Wednesday...

...surprise!

Free yarn with every 2 or more skeins of yarn purchased. I choose, but please specify red or blue. This cannot be used in conjunction with custom orders.

Enjoy!
Angela

Birthday Sale...

...Tuesday surprise! FREE Fiber with every fiber purchase. I will choose your surprise, the more you buy the more you get! I usually take a look at your favorites to see what colors you like, I wouldn't want to send you anything you wouldn't like!

Enjoy!
Angela

Birthday Sale...

...20% off today only! I'll be having a different deal all week long, could be less, could be more, you never know!
Shop All for Love of Yarn.

Please use code: FUN20 for an automatic discount.

Angela

I've got some...

...updates for you!

Some of you know that I contribute to the PhatFiber sampler box. Phat Fiber is a mystery box of fabulous samples for the yarn and fiber enthusiast. The boxes are filled with samples, artful yarns, roving, small batts, stitch markers, original patterns, valuable discount coupons and more. It is a great way to support family farms, indie dyers and others artisans. Each month there is a theme and the theme for August 2011 is Bollywood.

I am seeking inspirational photos for this theme and you can enter yours here in my Ravelry Group: All for Love of Yarn. There are prizes to be won and it could be you!

It's my birthday soon and I'll be hosting a few surprise sales in my shop this week. I'm not telling the date of my birthday when I'll do the best surprise/sale, so keep your eyes peeled!

This weekend in honor of the Phat Fiber box drop (they go on sale this weekend) for July I'm having a FREE SHIPPING sale. Please use code 4FREESHIP to get the shipping costs automatically removed.

Enjoy and thank you!
Angela

Just thought...

...I would share June's Tea and Yarn club photo! The yarn has arrived to it's recipiants by now. There is still 1 Tea and Fiber left, but it is a bit different, still gorgeous, but slightly different. If it doesn't sell it's going to be mine, all mine!

There is still 1 Tea and YARN and  2 Tea and FIBER for JULY left in the shop. August's will go up very soon as well.

I have a new arrangement for the Autumn Club and I hope that you will like it and that it will reach more people the way I have it set up. Details will come soon!

Photos courtesy of Sarah at Exchanging Fire...I accidentally deleted mine, darn it! Sarah has awesome stitch markers and knitting accesorries in her Etsy shop, a few of my customers have have received a stitch marker holder that Sarah made. Thank you Sarah!

Angela

Free...

...shipping for the July 4th Holiday at All for Love of Yarn! Now through Monday, July 4th.

Please use code: 4FREESHIP for an automatic discount. There will be no refunds via PayPal.

Enjoy!
Angela

What you see...

...is what you get! I have several listings in the shop for Vervaine, the most popular tea and yarn colorway. It's on a few of my regular bases and a few new ones too! I only dye this colorway for the shop about 2 times per year, so if you've had your eye on it now is the time to get it and you get to choose your base yarn! If you don't see a base yarn that you want just send me a message via Etsy and ask!

Top to Bottom:
Resplendence: Merino and Silk
The inspirational Teavana Tea
Resplendence again.
Opulence: Merino Cashmere and Nylon
Nogi: Merino and Nylon

Tea Clubs...

...are up in the shop for July!

Tea and Fiber

Tea and Yarn

Thanks for looking and I hope you are having a great Monday! We are cleaning and organizing after a long winter of things piling up and getting misplaced. I rearranged the furniture Saturday and it helps to keep things fresh and new looking.

Angela

Fiber Friday...

...and it's good one this week! After many years, yes years on and off with many attempts to get the right fit and it's finished! My first hand knit sweater for me, I'm very happy with it and it's the only reason I'm looking forward to winter...not really.
Anyway, I started July 26th 2009 and half way done (top down) with the body decided it was too big. I ripped it out and started over on December 16th, 2009. I finished it, or so I thought I finished it on August 10th, 2010. I blocked it. The neck was up too high, it's suppose to be a boat neck and well, it was almost choking me. I tried to take in the underarms. Not good. I put it aside for almost a year and this March 2011 ripped the neck out, what a pain in the a** that was! Since I started knitting at the top it was not easy to rip it out like you would at the bottom, where you ended your knitting. It would have taken me longer to rip it than knit it back up again! I wanted to reduce the size from the underarm to neck by almost 2 inches so I cut a stitch where I wanted to start knitting the ribbing and ripped from there and picked up the 100 and some stitches as I went along.

It was totally worth all the extra effort and I love it!

The pattern is wicked, I used Dream in Color Classy, oh and I learned a lesson with this one, it's one of the reasons I ripped it out the first time. You must alternate skeins with hand dyed yarn!!! The top was darker than the bottom, I had no idea. This was before I dyed yarn and the first hand dyed yarn I used, I learn something important with each and every project I make. It's a good thing, really. At least I try to convince myself of this.

I'm always warm, so I made short sleeves and I'd love to make fingerless mitts the length of my arm to go with it, it will feel better under my coat and when I go outside on cooler days. It's on my ever growing list of things to make...hmmm...maybe I'll have them done in 2 more years...

I almost forgot to post this gorgeous skein of yarn I spun this week, there is actually 2 skeins. It's BFL/Nylon.  One skein is 4.4 grams and 138 yards and the other is 4.9 grams and 154 yards. Worsted/Bulky 3 ply. The fiber was not dyed by me. They might go up in the shop, not sure yet.

Singles: 

Navajo 3 ply:

Sublimity Lace...

...is being discontinued by the company so I will not be able to carry it in my shop anymore :(

 Here are the last few colorways I just added to the shop and more can be found in the lace section. 

They are in order as say are in the shop.

I have this gorgeous annis made from this yarn and my Mom and I both love it! My Mom is usually wearing it at the festivals and it's a hit among many! 

 There is still some of this colorway left in the shop, too!

Fiber Friday...

.. and my mittens are done! They've been done a while, but I blocked and dried them which takes forever these days, it rains every day lately. My daughter is the proud model, but they are most certainly my mittens! I love them!!

Up next on the...

...spinning wheel is this lovely fiber of BFL and Silk. A very favorite of mine to spin, but I say anything with silk is a such a joy to spin and so pretty and lustrious in the skein, let alone a knitted garment!

No, I did not dye this one myself, but got it from a shop on Etsy.