Artesano Ltd- Welcome to North America!

We are proud to be the very first US knitting store to carry yarns from Artesano LTD, based out of the United Kingdom! They are a family run business committed to ethical trading practices. Artesano's main suppliers are based in Peru and and some yarn also comes from Bolivia, one of the poorest countries in South America. Artesano has been very careful to work with co-operatives and companies that have a good record of looking after the people that work for them. The yarns are the highest quality and softest pure alpaca yarns we have felt. There are currently three yarns, Inca Cloud, a superfine alpaca, Inca Mist, a baby alpaca and Hummingbird, a space dyed multicolor alpaca yarn. They are all DK weight and interchangeable in patterns. For those of you who love sock yarn, Artesano's Hummingbird yarn is amazing. It somes in HUGE 150 gram skeins in a variety of colors. You will have a pair of super luxurious socks.




We chose Artesano because of their smaller size, the high quality of the alpaca yarn, the range of colors offered, their commitment to ethical trading practices, and also because they have fantastic and modern pattern support! Most of the patterns are designed by Jean Moss, a well known knitwear designer in the UK. Her designs are absolutely gorgeous! We are proud to carry all of the patterns and the yarn you will need to knit them. Here are a few of our favorites. Also there is a fantastic pattern book, which is a wonderful value because it has TEN of Jean Moss's patterns in it. Make sure to take a look at it.


All of Artesano's yarns and patterns are now available at One Planet Yarn and Fiber.

Other announcements:

Yarn Pirate yarns will be posted Wednesday morning around 10:00 am, MST. We also have gorgeous new yarns and from Sereknity. We have a huge order from Fleece Artist with many new kits and yarns and other items. The items will start posting over the next week. For those of you waiting for more Sea Silk yarn, thank you for all your emails and your patience. Our new order will be here in about a week and wait until you see all of the new colors!!
We have a new yarn arriving for Lanas Puras. This is an amazing 50% cotton, 50% wool yarn in a variety of colors in DK weight. It will be called Lanas Puras Clarissa.

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Be Sweet Bamboo Yarn, Chewy Spaghetti, next week and Nell's Clapotis

June 12th

There is so much to say in one post for the week!

First a reminder again that we are closed from Wed evening, the 13th through Sunday evening the 17th. The store is open and orders can be placed, but they will all be shipped Monday and emails will be answered then. Can you tell we are nervous about leaving it for a few days? I am sure it will be ok!!

We are getting in an unreal quantity of yarn! Probably too much, but we will view it as if we are all set for the fall.

Be Sweet Bamboo Yarn
We got in today the Be Sweet Bamboo yarn. This yarn is incredibly incredibly beautiful. It is very soft and has a lovely shine to it. It knits up into a very breathable and next to your skin soft fabric. I knit a swatch in the blue green color and thought it would make an incredibly light weight lacy shawl or a light weight sweater. The colors are amazing, and it was hard to choose where to start! We just picked a range of six colors. Here is the pretty blue green one I mentioned and also one of the rose pink which is just incredible!! The price is great too! It is a DK weight yarn so it has loads of uses!! Consider this for any DK weight project. The yarn is hand dyed by South African women and you are supporting a great cause also by purchasing the yarn. A portion of the sales to go a jobs creation program and a school program for poverty stricken South Africans. The yarn is also considered ecofriendly (friendly for the environment ) and antibacterial! It is great for baby items! But also for adults as well. If you are sensitive to wool and/or live in a warm climate, this could be a fantastic yarn for you.



Chewy Spaghetti Sock Yarn

We just posted quite a few skeins of Chewy Spaghetti Sock yarn. This yarn is GORGEOUS! Her colors are getting better and better and this is a great new yarn for her "spaghetti" superwash merino with a tight twist. Grab it while it lasts. It usually does very well.

Next Week-

-Yarn Pirate yarns will definitely be listed next week. Look for a blog post on Monday or Tuesday for a definite date. I am guessing Wed, the 20th is the day.

-We will be introducing a brand new company called Artesano. They are based in England and we are very excited to be their very first US retailer. They have amazing patterns and incredible yarns. They are also very affordable and I think all of our customers will really love their products. More details next week.

-We have a new shipment from Sereknity of the most beautiful new sock yarns, sock bags and spindle bags. Heather of Sereknity outdid her self this time, and the items she sent us are simply beautiful!

