Felted Sweater Bits

I’m prepping felted sweater peices to go into the shop. These will be sold by the POUND, in a random assortment, and will come in three sizes, Large (backs), medium (sleeve sized), and small (scraps). Going price is $15 a pound, with $5 shipping. I’ve got about fiveish pounds ready to go, I just need to find a decent camera.

Another update

All old stock has been moved over to the new shop, and now I get to play with new stock. There is a new roving, though, that I found in the bottom of the shop storage bin. Its a pretty green and black falklands roving named Radioactive.

In new news, I think im getting a cold. Terrific.

Swing!

No, not the dirty one. I got a hammock chair! And put it INSIDE. So I can lounge in the living room in my fancy pants hammock chair. The cat loves it way too much, and keeps falling off it. Smooth, Trig.

I nearly killed myself riding today. Note to self: Don’t go riding in 100 degree heat with no water and having eaten nothing all day. You will have a heatstroke and walk into a fence. Smooth, no?

Theres some stuff in the shop, and I am working on recycling some Black Merino Laceweight. Anyone interested? Just leave a comment. Its going to be around $8 per skein plus shipping..depends on what yardage I end up getting. Recycled yarn will almost always have knots, but because this is lace I am trying to keep it to two knots per skein or less.

Trigger-Happy Fibers

Just so you all know, the new shop is located here.  Thinks are going to start going up at 10pm est tonight, and continue all night until I get all current photographed stock up.

There should be a new camera in two weeks! Squee!

Plurk!

…Yep. Plurk got me. Blame Knitterboy76 for finally getting me to try it. Anyway, I am MissAndy on there, so friend me!

Today its sweater processing day. Theres 15 in the lineup, I am going to try to get three done. Then, I am going to start listing fleece batts, mini art batts, the last of the roving from the old shop, and the last of the handspun yarn from the old shop to the new shop. Then, I’ll start listing recycled yarn and THEN I’ll post about it here.  I am quite excited, actually, even if my camera takes horrible pictures.

I hope everyone had a happy and safe 4th of July last night!

Recycling

So, I recycle. A lot. I love it. My family of three used to have four (!!!) full sized cans of trash a week. We are down to ONE. Glass and plastic bottles along with anything cardboard hit the recycling bin. Cans are crushing and go to a friend who saves up pounds and pounds of them and takes them down to the recycling center for some extra spending money. Plant matter goes into the compost bin, which is a plastic bin I had laying around. Unfortunetly, the elements are destroying it, so I am on the look out for a larger bin and a large, water tight container for rain water and water from washing yarn/fleece/fluff.

So, it stands to reason that a large portion of the new shop is going to be recycled yarn. Face it, this is Florida. People move here every day and dump off old sweaters, knowing that they wont ever be needed again. I go and buy them, take them apart, and give them new life. If a sweater is an animal fiber and isnt made in a way that allows it to be frogged, its felted. Everything is skeined, washed, sorted, measured, labeled, photographed…its a big job but I like it because I know im keeping sweaters out of the scrap bin.

So tell me, single reader, what kind of yarn would you like me to hunt for?

In other shop news, the first set of Cotswold/Romney fleece batts are almost done. Just need to bag and label. I don’t like using plastic bags, but without them the batt would get shreaded and mangled and felted during shipping, and thats no good! At least the paper is printed on paper that my mum would ordinarily throw out, and the occasional set of stationary I find at the thrift.

Trigger-kitten is at his grandparents house for the night, so I can frog in peace without him stalking dangling sweater bits. Hurrah!

Shop Update

As always, I am branching out! I am moving into recycled yarns (and naturally, that also means felted bits down the road). But first! Theres some spinning fiber still in the shop.

These are all on sale PLUS free shipping.

 

Now, theres also a ton of recycled yarn up in the shop.  It is all listed in single skeins, but if you want to buy multiple skeins, tell me and I can combine them into one lot and slap a little discount on there.

 

There are also some art batts on there. Fleece batts are coming, as is more recycled yarn and felted bits.  Watch the blog!

A meme

I totally stole this from Knitterboy76.

