DESTASH FIBER SALE! Wool Roving, Locks, and Alpaca Fibers!

It is time to clear out some of my fiber stash!  I'm listing several fibers in my Etsy shop at deep discounts this week.  All fibers are just $1.50 - 2.50 per ounce.  Please see if you'd like to take advantage of the great prices and add some wonderful quality fiber to your stash.  It all needs a new fiber lovin' home! 

(I currently have listed wool locks and raw alpaca, but I will be adding some assorted roving mixes as the week goes on.)

A little peak at me carding hand dyed wool batts on my fancy kitty drum carder...

Ron Anderson, the maker of the fancy kitty drum carder, asked for some customer photos to add to his website's scrapbook page.  It is also part of the requirements to be entered in his contest at the fancy kitty group on ravelry.  I normally hide from the camera, but I made an exception in this case and had my husband snap a few photos of me working with my drum carder.  The wool that I'm working with is some that I hand dyed in preparation for carding.  I plan to combine some of the carded colors later to make funky fun batts for felting and spinning.  I will also be selling some of the wool batts at my Etsy Fiber Shop so be on the lookout for them.

So here I am with my lovely new drum carder and yummy wool...

There's also a cute one of the baby, and I just had to share!

And Happy St. Patrick's Day to you!
(It is only fitting that I'm carding bright lime green wool in celebration of the festive day.)

In the Dye Pot with my New Eco-Friendly Acid Dyes = Fabulous Colored Hand Dyed Wool Roving

Yesterday and today, I have been dyeing wool.  I'm very pleased with all the colors!  I've dyed over five pounds of wool with my new acid dyes from Greener Shades and am very, very happy with the results.  With a baby girl to care for, I sought out a new kind of dye that would be friendlier to use at home as well as better for the environment.  I've used many kinds of dyes over the past several years, and I must say that Greener Shades does as well if not better than all the other professional acid dyes that I've used.  It is eco-friendly, non-hazardous, heavy metal free and can do impressively well at dyeing on top of all that.  I think that I might have found a new professional acid dye to use long-term on my wool and silk.

These gorgeous colors of wool will eventually be carded into batts for felting and spinning.  The next thing on my list is to purchase a drum carder in the very, very near future, but that is for another post!  Stay tuned...

(And, if you'd like to see a close up of my colored wool, just click on the individual photos above to see any one of them full-size.)


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