Tea & Yarn...

...Club is coming back!! Check out what came in the mail today! A huge box of yummy teas just perfect for spring! Hot or Iced! I chose 2 of my favorites for Iced Tea!

The Clubs will be up in the shop soon, hopefully if all goes as planned it will be this week! Sign up for my newsletter to be the first to know! 

There will be a new surprise with the club this time, too and I'm sure you'll like it! 

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.

September top 5...

...photos are chosen. I plan on doing semi-solids this month on a luxurious yarn base. I'm so excited to be doing this, because semi-solids are some of my favorites!

Hydrangia
Submitted by: Dina
I'm envisioning a beautiful periwinkle color, just between blue and purple.

Cliffs of Moher
Submitted by: Dobbylrr (ravelry name)
I would love to do two colorways from this photo, blues and greens.

Saskatoon Berries
Submitted by: ZoePaige (ravelry name)
I see a pinkish purple leaning toward blue yarn coming from this photo.

Rosa "Easy Does It"
Submitted by: Janet
This will make a beautiful rosy coral/pink. 

Golden Lilies
Submitted by: Jennifer
Gold/yellow orange, just in time for fall, at least where I live.

It's your last day to...

...vote! Blogger is a little slow to update so I'll give it a day or so before I announce the winner, but I'm pretty sure it's going to be the Autumn Path! I'm so sure that the yarn is in the dye pot right now and it's gorgeous as far as I can tell, it's still wet you know, it changes a bit when it's dry and re-skeined, but usually it gets even more beautiful!! I can't wait to send it out to my yarn club subscribers! I will also have it available as a month to month purchase, but it is in your best interest to subscribe if you think you'll plan on getting more than one month's inspiration. In the long run it will be less expensive since the yarn and shipping are discounted. I understand that many cannot afford to fork out this much money at one time so I want to offer it month by month, too. There will also be other goodies with the clubs and sometimes one of a kind yarns, that are not a part of my usual line up that I carry. For the reason of the yarn club I cannot reveal the final photos of the yarn, just a sneak peak. I'm sorry, but it just wouldn't be fair to the club subscribers and I hope you understand! I do plan on dyeing up some of the other inspirational photos this month, which will be revealed and for sale in the shop. I will have a listing for a pre-order of the August colorway in my shop.  If you want it on a different base just let me know via a conversation at my Etsy Shop. It won't be available again for six months.