We wanted to also share with you some photos that were sent in to us of a project knit with two skeins of Lanas Puras Melosa Fingering weight yarn in Mountain Sky.

Nell, a very nice person as well as a talented new knitter, sent us these photos of her incredibly gorgeous Clapotis shawl knit in Lanas Puras Melosa. Can you believe how gorgeous this is? We had to share these photos with all of you!! We are starting a customer gallery of creations so please send in photos if you have made anything at all with yarns you have purchased at One Planet Yarn and Fiber. We'll send you a little gift for submitting photos to the gallery!

Here is Nell's Clapotis. It is simply gorgeous and look how she coordinated her clothes to match. She looks like a beautiful model!



Thank you Nell, for sharing your photos with us!

Felting is HOT!! New Bag Patterns!

Felting is HOT this year and we are excited to introduce not just one, but two new felting bag patterns in our Lanas Puras, Melosa. Lanas Puras Melosa felts beautifully. If you haven't tried it yet, you will be in a for a treat! Lanas Puras is our own exclusive line of yarns from South America. Melosa is from Uruguay. We will be getting a new yarn Lanas Puras yarn "Clarissa" in the next month. It is a DK weight 50% cotton, 50% merino in huge 100 gram skeins! We are excited about this yarn, so watch this space for more info!

On To The Felted Bags!!!

-The Llama Bag, designed by Pamela Covert

The first pattern is the Llama Bag designed by Pamela Covert. Pam has been knitting and crocheting since she was about 8 and for years she was making her own creations but just never took the time to write up patterns. Now that most of her kids have left the nest, she has taken the plunge and started designing professionally. Pam is a designer who loves to work with a lot of color and that is apparent with just a glance at the Llama Bag. The bag is a fun and colorful generously sized tote perfect for use as a purse or a knitting/crochet bag. If you’ve never tried tapestry crochet you will find this to be a great introduction to the technique, which is fully explained in the instructions. Experienced crocheters will enjoy this fun pattern and the changes of color. The Llama Bag is available as a download pattern at One Planet Yarn and Fiber. Yarn requirements are listed on the pattern description. If you are on our mailing list, you will be getting a special offer for the month of June.

- The Hexagon Bag, designed by Connie Chang

For a complete change of style, we are pleased to introduce the beautiful Hexagon Bag designed by Connie Chang. Connie is a physicist, knitting maniac, and a relatively new, but extremely talented knitwear designer. The Hexagon Bag knits up easily in two shades of Lanas Puras Melosa yarn. The fair isle main panels give a niceweight to the bag while the bottom and shaped sidepanels are worked in cushy garter stitch. Install a zipper, knit the short shoulder strap and you're ready to go with a structured, elegant handbag for evenings out or Sunday shopping. The Hexagon Bag pattern is available as a pattern download at One Planet Yarn and Fiber now. The Lanas Puras Melosa yarn used in the bag is listed on the pattern listing.





Just a reminder! We are closed from Wednesday afternoon June 13th to Monday June 17th! Just a few days for a summer break! The website will still take your orders and they will all be shipped on Tuesday the 19th. All emails will be answered on the 18th!

We have two brand new companies being added this this month. Watch this space. A new Fleece Artist order is arriving with lots of kits and yarns. A new Hand Maiden order too and a new order from Perl Grey , their sister company! Sunshine Yarns were just added to the site-yummy!! And for those of you waiting for Yarn Pirate, the yarn will not be listed until the week of the 19th but we are shooting definitely for that week. It isn't here yet. As promised the exact dates will be posted here.

Enjoy these bags plus our other new Lanas Puras Melosa patterns!! If you are not on our mailing list, please join for special offers this month!!

New Patterns and More on the Way!

New Lanas Puras Melosa Patterns- now available by download. These patterns are currently exclusive to One Planet Yarn and Fiber.

We have two exciting new patterns to release this week, both shown in our beautiful hand painted Lanas Puras Melosa yarn.

We are thrilled to introduce the second of our new felting patterns, the "Soothe Yourself Spa Set," designed by the very talented Sara Lucas. Sara is the founder of the Yarn of the Month Club and has designed many patterns, including the lovely Milanese Lace Glove pattern for One Planet Yarn and Fiber. Sara is also the author of several knitting books, including a new one releasing soon called "Baby Knits Kit: Instructions and Tools for 20 Snuggly Projects" The "Soothe Yourself Spa Set" pattern is an advanced beginner pattern which uses two contrasting colors of Lanas Puras Melosa fingering weight yarn to creat a neck roll and a matching eye pillow. After knitting and felting, the neck roll is fit over a pillow form and the eye pillow is stuffed with your choice of filling. We recommend including some relaxing lavender to bring a little "Zen" into your life! What a wonderful way to treat yourself or that someone special in your life!

