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It did come as a bit of a surprise, to find my partner had volunteered our home to 5 visitors from Papua New Guinea, 3 of which had never left the Rain Forest before. So whilst they have been enjoying the comforts of mattresses and indoor plumbing we have been roughing it in a tent in the garden. Fortunately we have been blessed with the best and driest weather for years!!

Its been quite an amazing experience especially the morning spent trading craft skills. The girls were showing me how the roll the fibre from inside a tree on their legs, rolling two strands and plying it at the same time. Once they had made a few meters they began knotting it into a bag, stopping the bag to extend the yarn by rolling more fibre on to it.

They then had hours of laughter trying to master the spinning wheel. They where amazed at the speed we could make our yarn with such a tool as the wheel, little did they know how badly and slowly I spin!!!

I have just taken delivery of my next batch of undyed yarns. Amongst the regular yarns are 3 new ones. Eager to see how they would dye, I have been busy today trying them out. All 3 of the new yarns are dyeing beautifully and look vibrant and feel great.

No names have sprung to mind for them yet, but they are a merino/alpaca/silk super bulky weight yarn, its so soft and squeezable, I can see it being perfect for hats and for making a sloppy unstructured sweater. An alpaca, silk and cashmere lace weight than just glistens and feels gorgeous and 3rdly a Bluefaced leicester sock yarn. The BFL fibre just eats up the dye producing wonderfully strong, vibrant colours.

These new yarns should be available in the next 7 – 10 days.

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