By Benita, on May 18th, 2012
If you are going to be at the Kentucky Sheep & Wool Festival this weekend and you love spinning your own yarn, make sure you stop by and check out what we have for sale. On top of the lovely, multi-colored batts, we have some equally lovely natural colored processed fleeces for sale.
Come by and feel free to fondle it. If you like what you feel, we will be glad to weigh out exactly what you need – no having to buy it in 4 or 6 ounce bags. As you can tell, we have lots of different colors and degrees of fineness available, but I will warn you – that Cormo is going to go fast. It is wonderfully soft. Also, the Corriedale fiber from Carmel – as yummy as its name and Ashley is just as sweet.
By Benita, on May 17th, 2012
The new Dyed in the Wool banner finally was finished this week. Getting the silly thing designed was the easy part – getting it installed into a banner base with a broken internal part was not so easy. Still, here it is!
At 86″ tall, it ought to be seen easily above the shelves and clothes racks – At least Dye-Anna should be.
I am so psyched about this weekend! It is going to be lots of fun.
By Benita, on May 16th, 2012
Sandy and I will have these handy-dandy shopping baskets available for you to use in our booth at the Kentucky Sheep & Fiber Festival this weekend. Aren’t they awesome?
By Benita, on May 15th, 2012
Sandy and I are down to the last few items to finish before we head to Lexington for the Kentucky Sheep & Fiber Festival on Friday. The lists we start out with at the beginning of each day are quite long, but surely and slowly, items are getting marked off. With the tie-dyed stuff all completed and packed, we are concentrating on the spinning fiber we are taking.
Right now, besides the bags of batts we have, we have 10 washed and prepared fleeces we are taking to sell off ounce by ounce (or pound by pound). One of the fleeces we are selling is from the 2010 Indiana State Fair Reserve Champion sheep, a Cormo named Monty. Others include four different Corriedales (all different colors), a Romney, two Lincoln/Suffolk crosses, a deep, black Fresian and a few other crosses – Really nice stuff!
So, if you are planning to come to the festival this weekend, please be sure to look us up. Also, while supplies last, we have a special goodie for those who come by on Sunday and wish Sandy a Happy 60th Birthday.
By Benita, on February 21st, 2012
Lady of the Loom has a wonderful review of the Fiber Binder Club on her site! Check it out. Remember, if you want to join, you’ll start with Month 1 so you won’t miss out on any of the lovely fibers that are a part of the club membership. Just email us at dyedinthewoolbiz@yahoo.com to get started.
By Benita, on February 20th, 2012
The fleece for Month 15 of the Fiber Binder Club is from a sheep who was not coated, and even after washing the fleece, it still needed some cleaning because of all the vegetation and tips full of grass and hay bits.
There is no way Sandy and I would let this go out to our members as it is, so, we sat ourselves down to cleaning the fleece more. Here is how we have discovered to be the easiest and fastest way to do this. First, you will need a set of hand cards.
By using the cards to pull out any vegetation, opening the tips and making the fiber much easier to run through the drum carder, this is a much less onerous job than it needs to be.
After just one pass, you can see a huge difference. A couple more swipes through the carder and the fiber is ready to make into batts.
And what a hugh difference this will make to those receiving this fleece next month. Nice, clean and fluffy – just like we want it to be.
And look what is being left behind. We were constantly having to clean our cards, but these are tools to make nice clean fiber and they can be cleaned up nice as new. And added bonus is the removal of any second cuts.
And the work area needs cleaning, too. You should have seen how dirty this area was when we stopped for the day. We still have about 6-7 hours of cleaning to go, but that will have to wait until after the retreat this weekend.
It is very important to Sandy and I that we send out nice fiber for our Fiber Binder Club members to test. We are constantly on the lookout for nice, coated fleeces to make this job easier, but not all breeds are coated, especially those who are raised mostly for meat, as Month 15′s sheep breed is. But just because the breed s mostly a meat sheep, that doesn’t mean they don’t have a nice fiber to spin and use.
