We’re adding new things to etsy all the time!

These just went up at Shenanigansyarn.etsy.com

We’re excited to be going to the Orlando Fiber-in this year. We’ll be there on Sunday, September 18th in the morning for a few hours.
Here’s a taste of what we’re bringing:

Just look for the alligator!

You’ll recognize the “sky” from my hand-spun yarn in a previous post! The grey is from a friend formerly known as The Yarnside

Didah!! The yarn is out of the jar and was surprisingly bright yellow straight out of the jar. It has mellowed out to a delicate tan. I’m also trying out some new fiber wash from Unicorn so it should have a very lovely lavender scent instead of stinky mushroom sock that has been perfuming the air for the past week. I’m quite happy with this and if the mushrooms keep popping up at work every few months, I should be able to dye more of this color.

I finally got up the nerve (and time) to use the mushroom juice I collected so many months ago. We did a batch of cotton yarn for Sip and Knit and it just happens to need the same chemicals for the mushroom juice. This is what it looks like after two days:

I’m a little concerned that it seems to be fermenting and making a lot of air bubbles which the juice alone doesn’t do. I’ll check the yarn tomorrow.

Just a quick note that you will soon see these beauties at Sip & Knit in Maitland:
Angora, bamboo and wool blend sock yarn, bulkies in alpaca and wool

When we were first testing this site, my husband made a few fake products to populate that portion of the store. Our favorite was this description:

“100% Genuine Hobo Beard Hair
All of our Hobo Hair Fiber is made from actual hobo hair from actual hobos that have been certified to have ridden a minimum of 1,000 miles on a freight train. Unlike some other spinners, we refuse to allow time spent on passenger trains to count in this total.”

At the time this described this lovely batt from Politically Incorrect Yarns.

Well we now have our own line of beard hair: Batty Blends created by whim and our new Louet drum carder. Most of these can be seen at our Etsy version of this store.

I couldn’t stand it and started spinning some of my own. I’ll post those in a couple days when they’re dry. I do have to say they are really fun and create some unusally textured yarn.

I we are now an authorized Louet dealer! We will soon have Wenslydale fiber up for sale as well as batts, because we now have the Elite drum carder from Louet. I had fun with it the other night combing some pink and purple roving that we dyed.

before

after

after

Kiara also had a good time rolling around on the packing paper. She needs to send Louet a “thank you” letter for all the empty boxes they sent just for her.

being helpful

Those of you who have seen the video may  want some  of these:

Our plan was to bring some tropical flavors to the party, so we have fresh blueberries, papayas, cherries, kumquats, watermelons, lychee, and plantains.

A few are available for sale in our Etsy store.  If we run through and you would like more, we will redye.  We can do those colorways on different fibers.  We currently have BFL top, BFL superwash top, MCN top, seacell blend top, and sock yarns.  Please keep in mind that different fibers take color differently and that this is a 2nd take, so they may not be identical.   Please feel free to email us.

I just finished counting how many yards I got off that bobbin… 406!! It’s going to make a perfect pair of socks.

I think it can handle such abuse

and now for a color update!! We’ve been dying to get ready for the September Phat Fiber box, so I can’t show everything (and it’s killing me) but here’s a quick pic of what will be out soon.