This month, I’m interviewing Barbara Benson of Barbara Benson Designs. I found her work while seeking out good patterns to go with my recent Twelve Days of Christmas gradient mini set, and I just kept coming back to her patterns again and again. Her website can be found at www.tumpedduck.com, and she has a youtube… Read More Designer of the Month: An Interview with Barbara Benson
In gratitude to all of you, I am having a big year-end sale. I’m offering 20% off almost everything in my shop, including my art batts, hand-dyed yarn, handspun yarn, and fiber paintings. There are no minimums and no coupon code needed. Just come visit my shop and see if you find something you love.… Read More Year-End Sale
I want to remind you that I have my year-end sale going on with 25% off several lovely bases I’ve decided to discontinue so I can focus on more wonderful colorways on fewer bases. You can see what’s on sale here. And if you need a last-minute gift for someone who loves great yarn, I… Read More Merry Christmas!
Congratulations to PJ who won the December 2018 Choose Your Yarn Adventure Giveaway. PJ chose North Wind on Silken Cloud Worsted. PJ, I hope you love creating with it!
As I look toward the new year, I’ve decided to focus my attention on fewer different yarn bases to allow me the freedom to create more different colorways. To that end, I’m having a really big sale on the bases I will no longer be carrying. I’m offering Super Sport, Donegal DK, and Silken Cloud… Read More Year-End Sale – 25% Off
Ideas are weird. Sometimes they come to you in the middle of the night, and they just won’t let go. About six weeks ago now, I decided it was time to take these colorways I love so much and the medium of fiber I relish in and turn them into something you can hang on… Read More Something New & Different – Fiber Paintings
It’s time for another Choose Your Yarn Adventure Giveaway. I have four skeins for you to choose from this time around. Each one is a different yarn weight. The giveaway contest ends on the 16th, and I’ll be announcing the winner on my website and Facebook page on the 17th. Here are the four you… Read More It’s Time for a Choose Your Yarn Adventure Giveaway!!
Good morning! I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We had a lovely time with extended family at our home, and I was so proud of our 13-year-old son who actually did the majority of organizing and a lot of the work as well. Thank you so much to everyone who took part in… Read More What’s New – Show & Tell
This is a quick reminder to let you know that I have the Twelve Days of Christmas Mini Skein Yarn Sets available for just 2 more weeks. After that I’ll be dyeing them up and sending them out by December 10th. What is this Twelve Days of Christmas set, you ask? For the first time… Read More Twelve Days of Christmas Yarn Sets – Just Two More Weeks to Order
Good morning! I have something new and wonderful in the shop this week–gift certificates for Purple Lamb! When I was figuring out the details, I thought about what I like and don’t like about gift certificates to make them the best of all possible gift certificates. I hate it when gift certificates expire, so mine… Read More Introducing Purple Lamb Gift Certificates – and a Gift for You Too
