Author: Nikki

Sumptuousness from exotic places Hand dyed ArtYarns in all manner of animal fibres, Indian Mulberry silk yarns, Recycled SariSilk yarn and fibres, wooden needles, hooks and other treen, patterns, dyes and other accessories
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I’ll be teaching at Stitch and Craft 2011!

EEEKK! SQUEEEE!!! and other exclamations of joy.

I’ve been accepted to Teach “Space Dyeing with Kool-Aid” at Stitch and Craft 2011, held at Olympia 2 17th-20th March 2011.

Kool-Aid dyeing is incredibly easy and gives a dyer of any age almost instant gratification. Included in the class will be some colour theory, the technique for microwave space dyeing and a whole heap of fun!

I’ll be in Room 4 every day at 15:30 squirting Kool-Aid at some Wensleydale with a turkey baster (As it takes Kool-Aid Colour really really well!). Do come and join me!

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and relax….

Wow.

Sunday was just as much fun and hard work as the other three! Thank you so much to everyone that “Veni, vidi, emi” (came, saw, purchased) at our stand.

Tonight, I’m having a rest! Then tommorow I’ll be putting all the slips we collected into a big box, giving it a good shake and pulling the Prize Draw that we did for £40 of Yarn and/or Fibres.  After that, I’ll be taking some snaps of the stock we have left and putting them up on the site in the Retail section over the next few days.

As I said to people, what we have in the shop right now is a small selection of what the Mill can make.
So, if you saw something over the weekend that I’ve not currently got displayed, or you need something a little more specialist, just drop me an e-mail –  Enquiries@sarisilk.co.uk

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Nearly there!

Hi everyone one!

Just thought I’d jot you all a quick post, as it’s been a busy few days!

This is the first time I’ve actually had the chance to sit down (oo, what bliss is sitting!) and check my e-mails and all the other on-line nonsense that we all do day-to-day since pretty much since starting the set-up of the stand on Wednesday.

I’ve had the time to Twitter a couple of pictures, but we have been busy busy busy the whole way through!

It’s been both exhausting and up-lifting.
So far, me, my mum and my partner have met some fantastic people, from all cross sections of the fibre related crafting world.  I’ve learned more than I thought there was to know about the many different ways that people can use yarn and fibres! For instance, who’d have thought that Embroiderers would want our beautiful Kohinoor Yarn? But they do, as they can pick it apart and use the threads in their fine filling work!

So many people have come to just stroke the silk and have a natter. It’s given me a smile every time someone has had that silk-crunch “oooo” moment,  and chatting with people gives me ideas about them and what they would love to make…

We’ve also been given countless ideas about what yarns and other things we need to develop (Patterns! Sari Ribbon yarn!) and if you did come see us, I’d love you to leave us a feedback comment here! Especially about what colours you all really like…

So, wish us luck for the final day tomorrow, where we will have some end of show discounting, as you do!

See you there…

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So it begins… Fibres Exotica

It’s been a few months in the making, but I’m proud to announce that Fibres Exotica is open for business!

If you’ve read our about pages, you know that we are an Internet based company, however, for the last 3 months, we have also been working hard for our first commecial outing to really launch awareness and allow us to meet our customers and get feedback!

After all, who doesn’t like to get their hands on the yarn and give it a good ol’ fondle!!

So, as well as continually selling yarn from our website, we are also going to be at The Knitting and Stitching Show 2010 – Stand D16.

The Show gives us the chance for everyone to get their hands on our yarns by the 100g Skein rather than the Kilo as most yarns are sold via the website.

We will also have Wooden Needles, Buttons and other treen that is currently being developed by the artisans in India and will be sold from the website after the show.

We will also have a feedback form competition, as we’ed love to hear your opinions about what products we should be selling!

We’ll also be asking what UK shows and markets you would like us to attend, and hope that Knitting and Stitching 2010 will be the first of many for us!

So, see you there!

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It’s still all quiet around here…

I know, I promised everyone (including me!) a new workshop, and it just hasn’t happened.

Life got in the way of the DIY, the stock taking and photography and the website updating.

I also found out recently that one of my past Wordpress upgrades “broke” the version of  WP-Commerce I was using.

So, I’ve taken this little bout of  Insomnia to update *everything* to the latest versions, and you may have noticed a while back I put all the pictures back together with the products.

So, no, I haven’t dyed any new stuff recently (and oh-my-gosh am I missing the creativity of colour 🙁 ), but what I do have on show (including about 19Kg of Sari Silk that I shipped over for S’n’B day!) is still very much for sale, but now with a working shopping cart!

Enjoy!

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People have been getting creative!

I went ‘blog stalking the other day…

I found these Lovely Pretties:
Trippin Yarn’s Branching out in a Six Skein Special-Water. She is aiming for 26 repeats

Branching out in SSS-Water

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ginger Lucy knit herself an Ice Cream Hat in 100% Cashmere, dyed as Raspberries & Chocolate,

Cashemere Raspberries and Chocolate

 

 

 

 

 

and is saving her Fluorite purchase until after Xmas

fluorite+Raspberrieschoc

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cliff sent me a picture of the Mega Womb which is made from “Morello Cherries” in 100% Cheviot.

megawomb

 

 

 

 

 

Apparently, this is a cushion for his local pub! Being Cheviot, it is going to be very hardwearing, so just right for his Local… even if they have weird taste in soft furnishing!

My Mum, well, two from her
Parrot mango chutney

 

 

 

 

Mum loved the “Parrot” dyed Wensleydale, and has pretty much all of it into scarves trimmed with Elle Sensual, and then Mango Chutney Boucle as well! This yarn never actually made it to the Shop, because Mum liked it so much! I don’t know, parents eh 😉

It appears also that there is All this Lovelyness I didn’t even know was tagged with “Fluffenstuff”on Flickr!  If you have made stuff, and have a flickr, please do Tag it, and then I will know about it!

Look for this little lot to move to the Customer Gallery soon, and please do keep sending me pics or links to your Fluffenstuff FOs!

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Time to breathe…

Well, it’s all over.

S’n’B day that is!

Fluffenstuff however, is most certainly here to stay!
The show was a resounding, if very very tiring sucess. It was lovely to meet so many enthusiastic knitters, crochetters, spinners felters (As I shared my Stall with Ann, over at FibreLust). Please do keep in touch, and remember to e-mail me which what you make from your Fluffenstuff. 🙂

Look for frantic shelf filling over the next few evening, when I get to take photography of all the yarn I now have to sell!

I have to get dyeing again as well, the Six Skein Specials proved very popular indeed, All of the Water & Aether sold, 4 of Metal and 3 each of Fire and Earth. Only Poor Air didn’t sell any at all, but then, I suspect it is the wrong time of year for Pale blue… Still, I think I’ll have a couple of days rest before I get the dyepot out again.

I so need to dye up some more Cashmere as well… Lots of Lookers and touchers, but obviously my taste for what it told me to dye it didn’t suit everyone elses tastes, so do give me ideas, I just love to custom dye! 🙂