New yarn to my webstore :o)

I have been and are busy with dyeing up new yarn, got in HK Sofuse, HK Joy and a new yarn HK Angela who is a soft lovely sw merino75% & nylon 25%.
I had a name contest to my new yarn on Uformelt, and there Margot won, given the new sw merino&nylon yarn: HK Angela. For the price it was a handdyed yarn in the colors she wanted, can’t put out a photo here before she has got it 😛

Here is a photos of some of the yarn I have dyed up 😀

Have also been finish with Monkey socks from Cookie A, loved this patter and have began on a new Monkey sock, this time no purl Monkey.

Knitted with HK Joy, color Turqoise, much more intens and lovley color, but have some problem to get the colors right. If you have some suggestion, I would be happy 😛

Reklame

Ups, some time since last bloging ;o)

Okey, yes I know it is a very long time since last bloging, don’t know where the time is going.

A lot of personal stuff has happen, some happy moments but also a lot of sad moments. But time do heal and we all learn to live our life further. I am not going to write about what has happen, but I am back again.

So what is happen know?
Pippi has got here puppies, Mikey is the proud father and they are now 10 days old.

You can read more on my website kennel Mataya about my dogs and puppies 😛

I have also uploaded new HK handdyed yarn to HK Spindles & Fiber, two of them are new types; HK Mookie that is Superwash merino wool and HK Blues that is Superwash Blue Face Leicester. I have also put the HK Batts to discount on 40%.


I have also knitted a little bit;

Mingus – a lovely patttern from Cookie A. Knitted in Yukon

Hurricane hat – that was the hat for July at Luer for huer a hat along that is on Uformelt.net

Tiger Eye Lace shawl, given to a person that means a lot for me.
The yarn was handspun by me on one of my drop spindle from a fiber blend of he yarn is a blend of 70% suri alpaca, 20% mulberry silk, 10% cashmere.


So that was all for now, suddenly I will be back 😀

Yarn arrived ;o)

I got message that the yarn should arrive Wednesday, but today the yarn landed. I should rely not post it here, since I know a lot of people are waiting on more of my HK yarn, but I could not resist.
There was also some more kg then I remember I had orded, so I hope I know have for a little while. Maybe a few weeks 😛

The latest news is that I have got in sock yarn in 80% Superwashed
Merino/ 10% Nylon/ 10%Cashmere this time I will keep some skein for my self I hope 😀
Lace yarn in both 800 m and 1200 m on 100 gram, in 70% Baby Alpaca/ 20% Silk/ 10%Cashmere.

So time to get started 😛

Knitting birthday :o)

Yesterday, I had knitting birthday. I got some lovely presents and we had a very nice evening 😛

From Anette, a lovely skein with Manos silk blends and knitting needles

From Anette, a lovely skein with Manos silk blends and knitting needles

From Stine - Bris, I love Bris

From Stine - Bris, I love Bris

From Janne and Kristin, gift cards at Pinnsvinsdesign

From Janne and Kristin, gift cards at Pinnsvinsdesign

From Lise, yeah one more gift card from Pinnsvindesign

From Lise, yeah one more gift card from Pinnsvindesign

From Guro a gift card to Lagunen mall

From Guro a gift card to Lagunen mall

I have also dyed up some more yarn, it has begin to sell out very fast.  So the next week will be busy, need to get a lot of dyeing done so I can put up more next weekend.

Workshop and more hand dyed yarn.

Yesteday I was invited to Åsane Folkehøyskole to have a workshop with dyeing yarn and spinning on drop spindle, it went very well but to little time to doe both dyeing and spinning. But I think people was happy with the workshop.

Since I was every where I forgot to take photos, but I know there was som who took so will post it later.

I have also dyed up more yarn and wool tops, here is photos of the yarn. The wool tops I have not taken photos of yet, but will come very soon and will be updatet in my web shop HK Spindles and Fiber.

Go Purple - SW BFL. sold

Teal Magic - SW BFL. Sold

Teal Magic - SW BFL. Sold

Blue - BFL

Blue - BFL

Red Fire - Wool & Nylon

Red Fire - Wool & Nylon. Sold

Go Blue - SW BFL

Go Blue - SW BFL

Mermaid - SW BFL

Mermaid - SW BFL

Else everything is going very well with Mikey, more photos of him will come. I know just call him, Mikey the demolition man. Hi find everything and chew on it, to it is destroyed 😀 It is to have a puppy in the house again, lol.

Puppies, wool, knitting, handdyeing and more :o)

The puppies was 2 weeks old Thursday, they have now began to open there eyes so will take some new photos in the weekend. But here you have some photos of them 😛

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Happt little guys :o)

Sleepy boys.

Sleepy boys.

I recived my swap packet from Tamara that has been my pal in the Fibery Goodness swap that are in Ravelry, I love the packet I got from here.

My fiber packet from Tamara

My fiber packet from Tamara

The fiber is some lovely Targhee, I have never tried Targhee before so that should be very exciting to try. There was a wonderful skein with superwash ultrasoft merino, both the handspun yarn and the fiber is hand dyed by Tamara. Werther’s candy and chocholate and a candle with a nice sent with sage & citrus in a candle cup.
Thank you so much for this wonderful packet, Tamara 😀

More wool has arrived, Polwarth that I  never have tried. I found a shop in Denmark that sell Polwarth, after reading about a Polwarth farm in Australia I was so curios. I can already know tell you that this fiber I defently will get in my shop. I also got more of Spelsay from Spinnvilt.

Polwarth

Polwarth

Spelsau

Spelsau

I wrote knitting in the heading, I am finish with the second BSJ.  Well it is not quite finish, I need to assemble the jacket. Want to doe a i-cord around and also need to buy some button. But here is it, the yarn is Knitpicks Bare merino&silk that I have hand dyed.

