Busy Bee

[princess_ismya]

What have I been up to?

I spun up some yarn for the beautiful Ms Evaria. It is alpaca, and all from the same animal. I separated the 4oz baggie into the individual colors, hand carded them individually and then spun them up into this.

Comments

[noxenlux]

Ever thing about opening an Etsy shop to sell your yarn?

[princess_ismya]

I've toyed with the idea but I'm not sure how "worth it" it would be. Fiber is expensive even in its raw form. Taking the time to wash, card, and dye it is very time consuming. Pretreated fiber is even more expensive. Most people would rather go to the store and get some cheap poly-yarn. Even if I was charging way less than minimum wage for my time, I think the prices of the yarns would be an impediment to most people wanting to purchase them. Now, if I did "Art Yarn" it would be a different story. That stuff goes for outrageous prices. :D Not really my cup of tea to make though.

[noxenlux]

I've seen some prices of yarn on etsy before and some are for a good penny and other are not. Most people would rather get crappy stuff, but there are people that understand the time and skill to make nice yarn...

http://www.etsy.com/search_results.php?search_query=yarns+handspun&search_type=handmade&page=1

[evaria]

I'm super excited about my yarn, and I'm really jazzed to see what happens with it:D