I’ve been accepted to Teach “Space Dyeing with Kool-Aid” at Stitch and Craft 2011, held at Olympia 2 17th-20th March 2011.

Kool-Aid dyeing is incredibly easy and gives a dyer of any age almost instant gratification. Included in the class will be some colour theory, the technique for microwave space dyeing and a whole heap of fun!

I’ll be in Room 4 every day at 15:30 squirting Kool-Aid at some Wensleydale with a turkey baster (As it takes Kool-Aid Colour really really well!). Do come and join me!

So, once this is gone, it’s gone!

Added far better pictures, and spilt it into the tight spun and loose spun, so I don’t have to delay orders by asking which you would prefer…

Life got in the way of the DIY, the stock taking and photography and the website updating.  

I also found out recently that one of my past Wordpress upgrades “broke” the version of  WP-Commerce I was using.

So, I’ve taken this little bout of  Insomnia to update *everything* to the latest versions, and you may have noticed a while back I put all the pictures back together with the products.

So, no, I haven’t dyed any new stuff recently (and oh-my-gosh am I missing the creativity of colour ), but what I do have on show (including about 19Kg of Sari Silk that I shipped over for S’n'B day!) is still very much for sale, but now with a working shopping cart!

Enjoy!

… and I’ve managed to break the shop slightly! As you can see, all the pictures have gone AWOL.

The Catagories Menu also seems to have vanished as well, so you can’t get to half the Stuff in the shop!

I’ll be working to restore normal service as soon as the day-job lets me! *sigh* 

I found these Lovely Pretties:
Trippin Yarn’s Branching out in a Six Skein Special-Water. She is aiming for 26 repeats

Ginger Lucy knit herself an Ice Cream Hat in 100% Cashmere, dyed as Raspberries & Chocolate,

and is saving her Fluorite purchase until after Xmas

Cliff sent me a picture of the Mega Womb which is made from “Morello Cherries” in 100% Cheviot.

Apparently, this is a cushion for his local pub! Being Cheviot, it is going to be very hardwearing, so just right for his Local… even if they have weird taste in soft furnishing!

My Mum, well, two from her

Mum loved the “Parrot” dyed Wensleydale, and has pretty much all of it into scarves trimmed with Elle Sensual, and then Mango Chutney Boucle as well! This yarn never actually made it to the Shop, because Mum liked it so much! I don’t know, parents eh

It appears also that there is All this Lovelyness I didn’t even know was tagged with “Fluffenstuff”on Flickr!  If you have made stuff, and have a flickr, please do Tag it, and then I will know about it!

Look for this little lot to move to the Customer Gallery soon, and please do keep sending me pics or links to your Fluffenstuff FOs!

S’n'B day that is!

Fluffenstuff however, is most certainly here to stay!
The show was a resounding, if very very tiring sucess. It was lovely to meet so many enthusiastic knitters, crochetters, spinners felters (As I shared my Stall with Ann, over at FibreLust). Please do keep in touch, and remember to e-mail me which what you make from your Fluffenstuff.

Look for frantic shelf filling over the next few evening, when I get to take photography of all the yarn I now have to sell!

I have to get dyeing again as well, the Six Skein Specials proved very popular indeed, All of the Water & Aether sold, 4 of Metal and 3 each of Fire and Earth. Only Poor Air didn’t sell any at all, but then, I suspect it is the wrong time of year for Pale blue… Still, I think I’ll have a couple of days rest before I get the dyepot out again.

I so need to dye up some more Cashmere as well… Lots of Lookers and touchers, but obviously my taste for what it told me to dye it didn’t suit everyone elses tastes, so do give me ideas, I just love to custom dye!

The display stands arrived Monday, Larry the Lamb Wednesday, and the dyeing proceeds apace!

Now, all I have to do is worry about the little things, like, oh, how to get it all to Bloomsbury…

Because… The PurpleKitchen is hard at work, busy dyeing stock for:UK stitch’n'bitch day

So, whilst we build up lots and lots of stock, (and every available surface is yarn obsessed right now!), with a side feeling of enjoying all the marvelous experiments that are coming out of the dyepot, and so the taunting photos are just going to keep on comin’!

I’m sure that photography will get taken at some point soon, however, you’ll definitely be able to see all the lovely yarns in person at the show on 10th November!!!

I do just love playing wiht this idea on 100% silk. The Aran weight I have gives such vibrant results!

As before… Clickerty click to make it huge!

I know, I’m such a tease…