Jessica Richey’s: blurbs, rants and raves

A knit, crochet, spinning, dyeing, craft, bead, baking, sewing and the million other things I do, blog.

Yummmm…yarn April 24, 2008

Filed under: Dyeing, Yarn, shop update — Jessica Richey @ 2:48 pm

I haven’t had much to blog about, until now…presenting, Colorfulpurls first shop update! That’s right, I’m on Etsy! Right now I have just two skeins to test out Etsy. Below are pictures of the skeins along with part of the description that I gave on Etsy.

Yummy lemon yellows, juicy oranges and tart grapefruit are delicious to eat, but even better on yarn!

A close up.

Salty blue water, green seaweed, pink sea stars, purple starfish and seashells are the inspiration behind the colors of this yarn. Everything I love about the beach without sunburns! ;)
A close up.
Yum.
 

Alpaca Mitts April 1, 2008

Filed under: Yarn, handspun — Jessica Richey @ 5:43 pm

We got a new SD card reader! Now I can load pictures on the blog and music on my phone( I use my phone as an MP3 player.)

Remember this yarn? I made them into super soft and warm hand mitts/hand warmers. I used Easter egg dye to color the cuff, kool-aid/Easter egg dye for the pattern and undyed yarn for the background.

This is my crazy socks roving spun up into singles.
This beauty is the crazy socks singles plied. I think it’s somewhere between 11-13 WPI. I just love handspun yarn , what about you?