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I hope you all will love the colourway as much as I do! I will be shipping them all out by the end of the week.

If anyone who ordered a mystery dyer skein would like anything else from the store to go with it I will give you free shipping! Just place your order and I will refund the cost of shipping and put in the comments mystery dyer.

I will honour this all in the future too..so if you didn’t get a skein this time you can take advantage of it next time.

Only 4 spots left in the sock club! Only 2 spots left

This is the first braid in the fiber club dyed by myself. Here’s an extreme closeup!

The Colourway is called Cotton Candy…I figured pinks were in order to launch the club.

This means the next package is from a guest dyer…who will it be? I am allowing 2 spots to sign up and still get in for the March mailing, so check it out!

I have also added 1 spot to the project spectrum semi solid club. There was an uneven number so I bumped it a bit. The first round is all dyed up and should be going out next week, Hope y’all like it! 

 We are not down to only 6 spots in the sock club left!! WOW! Thank you to all who have joined…we are getting close to the start of the next club filled with amazing exclusive yarns!!

MMMMMM….Malabrigo
THE softest merino you hands will ever touch! This yarn is Kettle dyed in Urugay by a cooperative of local women, and family run business. The Merino felts like a dream and is very comfortable to wear. We have some incredible colours in stock and are open to suggestions because we plan on keeping this beauty around. Malabrigo does not have dye lots so please purchase enough for your project.
You don’t want to miss out on these vibrant colours!

Sweet Sheep Sock Club Round 2
Just a reminder that we have 12  7  spots left in the club.

We are just finishing up the first round with an amazing Vesper Self Striping EXCLUSIVE sock yarn. After all members receive their yarns I will post a picture of all of the EXCLUSIVE skeins from the first club on the store blog.

At this time I am not planing on running a third round of the club for a while. We will be doing a few different clubs in the mean time so if you are thinking of joining grab your spot now as it will probably not happen again until 2008 or at the earliest fall of 2007.

Mystery Dyer Skeins are Days Away
The skeins are enroute to the store and will be sent out next week.
There are still a few left so if you would like one…grab it!!

Sweet Sheep Fiber Club
The first round of the fiber club went out this week. I will post a photo on the blog of this month’s offerings once it has all been received! There is still time to get in for the last 2 months!

Just a reminder that we have 12 spots left in the club.

We are just finishing up the first round with an amazing Vesper Self Striping EXCLUSIVE sock yarn. After all members receive their yarns I will post a picture of all of the EXCLUSIVE skeins from the first club.

At this time I am not planing on running a third round of the club for a while. We will be doing a few different clubs in the mean time so if you are thinking of joining grab your spot now as it will probably not happen again until 2008 or at the earliest fall of 2007.

The Heather, Erin, Julia and I are geared up and ready to go with the second round, and thankfully this round is also sponsored by SOAK! You will also be receiving a special stitch marker from knitwit momma!

So go grab your spot quickly as spaces are limited and this is NOT a club you want to Miss! 

Let’s cross our fingers.

I finish and bound off my first of my cabled fingerless mitts. I like how the first mitt turned out, but have a few ideas about changes I would like to make on the second. So I will have a mis matched pair…but that is ok with me.

Tonight I will be running home to sift through my packages and see if the Brooklyn Handspun came in yet or my blank yarn for the Semi Solid club. I will certainly be spending quite a lot of time with my skeiner this weekend. I am so looking forward to it. I love to create the semi solid yarns and blending the colours is so much fun..you never know what comes out. I look forward to going into my basement for the day and seeing how it all comes out. Last weekend was Alpaca and Sport weight which I hope to have up in the store shortly…I just have to be able to get home and reskein and photograph it. I am starting to get into a springish mood with my dyeing and hope my socks will come out that way too.

I don’t really mind the winter, but just love the spring…it’s the flowers…I love to see them peaking through the dirt, buds on the trees…it is the beginning and I find it very inspiring.

Tell me what you are looking forward to most this spring! 

DUE TO OVERWHELMING RESPONSE WE HAVE NOW ADDED CHERRY TREE HILL SOCK YARNS TO THE LIST
$1.50 OF EACH SKEIN WILL GO TO THE YARN HARLOT’S MSF FUND

So far we have raised over $90…let’s make it to $100!

All Things Heather and  Sweet Sheep categories will donate a portion of the proceeds to the Yarn Harlot’s MSF Fund

Shop for the benefit of Charity!

One Day left to join the Project Spectrum Semi Solid Sock Club

Check it all out

So I have had mixed responses to the below UFO VS Casting On question. Thank you ladies for your responses. They have made me think…I could not decided what to do, so I continued to work on my design project. I will be away for a few days so I took only one project with me and will concentrate on it so I can write up the pattern for you lovely folks.

It really got me to thinking…how many of you have UFO socks? Just can’t knit the second sock…would we be interested in a Sock UFO exchange? Just a thought…maybe we could send someone else our second sock?

Yes I do just blurt as I am writing…it is a habit…it gets me into trouble.

Anyways as I was saying I am still up in the air on what to do knitting wise..I have a few days to think about it.

Just a quick reminder…today is the 29th…the semi solid club starts on the 1st of Feb and there are a few spots left if you want in. I will not be taking anyone more after Feb 1.

Go Get Yours!

This week is an exciting week in store news….we have a shipment of the amazing Brooklyn Handspun signature yarn on it’s way to the shop this week…will hopefully be up this weekend, and I also put up the incredibly soft Shelridge Soft Touch . The colours are so rich an beautiful!

And last but not least…a Finished Object!!

My finished sKNITches socks!

They ROCK!

I also have a design project on the go. A pair of cabled fingerless gloves. I am enjoying them, but dread writing it all down…not sure why.

Ok so here is my dilema…I work a lot and don’t have time for an intricate project right now, so do I start another pair of basic socks or do I finish up one of these two projects…or start a sweater for C?

 Let me tell you a little about C’s sweater of past.

When I first began my real “knitting” I had an overwhelming desire to clothe C. I wanted to show him how great knitting could be…and being naive I picked up some acrylic and away I went. I made a great hoodie that he loved and has loved for a few years to death. He washes it and dries it in the dryer and he is happy. The sweater however looks like hell. It has sooo many pills on it and the colour is dull. Last week I had him pick out some “good” yarn. He really likes the Shelridge in Chocolate so I promised to make him a new sweater and will be washing it myself…I know the shelridge is superwash, but I am a bit of a monkey and insist on washing everything by hand with Soak. I figure if I spent that much time on it, I might as well take care of it.

So this is my stand still. I am stuck…cast on or finish up?  Help!