Hey everyone!! It's been a little while since I have last posted anything! I hope you all are doing well!
Ok, so this post is about going more back to when I first started my business, 8 years ago. If you would like to read about how I got started, you can do so>> here. But basically I began my journey of spinning and weaving after we bought 4 alpacas back in 2007. We couldn't let there beautiful fiber go to waste! With that being said, I learned to spin and weave and put their fiber to good use! As time went on, I began experimenting with other exotic (yet still natural) fibers...I fell in love with the process of carding, spinning and dyeing fibers, then taking the yarn and weaving it into a finished product. There was always excitement within me of what I was going to create next. Or what fiber I was going to use. All the way down to the patterns and colors! I thought it was the coolest thing to be able to take the raw fiber from an animal - Alpaca, llama, yak, sheep, goat, or whatever, then turn it into something beautiful. The process was so fascinating to me!
As the years went on, that love I had for the spinning and dyeing slowly began to slip away. I would still do it here and there, but would spend my time weaving from yarns that I had bought and use mostly just cotton. The handspun alpaca/llama/mohair/yak and other exotic fibers, that I had used so much in the previous years, slowly began to disappear out of my stash of yarns...My days were just spent weaving dish towels upon dish towels. Don't get me wrong, I love weaving dish towels! Many orders were coming in for them too! Which is all great! But it was like I was stuck in this "Rut" of just weaving towels and nothing else. That process of starting with the raw fiber from an animal, then turning into an end product, had slowly started to slip away from me, almost to where it was no where to be found anymore...
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Just a couple of weeks ago, I decided to pick it all back up again! Bags of raw fiber are still stored away in attic (which have been there for years), so I decided start spinning again! The love I once had, slowly started to come back. Alpaca on the spinning wheel, a handspun scarf made from bamboo/alapca/merino wool, is found on the loom, and a million ideas of what to create began flying back through my head!
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I've decided to incorporate all that back into my business once more. Not only do I want to use exotic fibers again, but I want to crochet cowls, hats and different things from my handspun yarn too! I also want to experiment with natural dyes - Using plants, flowers, anything found on this earth. In the coming months, look for more fiber oriented products, hopefully some new things, and a whole lot of experimenting.
But don't worry, those dish towels everybody loves? Those aren't going to be forgotten, I'll still be making lots of those! I just need to make some changes and as always, continue to find new ways in growing my business, and be the best at what I love and going back to where I started 8 years ago...
I hope you all have an AmAzInG Friday!!! Enjoy the beautiful sunshine!
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