I love custom orders

I have been spinning like mad last few months, not for my shop as much, although it was for my shop really as well since the custom orders do go through my Etsy store.
Here are some pictures

Fluff fluff everywhere

7,5kg of fibre.
dyed during last weekend, now it is all dry and sorted.

Oh happy day!

There are days when even postman is welcome! Now, if you are dog owner, you are thinking we got box full of treats. Sadly, not that happy day. This is the happy day when fibre comes. So, if you are one of my Longnosed Yarn followers and fan of fluff, you can understand my exitement.
Yes, all those favourites are there. Baby camel, angora, alpaca... and cashmere blends. Mongolian cashmere is somewhere on the way as well! I do have a hill of fluff and will spend weekend dyeing! So, keep an eye out for pics of colourfull fibre some time next week! 6kg of fibre! I can swim in it! Especially if I add the 8,5 kg of Shetland which arrived all the way from Moon last week (well, it did feel like it since there was some madness on post offices before Xmas when I originally ordered it).
So thanks to Jamieson & Smith for their patience with my endless emails asking if they got it back yet or if they know where has it gone. They have been most helpfull and calm about one fibreholic from Germany.

Milk protein fibre? :-O! Hybrid beads? :-O! Does it sound like sci-fi?

I love spinning milk protein. Now, if you are not spinner or picky knitter you might not know what I am talking about...
Milk protein fibre is really made of milk! Now the process is very complex, of course, but yes, you can do it. And no, I have not heard of fibre made from gin and tonic yet, sorry....

And what are hybrid beads? Well they call them hybrid as they are made in combination of technologies of two bead nations. One classic one- my homeland Czech Republic, and one very modern one- Japan. Together they have created a new type of bead and call it hybrid. It is made by TOHO in Japan and the beads in question are just.. just... well amazing!

Now in my shop !

coming soon to Longnosed Yarn on Etsy!

Here are yarns I have cued up to upload to my shop.

New, new, new Year is comming

Soon we will be in 2012, I just only the other day managed to write "11" at the end of the year on dates and it is changing again.
There are some great new possibilities open for me next year as my favourite fibre seller added some more sheep fibres into their shop and also I was very lucky and met Liz, a weaver from UK with whom I hope to cooperate a wee in making some items, me spinning some yarn for her and her making those amazing  shawls and scarfs she does.
The package with 7,5kg of Shetland got lost somewhere which is very sad for me as I was so exited about spinning up some of that superfine for some nice victorian lace shawl.
I have had a chance however to do more work on my only so far planned project and spun another half kilo of Icelanding sheep to hopefully become one day an original afgan throw.
And as if I didn´t have had enough with my last patchwork blanket, I started to plan a new one. Fabric- check, threads- check, design-uncertain but with hopes.
I also made some further designs for future dog toys for the charity auctions. I just might get them right for all those pupz out there.
I do love peacefull Christmas when The only thing which needs to be done really is to eat a bit more chocolate, to walk the puppies to places we usually do not get to and to spin some yarn while watching fairytales and all those old black and white Czech movies...

I hope and wish that you all have Great Year 2012, that some of those dreamy projects and all those hopes will finally come true. But most, most of all! Stay safe, healthy and never alone.

Eva

Puppies and Christmas...

Puppies do love Christmas. It is easy to see, since opening hills of treats is something what they see as their due at any time of the year! Now they have to wait all the way to Birthday and how unfair is that?
Therefore, it is most important to make as much mess as possible!