Winter's Breath

Winter is finally starting to show its face around here. A few snow flakes are just starting to drift down from a cold grey sky.

Holly-Days - Just in time for some winter spinning, and in the Giffordables shop at www.giffordables.etsy.com  now. The fleece washing, dyeing, and carding continue. Will be updating the shop with more batts, locks, and more fiber soon.

Knitting on the Acid Green Skull socks continues. Hope to have this sock, off the needles soon. So many other things to do this time of year.

Brrr...Bundle up, and keep warm everyone.

Hope you all get to enjoy the long extended weekend that is coming soon!

Harvest Batts and Acid Skulls

The Harvest - a fluffy wool spinning batt of masham, merino, and sparkling grape angelina now listed at www.giffordables.etsy.com.

Shades of golden ochre, and bittersweet orange are topped off with a generous dusting of sparkling grape angelina.

Sparkling Grape

Merino, and corrie topped off with sparkling grape angelina. Would make a great companion batt to The Harvest. Whether you spun together or plied.

On the knitting front, I am currently working on a pr. of Skull socks in some of my handspun. Dyed an Acid Green - it is one of my favorite colors. I'm just about ready to start knitting the heel.

What a beautiful fall afternoon.

 Couldn't ask for a better day this time of year.

Hope you all take a little time to enjoy the day!

Frost is in the Air

There is a chill in the air today as fall winds down, and soon will turn to winter.

 I just finished drum carding up some Fall Harvest batts.  Will be listed in the www.giffordables.etsy.com shop soon.

Also just finished this handspun shawl. Should be warm and toasty to wear this winter.

Bundle up, and keep warm  for the rest of this cool fall day.

Jack and Woollies

Fall is in the air! Jack - The Pumpkin King is in shop at -www.giffordables.etsy.com along with a few other big and fluffy spinning batts.

Do you see - what I see?

There it is! A woolly caterpillar. Hmmm..... I'm checking the amount of black on this little fellow to check and see, just how long and hard the winter is going to be.

Looks to be about equal with the reddish brown.

What do you all think?

Won't be long, and we won't have to guess anymore.

 Winter will be upon us before we know it !

GLITTER PUMPKIN'S

Fall is Here!

Crazy busy day , but managed to card up some colorful "Glitter Pumpkins. Fluffy, and chock full of a variety of wools, black carbonized bamboo, alpaca, and topped with sparkly peacock angelina.

Just listed at http://giffordables.etsy.com/

Hope everyone took a moment to enjoy the day!

RAIN...RAIN..GO AWAY!

 The rain is really coming down, but just a few days ago, this pair of geese came up on my shore to munch on some creeping jenny. They spotted me and off they went.

                         
The Spice  - fluffy batts, gone before, I could list them for sale. But....

Spicy Apple is now available at http://www.giffordables.etsy.com/

Fluffy batts of Masham, corrie, llama, kid mohair, alpaca, and angelina.

Off to batten down the hatches!  It's really coming down, and it's hailing!

See you - all soon!