Roll on 2010!

Hello again! Hope you all had a great Christmas time and are getting ready for the new year! As I am still in Switzerland and without my spinning wheel, there clearly hasn't been much crafting going on. I found my watercolour paints again though and have been playing around with them a bit...

Well, the new year already seems to be busy and all planned out, but eventually I shall be back with more yarns than ever. Also, I may be selling some hand carded batts in my etsy shop for a very limited time - more on that later. :)

Enjoy the last few hours of 2009! It was a good year. :D

Graffiti

A beautiful graffiti I saw the other day in Wuppertal in Germany. Of course I also checked out the local yarn shop... Lang, Rowan and Noro yarns were all there, nicely lined up. :)

Having fun in Germany

My blog absence has a valid reason and good excuse (or so I think): I am currently in Germany! I spent the last two weeks in a little town in the East of Germany for business reasons. On a little trip I stumbled over this old police car, which can now just be booked for parties and such, an interesting end to a police car...

And look at this cool-looking bar of chocolate (with peanuts), I had to get a few of them, and they're actually not all that bad. But I really did mainly buy them for their oh so basic graphic design. ;)

Moved in but still not really here

Hey! I feel terrible for having neglected this blog, but the truth is, I still don't have Internet in the new house. In the meantime I have started the new job and they are sending me abroad for 2 weeks - and where else than Germany! Isn't life funny? My etsy shop is in vacation mode during this time but I do hope to be able to reopen after I get back with lots of new items.

In other exciting fibre-y news I am now the proud owner of an Ashford drumcarder and I have been using it lots already. It's great fun and so much easier and faster to use than my hand carders. More news on all of these things once I get back.... just before going home for Christmas.... well, at the latest, see you in the new year. :P

V

Moving

Hey there, just a really quick update that I will be moving tomorrow morning! Everything is packed and we are ready to go. If all works out I will arrive in the UK on Sunday and will hopefully get settled reasonably soon. The Etsy shop is also currently closed but will reopen once I can get to all my yarns again and I changed the shipping. :)

All the best,
Veronika

Please vote on the Etsy voter!

One of my yarns has been nominated to be in an etsy vote with the topic of handspun yarns. Of course I would absolutely love it if you took a peek over there as well and perhaps voted for my 'mistress yarn', or whatever else is your favourite. There are lots of pretty yarns to look at on there. :)

http://www.etsy.com/voter_list.php?ref=voter&room_id=68

Thanks!

Mulberry silk yarn

I meant to show off these silks ages ago! Pretty recently I was lucky enough to get a small box of finely spun, pure Mulberry silk lace yarns into my possession. They will eventually be dyed (I am guessing once I get back to the UK) and will be so perfect for lace projects! I will definitely have to keep at least some of it to work on a pretty shawl or something similar. :D

Additionally I just ordered more sock yarn in my 'normal' fibre base as well as a 100% Superwash Merino fingering weight yarn, which would work for socks, but would also be ideal for other projects (As usual, I am thinking lace again). All of these fibres will move with me to the UK in now less than two weeks!

Just one more week at my job as well, so this is really the time to get nervous. Having said that, I am surpirisingly calm, after I realised that packing shouldn't take me all that long I am actually just really looking forward to my move and to getting slightly more settled. :)