's the logical way forward. For a while anyway. So, hopefully soon, I'll be able to offer you all more regular shop updates, instead of the notsoregularOMGIhavetodoitallagain shop updates :P

This time next week sees me in Manchester, at Purl City Yarns , and I am very excited about it, as it will be the first time this year I have ventured out into public :D
I'll be there with my lovely friend Lottie from 12-3pm ... so please, if you are near that part of the world, do come and say hello!! I have been working/and will continue to work really hard on lots of yummy colours, and as well as the usual retina burning shades, there'll be a selection of less burny ones... hahaha :P

Some pictures below, to whet your appetites :D

'Caramelicious' Perfection Sock

'Butterscotch' Perfection Sock

'Autumn' Flump Sock

'Desire' semi-Precious

Blog Comp...Blog Comp...Blog Comp!!!!

Okay... my brain has been running on overdrive the past few days, as you can probably imagine, with the whole 'Knit Now' thing happening tomorrow ... *squeeeees*, so, I thought I would run a competiton!!

I thought it might be fun... plus you guys will win something!!!

The winner will get a skein of semi~Precious DK, or semi~Precious sock... to knit WoollyWormhead's 'Tangled River' or one of the other awesome patterns featuring my yarn from Issue 6 of 'Knit Now'... and all other entrants will get a personalised discount code for free UK P&P to be used whenever you like.

All you have to do, is to go out and buy the magazine, then post a photo of you AND the magazine on my FaceBook Page ...

Simple huh??

My special winner chooser boy will pick the picture he likes the most, so a little hint... make it funny enough to appeal to an 8 year old... hahaha :D

Happy Monday?

Well, the colours are, at least :)
I had to get this yarn out today, so I could show Monday who is the Boss...

It's the lace version of 'Perfection', 800 m/875 yds... takes colour just as well as its sock~weight sista, and I can't wait for you guys to try it out!!

OOOh... !!!

My lovely friend, NicsKnots tweeted this picture this morning, she's the most awesome person for finding me in magazines :)

The colourway that was featured in "Knit Today" was this one, 'Rainbow Brite' ... A lovely, happy space-dyed colourway :D

Perfection!!

Meet Perfection, my new pure silk base yarn :)

I was given a few samples at Fibre Flurry last weekend, by my lovely Yarn Pusher friend, Andy and out of all of them, this one blew me away the most.

Since the success of semi-Precious, and the way it shines, I have been yearning for a pure silk Plied yarn to play with.

Well I got my wish...!

Perfection is made up of six plies (or 'ends' as they are correctly known in spinner lingo), quite loosely plied... 400m of sheer luxury.

All I need to do now is finish my current WIP and I can start test knitting this skein of pure loveliness.

I am going to get myself some lace needles, as I suspect it will be a bit 'splitty' if I just use run of the mill needles....no pun intended there *WiNKS*

For all you hardcore lace knitters out there... it will also be available in 800m lace!!

It's a Halloween Treat... no tricks... honest!!

Because it's a spooky day today, I have got together with one of my bestest buddies, Lottie, to bring you this special edition mini- Tote bag and yarn collaboration :)

The set will consist of one skein of sock yarn, in either the "Yoda" or the "Goblin" colourway, and a lovely little project bag in an orange skull fabric, and there's only one of each available.

The bag measures approx, 11 inches by 13 inches, and is fully lined in black cotton.

The set will cost £20 ... and will have free UK P&P...

Music, Sweet Music at FibreFlurry!!

Babylonglegs, NicsKnots and Atomic Knitting have all come together for this years show, and we bring you a musical themed collaboration!

You’ll get a space-dyed skein of high twist Merino Sock yarn, in soft “confectionary” colours, a beautifully made guitar print project bag, and a lovely little Violin Stitch marker… for when you need to fiddle :D

There will be 10 available to buy, either at the Friday Night Preview/Quiz Night, or on the actual day of the show, at a price of £22.

I am sure you won’t be able to resist this sweet little package…

See you there!!

Sophie Revisited

Back, by popular demand, is "Sophie" (seen here on Organic Merino Aran) space~dyed not hand painted......so the repeats are longer :)

Welcome back, Sophie!!!

New Base Yarn...Flump Aran

PetrolHead

Purple Tempest

Jean Jeanie

Midnight

This is a new base yarn I am adding to my range, a super~floofy Superwash Aran weight yarn, which I am calling Flump Aran... as it's pretty much the same as Flump Sock...just thicker ;)

This 400g will be going into the shop update on Saturday night...just to see how it goes :)

New at Babylonglegs !!!

