Miss Babs Blog

Babs

I have been holding onto this fiber for a while...some of it sold, but it was a slow seller. Its name was Jester. It sort of reminded me of a Jester in the old courts. Red and gold, with a bit of purple and some green. All colors that could have been achieved using natural dyes. Well I finally spun the piece of it that was left (and I do have a bit more) and this is what I got. This will be another spin and knit along shawl that... Read More

Happy Holidays!!

Babs

Thanksgiving weekend...Gosh I love the slowness of the Thanksgiving weekend. No one is here working, except for me. I like having some quiet time to do work in my studio. Often, we are just on the crazy end of busy, and it is nice to have a slower pace. It gives me time to ponder and wander through my brain looking for colors I have seen in the past year. The travels to other parts of the country have been good because I get to see other landscapes and colors.... Read More

New York Colorway in Handspun

Babs

This is a picture of some wonderful handspun using the New York colorway. The fiber is BFL (blue face leicester.) Really nice job!! This customer suggested that I change the name of the colorway to Lothlorien's Cloak to reflect how much it would be appropriate for a Lord of the Rings cloak. Read More

Next Year's Shows and Plans

Babs

The shows this year were good for me and I am planning to do a busy show schedule for next year. I will be doing 3 of the Stitches events - West, South, and Midwest. I hope to do Maryland Sheep and Wool...keep your fingers crossed for me!! Then the Sock Summit in Portland, OR and SAFF. I am also applying to New York Sheep and Wool - so we'll see!! I hope to add some patterns for socks this year, along with having samples of more sweaters and other... Read More

Getting Ready for Winter, Stitches East, and Ramblings

Babs

11-14-08 Today is a warm day, so it is hard to think of snow coming sometime soon, or that Thanksgiving is 2 weeks away, or that Stitches West is 3 months away and I have a lot of work to do between now and then!! But I am looking forward to some downtime in front of the wood stove with my spinning wheel and my knitting needles. On the needles right now is a sock in the Lilacs monochrome using my Waterfall sock pattern. Hopefully, I will get 2 socks... Read More

Cleopatra Colorway

Babs

This post was on my front page and I need to change that for some new information, so I thought I would transfer it here to my blog. Knit Scene has recently honored me with a yarn review in their Fall 2008 issue. The colorway reviewed is Cleopatra. This issue is loaded with great patterns. Check it out! Above is a picture of a shawl that I have started knitting with the 2-ply. And here is a sock in the same colorway! You can view the Cleopatra colorway in either... Read More

Heading to Norman, OK

Babs

Retreat and Workshop We (Jen - who works with me - and I) will be heading to Norman, Oklahoma this week for a dye workshop/retreat with friends and customers of LB Yarn Co. We will be staying at the Tatanka Ranch which looks very nice and comfortable. I expect that on the way we may seem some rain residual from Hurricane Gustav. Maybe? Hopefully not too much devastation will occur and folks can be back home by then. The workshop/retreat includes good food and making new friends, plus having fun... Read More

Sinderella's Socks!! are Here.....

Babs

If she could have worn socks with her glass slippers, these would have been them :o) !! Just a little sassy and very sharp under that gown of satin! Read More

New Idea for a Yarn Club - A Dyer's Co-op

Babs

I am joining with 5 other indie dyers to create the Color Co-Op, a yarn club that starts in November! Here's what the bit on Ravelry says: A multi-dyer club called The Color Co-op. Six dyers: The Unique Sheep, Sanguine Gryphon, Macek Designs, Mama Llama, Miss Babs, and Tactile Fiber Arts dye yarn inspired by the same piece of visual art. Each month club members will receive a yarn from one of the dyers. After 6 months, you will have received a yarn from each dyer and the cycle starts... Read More

Packed and Almost Ready to Go!!! Chicago or Bust!!

Babs

We finished packing the yarn, the fiber, all of the booth "stuff". Now we gotta pack ourselves. We're taking two days to travel north and west...it's only 700 miles, but when you are pulling a trailer it is more work and you go slower than you do (at least I do) than when I am traveling without an attachment on the back!! Hopefully taking our time this will give us a little time to rest up before we get to the show. Who's coming?? Well Jen who works with me,... Read More

Show Preparations...Getting Ready to Go....

Babs

We have been busy dyeing and reskeining and labeling and just generally in the last throes of heading to a show. Here's some of the yarn we will be bringing to the show. and more yarn: and some fiber: I have been trying to figure out how to deal with the fact that we are taking "everything" to the show, and whether to "zero" all quantities available to buy on the website as they may be gone by the end of the show. I don't have a separate inventory for... Read More

French Marigolds....

Babs

I absolutely adore Marigolds. I love their smell, their audacious colors, they are wonderful in the dyepot. They have many positives and no negatives, as far as I am concerned. Jennifer was standing at the door of the studio yesterday and noticed the marigolds in bloom and she thought a picture of the marigolds with our new monochrome "French Marigold" would look good. And by the way, the daylilies are in bloom!! Pictures of those to follow in the next few days!! We are busy getting ready for the show... Read More