I just love handpainting fibre.  It adds another dimension to the creative process of knitting when you can design the actual yarn itself.  I usually want to keep all the rovings I dye, so I can learn how to get different yarn from the same roving.  I could just spin it as it comes, drafting as I go, but if I split it lengthways into, say, 4 pieces, then the different colour sections would be shorter ( I think! ), and then there is breaking it up into short colour sections and regrouping them to make completely new colour sequences, spinning from the fold.  And then after that there’s plying to play with.  Oh and, after all that is done, there is knitting it into something that shows off the colour changes you have achieved!  It’s just all fabulous!

I tell you something, it’s a good job I’m too busy to do much spinning, otherwise there’d be none left for you!

Here is some of the latest merino rovings I don’t want to part with.  Pretty huh?

Do you know? Can you guess?

I’ll tell you then!  It’s Super Kid Mohair fibre, drying in the sunshine. So soft and silky and wavy.  Just beautiful.  I have 5 colours to put in the shop, and they will be there tomorrow when I have weighed them.  Do pop by and take a look!