Collages, at Last!

I have been trying and trying to figure out how to make photo collages for here, Ravelry and Facebook.  Finally got a tip from a friend on Ravelry about Photobucket.  Photobucket is the ticket for sure and it's FREE.  You will be not be disappointed. 

Here you are seeing my hand-painted rovings of Gelatos and Heathers that I have done so far for Cordova Studios.  The heathers are dyed on corriedale/merino morrit (taupe) rovings I bought at the Kid 'n Ewe last November.  The Gelatos are dyed on lofty, dreamily soft superwash merino.  I am striving for paler, softer colors for summer.  What do you think?  Paler?  Too pale?

Oh, I have not figured out how to center this on the blog yet.

Etsy YART sale June 10-14

ETSY YART SALE:  FREE SHIPPING  on orders over $15.  Check out my  YART SALE section for special bargains  June 10-14.

I will be posting additional items each day.  Here are a few that are available NOW.

The “2nd Annual Yart Sale” is being held from Wednesday June 10th-Sunday June 14th, 2009.  A “Yart Sale” is an artistic spin on the traditional Yard Sale: Art + Yard Sale = “Yart Sale”. There are many art museums, artists, and groups that have Yart sales annually 


I am recovering today from having an ancient wisdom tooth extracted yesterday and am a wee bit creatively impaired with pain killers.  More tomorrow when lucidity returns.  Meanwhile, go shopping!

Busy little dye person here

 Well, I got my dye pots set up last week, started grabbing rovings, handspuns, and loose locks from down in the studio and started experimenting. 

(Cleo and Trinket were chillin'.) The rovings will go up on Etsy as the Botanical Collection and the yarns as the Tuscany Group.  No inspirations on names for locks yet. 

The rovings are all Blue-faced Leiscester. 

Handspuns are a range of churro,lincoln, and corriedale wool. Each took dyes in a bit different way.  I would take them and use them all in a shawl 

much like the Toasty Browns Shawl at http://cordovastudios.etsy.com.  The textures would be delicious!