Hello to all of the new folks who read about my yarn in the recent Interweave Knits article! I had a wonderful two days talking about yarn and dyeing with the author of the article (Selma, who in turn keeps a great blog here) but I must admit that it is a little surreal seeing what otherwise felt like a lovely visit with a fellow fiber enthusiast written up in a major knitting publication.
To all of you stopping by for the first time, I work with small batches of yarns spun from local fleeces. My stock is a little low at the moment, due in part to the time of year and also because I just recently came home from working on the boat. I have some dyeing to catch up on. I have been home for two weeks now, but as I always do (and always tell myself I won't do this time) I lost a week sitting on the couch catching up on dumb TV and knitting (and cuddling with Nell).
This is Nell. She wishes the snow would go away and the squirrels would come back. In the meantime she wishes that I would stop bugging her with my camera and go back to rubbing her ears.
But, this last week I braved the snow (and there has been lots of it) to start working with my new 3-Ply Cotswold fingering weight yarn, which very conveniently returned from the spinning mill a little before I returned from the boat.
The fleece for this yarn comes from Liberty Wool Farm in Palermo Maine. This is the same flock that in years past provided a lovely group of fleeces from Cotswold Romney crosses. Last spring there were fewer fleeces from Cotswold Romney crosses, but a lovely group of pure Cotswold fleeces, so, anyone who has been knitting with my 3-Ply Cotswold x Romney fingering weight, please consider using the pure Cotswold version instead. Hopefully I will have a new batch dyed up in the next week or two.
Yarn comes from the mill on cones - therefore the first step of dyeing is skeining, and skeining, and skeining, and then building a fort with all of the piles of skeined yarn.
I am always adding new colors and yarns. One day I am going to be truly organized and start sending out an email newsletter. In the meantime, If you would like to be added to my hypothetical email newsletter list, please send me an email at uptonyarns@gmail.com with "newsletter" or similar in the subject line. I am "uptonyarns" on Instagram, and "puffling" on Ravelry. Upton Yarns also has a Facebook page, which I am terrible at updating but always resolving to be better about. I am not terribly consistent in my social media presence, but I am trying to be better about that, and I love hearing about what other people are up to knitting wise. And I love photos!
Happy Knitting,
Sarah