Cohansie Cardigan

New Sweater Kit - Cohansie in Fleece Artist Woolie Silk 3 - Ply

The talented Melissa Wehrle has done it again and we have a new gorgeous sweater kit at One Planet Yarn and Fiber.

Cohansie is a modern cardigan with clean lines and simple construction. The body and sleeves are knit separately in one piece then joined seamlessly at the yoke for a 99.9% seamless knit. The sweater is designed using Fleece Artist Woolie Silk 3 ply (65% Wool/35% Silk)and is available in several colours. The kit can be ordered in sizes XS-3x.

Knitting Goodies.....and NOT just for the Holidays!

If you haven't had the chance to order the Cedar Leaf Shawlette kit designed by the very talented Alana Dakos of Never Not Knitting, it is not too late! This kit is so stunning and unusual, that we just can't keep it in stock! Don't worry, there is always another yarn shipment from Hand Maiden on its way to our store. The Cedar Leaf Shawlette is a lovely crescent shaped little shawl that drapes beautifully around the shoulders and looks absolutely lovely wrapped around the neck as a scarf. The curved shape of the shawl is created using short rows and the leafy border is knit on once the body of the shawl is completed. The kit was designed using Hand Maiden's luxurious Lady Godiva yarn which is 50% wool and 50% silk in the Cedar colourway. We are always happy to substitute another colourway we have in stock or special order your favourite colour from Hand Maiden. Just email us and we're happy to help.

This gorgeous kit was such a big hit with our customers that we decided top create a second version in Fleece Artist Woolie Silk, another lovely handpainted yarn spun in 65% wool and 35% silk. The Cedar Leaf Shawlette Woolie Silk kit is now available in a variety of colours.

We also wanted to show you a really fashion forward line of patterns we are now carrying in pdf download format designed by Vladimira Cmorej of Vadis Designs. Vladimira has her master's Degree in Art Teaching and has worked as a fabric designer, faux finisher, and decorative painter. She has been knitting her whole life and currently self publishes and designs patterns for yarn companies. We are sure you will agree with that her designs are not only very chic, but also very sexy!

Here are just a couple of our favorites. The Open Shoulder Pullover is a very close fitting twisted rib pullover with 3/4 sleeves designed in worsted weight yarn.

The Two Button Cardigan is a 3/4 sleeve cardigan with garter stitch hems and an asymmetric closure designed for heavy worsted or chunky weight yarn.

Happy Shopping!!!

Varese Hoodie by Connie Chang-Chinchio

We have an adorable new Knit Kit called the Varese Hoodie which was designed by Connie Chang-Chinchio. These Varese kits have been doing really well and people are knitting the Varese in various colors of Woolie Silk. Fleece Artist's beautiful wool and silk blend, Woolie Silk, adds visual depth and interest to a classic hoodie with set in sleeves. Lace trims the front pockets, hood and sleeve cuffs, adding a bit of feminine flair to a sporty shape. Gentle princess seam shaping and a hemmed edge gives it the final polish.

The sweater pattern is written for 7 different sizes from XS - 2X, consistent with One Planet's mission of having extended sizes including XS and plus sizes for as many of our knit kits as we can.

Connie Chang-Chinchio is an accomplished designer and you may have seen her patterns in Interweave Knits, Knitscene and other places! She has created several of our most popular designs including the Garland Shell in Black Pearl Yarns Cashmere and the Lacy Rib Turtle and Hexagon Bag in Lanas Puras Melosa. All of her patterns are available as Knit Kits at One Planet Yarn and Fiber.

Anne Hanson Kits, HandMaiden Yarns

We have some very exciting things happening here at One Planet Yarn and Fiber. Truthfully, we are having trouble keeping with photographing all the new yarns and getting them on the site. Our priority is always first on getting all your packages out to you and we have been busy!

New Knit Kits with designs by Anne Hanson from Knitspot.com.

