Twitter, Blogger & Ravelry Surprises

We probably don't post often enough on this blog, especially with our own knitting projects! I am working on 3 different things right now, but I forget to take photos...... I will try to take some soon. I also need to get out my spinning wheel, especially with this gorgeous new fiber we have just received from Funky Carolina. She sent us some unique goodies this time - merino/bamboo/silk blend, alpaca/merino/silk blend, merino & silk and fiber batts. Yum yum. I will put a through photos here throughout my post as I upload the new photos onto the One Planet Yarn and Fiber site.

Yarn and fiber photography can be more challenging then it looks. It certainly is time consuming, but there is nothing like yarn photos. If you had told me ten years ago that I would get all excited by the photos of the colors and textures of yarn, I would have not believed you. I think people are either color or pattern people and I am definitely a color person! I love buying paint for my watercolor painting as well.


I wanted to let our readers know that we will be having some new special contests and one day coupons and other fun things on Twitter, our Ravelry group and here. So be sure to keep watching for these special offers. Today, on Friday, 10/2/09, I just posted on Twitter a 20% off coupon (Twitter20) that can be used anytime until 10/3/09 at midnight......It takes 20% off anything and everything on our site with no minimum or maximum. The only excluded items are LaLana kits and yarns. Please don’t order those with this coupon as we can’t honor that sorry!

I hope some of you see this and buy something fun for yourself that you might not otherwise buy. The coupon also works towards on sale and close out items so that is a great offer.


Keep watching this space. Follow us at Twitter and on Ravelry. Follow our blog and sign up for our mailing list. We have some fun things for you over the next month or two in honor of our third anniversary!

Patterns and Yarn........

I don't know if we showed this photo of our three latest sweater patterns. They are just adorable, all of them.....The Daytrip Cardigan, the Lace Rib Turtle and the Grannie Smith Cardigan in Lanas Puras. They are all available in download version in the section Patterns for Lanas Puras. And the yarns are 10% off so try them, with the discount code Nov07.

We are posting tons of INDIE yarn and fiber now, from Funky Carolina and Madelinetosh. If you love to spin and if you love color and and indie yarn, all of this yarn and fiber, is just incredible.....the colors, the textures, yum, yum.

Here is one favorite fiber:


Coming soon, more gorgeous Jo Sharp yarn. and yes finally some pattern ideas for you out of her books. The yarn is so gorgeous, if you have not tried it, you are really missing out!

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!