Sorry for the delay, the light was awful yesterday and I couldn’t get good photos. But, I got good ones today and spent the day getting them all set up just for you!
16 new items
We have…
Wensleydale Top!
Clun Forest Roving!
50/50 Merino/Tencel Top!
Cotswold Roving!
Ramboulliet Top!
Finn Top!
Targhee Top!
Shetland Top!
Tussah Silk Top!
That’s all for now!
~The Gnome
That’s right. I know, it’s been 2 months since the last restock.
Well, I have a degree sitting on my desk, an actual physical piece of magic paper. I have finished, defended, edited, and graduated. And now I have also moved everything I own to my parents while I apply for jobs.
So, I’m finally in a position to dye things again, which means you get new fiber again!
So, here’s the first major update. More to come.
We have… Polwarth, Finn, Romney, Border Leicester, Dorset, Jacob, and Clun Forest!
Enjoy!
More updates, entirely new stuff, knitting, and more all on the way!
But that’s all for now.
~The Gnome
No really!
Dissertation is turned in. Working on my defense presentation now. That happens next Monday. I’ll be more human after that, I promise.
Shop update.
Polwarth
Finn
Dorset
Jacob
Wensleydale
Romney
Have more to update with, in terms of yarns for the shop, stuff I’ve knitted, stuff I’ve received but… defense.
~The Gnome
Yes, I’m spammy today, but I’m way behind, and I didn’t want to combine them all.
The shop has been reopened and updated. It still needs restocking, but there’s quite a few new stitch markers, including binary and sock/lace markers.
There is also, Ramboulliet, Jacob, Wensleydale, Romney, SW Merino, Dorset, and Cotswold.
I’ll be putting up some new yarns shortly.
In other news:
I turned in my thesis to my boss for final edits on Monday. I’m applying to jobs this week. I’ve applied two one, am working on the cover letter for a second and third, and formatting my resume for a fourth. I’m also trying to get a handle on my apartment which has been escaping while my dissertation ate my brain. I’ve reclaimed ah… one room.
After much fighting with stupid fashion industry standards, I found two business/government interview appropriate dress shirts that aren’t ridiculously too long. Apparently the “fitted” shifts the shoulders enough to shorten the 32″ sleeves to 31″ effectively, making them only 1″ too long. Tomorrow I take in my pants to be taken in. Next up, another shirt or two, and comfortable dress shoes.
One week from Monday I hand in my thesis. Two weeks from that, I defend it all to the community and my committee. Wheeeeee. Scary.
OH! I totally forgot. I actually finished a hat. I started it on the plane down to MD, so I misremembered how many stitches to cast on. Ended up 10 short. Which is ok, it will go to a deserving young man I know of. It was mostly a conceptual exercise for me anyway. I have a concept in my head I wanna test out. I’ll get photos soon.
~The Gnome
One of the reasons I’ve been on such radio silence, getting ready and then recovering from this massive thing!
Well. I brought 80+ pieces to Rhinebeck. Which is nothing for “real” vendors, but for me, it was massive, especially since I’ve been working on my dissertation at the same time.
I was a TINY bit less poleaxed than last year.
I thought enough in advance to get a photo of the booth when it was just set up…
and even more importantly, since I FAILED last year of me, Tsockstsarina and Jennifer who run the booth with the additional help of Patrick (who I don’t seem to have a photo of, bugger).
Getting a photo of these people is insane.
I did manage to get one photo of Thegeorg unlike last year. Though I admit it’s not a very good photo.
Had a delicious dinner with excellent people at a diner place.
In the morning, they let people in FIFTY minutes early. Which made for… a rush. Just before they hit, I got some photos of my stuff up, though only the first batch. Obviously with 80 things, I couldn’t have it all out at once.
The fiber and some yarn
the rest of the yarn
and my stitch markers
Then came…
the seething hoards!
I failed, again, to see everything (apparently the genuine AFLAC duck was there, who knew?) but I did wander around more than last year.
I met a bunch of people for a group shot (not my camera)
And yes, I was wearing my kilt and a double layer wool “ranger” jacket. It was lovely, comfy, and I wasn’t cold at all.
Lots of good people there. My good friends ZaftigWendy (of Yarnivore) and HoneyChild (of HotterFasterBetter art)
Honeychild and I wandered around quite a bit (mostly having horribly inappropriate conversations, which was excellent). We met these adorable little goats.
And the Serta Sheep
And a wensleydale that just begged for love
At the end of the day, for going to dinner and such, I needed to change. Luckily, it’s easy in a kilt. So I changed in the middle of the booth.
Then it was back to the diner for dinner with a different set of friends!
The second day, I aspinnerated the two Cyds, Cyd-Squared?
Don’t they look happy? “OMG, I’m making yarnz!”
Hrm… that’s about it. Oh, we took down the booth and I drove back home (2.5 hours, not bad, yay GPS!) in an ice storm (icky).
Oh, right, phat lootz. I didn’t buy much, I was very restrained. I got a couple pounds of dorset for dyeing, two abbybatts from Carolina Homespun where I was also viciously and mercilessly ASSAULTED by this evil thing.
It’s a Spindlewood, top whorl, laceweight spindle. I don’t know what wood it’s from, as the label had fallen off. I’m told it’s something from the Rosewood family. I also know that it’s a little under 0.5oz. Which for some would be ideal, but it’s totally not the sport of spindle I buy. I really love my 0.8-1.2 range spindles.
But… well… it hummed. Those who know what I mean will understand, and to the rest, lets just say it didn’t give me much choice in the matter. It was sitting next to a *gorgeous* piece made of amboyna burl and birds eye, and yet this one was clearly the one. And I’m loving it. It’s currently working on one of the abbybatts (Merino, Silk, Cashmere).
People often ask if the square whorls cause a problem. The answer is no. It’s basically like having 4 notches, and rim weighting. It spins amazingly long for such a tiny spindle. I love it.
So that’s Rhinebeck.
I’m currently working on reopening and updating the shop. It’ll be a bit. I’ll post when that’s done.
~The Gnome