Welcome to my fibre home, it’s lovely to have you.

Here you will find a thoughtful and expressive collection of hand picked fibres, colourful hand dyed and handspun art yarns. Updated periodically.

The ‘Colour Yourself Free Cardi’ knitting pattern is available here

A step-by-step beginner friendly knitting pattern in sizes XS-2XL.
 (Instructions included for using handspun yarns or commercial scraps).

Each item is slowly and mindfully handcrafted by me and centred around a zero waste philosophy
I work intuitively, therefore no two items are ever the same and each colour combination is totally unique. Bold and vibrant colour palettes spark absolute joy in me. I hope you find something here that inspires joy and creativity in you too!

Customer testimonials

“Vibrant colours and amazing texture. Rooted Fibres has an innate sense of colour that brings out our natural sense of playfulness with nature. This fibre makes me feel good!”
(Joanne Severino-Risso)

“Lauren’s page was the first time I really saw someone making the kind of handmade clothes I have always dreamed of, with all the experimentation with colour and texture. This definitely translates into her art batts, which are so wonderfully soft and are so interesting to spin. I especially love the addition of the wool locks because they look so beautiful when spun up and knitted!”
(Sophie)

“Absolutely brilliant!! Love the colours! Excellent quality yarn, beautifully dyed and spun!”
(Donna)

Free Palestine 🍉

Thankyou for all your support towards my shawl fundraiser.
Together we raised £675 for Save The Children’s Emergency Gaza Fund!

Don’t forget to check out my yarn guide and How to’s for ideas on how to use your yarns!

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.. and twirl around in it, the only catch is this shawl isn’t for me 🥲 One day I will weave one for myself but until then I am so blessed to have the opportunity to create them for you lovely yarn lovers 🥰 Each is a total journey into colour and texture from dyeing the wool to weaving in the last strand, I absolutely love every single moment of the creative process. Wrapping one self in it is just the cherry on the cake… I mean… what other works of art can you physically wrap yourself in to stay warm. Yup, this is why the fibre arts absolutely rule 😉 🧶 Such a special feeling to pull this labour of love from the loom! 🧶 The process is a long but rewarding one, I hand dye many different wools to begin with. I choose them for their softness. I am very sensitive to wool which is partly the reason I began making my own clothing… this shawl is so SO soft 🤤 I then blend the wools together into colour and texture combinations I love before hand spinning it on my spinning wheel (you can see parts of this process on previous posts 😊). I spin the wool up into many styles of yarn to create the texture and variance you see in the final weave. There must be about 20/30 different yarns used for this weaving. Hands down one of my favourite yarns to spin! The colour and texture possibilities are endless. They are a little bit slow with all the stop/start but just a few rows in a knitted or woven project adds a really interesting and unique textural element which I loooove. The technique I borrowed from Sarah Anderson’s ‘The spinners book of yarn design’ which is a treasure trove of cool ideas! A dreamscape of fibres dancing in the sun. Pretty fitting for the sunset inspiration behind them 🌅 swipe to see some spun skeins 🧡🩵 Painting with wool is so much fun, I am lucky to have a vintage ashford drum carder my Dad added a motor to years ago that allows me to play endlessly with colour combinations. Each art batt is always a totally and intuitive process in which I delve into big bins of my hand dyed and painted fibres that I have built up over the years. Building art batts like this with a variety of shades and small bursts of colour has the added benefit of making each yarn totally zero waste, not a scrap of fibre gets wasted. I find it all adds a beautiful depth and unique-ness to each finished yarn. It has been a big week for Fern! Not only did she have her first few days at big school but she finally acquired one entire finished sleeve on her deliciously chunky technicolour hand spun/woven jacket! Phew! Can confirm sleeve island is a very real place for weavers as well as knitters 🤡🌈 I’ve been keeping a little (not so secret) secret…We are expecting another baby in January! We had our 20 week scan today and found out it’s going to be another little girl 🥹 Fern is so excited to be a big sister and was dying for a little sister which is just lovely. I can’t wait to bring this little soul into the world and begin the journey of new motherhood aaalll over again. Hopefully a little stronger and wiser than last time… and with no covid. It’s crazy to think how different this time will be without the isolation. Fern begins her first year of school next week too so this wee girly couldn’t have come at a better time 🎀 Just some sleeves and pockets to go on this cute handwoven jacket I’m making for my daughter Fern. This project has been so much fun. I’ve never made clothing with my handspun weavings before. The plan is to make a big one - this was a kind of prototype/experiment. I feel like there’s sooo much I want to explore with this! It’s much easier on the hands than knitting a whole garment 😊 I’ve had to improvise a few creative ways to work at the pace I want as my left hand is relatively OOA still, I’m not sure the foot crochet would be suitable for a long session but it certainly did the job for the few rows I needed to add to the back panel 😝 I experimented with some ‘one handed as I could get’ short draw drafting/spinning techniques today using my opposite hand! Have you ever tried this? It’s a weird sensation at first! However seeing as it’s my left that’s sore… I figured why not try and adapt my technique a little. Consistency was a bit tricky as my chunky yarn wanted to go very fine naturally when drafted this way but I kinda found a groove somewhere in between 😅 This hand woven scarf was sent back to me by a lovely customer who decided they wanted it longer. The weft is entirely my hand dyed/spun yarn and the warp a mix of commercial yarn I space dyed. I cut the old piece to re-use the weft, added some extra rustic greens and cut a fresh warp. The piece is so unique and a much more versatile length now - I’m so happy with the result 🌞

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