Sorry that I seem to have disappeared for a little while - talk about work/life balance, I seem to have a work/life plate spinning existence where I lurch from one just about to fall plate to another.  But I'm busy and it keeps me out of trouble,

We're wick with red Freya wool which I love but is all over the cream stairs and tiled white floor of our rented house.  I believe that this information should be given to people at the time of marriage - make your life easier, don't have a tiled white kitchen or bathroom floor you fools!  I'm also liking the fibres that get stuck on socks and go into the washing machine and felt onto clothes.  Makes for interesting ironing. ( I realise that I talk about ironing WAY to much on this blog!)

Jinny and I will be dyeing in the next few days so there should be some rainbowtastic photos to share. x

Well I'm very happy to be back to this freezing windy country.  I think four days holiday suits me fine and then I'm itching to get back.

Have you seen the new issue of knit on the net?  The Miss Scarlett garment modelled beautifully by Melissa is in our Freya yarn and can be purchased from the lazykate site at www.lazykate.net  Each ball of yarn is hand spun and hand dyed, so every dye lot is original, so each knitted garment will have it's own unique shading.

Another reason to be proud is that the gorgeous model in the Jess garment is my very own daughter Jessamy!  She is obviously destined for greatness (we knew this already). The Jess dress was beautiful and a credit to the designer Aruba Blue.

The photo shoot day was really interesting, we all learnt a huge amount, especially Jessamy who was taken under Zoe the photographer's wing.  She was wonderful with her small 'assistant' and allowed her to photograph constantly alongside her.  It gave  Jessamy a great deal of confidence and she has been photographing anything and everything since.  Something I wasn't particuarly grateful while in my costume on the beach.  Hooray for the delete button.

The photographs on the site have been sorted out, thanks to Jon the wonder boy. So no more slow downloading.  The wonders of modern technology - who knew?

So congratulations to Sue and Gavin and everyone involved in knitonthenet.  And happy knitting everyone else! 

I can hardly believe I´m doing this but I´m blogging from Majorca (or Majorkshire as my four year old neice calls it).  I meant to blog before I came away just to explain the absence but couldn´t get into the blogware.  Same old same old I´m afraid.

Anyway I´m sure you´re all desperate to hear that the weather has been lovely today - a bit hit and miss up to now but we´re all pink and shiny after today. 

We´re back on Thursday when it will be nose to the grindstone in preparation for the next issue of knit on the net.  I´m really excited about the garment that´s going to be in there using my yarn(!) so I need to make sure I have enough in case of unprecedented sales.  The yarn will be sold as the full 500g amount and it can be seen on the site now. www.lazykate.net   When we return I will also be sorting out the picutres on the site.  Sorry if it drives you mad, it won´t be for much longer.

Anyway Adios Amigos  my sangria is calling!

It's a feast or a famine with blog entries here at the moment.  I promised some pics and here are a few of our day today.  We've been dyeing most of the day for existing projects and also for new projects that are floating round in the ether and Jinny's head.  Also  there has been experimenting of spinning fibres to go onto the site. 

 

 

I love trying new dyes and as I think I have mentioned before, am trying not to be so heavy handed with the dye so that I can get delicate colours and well as the ones that sock you in the face and leave you seeing stars.  (The barbietastic pink just as an example).  Although I had loads of fun dyeing and spinning that one into the Mimi Cushion for knitonthenet.  The restraint that is needed when looking into that big pot with a tub of dye in your hands is incredible.  So I have ordered a set of very very small spoons in order to help me with my efforts of restraint.  And is the above picture just the epitome of restraint.  There could be no paler fibres.  But I could very easily rebel  and luckily I can do that with the new red dye lot for a garment that is coming up soon.  The pot looks like someone bled to death in there.  It's fabulously gory!

The most annoying thing that's happened recently is that the flyer of my spinning wheel has gone awol.  There is no sign of it whatsoever.  Thankfully Jinny has let me borrow hers which fits exactly as luck would have it.  So back to the grindstone...

 

 

 

 

 

My posts have been a little bit erratic of late - for which I apologise.  We are waiting for the broadband to be connected in our rented house and it's taking ages!  What did we do before the internet?  How did life happen?

So no pics at the moment, something I hope to rectify tomorrow when Jinny and I spend a day dyeing and creating and doing all things woolly.  I'm very excited about it, we've got some new dye lots to experiment with and loads of spinning to be done.  A WHOLE DAY.  Fab.

Our boat is now ordered and should be ready to be launched in August.  We're having what's called a lined sailaway so it will be launched into the marina and then we can do all the fitting out. So there are a lot of decisions to be made about what type of kitchen, bathroom etc to choose. But it's definately going to be navy blue and cream.  How very nautical.  And classy!  From there, when it's all finished we can sail our new home to our mooring out in the countryside at the edge of a large field.  Seems eons away, but at least we're one step closer.

Some pics tomorrow - I promise!