Deyaneria on June 24th, 2011

I am keeping this post short and sweet as today is my son’s birthday. He will be 16 today. My how the years have flown by. We have a new member of our little farm. His name is Ray . Ray is a beautiful Ruby-Eyed White English Angora.    Ray enjoyed his outing to the […]

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Deyaneria on June 22nd, 2011

I spun up the beautiful light brown. I find I am really liking this wool. The brown was super soft and had a tendency to nepps. I took out many of the nepps but some stayed making a slightly thin and thick yarn. The white was dyed robins egg blue with Cushings Acid Dyes. I […]

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Deyaneria on June 17th, 2011

The falkland is finally dry so I can show it to you all spun up. It’s spins beautifully after a good shaking to loosen up where it compacted during dyeing. Although dyeing it was messy I am pleased with the results. I’ve been clipping bunnies all week and plan on adding the fiber to the […]

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Deyaneria on June 13th, 2011

Since my lovely bamboo and banana fiber have yet to come in for me to play with I had some Falkland wool here. Falkland sheep are from the Falkland Islands. I find it interesting that the wool has some great history. Falkland Island wool is considered to be a superior wool fibre and has historically […]

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Deyaneria on June 6th, 2011

I was crazy busy this weekend. I went to a BBQ for the American Legion Ladies Auxilliary. Made a trip to the bank an hour away and went to Fiber Frolic whoohoo!!!! I had been waiting for that all year. I didn’t write a post on friday because I wanted to write about Fiber Frolic. […]

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Deyaneria on June 2nd, 2011

There are many claims about sea cell fiber. I’m unsure as to what claims are real or fiction but I will present them all so as the consumer you can decide. Basically, Seacell textile fiber is the result of a simple idea: the natural cellulose-based Lyocell fiber acts as the carrier for a natural, health-promoting […]

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