(Kirsten relaxing)

We are also happy to introduce a fabulous new sock pattern designed by Lucia Tedesco, the "Lacy Mock Cable Socks." Lucia was born and raised in Roma, Italy. Her mom taught her how to knit during a very rainy vacation on the Dolomites when she was fourteen years old and she has hardly put her needles down ever since. She now lives in the Silicon Valley with her husband who makes her espresso in the morning, her two children, Principessa and Paperino, and her knitting that she still calls "maglia." You can read all about her knitting adventures on her blog.

These lacy socks are an easy to knit, intermediate level pattern which have the look of cables, but are knit with yarn overs and decreases. The socks feature gusset increases, a slipped stitch heel flap, and a round heel and are knit, suprisingly from the toe-up. The pattern uses just one skein of Lanas Puras Melosa, fingering weight yarn. The colorway shown is Fantasy, but these socks would be beautiful in any of our many colorways of Lanas Puras Melosa.

Watch this space for more new patterns coming soon to One Planet Yarn and Fiber!

Make sure to check our "What's New" page for all kinds of new products! The Sock Diva Sock Bugs and Baby Bugs are back for a visit, we have gorgeous handblended spinning fiber batts from Madelinetosh and other new things.....!!

KnitSpot.com Patterns, Funky Carolina & more

One Planet Yarn and Fiber is finishing up a very busy month.! Hopefully, we will soon be able to fulfill our commitment of donating a portion of our profits to Nonviolent Peace Force. Check out their site, the link is on the side bar. We chose them because they work with numerous groups around the world to support peace making activities of all sorts. The mission of the Nonviolent Peaceforce is to build a trained, international civilian peaceforce committed to third-party nonviolent intervention.We appreciate everyone's support of One Planet!

June Vacation-

Just a pre-announcement that we will be closed completely for a four day break in June. From June 14th-June 17th, we will not be here to answer emails or send out packages. They will all be sent out on Monday the 18th, so it is just a short delay. We will remind people later and also put this on our website.

Patterns from Knitspot.com

We are just finishing up listing all of the patterns from our newest pattern company Knitspot.com. We are thrilled to provide these patterns to all of our customers in download format. Please look at the Knitspot.com section on our web site. Many of Knitspot.com's patterns use variegated yarn and since we have so many handpainted yarns in our shop, we thought these would be perfect. The pattern downloads are so convenient , especially for all of our international customers and for pattern and yarn addicts who like instant gratification!

Check out two of our very favorite patterns, the brand new Morning Glory wrap knit with DK weight handpainted yarn (try using the Sheep Shop 3 merino and silk for this wrap-yummy) and also the Japanese Feather Stole or Scarf in fingering weight (how about Hand Maiden sea silk or Fleece Artist Sea Wool)


Funky Carolina is Here!

We are so excited to introduce Funky Carolina to the customers of One Planet Yarn and Fiber. Carrie is an up and coming new fiber artist with a beautiful eye for color. She hand paints various yarns including sock yarns and luxury merino yarns and bamboo yarns. She also hand paints the most gorgeous spinning rovings! Her handspun is gorgeous and we got goosebumps when we opened the box from her. Her colors are fresh and fun and we know everyone will enjoy Funky Carolina's yarns and fibers!

Make sure to visit Funky Carolina's ETSY shop and her blog to keep up with all of her creations. Here are a few of our favorite new items- delicious handspun, handpainted roving and sock yarn. YUMMY! Funky's yarns and rovings are going fast so grab one you like right away! Her colors are just so beautiful!