Anne has completed two incredible lace knitting patterns using Lanas Puras Melosa lace weight yarn. The designs are two beautiful for words! We are currently taking pre-orders for kits for each of these. This will really help us know how much yarn to order because the skeins in these colors typically sell out the minute we list them. First is the beautiful Boing Scarf knit in Desert Bloom. This takes just one skein of lace yarn and the kit includes the yarn and the pattern. Second is the beautiful Star of the Evening Shawl knit in Twilight. There are several versions of this shawl. The petite uses one skein, the tall two skeins, and then there are directions for a scarf-sized triangle or shawlette that will take 350 yards of yarn. The Boing Kit is already listed on our website, the Star of the Evening will be listed in just a few days. The actual kits will be mailed out at the end of May or as soon as the yarn arrives from South America. Here is a photo of the Boing Scarf Kit, and a sneak preview of Star of the Evening.

Boing

Preview-Star of the Evening

New Fleece Artist and HandMaiden Yarns

We have many many many beautiful new yarns from both Fleece Artist and HandMaiden yarns of Canada. These include Somoko and Casbah, both cashmere blend sock yarn (also great for other things!), Flaxen, and Swiss Silk and Cashmere fingering weight yarns. We have about 25 new colors of Sea Silk yarn to put on the site. We are redoing some of the photographs so thanks for your patience. A beautiful spring knit kit called the Cap Sleeve Top knit in Lady Godiva silk and wool has also just come in. Here are some photos of the ultimate in luxury yarn-Swiss Silk and Cashmere from HandMaiden Yarns.


Coming in May

There will be more new patterns and knit kits from Ilga Leja using the Fleece Artist and HandMaiden yarns. We have new yarns to list from Cottage Fiber/Feet First, UrbanGypz Artisan Yarn and Knitting by Zen from Australia. UrbanGypz also sent some beautiful hand painted fiber. Bambino, a soft ecofriendly organic cotton and bamboo yarn from Be Sweet Yarns will be coming in soon as well.

New Hand Painted Yarns - Luxury Fibers

We just put on the site some of the most gorgeous yarns I have ever personally seen. First, this luxurious hand dyed Italian Silk from Fleece Artist. This yarn is so incredibly beautiful, first because it is pure silk which takes dye very strongly and so the colors are very clear and bright. Second, it is an unusual fiber, it is a single ply and soft for silk. Really if you are a color and fiber fanatic, this yarn is for you. It is perfect for making any of the fingering weight shawls we have on our site, and we have many! Also it could be used for any sweater or light top calling for fingering weight yarn. I made a mosaic of the colors to easily show them for you.

Then for lace yarn lovers, this Fleece Artist Suri Blue yarn is absolutely yummy. It is spun from 50% soft soft suri alpaca and 50% blue faced leicester (BFL) BFL is as soft as merino but a bit more durable. This yarn is very reasonably priced for handpainted yarn and also the quantity! Each skein has about 647 yards. Here is the mosaic:

The colors are gorgeous!

We also just added quite a few Hand Maiden Sea Silk Colors and new shawl kits. In the next few weeks, quite a few Fleece Artist and Hand Maiden Kits will be added to the site.

What else is new?

We are taking pre-orders for a gorgeous new shawl kit from Knitspot.com called the Cluranach Shawl pattern. There is a petite (2 skein) and tall (3 skein) size done in Lanas Puras Melosa fingering weight in eggplant. If you are interested in this kit, please preorder because they are selling fast and it helps us know and plan how much yarn to order! Any one who preorders will get their kit first. Others may have to wait a bit longer after the pattern release.


We have several other new patterns releasing soon. A gorgeous cardigan design by Melissa Wehrle in Lanas Puras Clarissa is coming soon. And in early November, we will have a new knit kit in Black Pearl Yarns cashmere. The pattern is designed by Wendy Bernard of Knit and Tonic. Watch here for more details.

What's new this week

What's New This Week

We are still adding many new yarns and other fun things every single day! This week we will be adding a new shipment of Madelinetosh yarn. Madelinetosh is a fairly new company based out of Texas. She handpaints all of her yarns and she also makes the luxury spinning batts you have seen on our site. We have been getting great reviews on the hand blended spinning batts and more are going to be added soon! Her yarns are absolutely beautiful and the fiber itself is so soft!! So if you are a handpainted sock yarn lover, this is your week! Over half of the yarns sold within the first hour of posting, but there are some beautiful ones left and more in the future.













