I hope you are having a joyful Christmas season! I wanted to say thank you for such a fantastic year at Purple Lamb and share my own happy news. On a personal front, all seven of our children are home for Christmas, and nothing could be better than that. On the business end of things,… Read More Thank You Sale!
Can you believe there are just five more days until Christmas? I can’t! In our family, we wait to exchange gifts until the feast of Epiphany or as close to it as we can get, so I have to admit that I have not purchased one single Christmas present yet, though I do have a… Read More Some Last Minute Gift Ideas, January’s Club Colorway, and Some News about Purple Lamb
For the past few months, I’ve been quite busy getting ready for this or that trunk show or festival or dyeing up the things that needed to be dyed. Now, don’t get me wrong. You know I love dyeing yarn, but I have not had a lot of time to just play with new colorway… Read More A Raft of New Colorways and a Preorder Too
Of late, the focus for my newsletter has been mostly related to my hand-dyed yarn. This week, though, I thought I would focus instead on the other goodies in my shop–things I have made that would make wonderful gifts for your friends and family or special treats for you, my fellow fiber artists. Fiber Paintings… Read More Gifts and Goodies from Purple Lamb
If you have been wondering if I’m having a sale for Black Friday, the answer is a resounding yes. I’m offering 20% off almost everything, and it starts right now! I’m not including my clubs, gift certificates, or dyed-to-order yarn, but if it’s in stock, it’s on sale. I am including all of the following:… Read More The Black Friday Sale at Purple Lamb Starts Now – 20% Off Almost Everything
This week I thought I would show you all my new Christmas colorways. I also want to let you know what the December club colorway will be and show you a new addition to my website. Christmas Colorways Let’s start with the Christmas colorways. First of all, I made some mini-skein sets. I took the… Read More Christmas Colorways and Club Colorways
Good morning! One of the things I have had to learn about having a fiber arts business is that I have to create for at least a season ahead. My natural tendency is to say, “Oh, look. It’s Valentine’s Day tomorrow. I should make something for that.” Of course that doesn’t work. That said, I… Read More Twelve Days of Christmas and Pippins
Happy Friday! This week I have been going through patterns on Ravelry to choose my own next project. I have been wanting to make a project using three of my favorite colorways on Squoosh DK together, and today I found the pattern I want to use to go with them. The colorways are West Fork… Read More Three of a Kind
It’s time for another Solitary Skein Sale! What’s a solitary skein, you ask? It’s when I only have one more skein in stock of a particular colorway on a particular yarn base. I prefer to only have one dye batch in stock at a time, so I usually wait until all the skeins are sold… Read More Did Somebody Say Sale?
Last week I told you about my new Quick and Cozy Bulky Yarn base, but what I didn’t tell you was that I have another yarn base I have been waiting to share with you. I wanted to wait until I could share the knitting pattern I made to go with it at the same… Read More A New Yarn Base and a New Infinity Scarf Pattern to Go With It
