MOVIN' ON

MOVIN' ON

We moved from Utah to Florida this past June. It's been a ton of work but so worth it! We moved because my middle daughter was pregnant with twins...and...my oldest daughter was expecting. She and her family live in NC. The twins were born August 6 and the NC baby was born August 13. We are so very blessed to have three beautiful, healthy boys to our family.

Now that things are settling down I'm back to business. So what to do in the hot, humid summer day in Florida...ice dye of course! I've seen it done on silk scarves, which makes beautiful patterns that make the eye dance. So I thought why not try it on wool top. Her is a little video I made dyeing wool top with ice.

A close up of my ice dyed yarn

You can dye fiber a multitude of ways...just have fun and go for it!

Happy new year

What a great year 2011 has been.  I sold well over 100 skeins of handspun yarn, pounds of roving and lose fiber and hundreds of wool dryer balls.  People, me inlcuded, love these little orbs of wool.  It seems that most people are tired of piles of garbage that is non biodegradable and how big businesses are dumping toxins on this earth.  But there is a green theme with big businesses to clean up their act.  We are demanding it.  You can do your part by using wool dryer balls.  Cut down on electrical use and stop using toxic dryer sheets.  Move toward a healthy home, for you, your pets and your kids. 

We had so many people interested in our dryer balls we thought it was time to expand.  We got a facebook page up and running and I am working on a webpage.  Please "like" us on Facebook and show your support for a greener and healthier world.  Even if it just starts with orbs of wool.

CLICK HERE TO "LIKE" LEAPING SHEEP WOOL DRYER BALLS

Faux dyeing

Ah, the day after Christmas and a day off work.  Time to dye!  I had some faux cashmere that I have been wanting to dye so today was the day. 

This stuff is amazing!  It takes the dye like no other fiber I've seen...vibrant and rich!  It's silky soft and blended with other fibers gives it not only softness, but strength. 

  

Here's wishing all my friends a happy, healthy and safe new year:)  2012 holds amazing things to come!  XXOO

Balls, balls and more balls

I am up to my ears in balls....dryer balls that is.  These are 100% wool, felted balls.  They are perfect to use for dryer balls.  You just toss 5 or 10 (the more the merrier) in your drying load and they cut your drying time by 25%...more if you use more balls.  How does this work?  Well, it fluffs up your clothes allowing the air to circulate more efficiently thus cutting down your drying time.  And, this is the best part, you don't need to use dryer sheets.  I don't anymore and I live in the high desert.

I know what you're thinking...what else can I use these balls for?  They are the perfect dog toy...they love em!  And the more they slobber on the balls, the more it felts and the more dense it gets. The wool soaks up the slobber so the ball doesn't feel slimy.  I hate slimy dog toys:(

Oh and you can use them for juggling balls for all you jugglers out there. And kids love 'em too!

What else can you do with a dryer ball....leave a post if you please.


GET YOUR DRYER, JUGGLING, DOG, KID BALLS HERE



Yarn Eye Candy

Beaded spiders??

I thought I was done with festivals this year, but there is a festival at Wheeler Farm in Salt Lake City that I really wanted to do.  It's a charming historical farm and I thought it would be a fun show.  So I talked to my friend who does a ton of shows all year and she said the show was closed and had a long waiting list.  Well I called the person in charge anyway and sent her some pictures of my yarns.  She called the next day telling me someone had cancelled and I am in!  Woo hoo!   I've gotten into more shows this way:)   If you're in the Salt Lake area come on by and say hello.

http://www.wheelerfarm.com/

I thought I would give a plug to my friend who makes these amazing beaded spiders.  Yep, you heard me right....beaded spiders.  Check 'em out.

http://twistedspiders.com/

Happy Holidays:)

It's been a while since I've blogged, but for some reason the darn program would not let me post!  So finally I get it working.  I have done a few shows around town and the picture shows just a sample of the yarns I have spun.  I would have to say I have spun at least 100 skeins of yarn.

I did a three day show a few weeks back and spun for three days straight.  A couple days after that my right leg and ankle started to hurt.  Shin splints, I believe.  Who knew?

The last show I did was at a local cultural center.  I absolutely love the small, homegrown shows.  I even met a "lost boy of Sudan".   He was part of some 20,000 misplaced children during the war in Sudan and they sent them all across the US to start a new life.  My booth neighbor was a young man from Ghana that started a company to help the women out in that country by providing them with income from selling their woven baskets in the US.  Man and are they nice baskets.  I bought two and they will sit beside my couch to hold my many fibery delights and I will look at them fondly knowing they were made by hands of a true artisan.

So, one of the things that sold like hotcakes at the shows are my new dryer balls. Yes, dryer balls. They are a solid wool ball that you throw in the dryer with your wet clothes.  They fluff up the clothes as they dry letting the air circulate, cutting your drying time by about 25%.  They eliminate the need for a dryer sheet and clothes are more wri

nkle free.  I use 10, but I think you could use as little as 5.  But the more you use the better the results.  Check my Etsy in a couple of weeks for more amazing dryer balls:) 

I've been busy destashing, as my husband is having trouble walking through our small basement...oops.  Little does he know he's making room for more stuff...shh don't tell him.

I'm getting busy for Christmas, shipping gifts, yarns and batts.  I have some amazing fleeces waiting for me to wash and dye them.  I have the most amazing merino fleece!  It's virtually has no VM, is very fine, crimpy and cards with no noils.  That is gonna be something special.

So if I don't talk to you all before the holiday, I wish you all a very, merry, happy and healthy holiday:)  I love and appreciate you all!