I opened an etsy shop!

Thats right I did! Its is Woodland Fibres! I am so excited! It only has one listing my Sunshine batts I made over the last few days!

These drumcarded batts consist of 100% merino wool. Natural merino is mixed with five colours of varying yellow/orange. Its a total of 85 grams to spin!

I think I will do some more drum carding this afternoon so I can list another item! I will also hopefully be listing some mini skeins later in the week!

I finally finished plying my jade yarn which is 50% merino and 50% silk. I will see how many wraps per inch it has after I have washed it but I am hoping it is fingering weight!

Like a Batt out of hell

I decided to blend some coloured fibres with my plain merino tops I had. Two Christmas' ago I got a box of what I think is 10g of merino in a variety of colours. I have used them for needle felting in the past but I thought it was a great idea to blend some into some of my white merino. Its also a great excuse to use my new drum carder.

So I broke off a small amount of white and carded that, I then selected the four colour I wanted to add to spice things up. I thought I would go for a 'My little pony' them, so I chose turquoise, blue, pink and some yellow.

 I put the colours through the carder in an order of white then colour, white then colour etc. but I was only using a little bit of colour.

This is what it looked like after one pass....

But I decided I would do a second pass. For this I broke the batt into six pieces, I made sure I spread the fibres out before I passed the pieces through again. Here is how it looked after the second pass through...

 Much more blended. I have never spun from a batt so I want to make it like the tops I usually spin from. To do this I spilt the batt in a 'W' kind of shape.

I then drafted it all out the make it smoother and so the fibre were all more or less going the same way.

Finally I then wound it into a ball ready for me to spin later on.

SO happy with it! Will do some more next week I think! But before I can spin it I need to ply these!

I LOVE the colour of them and CANNOT wait for the yarn to be finished!!!

All is practice!

Giveaway winner!
Sorry for the delay I went to a friends and stayed there over night. I put the names in a hat and got my Dad to pick one out! So without further ado the winner is:

I will pm you on Ravelry for your address and get it posted off this week!
Thanks to those of you who followed my blog I appreciate it :)

Practice
So I started a project I new would be difficult to weave. I decided to do brooks bouquet throughout the scarf (or whatever it is!). I had decided I didn't like the project and was planning on cutting it off the loom but then I thought all is practice! So I carried on and to be honest I enjoyed weaving it. It didn't finish as well as I had hoped but I think that's because the two different yarns had different tensions. But anyway here is the finished project!