Watch this space in the next few days for more announcements. There is a lot of new stuff coming out friends!! More sock bugs and baby bugs from Sock Diva, new Lanas Puras yarns and patterns (yummy felted patterns and a fabulous sock pattern!!). Coming soon....more Sunshine Yarns, Yarn Pirate & Chewy Spaghetti. NEW companies Madelinetosh, Artesano and Jo Sharp. A new Fleece Artist order will be here in about 2 weeks. Hand Maiden in about 3 weeks. Be Sweet Bamboo and more Magic Cardigan Kits in a week or so.... !! A new Lanas Puras yarn-Clarissa-that is 50% cotton and 50% merino in a huge DK weight skein!! We have LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS of spinning fiber, spinning batts and spindles coming in June! More Avi Wasserman spindles and perhaps another spindle maker or two :)

Watch the space.... To those of you waiting for Yarn Pirate and Sock Bugs/Baby Bugs, I know you are waiting and thanks for all the emails! I will give some notice when these will be posted so everyone has a chance to buy some. The Sock Bugs will be listed in the next three days. Yarn Pirate will probably be next week but I will let you know!

New this week! Patterns! Patterns!

We have quite a few exclusive One Planet Yarn and Fiber patterns releasing soon. Please watch this space and you may see a new pattern every single week!!! It is very exciting, because we have an incredibly talented group of designers working with us!!

A New Yarn Botanika Pattern!

We are proud to be releasing a new pattern Gina House. Gina has published her first patterns at One Planet Yarn and Fiber including the Haiku Flower socks in Black Pearl Yarns cashmere and the Radiance Lace Headband.

This pattern is called the Lovely Waters Tablerunner, and it is simply exquisite! The yarn shown in the pattern is Yarn Botanika hand dyed DK weight superwash merino in the colorway called Blue Moon. This gorgeous table runner was somewhat difficult to photograph because the lace pattern is so beautiful, and the item is long, so it was hard to get a photo that really showed the detail. There are also beads on the end, and you can see these in one of the photos.


Yarn Botanika Radiance DK weight yarn and another would be the Sheep Shop 3 merino and silk yarn. Either of these would be gorgeous in this yarn. A heavier fingering weight yarn could be used, for example the Fleece Artist Sea Wool Sock yarn which is also washable is perfect for this pattern and we are getting more new colors in soon! Also check in the "indie company" section of our site for sport weight/DK weight yarns that might work for this lovely pattern!

Coming Soon

We have many patterns coming soon. We have felted patterns coming including a felted Spa Set and several felted bags in Lanas Puras melosa. We also will be adding beautiful patterns from a company called Knitspot.com. We have hand dyed yarns, fibers, spinning batts, and knitting bags coming from Madelinetosh and Funky Carolina. Another Yarn Pirate shipment is expected by the end of this week! We have a huge new shipment of Lanas Puras Melosa yarns coming with a many colors of lace, fingering and worsted weight yarns. We also have a new Lanas Puras Yarn coming soon called Lanas Puras Clarissa!! We are very excited about this new yarn! It is being spun exclusively for One Planet Yarn and Fiber in Uruguay. It is 50% cotton and 50% merino wool (the same lovely Lanas Puras merino) in big DK weight skeins. In June, will be adding two new yarn companies (exciting!!) and we should have a new Fleece Artist order here!

More about all of these new offerings soon!


PS Do you read Interweave Knits magazine?? See our ad on page 27 of the summer knits issue, and there is a special gift there for you !! :) We also have this issue for sale under Magazines and Books!

May 9th- What's New This Week

We have another week of a lot of new items.... It can't continue like this forever, feeling like a holiday but for now it is quite a bit of fun to unpack boxes full of amazing yarns and other goodies.

First, we got a few skeins of yarn in from our favorite handspinner, Rachel Dow, of RMD designs. Her handspun yarns are amazing, just because of the colors and the care that goes into each skein. I have made a few drop stitch scarves from her yarns for gifts and people always oohed and ahhed because the colors are so amazing. Visit Rachel's section of our shop and really even a simple stitch pattern with her yarns makes an amazing scarf or shawl. You could knit up a shawl on really big needless and a loose stitch and have an amazing garment. Here is one of her skeins that came in tis week.

We received an entire shipment of Be Sweet products, which we could go on and on about. They have the most unusual yarns in the prettiest colors and they are a company with a great vision and philolophy. Please read about them on our site and take a look at the Magic Balls and patterns and kits! When I saw this sweater, I just fell in love and I have to make it for myself. We decided to put it into kit form, which we sell on our site! The magic balls and kits are already selling so soon we'll have to buy more magic balls and more kits ..

And what is a magic ball by the way? They are amazing little creations of different kinds of yarns, hand dyed and handspun by women in South Africa, full of different textures and colors. Several of the patterns call for only one magic ball.... Here is a "hot sundae" magic ball-the colors are delicious and one ball can make a tote bag or a little clutch. A few can make a scarf, shawl or sweater, so take a peak at all the Be Sweet Products.

