It’s been a long time since I’ve had any knitting or spinning content on the blog, so here’s a selection of wool top that I dyed this past weekend. There’s a variety of different fibers: superwash Corriedale, Shetland, Rambouillet, and Finnsheep.

These were all intended to be for sale. I had originally planned to sell them at a gathering this weekend where a friend was going to be vending her fibery creations, but the first week back at work really kicked my butt, and with Griff teething and in a semi-permanent state of cranky-nose-faucet ever since he started day care, we decided it would be best to skip the event.

I’m really glad we did, because I’ve come to the realization that I totally hate selling stuff I made. Hate hate hate. The entire time I was dyeing these fibers, I wasn’t having the least bit of fun. I was fretting over whether people would like the colors, whether all the dye had exhausted, if I had rinsed out any excess well enough, and if so, if I had compressed and matted the fibers too much, and so on and so on.

I was recently thinking back to the 6 months or so I had an Etsy store. It was an extremely stressful time. I worried about shipping, I worried about whether people would like the fibers once they got them, I worried about whether they would spin well.

In short, I’m just not cut out to sell stuff. I have no problem giving things away (in fact, I enjoy it), but once money exchanges hands, the whole situation becomes really unpleasant for me. So I think my days of dyeing fiber (or making anything else) to sell are over. And now I get to keep everything for me. Woohoo!