Yeeeeeehaw!!!!!!

A Drum Carder! A Drum Carder! I just can´t believe it!
After dancing headbanging through the house (my neck is hurting now) I started carding at once. Without thinking I put in what was there. After spinning, it will be a Happy Rainbow Yarn. I´m not sure about the amounts of fibers to put in. And with the thing you are supposed to get the fibers out of the big drum I have to be more careful, its very pointy. Trying to get the wool off the drum, it landed in my left hand. This is exactly the reason why I don´t like to knit, I´m afraid to hurt someone with the needles. Me for example.

Right after all the colours a long planned project was started. Like many other poeple these days, I read Stephenie Meyer´s Twilight - Books and I love them. So the next load on the Carder were fibers for a Werewolf - Yarn which will be followed tomorrow by fibers for a vampire yarn for Bella´s love, bloodsucker Edward. You´ll see....:-)

Found a little Treasure

Yesterday I found a very old necklace in my grand- grandmothers jewelcase - made of little ivory beads! As noone in my family is wearing it, I decided to spin them in a yarn - what else..:-D
Soon on etsy;-)!

Good News:-)

Two days ago I visited a friend of mine who creates outstanding, one – of – a – kind necklaces and sells them in a shop in Heidelberg. Her creations are so beautiful that I thought the world must know about this and so you’ll see this necklace soon in my shop at etsy´s :-)!

November Challenge

Well, october is over and here comes an idea for the next challenge!

MEDUSA!

A greek goddess with snakes on her head, whose look (hers, not the snakes`) turns everybody into stone - spin your own version, your own interpretation of this legend and create somethin fitting to it (a hat maybe...? Just a thought.....).

Who wants to join:-)?

New materials!

Today I finally got the Cashmere fleece I ordered 2 weeks ago - but waiting was worth it! It is not as soft as expected, but it feels wonderful on the skin. Until now Merino wool and silk were my absolute favourits, but up from now you can expect another great material on TreasureAyland:-)!

Done:-)

Here comes my version of the Great Barrier Reef...

Hand- dyied silk and merino wool, plied with silk, some little fishes and a turtle (sterling silver) and pearls are spun in.

















And this is what I made of it:

WOW! Here comes the first contribution to the challenge!!!
Look at this:
http://authenticfiction.twoday.net/

Great:-)!!

Most recent project finished:-)

Here comes a picture of the present I made for a friend: 2 crocheted podholders made of handdyied and handspun cotton. Spinning was very difficult, because the cotton fibers are extremely short. I had to spin half a kilo before managing a normal yarn.

Finally finished:-)

Yeah, the Avalon - Yarn is finished :-)!
38 beads of pure silver and lots of semiprecious stones (mountain crystals) are spun in.
I´ll go and wash this beauty and make some more pictures, and then you´ll see it on etsy:-D

Challenge

I always was fascinated how different the results are, if three people decide to make a yarn following one proposal. And because I’m curious all the time I want to suggest this challenge:

Create a yarn for one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

• Great Pyramid of Giza
• Hanging Gardens of Babylon
• Statue of Zeus at Olympia
• Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
• Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus
• Colossus of Rhodes
• Lighthouse of Alexandria

OR

one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World (compiled by CNN)

• Grand Canyon
• Great Barrier Reef
• Harbour of Rio de Janeiro
• Mount Everest
• Aurora
• Parícutin volcano
• Victoria Falls

and create something that is fitting to this wonder.

If you want to read more aubout these wonders, start with this article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Wonders_of_the_World

Finish your project within 4 weeks (= end of october) and then show us some pictures. Publish them on your website or in your blog and send me the link. If you don’t have a website or a blog, send your pictures and (if you want to) a comment about your work to me and i´ll publish it here.

Everyone who wants to join is welcome and there will be no winner - it’s just for fun and to see other people’s ideas:-)

Welcome to my blogspot!

I finally managed to go online with my shop on treasureayland.etsy.com where I sell my treasures :-)

Until last week I spun my yarns on two wheels, a wonderful small and squeaking wheel (which I bought from a friend who had too many wheels) and an Ashford traveller wheel – then my third wheel arrived. Yes, a third one. An Ashford again, I didn´t think I´d win the auction on ebay.

Since then, I spent a whole week cleaning and sandpapering it, as it was in an awful condition when it arrived (some parts were broken and extremely dirty). But now it´s finished and looks like new born:-D

And here comes my latest project: an Avalon yarn.

It consists of throwsters waste (silk) and super extra soft merino wool.

Beads of pure silver, rose quartz and mountain crystal are spun in. It was really hard work to make out of this fuzzy mess of silk yarn, but it was worth it. Soon on etsy!