Help Me Destash!

I have started making room for the new baby. His room will be my crafts room, which means there is nowhere else to put my gorgeous yarns. So I need your help. The skeins I am listing today are all SockPixie hand-dyed yarns. I am offering them at super low prices. I hope they will find new homes with you. All prices include shipping. Just click the "buy now" button and Paypal will guide you through the process!

Superwash Merino Sock Turquoise:$12 SOLD

100% Superwash Merino

800 yards

7-8 sts per inch on US 1-2

5 Skeins Fine Baby Alpaca Earth: $15 SOLD
100% Fine Baby Alpaca

Each skein in 185 yards

Sport weight

5-6 sts/inch on US 6

4 Skeins Fine Baby Alpaca Reds: $12 SOLD

100% Fine Baby Alpaca
Each skein in 185 yards

Sport weight

5-6 sts/inch on US 6

1 skein Worsted Single Ply Handspun: $8 SOLD

200 yards

100% Wensleydale Sheep

4-5 sts/inch on US 7-8

That's it for today!

New Yarns

I worked in my studio yesterday, and created some new colorways. I let myself create freely, just playing with colors, and techniques as well as materials.
My inpsirations ranged from  flowers to Madame Bovary to seashells, the matericals from Merino, to Tencel blends, to cahmere.

I have added these skeins to my Etsy store! I hope you will enjoy them.

Very Vogue!

What do you when you fall in love with a picture (Vogue 1963, I believe), because its colors are so perfect, so balanced, so retro, so classic? You create a colorway and you name it Ombrelles. These colors make me dream, ocean blues, reds, berry pinks, and peach.

                                                                  

I hand-painted 2 SW Merino sock weight skeins in the Ombrelles colorway, and a beautiful cashmere blend in a sock weight. I have just added them to my Etsy Store.

Can you imagine a pair of socks knit in this colorway? Real sunshine in winter!

Victorious!

This morning, as soon as I opened my eyes, I looked at my spools of singles. Sorry, Mr. SockPixie, but a spinner has her priorities. I am after all involved in a serious competition, the Tour de Fleece!

I may have been a little too openly passionate about my spinning, though. When Mr. SockPixie came to our room to give me a goob-bye kiss, he found sitting on his pillow, next to me, the spools of handspun... He took it with a smile, but I am sure he will be teasing me about this for quite a while!

Back to the Tour de Fleece. A racer cannot let their personal life interfere! As soon as Mr. SockPixie was gone, I started plying. I decided on an early start to try and take advantage of the relative coolness of the early morning. I "pedaled" hard, and got a great early morning workout.

The yarn is plied. I have 2 glorious skeins to show for it. Soft, squishy, sport weight sock yarn... My own personal "maillot jaune".

Mr. SockPixie may have yet another reason to tease me tomorrow!