Quick post today. Over the weekend I sold nearly all of my yarn from the web site, which is very exciting and makes me nervous. How do I keep up? I’ve got to make enough yarn to bring to my not-so-lys that wants to re-stock. We’re heading out East this weekend and I want to have at least a dozen skeins for her to buy/consign/choose from (and I’m waaaaay behind). I desperately need to re-stock my store and can’t even think of that until next week, after the lys trip. I finally bought some real acid dyes and am “dyeing” to try them out, but have no time for that for at least another week. And of course, with the acid dyes, I bought some gorgeous, really fine hand dyed boucle fromthe Silkworker, and this morning I’m trying to spin my own from locks. Talk about things to save for when you have more time? Just silly! Especially since I’m going to spin up 100 yards of it, and then after plying I bet it’ll be 40 or so…labor intensive stuff, that.

Enough for now, but I’ll end with a fantastic quote about labor intensive spinning, from my friend Natasha, from her post of January 22:
“…i have been handstringing beads and sequins and plying them into the yarns and they look like fairies sprinkled them in. gorgeous. time consuming. but that is what art yarns are all about. fairies, beads and fluff. you know? otherwise, it is just yarn. not that there is anything wrong with yarn. of any color, creed or denomination. i love you all, yarn. you are ok by me!”

Me too. Thanks Natasha!