Thank you for the wonderful response I've had via comments and e-mails and messages on Ravelry to the new na dannsairean yarn.  I'm very excited about it and have spent the whole day in the dyeshed dyeing up a storm today.   Here are the shades from todays work - the photographs are not great as I took them while the yarn was still a little damp, so the hanks are not very neat, but I'll take some more tomorrow when it is dry, but I thought you'd want to see what I'd done today.  I've decided to keep the colours fairly traditional, and they are all the sorts of colours you would see in nature around Assynt.  However, if anyone wants a more non-traditional shade (pink anyone?) then please get in touch.  I'm not averse to doing other colours, but I was happy to stick with these shades today as they really went well with the yarn.



I'm not that happy with the red as shown in this photograph.  I feel it is a lot "warmer" than the colour shown.  But as I said, I'll have another go tomorrow.



 

There was a green, but it really was too damp to photograph accurately.  Over the weekend I'll be doing a grey and almost black version too.  The first orders of this yarn got shipped out today, and I'll be putting the 2 above up in the shop now.

Still on shop news, and talking of na dannsairean, mid afternoon today found me doing a merry dance around the dye shed - I received an e-mail confirming I'd been granted a stand at Woolfest this year.  I was very pleased and excited and I look forward to seeing friends and customers, old and new, in June.

And finally, I haven't got very far with Still Light, but she is coming along nicely:



ably helped by Judith's beautiful stitch markers.