Tootsie is a pale gray cotswald sheep. I dyed part of her fleece and some mohair with pinks, picked it with a gray alpaca fleece and spun it bulky. I plyed this batch with a pretty sparkly pink boucle yarn. Each skein is t least 105 yards. check out my free patterns page for knit and crochet ideas.

Many different wool fleeces, in their natural brown and grays some dyed teal, rust, gold, olive picked together with several natural alpaca in gold and gray. After spinning this bulky yarn I plyed it with a fine green yarn. I call this November because it looks like all the colors I see looking out over the valley towards the mountains in November.

The deep teal, olive green, soft blues and grays all remind me of the western Montana mountains and sky. Every time I get to drive East on I-90, I imagine a yarn in these colors.

August Prairie, A soft light brown fleece from Tina in Bozeman, picked with sage green, bits of blues from wool and mohair locks i dyed and  bits of deep brownwool locks. This colorway came to me last week as I was out early one morning for a walk. I realized what were just our tall green paririe grasses are now the pretty golden browns sparkling as they roll in the breeze. Looking so peaceful, just like our prairies in August.

after washing a beautiful soft merino x cvm lambs wool, one brown fleece and one white fleece ( from deanna nelsons flock) i dyed them purple, along with lots of mohair locks. then picked them together and spun it all chunky. i plyed it with a brown yarn. this very soft chunky yarn i am calling willy wonka, that purply plum with the chocolate brown.

Beautiful fluffy white Samoyed dog brushings from Bear. i handspun his fur, then plyed it with handspun white wool. This adds resilliancy to the Dog fur. The halo will happen as you knit and wear the yarn. A bulky weight very warm yarn.

Mohair locks picked with pieces of silver lurex, handspun then plyed with a white and silver lurex yarn.  Today everything that was white is now indigo dyed. I brewed up a vat if indigo, added it to the pot and dipped these skeins. What beautiful blues!

Very soft Targhee wool I dyed All the summery colors. then picked them together and handspin on my Louet wheel. The targhee fleeces are from Molly Little Wilbur of Hayden Idaho. This yarn is a soft bulky weight.

I dyed several gray fleeces with many jewel tone colors, resulting in a heathery yarn. Each skein has at least 105 yards. This is enough to knit a hat, scarf, mittens, fluffy stole, check out my free patterns to request.

ZEN is a wonderful soft olive and brown wool yarn. I spun it using a natural brown fleece from justine of Bozeman MT. the olive is a gray fleece i over dyed with olive. after picking the colors together I spun them into a squishy, bulky weight yarn and plyed with a fine olive flitty wool yarn.

This colorway came to me from a dyed fleece I bought at the Taos Festiwool several years ago. I do not remember which vendor had this not so pretty dyed fleece. Purples, rust, aqua, lots of white. It was a very soft fleece and the price was all right, so I bought it. It sat with my wool stash a while, I would look at it and nothing came to me. Then one day I thought to put it through my picker adding white mohair. This was so pretty, all this fluffyness. As I was spinning it I realized how it was Taos. The purple mountains, the white clouds, the terra cotta adobe and turquiose. Since I have made several more batches, though i still have a little poncho I knit with my original yarn. Last month I thought it was time to make more. I dyed all the colors, they matched my poncho perfectly, but it didnt have that look. So many of like the bling in things, so grabbing some bling i picked it into the mix. perfect! Now with the bling I am calling it 'Party at Taos'.

simple natural colors. Dark brown Finn fleece from Solace Farms, near Deer Park WA, spun with mohair streaks added. So soft and bouncy. I plyed it with a very dark brown boucle yarn. This is a bulky yarn.

Harvest 10 is wool, mohair a beautiful reddish brown alpaca. I dyed every shade of gold and rust i have. Adding natural  red/brown alpaca I picked it all together before spinning into a soft bouncy bulky yarn. I plyed it with a very fine brick colored yarn.

Many different wool fleeces, some natural gray mohair and lots of gray alpaca from buster, went into this yarn. I dyed the wool and some white mohair with olive dye. Picking it with natural gray wool, mohair and alpaca before spinning. To finish I plyed it with a fine gray yarn. This is a very  bulky yarn.

Wooly Roses is wool i dyed reds, pinks and greens from targhee raised by Molly Wilbur of Hayden Idaho. the brown is the natural color of a cvm fleece from Emily near Sandpoint Idaho.  mohair I dyed in greens and pinks and fake cashmere I dyed gold. After picking them all together I spun a bulky yarn with my Louet wheen, then plyed these skeins with a fine deep pink yarn. This is a very soft bulky yarn. I named this Wooly roses because last fall when a friend came over she noticed how all my flowers were also blooming wooly tuffts. like I have wool growing in my garden! These pinks, reds, golds all remind me of rose colors and green leaves and brown Earth.

This very soft bulky yarn is handspun with a pretty brown Alpaca and brown shetland wool picked with purple and teal mohair. click more details to see my matching mug and yarn.

Dyeing with indigo is really exciting. This mohair was dyed to exhaust the vat. After spinning the locks onto a wool yarn I washed each skein very well. under hot running water I lathered up and scrubbed. This removed and extra indigo and created a beautiful soft loftiness to the yarn. I love the icy pastel look. there will not be many skeins as the weather has turned too cold to do any of this outside dyeing. check out my gallery to see the indigo dye process. ***Today I dipped them in another INdigo vat and they are now a solid medium blue. pics as soon asthey dry and I wash them. HERE IS THE NEW PIC~

At the winter solstice our sunrise is after 8 am and sets by 3:30 pm. I can see the sun rise and set from my south facing windows! My new yarn Winter Solstice is a blend of soft wools and soft mohair dyed in deep purples, blues and very black Alpaca. i carded some sparkly deep blue angelina with this black alpava.  Each skein is 105 yards. This is enough to knit or crochet or weave a good sized scarf, mittens, mini shawl or purse. check out my free patterns to request with your order.