True Love

Pick a colour Buttercup 

It’s no use me telling you that it has been one of those busy weeks again as usual, but yeah..it has been busy days and nights again filled with dyeing and lots or prepping and carding PLUS a huge amount of time spent on the April Club dyeing and prepping. 

With every club it is not only the artist and the painting that is pivotal for the colourway but also for the fibre choices! Because this month it is the amazing Beatrix Potter with her “Mice stitching Button holes” from her story : the tailor of Gloucester" (1902). 

The colourway is coming up beautifully! All the yarns are dyed and so are all the fibres for the batts. The carding is all done for the fibre club as well and I am so over the moon to be able to offer a breed of sheep that will be featured who were the favourite of Beatrix Potter and so part of her life in the Lake District: Herdwick sheep, which I blended with some other English sheep breeds  and some other super fluffy and soft fibres. See, I always like to not only have the colours be inspired by the artist and their work but also the fibres.  more photos to come after the april clubs have shipped .

Beatrix Potter at the Lake District Show handing a special prize to Herdwick Sheep 

Anyway, that was the club. I was hoping all the clubs would be ready to be shipped out on Monday, but the weather has not been that sunny so I may need some more time to get it all dry and ready to ship, BUT it will be well before Easter !

Meantime, I have been also busy pyrographing some phangs support spindles and starting on Paul’s darning dragon eggs. I told you: A. I don’t sleep much B. I don’t go out ..lol Fast forward to tonight’s update : Tweed and not just any tweed! It’s my Princess Bride Tweed yarn range. Yes, I am a super fan of the fantastic book and the fabulous movie. Who isn’t???

What I love about this particular tweed is that it is super soft and has gorgeous colourful, contrasting speckles of pure natural wool in it. What normally happened when you see “Tweed yarn” offered is that the base of the yarn is a natural wool, which is then blended with an acrylic contrasting coloured nepp. That’s not how I roll I said! I want the yarn to be a base of natural wool and the contrast to be a natural fibre as well. The only way you can achieve that is to blend all the fibres, dyed already, and then spin it as a yarn. If you were to dye all the natural fibres together they would obviously all get the same colours. That is exactly why the big yarn companies are offering you naturaly fibres as a base with already dyed acrylic nepps as the colourful speckles and then dye the whole lot, because the nepps do not dye at all in the same way as the wool fibres as a base do.

Apart from the clubs and all the yarns and the pyrography, I have also been prepping all the luxury fibres like qiviut and soay and more to create lots of blends to come.

So many exciting things to come ! I always say: so much to do , so little time !!!

So what have I got ready for you on this April 2nd blog update? 

Princess Bride Tweed Yarn !!!!

Princess Bride Tweed Yarn

Black Superfine Merino, Super soft Lambswool Tweed 4 ply yarn with little pops of colour

50+grams (+/-1.75Oz)    +/-  200meters      AU$16

 

Princess in Training

Inconceivable

As you Wish

True Love

Have Fun Storming the Castle

a gorgeous colourwork jumper with 

"have fun storming the castle" and "Kingfisher" mohair tweed yarn

To order: email or message me on facebook, Ravelry or Instagram, quoting the colourway and the quantity you would like, together with your postal address and I will get right back to you with all the payment details. Lock down or not: I am still working and mailing the parcels out fast as humanly possible :-)

IxCHeL Tweed Yarn  

Hand dyed

Super soft lambs wool 70% and Kid Mohair 30%

Spun singles, fingering or sock weight yarn

+/- 200meters/218yards

50grams      1.76oz

AU$18

Indigo  1 available

Jewels  2 available

NEW colours !!! 

 IxCHeL Tweed Yarn 

Super soft lambs wool 70% and Kid Mohair 30%

Spun singles, fingering or sock weight yarn

+/- 200meters/218yards

50grams      1.76oz

AU$16

Nephrite Jade 

 (A beautiful deep sage green colour with fun blue, lime and salmon speckles)

Grevillea + new ! 

 A vibrant raspberry pink tweed with deep purple, lime and soft pink speckles)

To order: email or message me on facebook, Ravelry or Instagram, quoting the colourway and the quantity you would like, together with your postal address and I will get right back to you with all the payment details.

IxCHeL Tweed fingering weight yarn

Super soft lambs wool 70% and Kid Mohair 30%

Spun singles, fingering or sock weight yarn

+/- 200meters/218yards

50grams      1.76oz

AU$16

Great Barrier Reef

Leafy Seadragon

Flying Fox

Airlie Beach

Sea Mist

Amethyst

Wattle
(A beautiful sunshine yellow that goes so well with the kookaburra the silver grey)

Kata Tjuta           BACK IN STOCK !!!
(an intense pure red that goes well with the Kookaburra and the Wattle and the Amethyst colourway and soooooo  many others)

Kookaburra
(a beautiful silver grey with ochre accents that complement the dingo colourway)

Dingo
( A beautiful warm honey ochre with pops of royal bluebell, kingfisher and kangaroo paw)

Dusky Grevillea
(a gorgeous raspberry base with pops of royal bluebell, flowering gum, grey and daintree)

Flowering Gum
( a gorgeous medieval warm red with bright red, kookaburra and fern forest accents)

Fern Forest
( a deep forest green with accents of bright red, dusky purple and daintree) )

Jacarandah 
( a fabulous deep purple with accents of royal bluebell, daintree, grevillea and kingfisher )

Wombat
( a fabulous deep walnut brown with accents of dingo and kookaburra)

Kangaroo Paw 
( a fabulous warm orange with accents of fern forest, royal bluebell and grevillea and dingo )

isn’t it gorgeous how the Kangaroo paw knits up?! )

Royal Bluebell 
( a deep blue with accents of flowering gum, kookaburra and fern forest )

Wallaby
( a warm light brown with accents of soft blue and kookaburra)

Daintree ( a soft green with accents of fern forest and dingo)

Kingfisher 
( a fabulous Turquoise blue with accents of fern forest, kangaroo paw, Jacaranda and Grevillea)

Landscape dyes

 100g tubs   AU$12
250 g tubs AU$27

Want to dye your own with easy to use acid dyes? I have been selling these Landscape dyes at my workshops and shows for a long time :  They are extremely easy to use and come in great shades.

Just contact me with the name of the colour you are after and I will get right back to you.

All my contact details are here:

Please don't hesitate to contact me at any time if you have any questions okay? Always happy to enable. All my contact details are to be found at the end of this week’s blog entry. 
Have a fun weekend !!!

How To Order:

1. You can email me on ixchelbunnyart at gmail dot com  or ixchelbunny at yahoo dot com dot au
2. Message me on facebook or 
3. Message me on www.ravelry.com  where I am ixchelbunny.
4. message me on Instagram where I am @ixchelbunny

I will email you right back with all your order details and payment methods.

Any questions? Any custom orders for yarn or dyeing fibre? : Please don’t hesitate to ask! Always happy to enable.

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((hugs))

Charly