Hello everyone one, just joined so here is all the info about my stores and myself.
My fiber business is called Lil Bit of Heaven Fibers. I sell fiber from my own llamas and Shetland sheep at my etsy store,
http://lilbitofheavenfibers.etsy.com. At this site you will find roving and handspun yarns. Most in there natural colors, but I do overdyed some rovings and my handspun.
I also have a store at
http://lilbitofheavenfibers.artfire.com. Here I sell all my hand dyes yarns. My yarns are dyed in small lots, and I never repeat a color way. Yarns range from merino lace, polwarth/silk, superwash blue face leicester, merino/cashmere/nylon, plus many more yarns in other fibers.
Now about my self. I got hooked on fiber over 22 years ago. I did some crocheting and taught myself to knit, got lessons on how to spin and the rest I just learned along the way. In 1996 I got into llamas. We bought a small farm and started out with just 4 llamas. Added more llamas as we got into showing, breeding and promoting there fiber. Then came the Shetland Sheep. I traded a guard llama for 2 bred ewes. That was the start of my love for those sheep.
Of course you can never have enough fiber. So more llamas and sheep came. At one time there were 50 llamas and 50 sheep. I sheared all those llamas and sheep and processed there wool for a few years. Then it just got to be way to much and I added a great mill to the mix. I could send off the just sheared fleeces and get back the most beautiful roving's.
In 2006 I opened a store on etsy to sell all my rovings from my llamas and sheep. Then in December of 2010 I opened a store on artifre (got there $5 rate for life) That store I now put all my hand dyed yarns
Now days I still have the farm, not as many llamas (14) and Shetlands (12). I have a family member working the farm and taking care of the livestock. I live in a nice little house and get to spend all my time spinning, dying,knitting,crochet and now weaving.
So that is how Lil Bit of Heaven Fibers was created.
Linda Wunce from central Virginia
