I washed one fleece yesterday and it looks like it washed up nice. I’m waiting for it to dry so my drying racks will be free for the second.
Last night, I spun my sample purple batt into 3 ply. Today, I knit it into a long cuff, just to see how it would look and feel.
The photo is a smidge bleached out, and the towel on the floor in the background is making me crazy, but the color is pretty accurate. Just imagine it a little richer and with more luster. It’s really, really nice. I love how the tweed handles in a 3 ply. Definitely the way to go. It was knit on size 6 needles and I spun it worsted. Not my favorite method of spinning by any means, but I really liked the resulting yarn.
I think I have enough fiber already dyed to make about 2 pounds of these purple batts. Gotta start carding. I’m meeting with a friend on Monday who is going to help me figure out packaging. I need to come up with a weight and price point for packages of batts, and then I’ll be ready to move forward. Not exactly sure HOW I’m going to sell them yet. If I can get Tweedybatts.com up in some simple format, or if I should go with Etsy, or what.
April 17th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
OH STUNNING – Purples and Blues, I love it!! Either way, I think you’ll have great sales. Etsy might be easier though – there’s a cart already set up and already tons of spinners browsing for fiber there. Etsy vendors also post their shop updates on Ravelry in the Spinners Marketplace group. Save me some of that purple and blue!!!!
April 18th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
lovely la. I’d go etsy with some mentions of the site, till you build up a name.
April 22nd, 2009 at 11:41 am
I feel like with Etsy, you’d automatically get the traffic and the great reputation. I’ve only had great experiences shopping there, whereas I’d be somewhat reluctant to give credit card numbers to a tiny site unless I knew the site owner or had a personal recommendation from someone who’d had a great experience. Also, there’s a little bit less pressure for you to always have something in stock — if you’re sold out on your own site, you’ll lose your traffic, but occasional shop updates on Etsy seems like the norm. Keeping your site with information about you, the yarns, nice photos seems smart. A lot of people have a sidebar or page on their sites that has pictures of what was in their most recent shop update, with links to Etsy. I always think that’s effective.