Lanifica

Still in tidy-up mode. Very reluctantly, I’ve added one of my favourite ongoing spinning projects to Etsy: recycled sari silk sourced from Fibrehut, currently in purple, red and gold colourways. I have blue on my spindle right now; it may end up on Etsy too, if I don’t get a tableloom before anyone clears me out of this.

Three new Etsy listings:

Lockdown Blues, a Romney/bamboo blend hand-dyed with indigo

Baby Alpaca, single-ply baby alpaca in natural shades (grey, fawn and chocolate brown)

Things I have done during lockdown. Includes alpaca, recycled sari silk, various wool samples and a lot of bad TV. The blue is a Romney/bamboo blend I discovered in my yarn coffer, spun but undyed, and decided to use up some indigo on; I had to unbind all three skeins to do it and ended up spending a week unknotting and reskeining one of them. Currently I have more recycled silk and a stash of Suffolk and Gotland waiting to be spun. And I really need to list some of these, especially the alpaca, which is lush.

Exmoor Copper | 2 ply handspun, hand-dyed wool starting from £8.50/40g skein. Exmoor Blueface wool dyed with barberry bark + copper mordant.

Bluefaced Humbug | 4 skeins of 2-ply natural humbug Bluefaced Leicester