Mandacraft's Samples for round 15

Here is a quick peek of some of the fibres from MandaCrafts which have gone in round 15 fibre bags!


BFL/Tussah in shamrock and little bags of soy in Berry Berry Nice.

Batty Batts for lots of texture in five different colourways.

Round 15 is approaching fast...

A sneak peak of the samples I'm sending in this time. There's some naturally dyed Merino, I do all my natural dyeing using raw plant material I gather from around my home in the Welsh hills, with the onset of autumn I've put away the dyeing equipment until spring brings some fresh dye material, but the full size versions of most of these are still available in my shop. There's also mini samples of my handblended roving, and some pick n' mix batts.

I know we've got lots of new contributors this time round, so I'm sure it's going to be a fantastic box!

ColourfulDesigns for Round 14

Unfortunately in the summer holiday chaos I didn't do any dyeing for this round, but you might be lucky enough to get some of my yarn that didn't make it into bags last round.
I am still offering 10% off all orders of fibre and yarn from my shop when you use the discount code on your fibreholics invoice.

So don't forget to pull the invoice off the front of your parcel before deposing of the bag!

I'm now stocking the lovely MattyMouse Makes Spindles, as well as my usual fibres and yarns.
So visit me at

ColourfulDesigns.co.uk

My Heart Exposed Yarns (round 14)

My two beautiful daughters Angelica, Imogen and I felt quite emotional making the natural dyes for the round 14 samples last month, picking various things from the garden to use and setting the dye vats on their way to transform into beautiful colours for you in the garden. Collecting the rain water to use for the painting was easy because for the first two weeks in August here in the north east, it didnt stop raining, we even had thunderstorms and brilliant clashes of lightening.

The hand painted samples pictured above are the last ones we can ever produce from our own plants here in the north east region of the UK because in just three weeks our family is moving to the south east, over 320 miles away and the new garden is completely bare of all vegetation so we'll be starting again almost from scratch. We are taking cuttings of our favourite dye plants in the hope these will continue to thrive but for now here are a couple of photos showing just a few of the special ingredients we used to make your Fibreholics sample :

As with all our fibres, each one has a purple ribbon with small silver heart charm attached as a little keepsake thank you from us for choosing our fibres, each one is individually wrapped in clear plastic wrap so you dont need to unwrap your fibre until you want to use it (unless your like me and cant stop stroking them that is).

There are four sets of colours in this round, I cant wait to see your photographs to see which one arrives in your samples collection.

For those of you living within travelling distance of sunny Kent, we will be hosting a meet up afternoon at some point just after Christmas, it would be very lovely to put a face to your name so if you can make it over to meet the MHE family that would be fantastic, make sure you join our ravelry group MHE Friends Group to keep a look out for the announcement early in the new year, I also post regular discount codes there so keep an eye on the discount message thread too.

Al our love,

Helen, Angelica and Imogen

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The Next Round

I'm a new contributor for this round of Fibreholics and I'm just bagging up my fibres to send up to Carol so I thought I'd show you a sneak peek of what might be in your bag for the next round. I specialise in blends of fibres, some I blend on a hackle to make a length of roving that's really nice to spin because drafting is so easy. I also make batts, some in 100g lots, but I also do a merino, shetland, nylon blend (would be great as fibre for socks but could be for other things) in 35g batts to make 3 ply yarn with a different colour as each ply.

So here's what's going in-



Some smaller samples of rovings I've blended recently, some smaller batts, a couple of chunks of naturally dyed fibre, and some mini versions of my pick n' mix batts. The next round is due to go on sale at the start of September.
If you want to take a closer look, and see if you can work out what you might be getting then you can take a look at my shop here-
http://www.etsy.com/shop/hilltopcloud

More bags gone to Europe!

2 bags of yarn have just been sent to Norway!

Its lovely to think that there are people out there that are interested in what us British Indie dyers are doing.

Round 13

Well, there it was gone!

This round sold 40 bags in less than 24 hours - not bad going really. Some of these have gone to various places in Europe including Denmark, Germany, Italy, France, The Netherlands plus all over the UK and many were new to Fibreholics.

We only had petite fibre and yarn and really need to encourage more people to send in samples as there is definitely a requirement for bags of yarn and fluff!!

We have already discussed whether or not labour intensive mini skeins win over balls - not sure it really matters either way just as long as we get the samples in!!

Do you know of anyone who would be interested? The added bonus is that you get paid for every sample sold on top of getting your samples out to a wider audience.

Just a teaser, these are what have gone out in the fibre bags from MandaCrafts. Hoping to get an update done for the Etsy shop later today, which will include among other fibres some of the BFL humbug. Don't forget if you buy a fibre bag and would like to buy some more fibre, use your discount code for this round to get 10% off any fibres from MandaCrafts Etsy shop!

July Round Update from ColourfulDesigns

Yarn contribution for this round is DK weight SW Merino.
Colourways (from Left->right) 'Vampire', 'Twightlight', 'New Moon' and 'Forest'.
These don't quite meet the 'ice cream flavours' theme for this round, but you like variety right?

10% discount for all yarn and fibre orders including the discount code you will find on your fibreholics invoice.

These yarns will be in stock in a couple of days time, at £8/100grams for a limited time (you get your discount off that, so £7.20 with the code).

I will have fibre for next next round, feel free to contact me through my website, ColourfulDesigns.co.uk or message me on Ravelry as NinjaBex if you have anything you'd like to see fibre wise in the next fibreholics bags!

July Round Update from ColourfulDesigns

Yarn contribution for this round is DK weight SW Merino. Colourways (from Left->right) 'Vampire', 'Twightlight', 'New Moon' and 'Forest'.
These don't quite meet the 'ice cream flavours' theme for this round, but you like variety right?

10% discount for all yarn and fibre orders including the discount code you will find on your fibreholics invoice.

These yarns will be in stock in a couple of days time, at £8/100grams for a limited time (you get your discount off that, so £7.20 with the code).

I will have fibre for next next round, feel free to contact me through my website, ColourfulDesigns.co.uk or message me on Ravelry as NinjaBex if you have anything you'd like to see fibre wise in the next fibreholics bags!

NEXT ROUND

Just to let everyone know that there will be a slight delay in the start of this next round - why? because it appears that the postman wants to keep all the parcel for himself (I suspect a closet knitter!) Since they closed the little sorting office at the back of the local PO and moved it to the nearest larger version things have never been right! One round I actually went and collected 17 bags from there - and no I didn't have a little red slip as they hadn't even attempted to deliver any of them.

So! The round will hopefully go live on the 7th of July but will keep everything updated re the release date!

Sent off this week....

This little lot went off down to Carol this week; I managed to get it all repackaged and sorted the day after Woolfest.

If you look carefully in the top left corner, there is a small cat under all that - he was determined not to move as the packets built up behind me.

NEXT ROUND

The date for the next round is July 1st - my birthday!!! easy to remember.

This round has a general theme of ice - cream flavours so there could be any range of colours in there.

If you haven't got your name on the mailing list (this gives you prior notice that the round is going live) then visit the Fibreholics Uk website.

Round 10 Spoilers from MandaCrafts

Round 10 Spoiler from MandaCrafts

This time there is a mix of wool and soybean samples in there!

So, Falklands wool top in ‘Passion for Purple’

and Soy tops in ‘Flame’

I’ll make sure to list some of each on Etsy for the 1st February. If you are interested you’ll have to be quick though, as I’m going to be away, so the shop will close on the 4th and re-open on the 21st. As usual there will be 10% discount on fibre orders whenever the shop is open in February, just put your Fibreholics code in the message box.