Yarn giveaway at Lanitium ex machina!

So I had a little spike in viewers yesterday and even if I don't know if any of you will come back I stumbled upon a giveaway from one of my favorite Etsy seller. I've have yet to write about her but she does have fabulous yarn and fibers. I think any spinner would be delighted about the fibers she makes and any knitter about the yarn. I have gotten both fiber and yarn sample from her and I have also bought yarn. She resides in Finland so any European will be pleased to enter without the risk of getting the package stuck in customs.

So here is a links to both her blog and her etsy shop. I have nothing but good to say about this seller and I frequently visit her shop just to look at the nice things she got. She is a regular (I think) supplier to Phat fiber box and her shop updates usually updates with new colors each month according to the theme at Phat fiber. She does have a great sense of style and color and I love her taste.

The art of spinning

This fall I was introduced to the art of spinning. When I put it like that most of you probably think I've meet someone IRL that showed me the ropes. That however, was not how it went down. I don't remember exactly how it went down but I think it was thanks to the Phat fiber group I've talked about in a previous post, Etsy sellers and their buyers. I wasen't about to plunge into it by buying a spinning wheel without even trying some spinning so I bought a nice affordable spindle kit from hilltopcloud at Etsy.

The kit included a spindle made out of a toy wheel and there was a good amount of fiber in it to keep me going for a while. I got kind of hooked, I enyojed the process but it took a while to get any result and so it got a little lost  in the WIP pile. But my dream of making yarn was not forgotten. About 2 months ago I bought a lace spindle from Spinatude and was again hooked. I got the kind of yarn I wanted and even if the result was not even I thought that it was really nice for a new spinner.

My dream of owning a spinning wheel was yet again resurrected and I began searching forums on Ravelry to get an idea of what kind of spinning wheel I wanted. I was lucky enough to get in contact with a group of spinners in my area that sometimes have spinning meetings. One of the actives in the group actually came and got me last Saturday so I could try some spinning on their wheels. So after some planning I have now decided to get my self a Kromski Minstrel. Nobody in the group had a Minstrel but I got to try a Sonata and really liked the feeling of it compared to the Ashford I got to try.