Good morning, everyone! I am sending the newsletter a couple days early this week because on Friday and Saturday I will be at a trunk show with the lovely Kris of Lone Star Yarn in Bedford, TX. If you are in the Metroplex, please come say hello. I would love to meet you in person.… Read More Show and Tell!
Good morning! As I write this, there is just enough snow on the ground for our children to enjoy playing in it and just enough to shut down the whole of Texas since snow is a rare delight here. Yesterday, the children were in and out playing in the snow and then coming in to… Read More Houses in the Snow, Last Day for the Light in Dark Places Preorder, and Your Opinion Please
Good morning, and happy Friday to you! I have so many things to tell you about today that it’s hard to know where to start. First of all, I want to thank you for your prayers and kind words for our daughter. She made it safely to Rome and already got to see Saint Peter’s!… Read More New Colorways and My Club
Good morning and happy Friday to you! I have a few things to talk to you about today. * Thank you! First and foremost, as the year draws to a close, I am looking back over the past year for Purple Lamb, and I just want to tell you how grateful I am for all… Read More A Little Bit of This and a Little Bit of That and a Very Merry Christmas to You
Happy Friday to you! I hope you are doing well. It’s getting positively chilly here in North Texas. I know those of you in the North are laughing at me as I say that, but that’s okay. In light of the cooler weather, I decided to create some new colorway combos for 3-skein shawls using… Read More Colorway Combos and Patterns for DK Shawls
Good morning and happy Friday! I have so many beautiful projects to share with you for this week’s Show and Tell newsletter! November Club Colorway Before we get started, I wanted to let you know the results of last week’s informal poll. I was having a tough time deciding between two lovely paintings to use… Read More Show & Tell and the November Club Colorway
Good morning and happy Friday to you! Last week I mentioned that I would love to share some of your businesses in my newsletter, and I had two people take me up on the offer. One is an author, and the other is a member of a weaving cooperative, so I have the pleasure of… Read More Two Artists and a Free Knitting Pattern
Good morning and happy Friday to you! Today I want to show you some yarn pairings I put together on my two newest bases–Stained Glass Sock and Squiggle Sock. I also wanted to show you a scarf I wove using After the Rain, and if you are still in need of a Mothers’ Day gift,… Read More Some New Yarn Pairings, a Handwoven Scarf, and a Last-Minute Gift Idea
Happy Friday to you! Today I have a new yarn base to tell you about, and I must admit that I’m a little bit giddy about it. It’s called Squiggle Sock, and this yarn base is all about texture. Squiggle Sock is made of 90% superwash merino and 10% nylon. Its construction is similar to… Read More Introducing Squiggle Sock
Good morning and happy Friday to you. You know, it is a real blessing when your work and your stress-relief are one and the same. That truly is the case for me. We are in the midst of trying to buy a house, and there are definitely some major stressors involved. How do I handle… Read More Kits and Top and Yarn, Oh My
