Since I mentioned batts yesterday

And my electric spinner as well, I spun these batts made by Eldest kidlet last night using the electric spinner. They all spun up very nicely and she has several others that I'm eager to get to work on but am waiting for photos of them before turning them into yarn.

Not my favorite...

Spindles that is. The larger one with peach-ish fiber is known as a Turkish spindle. The cool attribute of a Turkish spindle is that the ball of yarn is created as the spinning is wound on. In practice this works less well than I'd hope, at least for me, due to the need to skein and wash the new yarn before using it. The smaller spindle, with the dark green fiber, I suspect is meant to be supported in a cup or on the floor as it is verylight and prone to reversing spin direction quickly.

I purchased both of these at Lambspun in Fort Collins while in spinning withdrawal due to having been forced to pack the wheel mentioned in this post about our last move. It's not Lambspun's fault that I don't care for the spindles since the truth is that I don't really like *any* drop-spindles. I also took the plunge and bought an electric spinner as well and I am liking that better although it's still been a pretty sharp learning curve to get the draw-in and thickness how I like it.

The fiber on the other hand I *do* like. Pictured are about a half-dozen small batts that Eldest Kidlet has made on the new drum carder. She has done a very good job of blending various small bits of fiber that I had laying about into soft and interestingly shaded workable amounts that I am very much looking forward to spinning.

On the business front

I guess it's about time to be getting my DBA (doing business as) license. Unfortunately I have no idea how to go about doing so. Galveston county has some sort of small business co-op so I suspect I need to contact them to find out what needs done.

Yay us!

Eldest Kidlet and I have finally managed to get some of the project pictures that we meant to put up two weeks ago. So far we're just getting caught up on photos for my Ravelry projects, but I think those give a fairly good idea of my style and technique. This cross-stitch tapestry on a Tunisian crochet background is a pretty good example.

So, that works now

After this post on my general interest blog I finally did figure out why this blog wasn't showing up on my profile at Ravelry. Even if Knit'n Kitten Fiberarts Studio never becomes "big" I guess I'll still have learned *something* about perseverance and tracking down issues to their sources.

Congrats

To Eldest Kidlet who has gotten the Tumblr account up and running. It can be found here. I'm very happy that she was able to find away to get my standard avatar to work since it took a fair bit of work on her part to convince it to. We'll be putting up some older pictures there for a bit while we figure out the computer and camera issues, but this at least gives us something to work with.

Aaaand already behind schedule.

Due to a medical emergency with Son (fortunately nothing too terrible) that required hours in the ER and other medical facilities over the last few days, and the fact that Eldest Kidlet has misplaced her charging cord for her camera, pictures will be slow in coming for a bit. Son's last Dr. appointment should be Monday and hopefully new photos will start being available very shortly after that.