New Year's Giveaway...

...this time it's Up North, one of the colorways I dyed for Jimmy Beans Wool for Coyote Trail, Romi's design.

It's got a few (3-4 that I noticed) blue splotches on it. Can't sell it, so it's up for grabs! The yarn is Opulence Fingering: 80/10/10 Superwash Merino/Cashmere/Nylon.

The winner will be chosen with random.org and I will announce it January 2nd.

The winner is responsible for contacting me; I will not be searching you out! My email address is:
angela@allforloveofyarn.com

JB review!

 Check it out! Jimmy Beans Wool did a review on Opulence!

Thank you Kristen!

http://www.jimmybeanswool.com/knitting/yarn/AllForLoveOfYarn/OpulenceFingeringVideoReviews.asp?showLarge=true#detail

Romi selection giveaway!

I've got a fun one for you; especially if you want to knit Romi's upcoming design in the colorways that she choose! No better time for the giveaway than right now, don't you think?!

Durring the process of dying lots and lots of Coyote Trail I have a stray that cannot be sold. It's got a 3rd end and I have no idea nor do I want to find out where it came from. It could be simple, it could be complex. I'll let one of you find out!

Leave a comment and you could win it.

It will be the winners responsibility to contact me within 1 week or I'll draw another winner.

angela@allforloveofyarn.com

DEADLINE to enter is December 5th. I'll draw the winner on December 6th, St. Nicholas Day!
Good Luck!
Angela

Opulence: Merino/Cashmere/Nylon

The winner receives just one skein :)

December Twilight

A few months ago I was commissioned to do a special colorway for Lila & Claudine's Advent Knit a-long. 

This was the inspirational photo they sent to me. I love getting inspiration like this to replicate it in yarn. It's the challenging part of my fantastic job. With 1 practice lot on a different base I tweaked it when I dyed it on the yarn they wanted. Opulence Fingering: Superwash Merino, Cashmere and Nylon. A fantastic yarn which I love!

The yarn is flying off the shelf at Lila & Claudine's; they have re-ordered twice, everyone loves it! I'm sending them more tomorrow in hopes that it will arrive on Saturday, the first day of the KAL. 

 "December Twilight"

They have chosen 20 easy scarf patterns. You get to decide how many repeats you do of each stitch pattern. The Knit a-long will begin on December 1, offering 20 days of patterns segments, giving you some flexibility with your time. 

They are including a daily devotion for you to incorporate into your knitting time or not, your choice.

If you want to participate there is still time, contact Lila & Claudine's to get in on this great KAL! 

Their phone number is:  651-429-9551  

If they run out of yarn you know who to contact! angela@allforloveofyarn.com

The party is happening here in their Advent KAL Ravelry group.

The Secret...

is out!

Romi of Designs by Romi is designing a shawl with my yarn. Romi choose the first colorway combo pictured and I cannot wait to see the finished design. I have no idea, well, no more idea than any of you readers, what she is doing with it. I only know what she posts on her blog...it's kind of fun being in on the anticipation with you.

Here are the colorway combos that I paired up for the release of this latest pattern from Romi.  I really don't know how she does it; one great pattern after the next!

All of this yarn is Opulence Fingering, 80/10/10 Superwash Merino/Cashmere/Nylon. It has a great tight twist and super soft and squishy!

Coyote Trail & Dawn Pink 

(Romi's brilliant color combo choice)

Smoldering Red & Halifax Shore

(Halifax Shore is an old favorite, but jazzed up a bit for this special pairing.)

Symphony & Tropica

Citrus Orange & Up North

(Up North was inspired by a recent trip up north (Duluth, Minnesota) in the peak of autumn.)

Greek Olives & Cabernet

(This pairing is a special one; my Mom choose these for a Kleio about 1.5 years ago. She is the only only one with the combo and gets so many compliments I had to go with it.)

The photo of my Mom's Kleio is not the greatest, but you get the idea. It was also dyed on a mostly alpaca yarn so it is lighter than the Opulence, which is mostly a superwash merino.

Where is it available you ask?? Jimmy Beans Wool has it all in collaboration with Designs by Romi.

Enter your photographs...

..and it could be the inspiration for a new colorway! You will get a free skein of the new colorway, too!  Here's how it will work:

I want you to send me your beautiful photographs, I'm looking for content and color in the photo, it doesn't have to be a perfect photo technically, you don't have to be a great photographer for this contest!  We here at All For Love Of Yarn will narrow the photos down to the 5 that I think I can produce the most beautiful yarn colorway. Then it is up to you to vote on which one you like the best and that will be turned into yarn, on the base of my choice, that will work best for the colorway. The winner of the favorite photo will win 1 full skein (around 400 yards, either fingering or sport weight) of yarn in the new colorway!

Rules:
Submission of photos:
 November 1st through November 15th. Submissions before and after these dates will not be accepted.
Photo Specifications:
One entry/photo per person.
It might be posted on my blog, so don't send anything you don't want the public to see.
Photo must be taken by you, not snagged from the internet.
Photo cannot be of yarn. 
Respectful and tasteful photographs please.
No person's faces please.
I have all rights to accept or not accept any photo for any reason without explanation.
Send photos as an ATTACHMENT with these specs please: Jpeg format, around 1200 pixels wide. Please do not send links to online photo albums, only attachments. Thanks.
Send  photos to: allforloveofyarn@gmail.com
Include with your email a name I can use on my blog to give you credit for the photo.  

Voting will be November 17th through 28th. I will post the top 5 photos and you will have a chance to vote on your favorite, the one you would like to see turned into some beautiful socks perhaps, or whatever you can imagine!  The winner will be announced before the end of November.

I will dye the yarn inspired by the winning photograph and the winner will receive one skein at the beginning of December, sometime before the 15th of the month.  It will be a fingering/sock weight in either hand painted variegated, kettle dyed variegated, solid, or semi-solid, around 400 yards, my choice.

You may post your photo in my Ravelry group: All For Love Of Yarn! There is a specific thread for September photos.

A little yarn for our...

...wild side! Here's a peak at what I'm doing today. I changed the original World of Color up a bit and put in black instead of white! It's in the pot now and I can't wait to see what it looks like when it's dry and re-skeined! I still have 2 of the original in my shop. These 2 here are superwash merino and cashmere, yum, yum!