Presenting Heavenly Laceweight

Just uploaded the BBF website with a gorgeous new laceweight called "Heavenly."


It's a blend of 70% baby alpaca/20% silk/10% cashmere and it is soft, beautiful and has just enough sheen to make the colors pop.



The skeins are 1300 yds/100g, good for most shawl patterns.

I've got some rich, saturated colors like the vivid green, above, but also some lighter and brighter shades, including a unique pale peach shade that is tough to photograph but looks most divine.


(Don't forget the free shipping code "STAPLE" which I've extended through the month of January.)

Get your lace on

Just updated the Black Bunny Fibers website with some laceweight... including a new base "Flutter," 80% superfine merino/20% silk, 1300-yd skeins of lace delight,







and five skeins of 90% alpaca/10% shetland wool, also 1300-yd skeins but with a looser twist (this is a base I cannot get on a regular basis, so once they're gone, they're gone!):

(this one is a lovely mix of olive greens, but it's not quite photographing right -- looks less gold-y than that),

Computer mishaps

I had planned to post more substantive content this week, but on Monday, when I tried to boot up the computer, there was a weird and ominous message on the screen, and no booting. All the usual fixes in my (limited) bag of tricks didn't work. I debated about whether to try to fiddle with it myself, but one big problem when your computer won't boot up is that you can't use it to Google what the problem is and how to fix it. We figured out a way around that, but Googling only revealed more uncertainty -- it could be a virus, it could be the hard drive, it could be software issues, blah blah blah.

I decided to schlep the thing over to the computer store. As I waited my turn, in a line of equally panicked computer users, all bearing their wounded machines and a look of desperation, an 8-year-old kid sat down next to me, lugging a computer tower.

"What's wrong with your computer?" he asked me in a chirpy voice.

How cute, I thought. Keeping my explanation simple in light of his age, I said, "My computer keeps giving me this weird message when I try to start it up."

"What does it say?" How adorable, I thought. He wants to help me fix my computer and he can barely tie his shoes! (I didn't notice that his shoes closed with Velcro.)

"It says [insert computer jargon here], whatever that means."

Without missing a beat, he says, "Well, it sounds to me like you have a hard drive issue. Have you defragmented it lately? I hope you have up-to-date virus protection," he added sternly.

"Um, okay, well, I guess we'll see what the computer nerd--guys say," I said weakly.

"Do you know what kind of disk interface family your computer uses?" he inquired solicitously.

"I don't know, it's a Dell," I said, desperately looking to see if the next available customer service representative was free to help me.

"You don't know?" he said in a tone steeped with condescension. "I suppose it's a PC rather than a Mac. Why on earth people continue to buy PCs when the Mac has a superior life span on its stock system, the potential for customization is endless, any disadvantage at symmetrical or pre-emptive multitasking is far outweighed by the intuitiv--"

"Do you like SpongeBob?" was my last salvo, and thankfully I was saved by the cry of "Next!" from the customer service counter.

Although I was given all sorts of dire expectation-lowering disclaimers about their ability to fix my computer, and how long it would take (punctuated by helpful observations and suggestions from the eight-year-old douchebag computer whiz), I was very excited to receive a phone call from a tech a few hours later telling me that he'd fixed the problem with some tweaks to software settings that mysteriously (read: courtesy of Elvis?) got switched.

So now I'm back on-line and, thankfully, did not have to get a new hard drive or computer to achieve that. Tomorrow I SWEAR I will continue with the TNNA update, but for now, having wound about 10 skeins of this lovely laceweight:



I am whipped. (Look for a BBF update Friday-ish.)

New camera

I'm still learning how to use it, but after all my angst about adapting to a new camera, I'm encouraged. Lookit the nice photos I took of the laceweight I'm about to list on the BBF site (I'll update this post when everything is up, probably around 6 p.m. tonight):





What's interesting (to me, at least) is that these were taken at a time when the light isn't usually optimal for yarn photos. Which means that if I take photos when the light is best, the results should be even better, right?

Here is the very first photo taken with the new camera -- a great one:



Of course, I can't give all the credit to the camera, since they are two exceptionally good-looking models, no?

Update: Laceweight's posted.