Etsy Shop Update

I've added a few items to my Etsy shop, check it out here!

Update: Carmine Studio on Etsy

I have a sneak preview of some new items for my Etsy shop. It's just a color preview, but I'm very excited!Pink: 100% Cotton Tshirt material, hand dyed; Grey: 100% Cotton Jersey; Green: 100% Cotton Knit, Blue: Bamboo Viscose/Spandex; Yellow: 100% Cotton Jersey

Fleece order from Etsy

A few weeks ago, I put in an order from Poppy Flower Fibers for a random 4 oz. bag of fleece! To tell you the truth, I had no idea what to expect. I thought maybe it would be just little chunks of solid colored fleece, but when I opened the package!!!! WOW!!!!


Amazing colors!! and all the pieces are super soft!! I'm especially in love with the one on the far left! it's the softest of them all!!! I wish that I knew what kind of fleece it was... maybe Poppy Flower Fibers will be able to tell me, or give me a good idea. I think it might be a superwash fleece.

I think I'm going to spin it into a patchwork yarn....

Etsy Shop Update

I have taken my etsy shop off of "Vacation Mode" and I have added a few new hand spun yarns. So, make sure you stop by and check it out!

I'm going to be the happiest textile girl ever!

Last week my teacher told us that we are allowed to borrow equipment from school for over the summer! I was so excited to hear this because the "equipment" includes drum carders! Why is this so great you ask? Well, I am addicted to spinning. I have more fleece than a herd of sheep. hehe. So, I was a little concerned that I would have to hand card (slowest method ever!) all my fleece before I could spin it. Which would seriously slow down my production over the summer, for my Etsy shop. But, never fear! I will have a drum carder here! (I talked about the drum carder in a previous post). That will also give me more inspiration for blog posts, which will be nice because I've been slacking a bit. Well, wish me luck on lugging that thing home! Here is a picture of something random, just to add some interest to the post! *wink*

I am so impressed!

As you read a few posts back, I purchased 2lbs of Shetland fleece from Serenity Sheep Woolens on Etsy. Well, it arrived today! It came a lot sooner than I had planned! (I was expecting early or mid next week) So you can imagine my surprise when I opened up the mailbox and saw a key waiting for me! The thought ran through my mind that it could have been one of my swap packages from Craftster, but none of my partners told me they mailed their items. So, like a giddy little girl I grabbed the key and bent over to unlock the larger mailbox and found this:

(minus the kitty... hehe)

Right away I checked the label to get a clue of the contents that may be inside... and I was right!I grabbed the nearest sharp thing, which luckily was scissors! and opened up this bad boy!It was jammed packed in there! I was surprised when I pulled it out, and fluffed it up a little that this "tiny" little box (15-1/2"x11"x5-1/2") held 2lbs of fleece!!

(12" ruler for size comparisson)

And a crappy picture of the staple length for good measure. (no pun intended! lol)
This fleece is surprisingly clean! The first raw fleece I ever received was sooooooo (x10) greasy I still haven't de-lanolin-ized it (yes I just created a new word ;) lol) (I've written about it in one of my drum carding posts) But, this one! Beautiful! I can't wait to clean it up, dye it and spin it! Thank you Serenity Sheep Woolens!!!!

look what I can do...

... in a 3 hour break between classes on a Thursday

("Party Gone Wrong" - 163 yards of Unknown Fiber)

Last semester we had a class on spinning and I got a little carried away and drum carded a few batts of random fiber from a giant bag of unknown fleece (I wish I had a picture of it)(I drum carded because I already knew how to spin). The batts sat around the classroom all semester and I finally decided that since no one was going to do anything with them, I would spin them. So the above skein is the product of my fiber obsession. The colors are a little darker in person. We have had really bad fog the past few days, so the lighting was bad in class.

Side note:
I ordered a 2lbs Shetland fleece on Etsy from Serenity Sheep Woolens. It should be arriving here in 5-7 business days! I can't wait!