Good morning, and happy Friday to you. I don’t know about you, but I love cowls. They are an elegant little accessory, and they are generally fiddle-free, meaning they don’t take a lot of styling to make them look great. They are also small and quick to make, which is what brings us to today’s… Read More Some Last-Minute Gift Ideas and Fresh Yarn Too
Good morning, and happy Friday to you. Today I thought I would share an experiment with you in color and dye techniques. Whenever I think up a new colorway idea, the first thing I think about are the colors themselves. Next is always the dilemma of how to lay on the colors. There are so… Read More An Experiment in Color
Good morning, and happy Friday to you! This week, I put together some pairs of yarn that look great together along with some beautiful patterns to go with them. I also want to tell you about next month’s club colorway painting and share a beautiful cowl pattern by a talented designer. Yarn Pairings This week… Read More Two Skeins Are Better than One
Good morning and happy Friday to you. The official beginning of fall was several weeks ago, but here in Texas, summer has been quite tenacious. If you live where there’s a real fall season with brilliantly colored leaves, I’m a little jealous. Whether you do or not though, I have created a collection of semi-solid… Read More Find Your Fall
Good morning and happy Friday to you. I have been bursting with the news of today’s topic, and I’m so excited to share it with you. I also wanted to tell you a bit about last week’s DFW Fiber Fest. A Match Made in Heaven A few months ago, I discovered Dawn Barker’s amazing assigned… Read More A Match Made in Heaven – Assigned Pooling and Starry Night
Good morning and happy Friday! This week, I have the honor of showing you a number of beautiful projects made by others using Purple Lamb yarn and fiber. Before we get started, I wanted to mention that there won’t be a newsletter next week because I will be at the DFW Fiber Fest. In light… Read More Show and Tell September 2022 and the October Club Colorway
Good morning and happy Friday to you. I always think of Labor Day as the beginning of that wonderful season where we get to share our enjoyment of the fiber arts by making gifts for our loved ones. It truly is a labor of love to make those gifts. To help you get a jump… Read More Labor of Love Sale!
Good morning and happy Friday to you! I am both ecstatic to have cooler whether to look forward to soon and sad to see the slower pace of summer coming to an end. How about you? Today I want to show you the painting I’ll be using as inspiration for the September club colorway as… Read More September Club Colorway and What’s New in the Shop
Good morning, and happy Friday to you! We actually got some rain yesterday for the first time in more than two months. It was lovely, and it brought the temperature down from 100 to 80! I don’t know about you, but I can barely wait for fall to begin. This week I want to show… Read More A Gorgeous Shawl Pattern and a Few New Colorways
Good morning and happy Friday to you! This week is Monet week in my shop. I dyed up all the Monet colorways on a multitude of different yarn bases this week, so I thought I would take the opportunity to show you the colorways themselves as well as some yarn pairings that go along with… Read More Monet Week at Purple Lamb
