Rain Rain Go Away

This is hand combed top. The left is white Alpaca, the right is a brown/gold icelandic cross top.

These "nests" are made from dyed New Zealand wool. I used fermented apple leaves and ammonia to get the soft mossy green color.

This was the biggest surprise of all. I used needles from what I thought was a pine

from along the side of the road. I dyed inexpensive merino batting. I lost about 50% of the bulk to NNVM. The remainig slate blue merino top is breath taking (IMHO)

My plots have been tilled and I'm ready to form the beds. Where should I be right now? Where else, in the garden. Unfortunately, the garden is mud, and its been raining for 3 days. The gentle saturating rain that encourages growth (and is now supporting the weed population). So, I'm watching through the window. At least the seed starts are under way.

My wonderful new comb and hackle set arrived. I'd started natural dying a year ago, and had some fiber that I'd dyed but had been unable to work with because even with carding there were to many neps noils and bits of VM (NNVM) to be practical. So I've been practicing my combing skills using the dyed fiber. I have pounds and pounds of short staple merino batting, a good bit that was dyed, but made for a really lumpy yarn. I ended up losing a good 50% to NNVM, but the remaining top is AMAZING. The details are above.