Last but definitely not least, for spinners and aspiring spinners everywhere, how lucky are we to have our first shipment of hand turned spindles from Avi Wasserman in Israel. Avi is a very talented artisan and an interesting and nice person! His background is actually in engineering and he takes the production of each of spindles quite seriously. He uses amazing exotic woods and adds other unique features like inlay silver that you will not see anywhere on other spindles. As we went through them to photograph, we oohed and ahhed and I want every one! It is very very difficult these days to find spindles like this so we hope those of you who like to spin, will want to add these to your collection! We also have loads of new spinning fiber coming in the next few months so watch the spinning section. Here are examples of two of Avi Wasserman's spindles. The first is a beautiful dyed blue Queensland maple spindle that also uses ebony wood. The shaft is made from mahogany.


This second one is an example of Avi's new spindle designs that have the precious silver inlaid into them. These really are unusual and one of a kind works of art! We hope to be showing many of Avi's other designs in the future.



That is it for now..... except don't forget to join our mailing list for special private offers, etc. We typically send out a mailer once per month or every other month and never share your name or contact information.

The Bugs Are Here and more!

When we opened up the box of Sock Bugs and Omiyage "Baby Bugs" from Diana of Sock Diva, we just about flipped at the colors and quality of the fabrics she chose. She uses only the very nicest, most colorful and sturdy 100% cotton quilt fabric. Diana has an amazing color sense and truly each "bug" is a work of art!!

The smaller "Omiyage baby bugs"are perfect notions bag. Two of them can snap on to a bigger Sock Bug. They are absolutely adorable and not just that, very well made in beautiful colors. The Sock Bugs are equally amazing. They have a velcro pocket, that can't really be seen in the photos very well, to hold scizzors or a tape measure or needles. Each Sock Bug has room inside easily for sock yarn and your needles and a pattern. Or use for any smaller project. There is 40 inch fabric handle and a drawstring "mouth" closure to keep your items neat.






Meet a few of our favorite "bugs." The photos honestly don't do them justice. The fabrics are so exquisite-hand dyed fabric, watercolor and batik patterns.

What else?

I promised photos of the new Chewy Spaghetti and A Piece of Vermont Yarns. First, Chewy Spaghettti sent us lovely lovely large skeins of lace weight merino and silk yarn (50/50). The yarn just gleams in beautiful colors! We are getting more sock yarn soon from Chewy soon...



Jessie, from A Piece of Vermont, has been working for months to find the best combination of pure Vermont fibers. She finally has released her 100% Vermonter yarn called "Weybridge." It is a hearty yarn, a mixture of several fibers hand dyed in gorgeous colors. We see many hand dyed yarns at One Planet Yarn and Fiber, and the interesting thing is how everyone has a different approach to dyeing despite using similar "ingredients." Jessie's colorways have a base color with subtle shading and then bits of other colors mixed in. Truly each yarn is unique. Here is a skein of "Weybridge" yarn.


We just received a shipment of Yarn Pirate yarn!! It will be up on the site soon. And in the next three weeks we have several exciting new companies so watch this spot for announcements!!


HAPPY MAY!!

About HipKnits and other things...

We are super excited to have HipKnits, UK products on our website with even more on the way. Kerrie Allman, the founder and owner of HipKnits, UK really is a talented and hardworking fiber artist. She is someone who has done it all in a way. She started HipKnits, UK and now hand dyes 20 different types of yarns for her studio and store. She hired designers very early to do patterns for her yarn and this was a very smart move on her part. She also does her own designs to provide free pattern support to customers who purchase her yarn. She founded the online knit magazine many know about called MagKnits. She also recently founded a UK based knitting magazine that we now carry at One Planet Yarn and Fiber, called Yarn Forward. It is currently listed in our "magazines and books section." She also owns a really neat company called SewHip! How much can one person do! We won't even mention her personal life! On top of this, she is an incredibly nice person unaffected by her success and a real pleasure to work with. HipKnits, UK is actually the type of company we like being affiliated with at One Planet Yarn and Fiber. Please make sure to start at Kerrie's blog and read all about her and her various enterprises.


