Colour to make me smile

 A bobbin full of happy brightness that just makes me want to smile like an idiot (or an even bigger idiot if you prefer).

 Our new neighbours. I love gulls. They are part of living near the sea, their wheeling cries fill me with joy. The two that nest on next doors roof, every year, have had twins this year.

Their fluffy down has almost gone now - not long till they become 'Whistling Willies' - chasing their parents around the local roofs, whistling to be fed.

All spun and done.

 And we're off.

 Halfway home.

Then there were two.

 Plying my trade.

 One little fat one.

Past the post. Spun and done.

70/30 merino and silk from DK FeltStudio UK. 100g, 24wpi, 384 m - prettiful.

A rainbow of pretty

My most favourite fibre dyer in the world was having a destash - I managed to grab two wonderfully bright and vibrant plaits of BFL (Blue Faced Leicester for my non yarny buddies) from her. These colours are perfect for the brighter lighter days of spring and summer and just fill me chock full of happy.
My spinning is sporadic at the moment as I am distracted by other stuff but the colours of these are filling me with the need to get other stuff off the wheel so I can spin one of them. Better finish my quilt first though.

A healthy diet needs fibre.

Mike made a yarn bowl for Marianne of  http://www.etsy.com/shop/picperfic who dyes lovely fibre. They agreed to swap his bowl for her fibre which Mike gave to me. I haven't indulged in any fibre for ages so I really enjoyed musing over what to choose. Below is some lovely merino mixed with a nylon sparkly thread. It is very pretty. Unusual choice for me, I don't normally go for pastel shades but there was something about this mix I really liked.




I have already started to spin it up.

I haven't used my Ashford Traveller for so long that it needed a little TLC before I started to spin but an hour later I'd spun the above. Interesting how the colours work. I can't decide yet how I'll ply it, think I'll see how it all spins up.

I also chose this lovely merino plait. Very typical colours for me but as I've been playing with a lot of different colours outside of my comfort zone I decided to pick one that put me back in to that very same zone. This is destined to become sock yarn I think.

Finally below is some BFL. I still have a  thing for pink and green together. It's colour scheme I return to time and time again. This is also destined to be sock yarn.

I love all the colours and they arrived beautifully packaged with a little stitch marker too.

Marianne's shop is well worth a little peruse as she has lovely fibres and colours.

It's been another busy week so I enjoyed the opportunity to sit and spin for a while. Am looking forward to a long Easter weekend. Mike is on call so we can't go far afield so hopefully I'll get some more spinning time over the next four days.

For those of you who celebrate it......Happy Easter.