Advent Calendar 2022 Day 4

I don't think I'd call this a luxury fibre but here in the UK it is definitely a different blend to what is normally available and is probably more likely to be available to spinners in Scandinavian countries from suppliers in their own countries.  Will make for an interesting spin.  It is called Lapland and is a blend of Finnish Landrace, Icelandic, Norwegian and Scandinavian Mountain in equal amounts (25% of each).  I don't mind humbug kind of blends.

Advent Calendar 2022 Day 3

Ok, this one is different.  I'm not entirely sure how I feel about this one.  It's pretty enough and is Christmas coloured but how will those colours look once its spun up, will have to be careful not to muddy the colours.  It's 100% Shetland Wool and is called Wreath.

Advent Calendar 2022 Day 2

OMG this is gorrrrrgeous!  This one is called Gold, Frankincense & Myrrh and it's 62.5% Merino, 25% Stellina and 12.5% Red Eri Silk (Peace Silk).  I would sit and stroke this one but better not, it might turn to felt if I did that too much.

After Christmas, in the New Year, WOW made additional 100g braids of fibre of all of the Advent Calendar Fibres available to purchase to those who had purchased the Advent Calendar.  There were limited stocks of each one available, it was on a first-come-first-served basis and there was a short time frame of priority before the remaining stock was made available to general purchase.  This was one of 7 fibres that I bought an extra 100g of.

Advent Calendar 2022 Day 1

Oooh the first fibre is pretty, reminds me a little bit of striped toothpaste.  It's called Mistletoe & Wine and is 80% Falkland Merino (white), 10% Bamboo (green) and 10% Sari Silk (red).

Opening the fibre Advent Calendar

Time to open the black box and see what's inside.  This is the same type of box I used for my goodies when I send them to customers but in a different size and colour but I can't afford to have them embossed with my company name as that more than doubles the price of each box.  One day, maybe, a girl can dream...

Right then, inside the box are lots of little black paper bags all sealed with staples and all have numbers on them written in gold pen, or do they...  there is one that doesn't have a number on it and I have all the other packets in numerical order now and I didn't pay extra for a day 25 gift so this must be a free gift.  There is also a large scratch card and a trolley token on a key ring with the WOW logo on it, which must be for scratching off the card each day and then you can use it to get a trolley when you go shopping.

It's firm, it's scented with something like citrus or limonene and I think it's some kind of soap or something inside the fluff.  I have no idea what it is exactly or what it is used for, felting maybe, I don't know as I don't do felting.

This was the only free gift this year.  Last year's was a little OTT with the bells, the plastic sheep, the bauble making kit and the free 50g of fibre.  Actually, I think I'd like the 50g of free fibre more than this soap thing or whatever it is.  

Several hours pass...

Ha, found out what it is.  Apparently it is a felted soap and you use it to wash yourself using the fluff around the soap like a flannel and you can either just wash your hands/face or you can use it in the shower.  Hmmm, I have really sensitive skin so its going nowhere near my face but I have tried washing my hands with it and I'm not impressed.  Oh well, it was a free gift, just not my thing.

I've combed the Olive Green Jacob fleece

Back in September I dyed 427g of Jacob fleece a kind of Olive Green using Greener Shades dye at 1%, made up of 45% River Blue, 45% Sunshine Yellow and 10% Ruby Red.  I have now combed that fleece and am left with 246g of fluff to do with what I want, most likely used in a blend.

As you can see from the photo showing a sample of the nests I got from it, it has created hand combed nests in a variety of shades but once its spun up or used in a blend and spun up it will all work well together to make something pretty and interesting.

Look what's arrived!

It's here, it's here, it's here.  Happy Christmas to me.  Just a couple of weeks and I can start opening the packets.