Colour Palette of the Month - January!

Last year I was given this lovely bouquet by a friend I helped.  It was so beautiful it inspired this colour palette.  I was so pleased with the result, I used it as the starting point of a yarn for Dot Lumb's Yarnmaker magazine.

You can see the yarn I designed and spun in the latest edition which can be bought from the magazine's website, where you can also subscribe.

I hope you like my colour palettes of the month?  Let me know if you do and how you use them, oh and anything else you'd like or dislike or would like to see here!

How to Use a Drum Carder - Part 1

I'm doing another project for Yarnmaker magazine and had to prepare some fibres using a drum carder so decided to video what I did.  Here is the first part, let me know what you think!

Yarn Maker

I'm very please to have been asked to write a series of articles by Dot Lumb, of "Dots Fibre to Fabric" Blog, for her new Magazine, Yarnmaker.

This is a huge venture for Dot, but one that should be really exciting.  I know Dot has been working very hard on this for over 6 months, now, and I hope that you will all support her by buying the magazine, which is about to be launched.  It's about time we had a UK based magazine for spinners, as good as Spin Off is, it's quite frustrating for every one in this country and Europe when we want to buy any of the fibres or fleece mentioned in articles only to find they are from the States.

You can download an order form from the Yarnmaker website for a single copy or a subscription and read all about the first issue on Dot's blog.