One of the wonderful women of the fiber arts community needs our help, and this marvelous internet community is drawing around her with our financial and prayerful help, so I'm asking all who read this to help in any way you can. Holly of Hollyeqq fame, friend, fiber artist, and magician with the dye pots is facing some complicated medical issues.  She poured her heart out in an honest, scary and beautiful blog post, and we need to draw near and do what we can, because it's times like these that we can really show the beautiful side of being human.

What can you do?

*Head over to 'Circle the Wagons'--a spinning challenge by Lexi Pluckyfluff and described over at her blog, and held at The Yarn Museum.  Go vote on the best yarn and then head over to Sandy's portion of Circle the Wagons at her  Homestead Wool and Gift farm where you can buy all of the yarns that were entered into the challenge and donated on Holly's behalf.

*It's not too late to donate something beautiful and handmade of yours to this great cause.  Go to Homestead (link above) and give to the sale to support Holly.

*Spread the word about the challenge and auction on your blogs and elsewhere.

*Go to Holly's own site, Oceans of Fiber and purchase some of her magical fibers to support her.  She really is an amazing dyer.

*Send positive thoughts and prayers to wrap Holly in a blanket of love and light to support and help her heal.

I haven't donated yet, but hope to add some goodies to the sale by the end of the day, and will post a pic here and at Handmade.

Happy Chinese New Year.  May you prosper in the year of the RAT! 

Here's some Chinese New Year  yarn I spun,  to celebrate, with a lesson:  Never take pics before setting the twist.  The damned sari silk bled when I soaked it (as usual) and now all the white has turned to pink, yuck!  Oh well, I think white is considered a funeral color, so pink is more "festive" and appropriate to the day anyhow...

A post a day, that's my goal.  Of course I have already failed at my goal since I started this a few days ago and then went out of town without my computer.  And since it's also late at night and I have no energy left, I'll simply put a little fiber eye candy up, and post a few pictures of my most recent TemptressYarn listed at Handmade and/or Etsy for sale:

First there's "Brooding Barbie", a primarily wool and mohair yarn with sequins and beads:

And "Transition", which turned out much prettier than I expected, and reminds me of the transition between the whites of winter to the oranges and greens of spring...this is a vegan yarn, by the way:

That's all and goodnight!

Temptressyarn is finally here in her new home.  Well, at least I'm working on it.  I'm learning how to use the best social networking software available to mankind, Crowd Fusion!  (Can you tell I'm married to the CTO and am now officially a lab rat for testing purposes?)  Anyhow, Temptressyarn now resides here at her own domain name, where I hope it will stay, for a long and happy existence!

Look forward to updates of my shops both at Handmade and Etsy, industry news and updates, photos and discussion of fiber arts on a (hopefully) daily basis, and so much more!