Jeg lavede et par stykker mere i går. Disse 4 portioner er alle på 100 gram, sådan for nemheds skyld, men jeg vil naturligvis gerne lave sær-bestillinger på det antal gram og i de farver man nu måtte ønske.
Gårsdagens karte-produktion kommer her:
Fra venstre: Rosa/orange, ren uld. Mørk rød/rødviolet, uld med bambus. Aqua/lys turkis, uld med silke. Sandfarvet/hudfarvet, uld med silke.
Disse lækre håndkartede fibre kan købes her i webshoppen. Der er også flere fotos.
Jeg havde kun tid til at lave en enkelt portion karteflor / Art-batts i dag, men i morgen laver jeg nogle flere. I andre farver.
Portionen i dag er tweed-grøn, vil jeg kalde den. Mest grøn, og så med highlights i andre farver: lilla, lys grøn, brun, pink, rød. Med flere.
Portionen her vejer 100 gram og består mest af uld, men også en smule af silke og hør. Min kartemaskine producerer ikke gerne over 35 gram ad gangen, så der er 3 batts lagt ovenpå hinanden og rullet pænt sammen.
Prisen på herligheden er 100 kr, og den kan findes i webshoppen, lige her!
I dag har jeg nemlig brugt tiden på at farve fibre i Classic Collection-farven “Onkel Kurt”, spinde, strikke, pakke varer og andre praktiske ting. Dejligt job jeg har! 🙂
Månedens Farve på Fiber her i marts hedder “Blåbær”.
Jeg farver “Blåbær” i denne måned på BFL, på merino/silke og på finuld/gråmerino/lama.
Priser og mere information kan findes i webshoppen.
Jeg er ret vild med den dybe blåviolette farve. Den står faktisk godt til min grå-gyldne hårfarve, så jeg overvejer kraftigt at spinde og strikke mig en blåbær-sweater 🙂
Her til september måned har jeg valgt at farve på polwarth, en merino/silke-blanding og så luksusblandingen finuld/(grå)merino/lama.
Farveholdningen er denne gang en gradient. I den ene ende af fiberbåndet er der flere grønne nuancer, der via en gyldenbrunlig går over i bærfarverne kirsebærrød og rødviolet.
Her ses “Bærbusk” på merino/silke:
Herunder har vi farven på polwarth uld:
Og på finuld/(grå)merino/lama:
Jeg er ret glad for denne farveholdning, så jeg fandt min nye Bosworth Midi i Swiss Pear frem og begyndte at spinde finuld/merino/lama-blandingen. Også for lige at prøve hvordan denne nye blanding er at arbejde med. (God!)
Jeg vil have et 2-trådet garn med nogenlunde intakte farveskift, så jeg har delt fiberbåndet på langs, spinder to “bolde” og håber så at farverne passer nogenlunde sammen når der skal tvindes …
Nu vi snakker Bosworth: Jeg bliver da nødt til lige at vise min Moosie!!
Den er overmåde smuk, min Moosie, og den spinder fantastisk! Virkelig en håndten i topklasse. Det er helt klart juvelen i min samling.
I shoppen kan man finde “Månedens farve” / “Colourway of the Month” her:
http://garngalleriet.bigcartel.com/category/colourway-of-the-month.
– Lige i skrivende stund står der desværre “udsolgt” ved dem alle, men jeg er i fuld gang med at farve mere! Jeg modtager også gerne bestillinger på mail. Husk at den lave pris gælder hele måneden! 🙂
English summary:
The September colourway is available on 3 different fiber types: polwarth wool, merino/silk blend and a luxury blend of finn/(grey)merino/llama.
The name of the colourway is “Berry Bush”, and it can be ordered throughout September at reduced price.
http://garngalleriet.bigcartel.com/category/colourway-of-the-month.
Two new Bosworth spindles to show off: A midi in Swiss Pear and a wonderful Moosie! They both spin wonderfully 🙂
Hele august måned kan man købe eller bestille månedens farveholdning “Indian Summer” til reduceret pris. Jeg har farvet denne palette på 3 forskellige fibertyper: shetlandsuld, merino/soya og luksusblandingen FalkSilkPaca. Og farven ser sådan her ud:
Er det ikke fint? Jeg synes selv at det er lykkedes mig at lave en super-flot farveholdning denne gang! Fibrene kan købes her, i webshoppen.
“Månedens Farve på Fiber” erstatter Fiberklubben, og det har åbenlyse den fordel for kunderne at det er muligt at se farven før man køber … Til gengæld mister man så overraskelsesmomentet, men man kan jo ikke få alt! 😉
Desuden er der hele måneden lavere pris på den aktuelle farve, lige godt 10% lavere end tilsvarende produkter. Slet ikke tosset, vel?
In English:
The Colourway of August is called “Indian Summer” and will be available with a >10 % discount for the entire month. Get it while it’s hot! Here in the webshop 😉
Lækkert, lækkert er det at spinde! Som en blød ulden drøm, en sommersky, en fuglerede af fiber..
Jeg overvejer at lancere de håndkæmmede fibre som et luksus-produkt i webshoppen. Det bliver ikke et billigt produkt, for det tager lang tid at kæmme. Men resultatet er så lækkert og delikat, at jeg tror på at de mange spinde-feinsmeckere derude vil kunne li’ det!
Til projektet som ses på disse fotos har jeg valgt to forskellige håndmalede tops: en BFL i røde/orange/pink/mørke farver og en polwarth i temmelig lyse rødlige og grønlige nuancer. De to kæmmer jeg sammen på mine gode gamle enkelt-radede Viking uldkamme:
Efter kæmningen trækkes fibrene af kammen i et langt, tyndt fiberbånd (top) gennem en diz. En diz er en skive med et hul i, simpelthen. Min her er af træ, men man kan også bruge andet, f.eks knapper eller en 1-krone.