What is your first name? Ashley
What is your favorite food? But ima go with Chicken Alfredo.
What high school did you go to? Loudon Valley High School
What is your favorite color? Lime Green
Who is your celebrity crush? Uhhh..I dunno. I am a huge nerd for Paul from Cash in the Attic.
Favorite drink? Orange crush.
Dream vacation? Russia.
Favorite dessert? I don’t each much dessert. Lets go with..Fudge.
What do you want to be when you grow up? Secret Agent! No, really, I want to be a farmer.
What do you love most in life? Being alive, and God.
One word to describe you? Crazy.
Your flickr name? Blinkingupsideup

1. Ashley River Memorial Bridge, 2. Gemelli Alfredo with Prosciutto and Balsamic Glazed Chicken (Adam’s Choice), 3. MortarToss, 4. Lime Green Window Shutter, Red Flowers and a Rail, 5. Cash In The Attic!, 6. cap on yellow, 7. Desde Rusia… con amor, 8. Dark Chocolate Fudge, 9. farmer, kasba, 10. my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me, 11. It made me crazy!!, 12. Every blink of an eye is a new moment…

Heads Up

Im going to be redoing the blog AND the etsy shop here over the next few days, so there is going to be major construction!

Political Rant

Yes this is a craft blog. But there are some things that have really, really been bothering me as of late, and I am going to get them off my chest. Feel free to not read if you want.

In my personal, rather uneducated opinion, the world is going to hell. Quickly.

The first thing I dont thing people understand is the stock market. Yes, its a great way to keep an eye on the economy. Yep, you sure can make (or lose) a whole lot of money on it! But, in the end, its fake. We made it up. If we wanted to, we could just turn off our computers, not call our stock brokers, and it wouldn’t exist anymore. It would be gone, just like that. And, if we wanted to, the next day we could sit down and build a whole new one! Just like that.

The food crisis that everyone is panicing about? I have seen more people upset because its costing them more money, not because we are short on food. As americans, we a lucky. We can afford to suck the food out of countries without stock markets. Countries who worry more about food because they eat it, not invest in it. Once food is gone, its gone. We can’t snap our fingers and magically have new food stock our grocery shelves. People will starve. And yet, people will still bitch about the economy instead.

As everyone, whether they care or not, knows, Miley Cyrus posed semi nude in a magazine. Kay. Who cares? Kids younger than her every day get pregnant. Does anyone care about them? Doesn’t seem like it. “But she is a role model!” They yell. More like she has billions of dollars. If you want your kids to be raised right, turn off the damn tv and hand them a book. Or, better yet, throw them outside. “But they might get hurt/kidnapped/raped!” Actually, crime rates are down. And kids get hurt. Its a fact of life. I had toys when I was little that were very, very dangerous and I didn’t die. I was outside playing in the storm drains when I was seven years old, and I turned out just fine.

Can we have a little less Britney Spears going psycho and a little more millions of people being slaughtered in Africa on the news, please? Then maybe people might try to help. I mean, we “helped” the iraqi people, didn’t we? Yep, helped them to death even when they didn’t want it. But Darfur has no oil…so we don’t help.

Maybe if people got a  bus pass or got up off their butts a little more, we wouldn’t need so much oil. Just an idea. (Of course, I’m guilty of driving too much.)

I saw a comment that to get anything done oil wise, we had to get the environmentalists to shut up. I apologize for caring about having nature. And, you know, oxygen. And water, cause I like to have something to drink. You can go sit in your little concreate smog filled box, but I am just fine out here, thankyouverymuch.

I refuse to eat cloned/dna altered/scientifically screwed with food. I like my pork chops with fat, because I will get on my bike and burn the fat off. The fat isn’t a part of me forever. I do not want you to grow a pig with no fat. Go spend the ten million dollar grant on producing extra pigs, instead, so more people can afford to eat them.

I want to see anti-drinking laws passed. Smoking a cigarette has never caused someone to drive all over the road and run over a child. Smoking a cigarette has never caused someone to think its ok to rape a passed out girl. You are more likely to get lung cancer from living near a highway than second hand smoke. If I choose to smoke, that is my choice. It is legal. I am a minority. If people tried to do this to another minority, there would be uproar. Yes, it may kill me, but I didn’t plan on being immortal anyway. And I pay for my own health care.

You can’t have my DNA for a nationwide DNA bank. I did nothing wrong. Its mine, I own it, You cannot have it.  For that matter, I refuse to have some sort of smart chip injected into me. I am not your pet monkey, you don’t need to watch me all the time.

And, I want to dump pigs blood on PETA before I die. That and go on Deadliest Catch