I am doing something new and wonderful this year. I am offering a Twelve Days of Christmas gift set. I’ll be dyeing up a gradient set of 12 mini skeins going from purples to blues to a sea foam green. There will be tonal yarn, speckled yarn, and variegated yarn, and each skein will be… Read More Twelve Days of Christmas Gift Set
Good morning, my fellow yarn lover! It’s time for another Choose Your Yarn Adventure yarn giveaway. I’ve chosen three of my favorite colorways on three different delicious sock-weight yarn bases. The winner will receive his or her favorite skein. You can enter to win your favorite skein on my website here: https://www.shop.purplelambfiberarts.com/pages/yarn-giveaway/ The giveaway ends at… Read More Yarn Giveaway!
I am having a tremendous sale now through Sunday on solitary skeins–skeins where I just have one left in a certain colorway. When you buy 2 solitary skeins, you’ll get the third one free! Yes, free! I’ve never done this before, but I’ll tell you why in a minute. First let me tell you how.… Read More Solitary Skein Sale
Today I wanted to talk about how the same colorway can look significantly different depending on the type of yarn or yarn base it is dyed on. I took photos of a few colorways I have dyed on several bases so you can see what I mean. What makes the difference? There are a several… Read More Same Colorway, Different Yarn Base
Good morning, my fellow fiber artist! A couple months ago, I asked all of you whether you would like me to add a sport-weight yarn or a second DK-weight yarn to my lineup of yarn bases, and most of you said you would prefer a sport weight. Your wish is my command! Today I want… Read More Super Sport & Some Super Patterns to Go With It
I hope you are as excited as I am about the coming of cooler weather! I have a great fondness for small projects where I can have the satisfaction of actually having something lovely and DONE in fairly short order, especially because I don’t have as much time to knit as I would like, so… Read More Palate Cleanser Projects with Mini Skeins
I have come up from my dye pots long enough to list several colorways that were previously sold out as well as several new colorways that I hope you will love as much as I do. Included among them are some colorways dyed on my newest base. It’s called Super Sport, and it’s a lovely… Read More Shop Update!
I always think of Labor Day as the official beginning of “yarn season”–when it’s finally cool enough to start wearing our wonderful woollies–or at least to hope it will be soon! I know for a lot of us, it’s also the time when we start planning what we want to make our loved ones for… Read More Labor of Love Labor Day Sale
It’s time for another yarn giveaway! You get to choose your favorite colorway and your favorite sock-weight base as well. The colors are Mithril or Margarita. Mithril is a silver-gray with a bit of a lavender cast to it, and Margarita is a bright lime or chartreuse. The three bases you can choose from are… Read More Choose Your Yarn Adventure Yarn Giveaway – August 2018
Last time we spoke, we talked about some patterns that use two colorways of sock-weight yarn that would look great together. As I mentioned, I’ve been taking a number of my traditionally variegated yarns and making new colorways using the same colors but dyeing them using my splashed and speckled method. When I told my… Read More Pas de Deux on Buttery Soft DK, a Coupon Code, and a Bit of News
