I love a good orange, and this one has lots of hidden colours hiding in it including a little bit of pink...
It's in the shop now if you want more.

​The air is often sweet with the small of honeysuckle at this time of year, it fills the hedges. The  name come from gwŷdd  meaning wood  and ‎ bid meaning hedge. It's also known as llaeth y gaseg, which means mares milk.

The fibre colour was inspired by the shade of sun dried grass and is available in the shop. 

​As the saying goes, ne'er cast a clout til may be out. This is a reminder of the fickleness of the weather, and a reminder to not start discarding your warm clothing too early no matter how tempting it might be in a match of May sunshine. The saying could refer to the month of May, or to the common name for Hawthorn, the flowers are also called May blossoms, and in places with lots of hedges for a brief period of time the countryside is blanketed in the white-pink flowers. 
The cymraeg is Draenen Wen,  draenen means thorn which is why this plant is used so much for hedges, the sharp spikes make it very good for keeping animals in the right fields! aS with English there are lot of alternative names, "pren bara a chaws",  bread and cheese wood "draenen blannu" thorn plant  and  "drain gweinion" white thorn.

The fibre today is a bit of an unusual one as I don't normally use quite so many colours in one blend, but I wanted something altho reminded me of delicate spring flowers. This turns in to a lovely greyed-lilac as yarn with lots of hidden depths that look different under different light conditions. 
Spare fibre is in the shop.

Germinal the month of germination. After a long cold winter new green shoots are appearing. 
This month runs from March 21st to April 19th.

​The Primroses often accompany the violets beneath our hedges, In cymraeg these are briallen, which might be mutated to friallen. This doesn't really have a translation, but you will see it lots on place names and house names, especially as the singular form briallu. This is one of those slightly trickier words to say as that double ll is one of the ones that trips up English speakers, and the u at the end is a sound that's closer to an i.

he fibre today is a bright vibrant green, reminiscent of the new shoots that are just starting to appear. As Paul it's all in the online shop until stocks run out.

Ventose the month of wind. 
This is the month from February 19th- March 20th.

he fibre today is an intense grey with streaks of green, here in Wales at least it's still a pretty dreary time of year. The spare fibre, should you need more of this variegated grey is in the shop until stocks run out.

Pluviose, the month of rain! 
In our modern calendar this runs from January 20th to February 18th.

Nadolig Llawen!
Happy Christmas!
Each day there's going to be a post revealing the fibres in this years 12 Days of Christmas. 

As you already know this years theme is The French Revolutionary Calendar. Created as a way to remove all religious and royalist influences from the calendar it ran on a decimal system. With weeks of 10 days, and months of 30 days. Each day was no longer named after a saint from the Catholic tradition, but was instead given a name based on nature. Every 10th day was named after an agricultural tool, and every 5th day a common animal. The rest of the days were named after plants. 
The calendar year started in September, but I decided to align our months with the time of year when you open your first parcel, which is Nivose, the month of snow. This ran from December 21st to January 19th. It was the only month which didn't use plants as the day names, instead using minerals. 
So why, you may ask is there a picture of a flower up there... I was surprised as you when I pulled out the pack of watercolour sketches that my Mum has painted for us to enjoy this year... I nearly asked her to paint me another, but decided that we would instead enjoy a pretty flower rather than a picture of Lava. Because these are the perils of translations without context. I'd told her  to pick a flower for each month, given her a list of the French names and the English translations that I had pulled off the internet, and failed to mention that Nivose was minerals, so she picked the only one in the list that had been mistranslated as a flower!
6 Nivose is actually the day of Lava, but we actually have a painting of Lavateria, and the Cymraeg name is Lavaferia. 
I failed to take a photo of just the hand dyed braid of Superfine Merino, Pamela and Peduncle Silk by itself, but what I can tell you os that there are now lots of other ombre gradient braids in loads of other colours in the online shop as a special Christmas surprise!