– Og så er fibrene klar til spinding! Jeg vikler dem omkring min arm og så går det derudaf, her på min dejlige håndten fra Aaes, med ægte kamgarnsspinding.
Det går som en leg.
Summary in English:
Hand-combing and blending of fibers and colours, using my good old Viking Wool Combs. The combed preparation is a delight to spin – so soft and lovely. Like spinning a cloud!
For this project I have combed together two different colourways and fibers: BFL in red, pink, dark, purple colours and polwarth wool in much lighter shades of reds and greens. I spin on an Aaes spindle. Such a joy!
Maybe the hand-combed fibres will show up in the webshop soon …
A few days ago my friend Hanne and I went to Lystbækgård to look at some spelsau wool. We are both members of the same “spinning circle” and next time we meet (on tuesday) we are going to play around with primitive wool types. Primitive sheep races features wool that has both long guard hairs and soft down wool. We are going to separate the down fibers from the guradhairs and for that purpose we of course need some spelsau!
Berit Killerich (to the left in the photo) is a professional shepherd. She owns Lystbækgård and raises the spelsau sheep. She gives sheep dog shows, makes shearing into “show-and-tell”, has a weaving school, a farm-shop with a wonderful café with organic food and drink and of course lots of premium quality wool in the barn.
Hanne (to the right) tries to decide which fleece she’s going to bring home. In the end she got 3, one more lovely than the other!
I held myself back and only purchased one fleece. But what a soft and curly beauty it is! It is a light fawn or oatmeal colour (with variations), very soft to touch and with long guard hairs (curls) not so coarse as they sometimes are. Berit told me this wool came from “an elderly lady” whose wool has gotten softer over the years.
Here it is, freshy washed but not entirely dry yet:
Doesn’t it just look delightful?
When it’s totally dry I will use my flicker to separate the two fiber types. The down will be good for soft knitting yarn and the long, shiny guard hairs I’ll spin into weaving yarn, for tapestry weaving!
Some natural dying will also happen to (at least some of) this wool. What a project! 🙂
Now, let me show you my newest spindle:
A Golding, a lightweight one. For a Golding it is quite plain and simple, but I have been eyeing this lovely brown-green wood, called Lignum vitae, for some time and now I had the opportunity to get one!
It’s a perfect spinner. Completely balanced, looong time spinning. That’s Golding. Always perfect tools. And lovely to look at too!
Oh! I almost forgot. Here’s the July-colorway. On Blue Faced Leicester:
i kind of like it. How about you?
There’s a lot going on, but I haven’t been very good at blogging about it. Sorry about that. But I’m quite busy all the time, things take time and sometimes I just have to make priorities.
Today I sent out the club-fibers for July fiber-club. The colours are soft and sun-bleached and summer-like, so I just called the colorway “July”. Well, you know. It just came to me.. 😉
I don’t have any photoes of “July”-fibers yet, but actually you can see the colors in my waeving in the previous post. I have spun the July-colors (alpaca/silk) using my Bosworth spindle and the singles yarn is used as weft in my shawl. Still on the loom, but soon to be finished! (if I get the time..)
I have beeen doing a little bit of natural dyeing too. Inspired by an experiment from Jenny Deans book “Wild Colours” I dyed this bunch of very small skeins in one dye-pot, with Curled Dock (Rumex crispus). I had mordanted beforehand with different mordants and then I treated some of the skeins with different stuff after the dyeing. That way I got a lot (25) of different shades from just a single dyebath. I’m going to use these yarns in a fair isle project.
All the shades go so well together!
Last week I was at a tapestry class. Great fun! I learned a lot and really really want to get some work done on my big tapestry loom – but the time is not for that right now, sadly..
Also spinning a little bit. Not much, I mus admit. But in the latest issue of Spin-Off Magazine I read about a really cool technique: Ply-on-the-fly, using a spindle. i just had to try my hands at that method of spinning and navahoplying at the same time, and after a little fumbling and trial-and-error I finally got it. Here’s the Polwarth I spun and plied-on-the-fly:
I have made two of these balls. Still two to go..
The fiber is ready. Packed and ready for sending off tomorrow. It’s still a little too early to show the June-colorway on the fibers, but I’ll show you my inspiration for this months colors:
A wonderful painting by a friend of mine, Karen Margrethe Jelonek. She is a very talented artist, and I was so fortunate to get this beauty in a trade for a piece of furniture.. Lucky me!
The colors of this flower painting are deep and rich. Reds, dark and strong and warm, deep dark blues and greens and browns. I just loved the painting the moment I saw it, and also knew right away that these hues just had to become a fiber-colorway..
I’ll show the actual June-fibers in a few days!
I just want to say that there are a few available slots in the Fiber Club , starting from June. So if you are very quick you can still join the fun for this month and the next two. See my Etsy-shop for details!
Other than dyeing fbers (and yesterday some yarn as well) I am been weaving these days. I’ve warped the loom with a merino/silk warp in three colors and threaded the shafts for a twill structure. It’s going to end up with two shawls. The first one is allready woven and still sits on the loom. Now I’m weaving the second one:
Using handdyed, handspun weft for this one. Alpaca and silk singles that I’m spinning (as I go along) on one of my favorite spindles, a Bosworth midi. It’s yummy stuff!
Well, no, not exactly. Standing by a river or lake with a fishing rod never caught my fancy.. But I do find (most) fish beautiful and I have recently dyed/painted a lot of fibers in the “Perch”-colorway. It’s in the shop.
This is my wolly interpretation of perch swimming in and out of the green plants in the lake on a sunny day..
I look forward to go swimming there again and watching these beautiful colors through my googles as I crawl along. Still too cold for open-water swimming, though. But soon!