Good morning, and happy Friday! First of all, I hope you have a great Thanksgiving holiday. Thanksgiving will definitely be a little unusual this year, but I hope it will be a blessing for you nonetheless. I have so many new colorways in the shop right now, and I’ll show you a few while we… Read More Black Friday Sale Preview and December Club Colorway
Happy Friday! We just went from summer to real fall weather with cooler temperatures and lower humidity overnight. I couldn’t be happier–especially about the lower humidity. I hope you are enjoying fall weather too. This week I want to show you some great yarn pairings and some pattern ideas to go with them. Yarn Pairings… Read More One-Plus-One Two-Skein Yarn Pairings and Patterns
Happy Friday. Or is it Saturday already where you are already? Writing this newsletter was my very first priority of the day, yet here I am writing this at 9 o’clock at night. Tell me I’m not the only one whose days run away at times. The little ones are asleep, my 15-year-old son is… Read More A Little More Fall and a Few More Speckles
Happy Friday! I hope you and your loved ones are healthy and safe and nowhere near fires or hurricanes. This week I wanted to announce the painting that will inspire the October club colorway. After a few months of club colorways with a lot of earth tones, I decided to go bold this month. I… Read More October Club Colorway, Halloween Yarn, and a Lovely DK Fade
Happy Saturday! Last March at the beginning of this new era in which we find ourselves, I took down the Dyed to Order section of my shop. I didn’t know what to expect in terms of the ability to get undyed yarn, and I didn’t want any of you to order something I couldn’t get… Read More The Return of Dyed to Order and the September Club Colorway
Good afternoon and happy weekend to you! Today I wanted to announce the painting that will inspire my August club colorway, and I also wanted to tell you about a new yarn base I have started carrying and show you a few new colorways too. A New Worsted-Weight Yarn Base Let’s start with the… Read More August Club Colorway and a New Yarn Base
Good morning! I hope you are doing well and continuing to find some joy in the fiber arts. I got all of my club colorways sent out earlier this week, and I’m looking forward to sharing a photo of them with you once all the club members have them. I am a bit frustrated by… Read More Serendipity
Show and Tell Today I get to do show and tell! It is always such an honor to get to share the beautiful things that you make from yarn and fiber that I make. I feel like there’s a connection that goes from the shepherd (and the sheep of course) to the mill to the… Read More Show and Tell – July 2020
Good afternoon! It has been a couple weeks since I talked to you, and since we last spoke, we have moved from northern Arizona to Texas. It has been a bit of a wild ride. I’ll tell you a bit about our moving adventures soon. Independence Day Sale First, though, I want to let you… Read More Independence Day Sale, Club Colorway, and Our Move
Good morning! I hope you are doing well this week. Today, I wanted to show you some possibilities for pairing Alpaca Lace Cloud with a sock-weight yarn. I also want to show you a new colorway I dyed up this week, and, perhaps most importantly, I want to tell you about our upcoming move and… Read More Sock Plus Lace, a New Colorway, and Our Upcoming Move
