cosymakes

today i have a random day off of work cause the store hasn’t been so busy this week. how do i plan to fill it (besides showing you all tempting pictures of wool and making you help me name them…)?

time to heal… yesterday, on my way to work, a delivery truck clipped a big heavy garbage can and it tipped over into my leg. ouch. now i have a huge bruise. what a strange life i lead. ben was with me and we were rather confused because it all happened so quickly. the good thing was he grabbed the garbage can before the big heavy thing rolled down the hill and into traffic! wrong place at the wrong time and in my lingo *very* random.

time to actually keep up with the etsy shop… including throwing you all a couple skeins of the new yarn before i take them off to market. i’ve been very bad while working on the new legs of the business with keeping up with it. i promise you’ll be glad you waited with lots of yarns and some patterns close to being put up.

time to finish… the shawl i’m making as a commission and finish a second movie knit. by the way – thank you all for the make-me-blush compliments on that piece of work. it’s kind of surreal.

time to start… at least one commission that i’ve been hankering to get done soon and maybe another hat to be put up in pattern form.

now it’s time for you to go name these new yarns if they make you think of anything! and for me to have a late breakfast… ahem… brunch.
have a good day!
cosy

it appears that nobody has any other spinning type blogs they read… there sure is a shortage. it’s more dire than i thought :) on the other hand, i find spinners also tend to be knitters – so the blogs might be a bit more like this blog.

here’s some more of the newly spun yarn to keep you occupied. if you’d like to help in the naming, click through the photo to flickr and leave a comment.

i find at least one of these quite ugly… but i’m not sharing which one. every time i do that someone jumps to defend the defenseless yarn with how beautiful it is :D

i have been nominated (twice if you can believe it!) by lola of the black sheep blog and mick of much-adored for the ‘you make my day award. i am honored! thank you both. since’ i just recently did the “makes me smile” award here… so i was going to bow out on this one… but instead i think i’ll give you some of my favorite spinnerly blogs.

dyed in the wool handmade
folktale fibers
hello yarn
knitterly things
knitters anonymous
lulubeans
marion’s arts and crafts
pieces of string too small to save
sarah’s homestead blog
and i’m expecting to see much more spinning from yarnbee.

wow! i really felt as if i wouldn’t have ten, and then i did. what about you all – spinners out there – any favorite spinning blogs? i always feel there are way more knitting blogs that i read than spinning blogs and i’ve a sneaking suspicion that those of us who produce fiber often fall into the blog as ad category. my other thing is that i’m more interested in those who sometimes knit with their own handspun rather than just selling roving and yarn… but i’ll take whatever you can give me!

the yarn from this entry is some of the yarn mentioned in the previous post. i feel like i’ve been doing enough spinning to not only improve, but come to some decisions of what sort of yarns i’d like to sell. one decision down. the other decision i’m fighting with is whether or not i name the yarn? and if i ever move on to selling roving… do i name the roving? i know that knitters like colorways to be named, but i may not have the energy to do the naming of hats and yarns and roving – especially since i don’t really repeat colorways! i’m trying to stay away from tedious :) on the other hand, i’ve also asked people over on flickr what they think things should be named and that has worked rather well.

what do you all think? i think i’ll go label these pics ‘name me’ on flickr now… but for the future i’m unsure. any advice would be well taken. have a great monday!