Available at Circle Craft on Granville Island

There is a wide variety of sizes, colours and styles of my creations

available at the Circle Craft Store on Granville Island.

Purple Overdyed Handspun

This is a mix of various white wools and silk 

that I overdyed with Ciba Acid Dyes.

Let me know how much you would like and I will 

make up a ball for you. The portion is by the 100g.

Skein Necklaces

So I have a new project I am trying out.  A customer of mine 

bought a skein of yarn to wear as a necklace, a thing I have 

been wanting to do for a while.  So now the grey one is for her

 and I have made another from the yarn I spun at the Christmas 

Demonstration at Holt Renfrew...they are $40 each.

 

Below are some skeins I have that can be made

into a Skein Necklace just for you.

Handspun Sale

Handspun Overflow! 

Come to my etsy shop and help me out! 

Buy 100g and get 25% OFF and any order of handspun over 200g you get 50% OFF the whole order!

A New New New Q Contest

Hello Q Lovers!

Announcing a NEW Q Contest!!

Pick a word that has a 'q' somewhere in it.

Describe the colours.

I weave a new wrap with your 'q' name and you WIN any Everyday Scarf!!!

Deadline Saturday April 30, 2015 6pm.

2012 letter was Q and Charlotte Campbell was the winner with Quetzale.

And the 2011 winner was Quelea Quelea.

What will your Q word be!!

Please add your word and an image for inspiration in the Comments.

A Handspun Showcase

This is a mix of the three colours of fleece that Tim

gave me for Christmas.  Some of this is available.

The Tim handspun.

Mix of orange that I have woven into a fun scarf.

My Friedrich Traub Spinning Wheel at the Lonsdale Quay with

some mixed unknown wool and merino from Alberta.

A woman came into the Hive when I was working last Fall 

and handed me this bag of unknown fleece that she had naturally

dyed years before and it had sat in a plastic bag since it dried and 

matted beyond use, she thought.

The mixed wool and Merino that I spun at Favorite.

A mix batt that I bought at Birkeland Brothers last

spring that was a surprise batt in many layers of colours.

Mixed wool and silk.

Mixed wool and Alpaca(?)

Mixed wool and alpaca(?)

Handspun Yarn Available White or Over-Dyed

I have posted some new hand-spun white or over-dyed to etsy.

Click on this link to purchase

Here is a series of images showing the hand-spun process.

Some hand-spun over-dyed.

My spinning wheel belonged to my Maman and is a Friedrich Traub

Wheel that she bought before I was born.

This is what the sheeps' wool looks like mixed with various protein

thrums straight from the carding machine.

The above pictured fleece spin and over-dyed(this yarn is

no longer available.

"The Mistress"(Madeline's Cover)

8 Week Instagram Update

A lot has happened in the last 8 weeks since I took the pic 

of this green smoothie.

Valentines Day.

Farmer's Market.

Arton Leather, she makes lovely leather cuffs, earrings, necklaces

and belts.

And then I broke my leg! I had ordered lunch at Casa Norte on

Cleveland Avenue in Squamish and I was stepping down the little

black stairs and stepped off the side to the ground with my left foot, 

which was only about 1 foot and a half, my foot rolled underneath

me and my Tibia and Fibula both snapped and protruded out. 

I did not know how bad the break was until the paramedic cut off 

my boot and Daub and Design Leggings, he said that it was protruding!

I was brought to Squamish General first but there was no Orthopedic 

Surgeon so I then transferred to Lions Gate Hospital.  My leg was put

in a temporary cast just do the pain was better as my foot was

completely to the left.

The fall happened at 1 pm on the Monday and I had to wait 

until about 1030 the next morning to have the surgery where a 

metal plate and about 8 screws into the fibula but they left the 

tibia to mend itself.  

Before surgery still.

After.

It was nice to have visitors.

Then the recovery in the hospital.

I had a walker to get to the bathroom.

By Wednesday I was feeling desperate to bathe so one of the nurses 

gave me some washcloths and a shampoo.

Then I was able to go home on the Thursday.  Tim made me a nice

little nest on the couch.

I went to Gibsons with Tim on his work cycle so I would not have 

to be at home by myself.  It was a beautiful view of the Straight.

THen the snow began.

The cast consisted of some plaster underneath with tensor bandage 

holding it all together.  Itchiness was very annoying.

The day 2 weeks after surgery was very exciting as I was going to 

get the cast off and the stitches out and really learn about what 

hardware was in there! And how many stitches there were.

I was surprised when the cast was removed that there was quite a 

large scar with 29 staples and 4 stitches! It was quite disgusting 

getting the staples pulled out one by one and apparently

I was quite noisy!  I then got my air cast. What a beauty.

The first time at night when I took the cast off it felt really strange.

I was told not to be a slave to the boot.

Tim took me up for a flight over Squamish.  My first since Alaska

21 years ago.

Tim being his handsome self.

A view off the airstrip.

The place in Gibsons has a wonderful rocky driveway.

Trying to gain back some calcium with almonds and yogurt

covered raisins.

Doing some drop spinning with silk and black wool.

Look my ballet toes are coming back!

My letter contest was for the letter E this year.

Going out in the evening I wore my Doc on one foot to balance 

out the air cast.

Was so much fun to actually get back to spinning.  Thankfully 

my right spinning leg was unaffected.

I updated the collection at Favourite Gifts in the 

Lonsdale Quay.  Quite an assortment of rare 

Eleganzas.

This was the ball of yarn that I finished yesterday.