We currently are carrying HipKnits silk and cashmere yarns along sari silk yarn and sock yarns and patterns. We did not get all of the silk yarn, which actually is the yarn that supports most of the patterns and it will be here soon. Her sock yarn is beautiful and the cashmere is amazing. The yardage on the skeins is high so take a close look. Even if a skein says $ 38.99, if it has 750 yards of fingering cashmere, that is a lot of cashmere for the price! Here is one of our favorite sock yarns called Subtle, which is almost sold out already. We love the subtle colors of the skein
!

Here is one of our favorite patterns done in HipKnits sock weight cashmere designed by One Planet Yarn and Fiber's own Creative Director, Melissa Wehrle. It is called Annabelle and is available by download as all the other HipKnits patterns are. Plus, there are lots of patterns that are free with a purchase of HipKnits yarns.



What else is new or coming soon?

We have three new WoolPets needle felting kits-a bunny, a blue bell and an intermediate kit called Sheep. These are hot sellers because they are so much fun and they teach people basic needle felting skills while completing a project. In the next two days, we'll be posting gorgeous new lace yarns from Chewy Spaghetti and a beautiful new shipment of yarns from A Piece of Vermont. This time, A Piece of Vermont, sent along "real Vermonter" yarn too! We'll show some photos soon. We have two cotton yarns coming and a new bamboo yarn from several new amazing companies which will remain a surprise for now!! And we have a order from Yarn Pirate coming in the next few days with another one promised for May!! PLUS, we are adding two of the most amazing new indie companies, along with two spindle makers. And we have about six or so exclusive patterns also releasing!! So, you can see we have lots of exciting news and products now and coming soon.

For dyers or smaller yarn companies, we are selling beautiful undyed yarn from Uruguay. See our "wholesale only" section for more info!!

Also, only a few more days for the April sale..... Certain products are 10% and 15% off for only a few more days, including all books and magazines by the way and they are already discounted. If you didn't get the flier or want one again, let us know. Because there won't be another sale most likely for awhile. With independent artisans and smaller yarn companies, it is hard to have sales on products because they are all handmade......

Bye for now!

Sheep Shop Three Yarns & Other things..

The Sheep Shop Three yarns are all listed and they are some of the nicest skeins of handpainted yarn we have seen! We realized we didn't show any photos yet on the blog. They are super soft with a great shine from the silk. Uruguay is known for the quality of its merino yarn and the combination of the merino and silk yarn results in a fiber that takes dye so well that the colors are just brilliant. At first glance, they seem a bit high in price, but they aren't at all, because each skein has 325 yards! So you only need about 3 or 4 skeins for a sweater, depending on the pattern of course.

The Sheep Shop Yarns work great for any DK weight pattern, including the Black Pearl Yarn patterns like the Sapphire Wrap sweater or Georgia. Sheep Shop 3 is a more affordable alternative to cashmere and would be fabulous for either of these patterns. I am thinking of making one of the Zephyr Style patterns with Sheep Shop 3 like Ms Marigold. I love that pattern and I only need two skeins of Sheep Shop for that sweater!! The yarn might also be good for Chic'Knits Cece sweater, which would use 2-3 skeins depending on your size. Sheep Shop Yarn company will be coming out with their own patterns soon too, and in the fall we have even more DK weight cashmere patterns.

Here are a few of my favorite colors. Each skein is handpainted and we carry every single color of Sheep Shop yarn, both solids and variegated.





We are also super super super excited about a few other orders we have placed with some new companies but we will keep that a secret for now!! Coming in the next few weeks are new shipments from Yarn Pirate, Sunshine Yarns, Chewy Spaghetti, A Piece of Vermont and Wooldancer, so keep your eye on the "What's New Section" of One Planet Yarn and Fiber as well as this blog. All of the HipKnits yarns and patterns from England really will be up soon! We'll have another blog post just about that.

Also, we are placing an order with Fleece Artist within the next few days if anyone would like a custom order, please let us know! You can order any kit from the Fleece Artist or Hand Maiden website in just about any color. Contact us for more information and details.

Our private sale continues until the end of the month! If you didn't receive the flyer, email us and we will send you one!

Introducing the Accordion Bag

We are excited to introduce another unique knitting pattern with Lanas Puras Melosa yarn. This is the first of several felted patterns to come. Lanas Puras Melosa felts beautifully according to our design team! Watch this space for more felted patterns, sock patterns, patterns for skirts and a dress, baby items, and adult sweaters!!

