About Me

Hi! My name is Tazhiana and welcome to my shop! I am a self taught fiber crafter of all sorts - a knitter, spinner, sewist, fledgling weaver, wool processor and now professional sheep person (huzzah!). My love affair with raw wool began with a Romney fleece in 2021 and has just spiraled out of control since.

After falling in love with minimally processed and hand prepared wool, and chatting with so many other people who felt the same way, I wanted to share that love and experience with people who may not have the means or the desire to do that kind of work themselves. To that end, Starlight Blends was born!

A large chunk of my fleece hoard is sourced in America, and most of that in the northeast to make it as local as possible. The rest is sourced internationally, mainly from our neighbors to the north. It comes right off a sheep with a name before being packaged by the shepherd, sent in the mail to my apartment in Brooklyn where I wash it in my bathtub before processing it gently into the spinning fiber available in the store. That’s it. That’s the supply chain - sheep to me to you. It’s all minimally processed by maximally loved.

Each batt starts with a blend of fibers from my personally and selectively curated fleece stash and has been test spun by me to assess drape, loft and general handle of the yarn. I carefully work on these recipes and blends, tweaking ratios and fibers and I’m really happy with them and I hope that if you choose to bring one home to your own wheel, you’ll be happy with the yarn you make with them as well. This is all farm yarn, and as much as I tried to get all of the VM out, some traces of it may be left behind in your batt. But this is all FARM yarn, which means you’ll know who took care of the animal your wool came from and the name of the sheep that donated it to our wooly cause and honestly, it doesn’t get more magical than that.

This is probably the scariest thing I’ve ever done, but this bounty I have is far too much for one spinner to ever get through and the joy in sharing is joy magnified so I’m sharing my bounty with you! Starlight Blends is officially open and stocked with 10 batts of various fiber blends for you to enjoy - from lofty and squishy blends to drapey and lustrous ones - and I hope you find something you love there. Thank you for allowing me to share my heart and passion with you.