Festive Fiber

A Red Rainbow of Romney and A Lovely Little Spindle

Some days you need a little color therapy. Today was just about as grey as you can get in Chicago. Grey, rainy, cloudy. That it's warm enough to be raining is not entirely a bad thing, but its definitely the kind of weather that gets me down a little bit. Which makes it an excellent time to explore one's fiber room.

This lovely torrent of Romney roving comes from fleecemakers Etsy shop. I believe the colorway is called "Autumn Brights". What is lovely about it is that it that the seller raises Romney sheep and hand dyes the wool. And, if I am doing my math correctly, I have two lovely 4 ounce bundles to spin. Very festive, is it not?

The lovely little lace spindle with the stylized cat design and the notecards (which are hiding behind some of that fiber) come from Spindle Cat Studio. I haven't spun on the little spindle yet (I don't have a fiber delicate enough -- it's only a 1/2 ounce spindle) but it seems to be well balanced. And the cat design gets a big paws up from the felines in the house.

Many many thanks to Emma for this little bundle of holiday treasures. She and I have been trading fibery goodies almost since I started to blog and I consider her one of my dearest blogging-resultant friends even though I've never had the good fortune to meet her in person. It's taken me a little longer than I would have liked to get them on the blog -- mostly because I was hoping I'd get to spin some of the Romney and be able to talk about that too. Today, however, I realized that with all that I've got going on, the spinning might not happen in a timely fashion, and the colors were just too rich not to enjoy and share.