The Accordion Bag pattern was designed by Gryphon Perkins. Gryphon is a multi talented designer and fiber artist, who describes her entry into the world of knitting, fiber art and design "As we all know, fiber is highly addictive stuff. I took up the needles about three years ago, the spinning wheel a year later and dyeing a year after that. In the last year, I began selling my designs, several to Interweave, and began to find that my job was increasingly interfering with my fiber time. The only conclusion was to quit and pursue my habit full time. As a result, I now run a little spinning/yarn shop out of my home in Easton, Maryland where I sell spinning wheels, roving, handspun and handpainted yarns, teach spinning and knitting, and continue to swatch furiously and publish my designs. I have wild dreams of starting my own yarn company, publishing dozens of gorgeous knitting books, and having a farm populated with every sort of fiber animal there is. Let it be noted that my husband is an extremely good humored and indulgent man. " You can read about Gryphon's adventures on her blog or can help support her habit by visiting her ETSY shop.



The Accordion Bag pattern is a beginner/intermediate project that uses only two skeins of Lanas Puras Melosa worsted weight yarn. It's a chic bag that is quick to knit and is great for carrying a small knitting project or your essentials for an evening out.



The Lanas Puras Melosa yarn is part of our private sale now too. Did you receive our sale flyer? If you missed it somehow, please drop us an email at info@oneplanetyarnandfiber.com. You must be on our mailing list to receive the sale flyers which only go out a few times per year.

Other stuff!

Is there a special kit or color from Fleece Artist or Hand Maiden that you would like to order for your self? They have so many incredible colors and kits, we can't have them all,! But, we are going to be doing an order very soon, and if there is something you would really like, please let us know and we will try to include it in our order. Take a look at their websites and drop us a note if you are interested.

New yarns and yarn companies? Yes!!! Yes! We don't want to tell all quite yet!! But definitely showing up this week will be the new Sheep Shop 3 yarn. This yarn is GORGEOUS!!! It is a DK weight, 70% fine merino and 30% pure silk yarn. We ordered it in every colorway available. We have quite a few patterns for DK weight yarn and also this yarn is perfect for spring/summer lace and shawl knitting. The yarn is very soft with a lovely sheen and the colors are just beautiful. Photos soon.

Our yarn from Hipknits, UK is here!!! We are just waiting for the patterns and then we will list them all. We also have multiple copies of a UK Knitting magazine called Yarn Forward, edited by Kerrie of Hipknits and Magknits. It has really great patterns inside and I love how they give yarn options based on price category. All of these items will be listed very soon.

Also coming soon our the incredible Sock Bugs and Baby Bugs from Sock Diva. These are very unique, colorful and whimsical little bags for holding sock projects. You will love them and we are excited that we are the exclusive wholesale account for Sock Diva online!!! Thank you Diana for this opportunity and your trust in us. Here are a few photos of a few "bugs."











Have a wonderful week and don't forget the sale!!

Cashmere Flowers in Bloom

Introducing another lovely crochet pattern by Angela Best, of Toronto, Canada, called Cashmere Flowers in Bloom.

This unusual and beautifully modern shrug, Cashmere Flowers in Bloom, is crochet with Black Pearl Yarns 100% cashmere yarn in Hot Chile. Red Dragon is a very similar color, and it is the red that we have in stock right now. This pattern would look amazing in some of the other cashmere colors as well.

Cashmere Flowers in Bloom is "a sensual, exotic little floral shrug that says paradise!"

This is an intermediate-to-advanced crochet pattern, as it uses a special stitch called the Double treble clusters to make the flowers.. This is a gorgeous pattern to wear over a camisole in the evening or for a special event.









This pattern is available in download form at One Planet Yarn and Fiber. It will also be available soon at KPixie.com in hard copy along with the yarn. If you are interested in purchasing the yarn, we happen to be having a special spring sale at One Planet Yarn and Fiber during the month of April for our customers. An announcement is going out very soon. If you are on our customer mailing list, you will receive the details of this special sale offer! Please sign up on our mailing list right at the site on the front page on the left hand column or CLICK HERE!
Feel free to email us if you somehow missed the sale flyer. After you have signed up for our customer mailing list, we we will send you a special flyer. The sale is on quite a few items in our store including the pure cashmere used in this pattern.

Watch this space for some other pattern releases in the next few weeks! We have some amazing patterns for various felted items coming in Lanas Puras Melosa yarn, and also a beautiful pattern for the home in Yarn Botanika handpainted yarn.

Thank you for looking!!