As you may know, some of my fellow British fibre artists and I are creating a fibre sampler box of our handspun and dyed fibres. The blog for the project is
here and we also have a
Ravelry group. it's a new project and the first boxes will be on sale at Woolfest this month. After that they will be available through the website
EcoProducts4U which is run by one of our members. There is a mailing list signup sheet on the EcoProducts4U site.
Our first round of samples are being finished up and sent to a central point, and I sent mine in over the weekend. Here's a photo (hosted by
Flickr) and some more information!
To start with I have sent in 21 samples, evenly split between fibre and handspun yarn. Some of the samples are of items currently available on my Etsy shop.
There are three different types of fibre. The first, the puffy brown and blue batt, is made of deep brown Zwartble fleece drumcarded with a mix of dyed fleece colours. It's really soft and I have done a few more but haven't yet weighed or listed them.
The second fibre is blue, pale green and white and is a sample of the
Salt Water Taffy colourway. It's Bluefaced Leicester roving, acid dyed.
The third is one of my favourites, it is fawn-coloured natural Shetland top acid dyed with blue and pink. The colourway is called
Blue Raspberry.
I've sent in five different types of yarn, three of which are currently available at
Sheepshape Spinning. The yarns are:
Summer Citrus, made of Columbia Dorset wool and dyed by another Etsy seller
Corriedale Glow in the Dark yarn, in a lovely heathery tan
More Corriedale, but mixed with
multicolour Donegal Tweed fibre from Kilcar, Donegal
A Shetland/Merino blend made from one of the samples I received from the April Phat Fiber box - one of a kind with lovely greens, blues and browns, and very soft
The last bit of light coloured Alpaca Glow in the Dark yarn, though there are
other colours of this on the shop
I'm really looking forward to the release of the boxes, and also seeing what everyone else is making for their samples! If you get one of my samples in your box I'd love to hear from you. :)
