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Sunday, March 29, 2009

Birthday Stocking Update and Custom Update

Birthday revealed!!!

What fun we had!

Collab with Nissi of Sapo Verde

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Pink Lily Merino
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Birch Blossom Handspun
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Dali on Merino
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Dali on BFL
Dali on Anise


Suzanne's RFR on Cestari with darker brown trim
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Bailey on BFL ( <3 Melissa)
Bailey on Anise

Birch Blossom Handspun Merino
Birch Blossom on Merino


These are Rach's shorts and yarn, packed up and ready to ship on Monday.

Done!

For Rachael <3

Sunday, March 22, 2009

iCrave is turning one!!!

Our official birthday is tomorrow, March 23rd! This is the day, one year ago, that I stocked all by my lonesome on iCrave!

It was such an exciting stocking and I was so happy, no, no, not happy...overwhelmed, ecstatic, thrilled, elated, when everything was a sell out.

I've had some wonderful, amazing and talented WAHM's join me as guests, friends and members over the year. I've forged great friendships, great relationships and created a business model I can be proud of.

We have only been successful because of the wonderful people who have found our art to be as wonderful as we have and who have supported us by purchasing from us!!!

Thank you to our loyal customer base. We wouldn't be here if it were not for you.

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Some sneak peaks for my loyal blog followers!!!


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Handspun Surprise
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Tuesday I'm in Love.....

Woolie woolie update!!!!

I finished spinning the Selah Snowman at Night on Faukland Wool. Its about 5 ounces. No yardage or weight information available at this time.

This may or may not go up on the congo on the 27th.

Selah Handspun



RDR PreOrder Update:

Kristine: Yours is dyeing and drying as of tonight, March 17th!

Kim, Lauren, Susannah, Racheal: All of yours is half done. Brown is slated to be dyed on March 18th!!!

Nikie's RFR that needs to be reskeined. This ended up not matching exactly, and she was happy to take the seconds off of my hands

Run Fox Run for Nickie

Saturday, March 14, 2009

The Saturday Digest

Got my peasant top from Leo Baby in the mail today. I can't speak to fit just yet, as I haven't put it on the sleeping little.
But I immediatly decided it would need a small shrug so that she could wear it sooner, rather then later. While browsing my LYS. I stumbled across the cutest little locally made buttons. Perfection!

Peasant Top, Cotton Blend nad Buttons

Folklore Peasant Top, Cotton Blend and Buttons

I also started spinning Selah's Snowmen at Night Falkland Fiber.

Snowman at Night In Progress


And in the works are WSK El Dorado on Cestari for the lovely Rachel.
WSK El Dorado WIP

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Note about Cestari/Nysa Fine Merino

It has come to my attention that my orders from Cestari have been coming to me wrong. In the past, I have always specified 4 ounce skeins. In subsequent orders lately, my emails have said "the usual" or something to this caliber.

I only found out because this last shipment came to me with the bags marked "3.5 oz skeins" which led to emailing with Cestari to get it all worked out.

The issue was, that because I was not specifying 4 ounces on those repeat orders, they were not sending 4 oz skeins. The price for me (what I pay them) has never changed, leading to more questions and confusion. Because the price has been the same for me whether I was getting 3.5 oz skeins or 4 oz skeins, the price I charge does not change. But I do understand that people might not be happy with 3.5 oz skeins.

**The RFR PreOrder** yarns on Cestari were almost all weighed for accuracy before being shipped. They should be marked correctly. Because there were weighing in at 4 oz I'm thinking that this order currently in my hands are the only smaller skeins.
But I can no be sure that this mix up has not occured in the past as well.


If you find that your yarn weighs less then the tag from me says and this upsets you, please contact me.

Thank you for understanding that us WAHM's are only human and mistakes happen.

Love!

WSK El Dorado Board Shorts for Rachel

WSK El Dorado WIP for Rachel

Monday, March 9, 2009

one ginormous update....

Kandace's longies in the "jeremiah" colorway inspired by her little munchkin.

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All but two skeins of the RFR PreOrder ready to ship.
On Cestari for Ahuva
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The Acacia on the right and Nova on the left
RFR PreOrder

End of dye pot OOAK colorway
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Jeremiah on Nysa Fine Merino for the next stocking

Jeremiah on Nysa

And my Elliot's little cap sleeve top for Easter
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Friday, March 6, 2009

Run Fox Run Preorders

Please look for shipping invoices in your emails by Sunday night. Tonight, Friday March 6th, I'm going to contact you about TYPE of shipping.

All but Kristine's and Ahuva's are ready to ship.

Kristine, still waiting on one skein to dry.

Ahuva, waiting to finish the trim, which is dyeing tonight (I forgot, sorry)

Thank you for ordering.

<3

Teresa

Thursday, March 5, 2009

new roving...

just another addiction. dyeing roving.

i wasn't in love with this at first, but now that I'm spinning it up, i really do love it. its still hard for me to translate in my brain what it will look like going from roving to yarn. but it is a wonderful learning experience for sure!

this colorway has deep red/burgundy in it as well as a purple that aren't visible on the other side.

pics of this spun up by saturday.

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spun up

Second ever Handspun

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

adventures in handspun...by Teresa B. Crazy

first i dyed the roving...

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then i spun single plies.

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then double plied it.
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then skeined it.

Not bad for a rookie

lastly, i set the twist!

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