New Lines of Colors

The winds have been amazing, first blowing down the valley then up the valley bringing dust devils and cleaning out the old branches and leave in the juniper trees! The goal is to dye every dyeable skein and I'm just about there! The weather is finally cooperating...Great fun.  Come see me, the colors, and feel the scrumptious fiber in Albuquerque May 26-28th at the Fiber Fiesta.  It's at the fair grounds.

Just a little peek of  the line of color!

pun intended

Continental Divide Backpackers (north bounders) and New Friends

We found some Continental Divide hikers walking along our road and wondered where they were going to get groceries, a shower and internet.  So, we brought them home.  We now have some new friends that hopefully we'll be able to reacquaint again when they come to finish the trek.  The Gila Wilderness fire closed the trail, so Will took them around the area to Pie Town and found out they really do have pies!!

Tucson Spring Shearing Wool Festival

Well, I can say I have been very whiny about the cold and rain lately...not usually my style.  It was 17 degrees this morning, fire started in the stove, and I complained about the rain and a little cold in Tucson!!!  we really need rain.  It just never dawned on me that Tucson could be cold and that I'd have frozen droplets on my canopy, car and trailer in the morning!  We had some great visiting time though...lots of spinning.  And thanks to the wonderful people who did brave the weather I came home with my sink faucets!  This was my goal for the weekend...have enough to purchase sink faucets so we can put the Mexican sinks in the bathrooms...so a big Thank You for that!  I didn't even think about the camera this weekend...so I'll search to see what pictures I can add.  I have a lot of new colors in hand painted tops and yarn...It's been a fun dyeing season.

New scarves

I've finally finished the crazy lace shaw/scarf in the handpainted variegated blue lace weight silk and other silk scarves/shawls.  Here is a little view into what has been completed.

Crazy Lace knitted Shawl/scarf from handpainted 15/3 (Maharaja) Silk

silk scarf/shawl from handpainted 20/2 Silk

detail of the 20/2 handpainted silk scarf/shawl

Same 20/2 handpainted silk warp with a hand dyed weft in blue...it looks purple!

detail of the above scarf/shawl

Views, Weaving and Copper Cold Connections Workshop

We have some great skies in New Mexico.  This is a view from our front porch.



I'm weaving a waffle weave on my Baby Wolf loom.  It's looking pretty good!



 At the beginning of February I enjoyed the gem and mineral show in Tucson, Art Festival in Tubac and a workshop with Mary Hetts in Tucson. It was a great time. Here are some of the pieces I made at the workshop.

Organic Cotton Yarn, dyed yarns and fiber

 

 

Hello Everyone...sorry to be so slow to post. I suppose you could say I'm keeping busy!! I've been working on getting established in a new region and getting over health issues for the past 2 years!! What I wanted to tell you is with the cotton industry and crop failures around the world cotton prices have risen higher than my parent company can absorb, so they are passing the price increase down to us. I will have to raise all my cotton prices 15%. I'm running very low on the green and caramel colorgrown cotton, so will be pulling most of my stock and the foxfibre for personal use. I've noticed Sally's prices have far exceeded mine..so I need to rethink what I have in stock.

The organic cotton blankets I have are superior quality. I had company coming this past summer, and thought "I have to get a new blanket"...duh...there are blankets in the shop! So, I've put them on the beds and wow...what a pleasure they are. They wash well and feel wonderful. I'm mostly using the chenille cotton blankets, but do have a few more summer weights. The point is, I don't have much of a mark up on these blankets, basically cost + a very little. I will be raising all these prices by at least 15% also.

Thanks for all your support over the years. I really value you as friends!

Warmly,
Lynnae in NM
http://chamomileconnection.com/

Scarves Scarves Scarves!!!

I've been working with an 8/4 Rayon yarn.  It's such a lovely drapey yarn.  Also put a space dyed painted silk yarn warp and plain dyed weft for a lovely twill scarf.  This is the lighter version.  I just washed the purple version, and I'm finishing a window scarf which I will post soon.

 This is a 4 harness draft from Davidson and the variations:

Rayon and wool fulled

 This is an 8 harness twill from Handwoven's Scarves:

 

 
Rayon Diamonds in purple

 Rayon and wool twill