We also got a new shipment in from Fleece Artist and HandMaiden. There are many new colors of Sea Silk Yarn, Sea Wool yarn and Merino Sock Yarn! All three are great for lace work, shawls, summer tops and the sea wool and merino have sock patterns on the labels. There are several new colors of our favorite kits and some new kits too. Look at this gorgeous "Lady of the Lake" sweater kit and the beautiful huge skein that makes it!! This is in olive green, the color shown in the pattern photo:




All the new yarn and kit colors will be added by the end of today Tuesday.! There are new colors for all of the yarns and kits we carry. More yarns and kits are coming soon! Make sure to click on "more info" on most of the listings as we added some photos of the Fleece Artist and Hand Maiden skeins so you can see what they are like! Nothing is as exciting as opening up a box from these companies. The yarns are too gorgeous for words!! The photographs don't capture their beauty. Look at these three HUGE HUGE skeins of yarn that are used for the Soft Wavy Wrap. They are simply beautiful!! This kit can also be used for a pattern called the Alpaca Garter Stitch Jacket which we are providing free with each soft wavy wrap kit. Take a look at three of these gorgeous skeins in spring, glacier and pale pink. We are placing a new order with Fleece Artist and Hand Maiden this week. Would you like a special order? We can get any kit or yarn on their website for you in any color, so please let us know! We will be adding on several more kits and yarns in our next order!






























One of our wonderful customers, Leslie, sent in some photos of her beautiful Fleece Artist Celtic Vest Kit that she made in the color madder. We just added quite a few new colors in size M/L and Small. This vest kit can also be ordered in an XL by the way. Aren't these photos great. This is not Leslie by the way, but her friend, who is a wonderful model! Thanks Leslie and friend!







We also have a new shipment of beautiful fiber jewelry from Perl Grey Studios. Perl Grey is Fleece Artist's "sister" company in Nova Scotia. This is a family run business that has been in the pewter business for 5 generations! They also develop knit kits with the Fleece Artist yarns. In this shipment we added some new "buttonsticks" which are wonderful as shawl pins or on any sweater. We also have more of the very popular "ringsticks" and some adorable new black sheep earrings!! Everything new will be listed this week. Take a peek at a few items here, my favorite black sheep earrings and a gorgeous ring stick made of pewter in the shape of a leaf. Make sure to check out all of the new items on our "What's New Page"





















Also from Fleece Artist, we have new spinning fibers in gorgeous colors in both merino and silk and blue faced leicester so spinners enjoy! These should be posted on Wednesday!

Coming soon!

Coming in July.. Watch for Jo Sharp yarns and patternbooks to finally be released in July! The Fall JO Sharp book and yarns should be here by August. Also our beautiful new Lanas Puras Clarissa is here and it is beautiful and really different! It is a handpainted 50% cotton and 50% wool yarn in a heavy DK weight. It has some texture to it and the dyeing gives it a tweed effect. We can't wait to show you and to have our designers get to work with it! We have some other great surprises in store for you as well.......

Knitters Review Ad This Thursday- Do you get the Knitters Review newsletter every week in your email box? Watch for our ad for Lanas Puras yarns in the newsletter this Thursday, June 28th! Not in the forums, but in the weekly newsletter. There is a special offer there which actually applies to every item in our shop if you have been wanting to get a big kit or something special.

PS Are you registered on our site? Register to receive special email offers and news once a month or so. That's it for now.

Fleece Artist and Hand Maiden Yarns

Hello Friends,

We have lots and lots of Fleece Artist and Hand Maiden yarns and kits in the store but they are already going really fast, so we thought we should make announcement!! There are quite a few colors (over 25!!) of SeaSilk yarn, Sea Wool yarn (their new sock yarn), and Merino Sock Yarn. If a color disappears, it means it has sold or gone out of stock. Same with the kits! The sock yarns, SeaWool and Merino come as kits with a sock pattern right on the label. They are an incredible value for handpainted yarns and they come in such brilliant colors. SeaWool has 70% merino and 30% SeaCell and the yarn is washable! It has a gorgeous shine. Sea Silk is perfect for lace knitting and has an incredible shine because its contents are Silk and SeaCell. Sea Cell is related to tencel, by the way!