I have wanted to stock Emma's Skull stitch markers for AGES... talked about it with her at KnitNation, but never got around to it, then saw her at Fibre Flurry and amongst the madness, managed to make an order :)

They are available in two sizes, 4 mm snag free rings or 7mm snag free rings....and you can have them in Metal (pictured top) or Acrylic (pictured bottom) and they are priced at £5 for 4 :)

I have some acrylic ones, and being the skull freak that I am...they are my stitch marker of choice ;)

They are in the shop now!!

Fibre Flurry...pics

If anyone wants to join the Blog-a-Long to celebrate P/Hop's 2nd Birthday, and my post has inspired you to help, please visit their website and sign up for it. Then, come back here and leave me a message.

You can blog about anything knitting related, it doesn't have to be about Fibre Flurry!!

All Blog Post Donators will go into one of my many hats, and the winner will receive a custom dyed skein of semi-Precious DK :)

Ally Pally

So, 5.45AM on Saturday morning saw me and Lottie getting up to get a coach to Ally Pally...can't say I was entirely happy to be getting up that early, in fact I was quite grumpy, but it was worth it, because I got to spend the day with my two best friends :) I don't get to spend whole days with them very often, especially Woolly Days, as me and Lottie are usually working together selling yarn......

The Three WoollyTeers...all sporting chapeaux a la Wormhead

This was my first purchase of the day...an awesome, hand drawn picture of a Pirate Sheep, called Vern !!! The artist, Sarah Macintyre, was on the Stitch London stand, and I fell in love with her illustrations and commissioned something with a skull in it.

Isn't he just brilliant???

We wandered around all day, looking at fabrics and yarns and lots of other things too... and I decided I'd like to make myself a Morsbag, as they had a big display and 4 sewing machines all set up, so people could just sit down and make one. I think it's a wonderful idea...using recycled fabric to make reusable bags.

Here I am, proud of my sewing Skillz ;)

A rock and roll themed Morsbag, in the huge display they had set up. There were so many, all on different themes, the only limit is seemingly the creators imagination...!!!

We caught the coach back to Leicester at 5pm...and I was totally shattered by then...havn't fully recovered from it even now...I am getting old!!!

Friday Inspirations...Green Day

A few weeks ago, Jen Arnall-Culliford of The Knitter contacted me to ask if they could do a feature on my custom dyeing service in their October issue of the Magazine. So, of course I said yes, was very honoured to be asked!! She sent me the above picture, and asked me to match the colour of the bag, and I came up with "Wasabi". So, if any of you subscribe to the magazine, you can find me in there this month!!

So, as yesterday was the 1st October, and the weather was awful, I decided to cheer myself up with dyeing a batch of my favourite colour, green, on some semi-Precious, led by the most awesome "Wasabi".

I have called the collective green-ness "Green is the Word"...hehehe

"Wasabi"

"Baron GreenBack"

"Spruce"

I have decided.....

"Gazania" Merino Sock

"Butterscotch" British Merino Sock

"Butterscotch" Boo Sock

Today was a bleary and grey day, the kind of day that just sucks your energy... but this beautiful Gazania, in a neglected pot outside my back door just totally inspired me, it was like my sunshine :)

And this gave me an idea !!!

From now on, I have decided, that Fridays are going to be my “Fun” day :)

Not that every day in my working week isn’t fun, ‘cos it is, but I want Fridays to be real fun…being challenged :)

So, lovely people, I challenge you to inspire me :)

Post a picture on the "Friday Inspirations" thread on my Ravelry group, or a link to something, and every Friday I will choose a picture from that thread, and work from it, producing a body of work around this inspiration.

Then, I will blog what I have done :)

Incidentally, if it’s your picture I choose, you’ll win a prize ;)

Sound like fun???

PS. None of the above yarns will be on sale in my shop, unfortunately. They are part of a trade order going to Fibre and Clay in Knutsford

Joel was inspired too :)

Semi~Precious Shop Update

Been having lots of fun with colour over the last couple of days......and here are the results :D

This will be my last shop update till my kidlets go back to school, so get it while you can!!!

Merisilk Aran

Old Gold

PetrolHead

Purple Tempest

I picked up a new base yarn to try out whilst I was at the 'Fest...it's a 75% merino~25% silk aran, with quite a high twist on it.

Dyes up yummy don't you think??

All done :)

All the skeins

PetrolHead

In My Blood

BlueBell

StingRay

Jaded

Captain Vert

Rowan

Pucker up, ButterCup

I am so pleased with how all these turned out, and I hope my lovely knitterly peeps do too :)

I am just uploading more of these skeins into the shop now, so if you can't resist letting one slide into your hands...feel free :)