Merry Christmas

News

New fibres in lovely colours in the shop today.

 Lingon Berry Jam

Greenland

 Woodland

 

Christmas Lights

 Iceland

Lavender Dreams

Northern Lights

Sneak Peek

I've been busy this last week all of these and two more that are still in the pot... 

 Various wool - various colours

They will be listed in the shop this weekend.

A treat

From time to time Ozzy gets a treat. I put in a bowl next to his regular food and you'd think he'd eat it in the same way as always but no - he has to eat his treats outside of the bowl. So he picks it out with his paw - one at a time and eats it, preferably lying down...

Me and my treats

This is how I eat it

 

It's all gone!

Lemon tree orchard - test knitting

Since it's the first time I do this kind of dyeing I just have to test knit a small piece. I wound the giant skein into one big ball of 245g last night when it had dried completely. Ozzy (the cat) had a great time dashing in and out under the skein pretending attacks just to tease me and having a great time running away every time I scolded him ;-)

I used 3,5mm knitting needles and knitted in the round.

The light this time of year is not great and since there was a blizzard outside yeasterday I had to resort to using the flash. But I took some without as well...

Preparation

It's been hard for me to sit still today. Yesterday it was decided that I will be a part of "Stickfest i vast" exhibiting and selling my wool on the market square during the weekend of 16th - 17th of March next year.

It's so exciting!!!

And so much to prepare and plan - Banner to make, wool to dye, yarn to spin - I just love it.

Started this morning by ordering a big bunch of wool from England so it will be here when we get back from Spain. I'd better enjoy my leisure for the next three weeks for after we get back It'll be all work and no play. Well acctually, dyeing wool is play and a lot of fun, but it takes time...

And also I will be there for the entire weekend. I've only participated in a workshop or two before and only made a daytrip of it. This year it will be in Gottskars hotell, beautifully situated by the sea about 40km south of Gothenburg. It'll be lovely whatever the weather.

I'm so looking forward to this.

Time to and put some wool in the dye pot - see you :-)

 

Christmas is here

This years Christmas tree is glistening and glittering.

I just love all the lights around Christmas - soft and warm...

Lemon Tree Orchard

It was a bit fiddly and took a lot longer than I expected but I'm very pleased with the result. It's not completely dry yet and still remains rewinding, measuring and weighing before they're on display in the Shop.

This was my original inspiration

And this is the result - not quite dry yet and not great light for taking photos but still - not bad...

Changes

Ok - so I've decided that for this blog to live on I need to make some changes.

The first and greatest change will be the language. I will be refering to this blog as a place for news and updates regarding Willow Fairy Wool for those who are not on FB and therefore it needs to be in English.

I hope you can all live with that and I might as well apologise in advance for any grammatical mistakes and misspellings I will make in the future...

Preparing ...

I just finished spinning some really nice wool/silk yarn and I decided to space dye it. Good thing I have a long hallway.

Stor vinter rea

Nu är det kallt och snöigt i hela landet och det vill jag fira genom att hålla en vinter rea i min Etsy butik. 

Ville väl egentligen göra en traditionell mellandagsrea, men eftersom jag inte är hemma då så kändes det lite krångligt. 

Och det är ju nu du ska se till att få det där mjuka paketet under granen som du så väl behöver (!?) och förtjänar :-)

Så kika in i min lilla butik och kom ihåg att så länge du bor i Sverige behöver du inte vara registrerad på Etsy för att shoppa, bara kontakta mig på thewillowfairy@gmail.com och tala om vad du önskar dig...

Rabatten på 25% dras av i kassan som man säger.Om du är registrerad på Etsy och föredrar att shoppa den vägen så glöm inte att använda kupong-koden WINTER när du ska betala.

Bra att ha...

Synd egentligen att inte skriva här. Har funderat på att skrota hela bloggen, men jag har upptäckt att den kan vara bra att ha ibland. 

Det finns till exempel väldigt många inlägg här som det faktiskt händer att jag går tillbaka till och refererar till på andra håll. 

Alla människor har inte heller facebook och vill inte skaffa det heller. 

Så jag tror jag ska fundera fram ett sätt att hålla liv i min blogg. Ge den ett nytt liv i ny form kanske...

Det kommer garanterat att bli mycket ull...

En hel del handspunnet

Och ett och annat med den här tossingen kanske...

Tävling hos Garnasinne

Hej! Det var länge sedan och jag vet inte huruvida jag har några följare kvar, men detta måste spridas till alla som gillar garn och stickning så jag lägger ut det här med.

Kika in på Garnasinnes blogg - ju fler som är med och tävlar desto fler och finare vinster blir det. 

Tävlingen är öppen till 17:e december.

Jag hoppas ni har en trevlig advent med mycket snö och glitter :-)