Conglomeration.

I love the word that I've chosen for the title of this post . It says so much and was a favourite of my Mum's . It must be a proper word cos I've spell checked it :0)

To me it means a mish mash of allsorts , which this post is going to be .

Firstly , look what the postie brought me this morning all the way from the U.S. They are from Enchanted Knoll Farm and I have my friend Littleberry for luring me over to this website and me giving my credit card a bashing but never mind :0)

This is called Sari . I just love the deep plum colour.
This is Red Silk Kimono . Again gorgeous colours .

Lastly Vardo . Now in the Romany world a Vardo is a type of Gypsy Wagon which to me is very apt as in the Summer we tend to live a gypsy style of life.

They weren't cheap but as I am always saying , I don't drink , I don't smoke and rarely have a night out and at least when these batts are spun I will have something to show for my money .

Remember the bobbins on the shelf , last week . This is a finished skein of Shetland Wool .

100grms and 433 yards . This is the finest I have spun to date .

This was spun from the gorgeous batt and Merino roving Blackpurl gave me in the Secret Santa Swap at S'N'B at Christmas . 100grms 399 yards . Not quite as fine but finer than I've been spinning.

Next up is Unfinished Symphonies.

I've been trying to finish all the bits and pieces I've started and left.

First up Mobeous and Mitts . Knitted from some hand spun Merino and Silk I spun whilst up in Cumbria last Summer .

Jogless Stripey socks begun last year , I can't remember when . Knitted in my own Hand Dyed Sock Yarn modelled on a pair of DH's sock blockers . Which can be purchased here .
Told you it was a conglomeration .

To finish off we went to Coppull yesterday to deliver a huge order of Project Bags , Sock Blockers and other bits and pieces ,to our friend Sarah who is starting up her very own website . She's cleverer than me . Sarah is getting very excited at the prospect of the launch Mid March . It's called Brownberry Yarns . Take a peek from time to time it will be opening soon .

C.R.A.F.T. Spinning , day's out etc etc ...

Ok ! It's been over a week since i blogged. It's mainly because of my memory , or lack of it . My youngest says I suffer from the adult version of ADHD . It's called CRAFT ( can't remember a flippin' thing ) . I've kept forgetting to get batteries for the camera and when I finally got round to getting some , I kept forgetting to blog .So here I am , I've remembered. He He !!!!

I have been busy though , dyeing yarn and there is now a small update on my Blogshop .

There's some new sock yarn and a bit of Double knit BFL as well .

The forms for the shows have started to arrive and I will have to start filling them in and getting them posted. We've had a bit of bad news though . Trevor , the guy who organises a few of the Cumbrian shows , has had a stoke and has been forced to retire from doing them . This is a blow as we usually go up to Silloth for a four day show at Easter but it won't be happening now. We are still going up but are having a short holiday instead as we have booked the caravan site .This will be the first time in 16 yaers I have not worked over Easter.

I've had a busy week on other woolly projects as well.

The Rainbow Socks are finished .
The Falkland roving that Artis-Anne gave mne for Christmas has been spun and plyed and is now awaiting a suitable projest to turn up to be knitted . It's my best yet . I spun it very fine and managed to get 420 yards so I'm thinking small shawl .

I've been spinning my gorgeous purple batts that I got from Blackpurl for Christmas . The camera has not done it justice , it just doesn't like purple and always shows it blue .

More spinning . This time some of my own hand dyed Shetland . I'm getting this very fine . I was inspired by a visit to Littleberry last week . She spins some really fine yarn .

We had the Bear Cubs to stay on Wednesday night , which we enjoyed asthey are pleasure to have . The day after we went on our usual trip to Morecambe . They won't go anywhere else and love to play on the Stone Jetty , even the eldest who is 15 . It was bitter cold but they soon warmed up running round . After we went to Greigs for pasties and ate them in the car .

With the Easter Fair being cancelled ,it has relieved the pressure to get things finished for then .So Papa Bear has been taking advantage of the fine weather and getting the veg plot ready. Tomorrow we are going out hunting fruit bushes and seed potatoes . We just need a pig and some chickens . I wish !!!!

Now I'm going to have a little rant . Over the past six weeks or so the weather at times has been somewhat Icelandic in temperature . So will somebody explain to me WHY Mums of today do not wrap their children up against the cold and biteing winds. When I've been out and about in the village it has sickened me to see the number of babes and toddlers in prams with no hats , no mittens and no blankets wrapping them up and keeping them warm . I used to put a hot water bottle in the pram when mine where young and they were in a proper pram facing me ,not one of these buggy things open to the elements . It's down right cruel to do this to a babe .

Here endeth my rant . What do you think ??????

Right , now that I've got that off my chest I'm going to put my feet up cos I'm knackered :0)

New Dyeing .

As it was a nice blowy warm day yesterday I decided to do a little bit of dyeing. I wanted to try out some different techniques. the following eight are all Blue Faced Leicester and I have 100grms of each for sale . UK only . £10 plus £1-60 postageDolly Mixture / Hearts ease / Jelly Bean / Storm .
Cotton Candy / Halloween / Lido / Yule .
These are 100% pure Kid Mohair . Its like gossamer and comes in 50grm hanks . One hank will make a scarf . For sale at £9-00 per hank plus £1 postage . I have two hanks of each .
If anyone is interested in buying please email me at info(at)laalbear(dot)co(dot)uk or if you are on Ravelry PM me.

Things are looking up on the Christmas Craft scene . We are now attending a Christmas Craft Market in Blackburn town centre on the 27th Nov and the 11th Dec .
With the Grassington Dickensian Fairs we have booked and the Fair at the Dalmeny I think that will do . We have also put our crafts and yarn in the Head 'oth' Marsh Farm Shop on Sandy Lane, Brindle , Nr Blackburn and I've had a few sales from the Blog .
When I came back from Cumbria in September I was a little worried we hadn't got much Christmas work but I thought , to quote Mr Micawber , " Something 'll turn up " and it has .
I'm now going into making Christmas Decs mode . Will post pics later ;-)