BSJ no 2

BSJ no 2

I can know show you the yarn I spun and hand dyed to Linda, my pal in the Fibery Goodness swap. The handspun yarn is of 16 mic merino and is hand dyed in orange and yellow that Linda wrote she liked. With the fiber that we should send 4 oz of, I send some of the merino&silk I have to sale in my web shop the colors are in orange.

Fire

Fire

Yes, I know there is some times since last bloging, lol.

It has been so busy, for a couple of week I was at workshop with Amelia Kinkade in animal communicator. It was good to meet here again and it was a much better workshop then last time, all the particpant was rely ageer to learn and put aside all the «fear with I can’t doe this». When I talk with Amelia, I told here that I breed longhair zwerg dachshund and that my Kelly is pregnant, she then ask if it would be much trouble for me to pick here up and let Kelly be our teacher. It was just 15 min drives, so that was not any problem. It was intresting for me to have Kelly in the class and the students was rely good with the information they recived from Kelly. Else in the workshop there was a lot of WOW moment, I had mine also and it was a great workshop. If you want to learn how to comunicate with animal, look at Amelia’s webpage for the schedule. It is not so difficult that you think, Amelia’s method are very easy to use and she is a great teacher.

This weekend on Saturday it was a ordinary bloodtracking field trail in my dachshund club, I did not have any of my dogs attend. Since Kelly is the only one that are trained, but are not allowed to join since she is now 5 weeks due in here pregnancy. But one of my puppi buyer was there with his dog Ricco, that is a puppie from Ellie and Charlie’s litter. Ricco did it very well, hi got 1 price with Honor Price, way to goe Ricco and Yngve. Now they need one more 1.price to gain the Working Champion, think they are going to a new bloodtracking filed trail this weekend, fingers crossed 😀

Here are some photos of the little lad and with his owner Yngve:

Ricco waiting for the results.

Ricco waiting for the results.

Doe you want to play?

Doe you want to play?

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We got 1.price with Honor Price :o)

I have also been dyeing some New Zeeland wool tops, for some strange reason they fall a little apart in the tops. So therefore I sell them out to 10% discount. I still like the colors even if they are maybe a little special, time will tell if some of my customers like them ore not 😛

Wild burgundy crazy

Wild burgundy crazy

Wild crazy

Wild crazy

Wild crazy roses

Wild crazy roses

Wild dark crazy

Wild dark crazy

Have also done some spinning, well I have spinning a lot more then this baby alpaca & angora blend. But it was the time to take the photos 😛

Baby alpaca & Angora

Baby alpaca & Angora

On the spinning wheel right now it is merino&tencel from Chameleon colorworks fiber of the month, I am also finish with the Bamboo caribbean that May want to buy to here daughter. I am taken it with me this evening to see if she like the finish product. After spinning 100% bamboo, I definitely tell you that it will not be my favorite fiber to spin having it as a blend I love the bamboo, but not pure bamboo.

Doe I knit? Yes, I doe, but forget to take photos, bummer 😀 The Pretty as a Peacock shawl I am finish I am halfway in Chart E. But then I got distracted because a certain DVD came in the mail box; Elizabeth Zimmermann’s Baby Surprice Jacket. So know I am knitting my first BSS, will take photos soon, promise, lol.

Baby Surprice Jacket.

Baby Surprice Jacket.

And they who have told that EZ pattern are a little bit difficult to understand, for a first time knitter of here pattern, they have right. Without this DVD and this excellent website, I could not have knitted this jacket without the help. Ore well, I am not finish yet, so we can talk about that issue when I am finish 😛

I have forgot to blog about my wonderful swap packet I got from Peggy, my secret pal in the Hush Hush Handspun Hootenanny:

HHHH swap packet from Peggy.

HHHH swap packet from Peggy.

There was the book Color in spinning by Deb Menz, this is a book I have wanted to buy for a long time, so guess who was very happen :o))
A 3 play handspun of 67% wensleydale and 33% merino, is it so soft and wonderful and wow 3 gorgeous Alpaca 85% and Tussah silk 15% batts that’s Peggy write she has carded herself. It is sooooo sooooft :o)

Thank you so much for this wonderful packet Peggy :o)

I also got a new spindle bag, that Lises has been so wonderful to make for me 😀

Spindle bag by Lises design

Spindle bag by Lises design

More hand dyed wool tops

First of all, I got a lovely packet from Nancy that is my pal in the Fibery Godness swap I sign up for at Ravelry.

There was a lovely handspun thick/thin of Targhee/Alpaca/Silk in beautiful bluish tone, it is so soft and Iove it. 4 oz with white organic cotton, beautiful stitch markers, soap, sponges, tee, Clover point protectors – that I always have thought of buying, but never got so far, Spinn Off magazine, post it sticky. Thank you so much Nancy, I love the packet.

I have also been dyeing a lot of new wool tops, will put them up in the web shop tomorrow.

Merino 21 mic - Cherry wine

BFL - Oceanic blue

BFL - Oceanic blue

Merino 23 mic - Roses are red

Merino 23 mic - Roses are red

New zeeland lam - Dark roses

New zeeland lam - Dark roses

New zeeland lam - Dark roses

New zeeland lam - Dark roses

New Zeeland lam - Candy

New Zeeland lam - Candy

New Zeeland lam - Candy floss

New Zeeland lam - Candy floss

New Zeeland lam - Candy mix

New Zeeland lam - Candy mix

BFL - Fantacy land

BFL - Fantacy land

BFL - Fantacy

BFL - Fantacy

Tussah&silk - Rose wine

Tussah&silk - Rose wine

Tussah&fin ull - Wild dark roses

Tussah&fin ull - Wild dark roses