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
This week I want to introduce a fabulous new yarn base to you and show you all the pretty pictures, but first I want to tell you about a few other things going on. First of all, I want to thank everyone who shared their fabulous photos for the Show and Tell last week. It’s… Read More A Delightful New Yarn Base, a Brief Preorder of Starry Night, a Spinning Competition, and a Craft Fair
Every time I send yarn or fiber “out into the world,” I wonder what you will create with it. Sometimes I get to see, and it’s always a delight to see what became of my creations when they became your creations. This week I have the privilege of sharing some projects made using Purple Lamb… Read More Show and Tell – All About Your Beautiful Projects
Good morning! Today I wanted to talk to you about a few lasts and a few firsts. Let’s start with the lasts first, shall we? Spin Together This is the last week to choose and join a team for the first Spin Together. You can sign up for any team that still has spaces available… Read More A Few Lasts and a Few Firsts
This month, I am really excited to get to interview the amazing Ambah O’Brien! Ambah lives and works in Australia where she designs beautiful knitwear patterns. I will also be including some info about some new patterns she has coming out in the next week or so as well as a coupon code for Purple… Read More Designer of the Month Interview with Ambah O’Brien
Happy Labor Day weekend! I always think of Labor Day as the official beginning of “yarn and fiber season”–when it’s finally cool enough to start wearing our wonderful woollies–or at least to start making new ones in hopes of wearing them soon! I know for a lot of us, it’s also the time when we… Read More Labor of Love Big Labor Day Sale
Good morning! I hope you are doing well and finding lots of time to enjoy the fiber arts. I wanted to tell you about two important things this week. September Club Colorway First of all, I decided to use “Girl with a Pearl Earring” as the inspiration for my September club colorways. Here it is:… Read More Announcing the September Club Colorway and Yarn Advent Calendars