By Benita, on December 2nd, 2011
It is official! Dyed in the Wool has been accepted as a vendor at the Kentucky Sheep and Fiber Festival scheduled for May 19-20, 2012!!! This is our first time being a vendor at a big fiber show and I am so happy I could run circles around my dye pots.
Sandy and I will have lots of tie-dyed items available along with fiber humor cartoon shirts, spinning fibers and batts, naturally dyed yarns of every weight and color imaginable. We also have many, many other hand-created items on our list that will be for sale then as well.
So, if you are planning to come to Kentucky Sheep and Fiber Festival next May, please stop by and say hello. We’d love to see you – and if you decide to purchase something from our booth, that would be awesome, too.
Benita
By Benita, on December 1st, 2011
Okay, now that December is here, I don’t feel guilty talking about holiday gift giving. Just think how that special person on your list would love tie dyed clothing and accessories. Think about socks, tote bags, shirts, pony-tail holders, text book covers and shoe laces just to start this list.
And for the knitter or crocheter on your list there are naturally dyed yarns in several weights and colors. The sock yarns are a merino/nylon blend that are soft, soft, soft!
And, of course, for the spinner or student of natural fibers, the is the Fiber Binder Club. Really, any spinner would love to become a member of this club just to test and play with fibers from different breeds of sheep and goats, as well as silk, cotton, flax, llama, alpaca, angora, etc. This list will continue as long as there is fiber not yet explored that we can get ahold of.
And there are gift certificates available if you don’t know what to get. How easy can that get for you? Especially that now since winter is here, Sandy and I are going to be spending lots of time dyeing more yarn and spinning fibers and adding them to the store.
So, make a loved one happy and add some “fiber” into their life for the holidays.
Happy Holidays!
Benita
By Benita, on November 8th, 2011
For those people who have been with the Fiber Binder Club from the beginning, you have something really special coming next month (December). No, we are not going to tell you what it is, but we will say that it is something that we are very excited to send to you. It is something that we have had waiting on the sidelines for just this time.
As we begin our new year of the Fiber Binder Club, we have lots of fleeces and other natural fibers all lined up for your spinning and educational pleasure. If there are any special requests from you, the members, though, please feel free to contact us at dyedinthewoolbiz@yahoo.com and let us know. The Shetland that was Month 10′s selection was a special request, for example. This club is for you, so let us know what you like about it and what you want to sample. We will do our best to meet those requests.
Also, if you know of a fiber animal breeder with award winning fleeces for sale, please pass them our way. The more we have, the more we can share.
Oh, yes! Remember, the Fiber Binder Club would make an awesome Christmas gift for the fiber enthusiasts in your life. An entire year’s subscription is $110 and that means the 12th month is free. If you want to do it on a monthly payment plan, the cost is only $10 per month.
By Benita, on September 19th, 2011
We know it seems a bit early to be thinking about Christmas gifts, but you know that the holidays will be here before we know it. If you are thinking about something unusal and unique to give, think about tie-dyed articles. We pride ourselves on being able to tie-dye anything made of at least 80% cotton (100% is best for obvious reasons), so if you don’t see anything on the site that is what you want, please contact us at dyedinthewoolbiz@yahoo.com for special requests.
Some of the Tie-Dyed things already on here (but can be custom ordered as well if you don’t see colors or patterns you like) include:
Tie-Dyed Shoe Laces
Tie-Dyed Text Book Covers
Tie-Dyed Socks
Tie-Dyed Baby Onsies
Tie-Dyed Baby Burp Cloths
Tie-Dyed fabric for quilting or other projects
Tie-Dyed Scrunchies
Tie-Dyed Aprons
Tie-Dyed T-shirts
Tie-Dyed Tank Tops
Tie-Dyed Hats
Tie-Dyed Tote Bags
Tie-Dyed Purses
Tie-Dyed Underwear
So, put your thinking caps on, challenge us to tie-dyeing new items, and keep an eye out on this site for new items that will be coming. We are thinking about adding sports bras and boxer shorts to the mix, too!
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