This yarn is so gorgeous, really the photographs don't do it justice. The yarn that comes with the kits comes in huge handpainted skeins that are works of hart. Here are a few examples. This is the very large skein of yarn that comes with the Soft Wavy Wrap. It was so large, I could not fit it on our photography background. It is just gorgeous. Most of these kits have sold, but there is one left I think. We will order it in a few more colors on the next order.


Here are just a few of large skeins of Scotian Silk Yarn (wool and silk) that are used for the Celtic Vest Kit. Again, the skeins of yarn are simply breathtaking.




I could keep posting hundreds of photos but you get the idea. Please go on line and take a look at all the fantastic colors.


Are you on our mailing list? If you aren't, make sure to sign up because we will be sending out an announcement in the next week or so about a spring sale. It doesn't include everything in the shop so don't wait if you see a product or color you like! Plus we have several new patterns releasing in the next few weeks.... So keep your eyes on this blog!

Thanks for looking and go look at all the gorgeous colors!!

February contest and BLOG coupon special!

Our February Contest is almost over, plus we are putting on tons and tons of new products right now! Please read the "What's New" section of the site where all new products are listed. If you keep checking back there you will see new products being listed all weekend and this week.

If you look at the last blog post, there is a special blog offer of 10% off orders if you enter the discount code BLOG upon check out! So use this to buy some of the wonderful new yarns and other items. Radiance, Yarn Botanika's new line of merino and tencel yarn is finally here and it is truly beautiful. Radiance is spun exclusively for One Planet by a mill in Europe. Right now we have it in fingering weight and a sport/dk weight. The worsted weight will be available soon. The merino tencel we were carrying before and what most yarn dyers and companies have in the US is the sport/DK weight. We are the only ones we know of with this fingering weight or worsted weights and we had these spun for us because of how much we LOVE this yarn. It is lovely and we ordered quantities of various hand painted colors so our customers had enough for shawls, lace work, socks and other items... Here are a few of the new colors.. aquamarine and snapdragon, yum, yum. See the rest of the colors on the site!





















We also have many new spindle kits, spinning fibers, and Marion's Sock Yarns from Germany which are just too fun and a quality quality sock yarn!

You still can enter the February contest!! It is over on 2/28/07 and we'll announce the winners the next day. The ways to enter are to either send in a photo of a completed garment or write a product review on one of our pages. If you do one of these things or more you can be entered several times. mail to: info@oneplanetyarnandfiber.com

There is ONE MORE WAY we came up with for you to enter the contest! If you have a website or a blog, if you put our button on your blog or if you provide a link to One Planet Yarn and Fiber, then you will also be entered into the contest. Here is the button and just email us where we can look to make sure your link works:

Here are the prizes:
1. First Prize - a coupon for 40% off any ONE product.
2. Second Prize - coupon for 20% of your entire order. Time to make a sweater!
3. Third Prize - a coupon for 15% off your order
4. Runner Up Prizes- 3 gifts for entering....just as a thank you!

We will make the coupons good for 90 days so you can take advantage of all the new products coming to the site. Coming soon, new Sereknity Stitch markers and a new shipment of the fabulous Yarn Pirate yarns. Coming In March - Hipknits yarns and patterns from England, absolutely lovely hand painted luxury yarns- cashmere and silk, hip patterns and a British knitting magazine! Fleece Artist and Handpainted luxury yarns including sea silk and the new sea silk and wool sock yarn! Plus great kits and patterns and handcrafted shawl pins. Also Sheep Three yarns and lots of new Sheep Shop Yarn Co patterns..... We have three new One Planet Yarn and Fiber patterns releasing soon, knit patterns by Melissa Weherle and Gina House and a great crochet pattern in cashmere by Angela Best. Watch this spot!

But right now, enter the contest!! Just send in a photo, write a product review or simply link to us on your blog and web page with a button or a hyperlink! Let us know you did one of these things!- via email.

Thanks for looking!

PS. AND, don't forget the February BLOG discount code to use on all the lovely new yarns and other items listed on the site!! 10% off for One Planet Yarn and Fiber blog readers and also for current customers only! The discount code is BLOG. :)