The Sunshine Tank, New Items, Five Day Summer Sale

There is nothing like a fabulous new pattern or a sale to add some spark to your summer! We are happy to be able to offer you both of these terrific opportunities this week at One Planet Yarn and Fiber.

Need a quick, cute project for those summer days? Look no further than the Sunshine Tank! Simple enough for the advanced beginner, with just enough stitch detail to keep things interesting. You'll be sitting on the beach, in your new tank, enjoying the rays in no time. Our newest pattern, the Sunshine Tank, was designed by our extremely talented Creative Director, Melissa Wehrle.

The Sunshine Tank is a perfect summer top and knits up beautifully in our Yarn Botanika Radiance, Fingering Weight, yarn. The wave stitch pattern in the chest area can be shortened or lengthened to fit any body type. The variegated yarn used to design the pattern adds even more interest to this simple design. This pattern is available as a download.

Keep a lookout for many more fashion forward creations by Melissa as well as by several other talented designers in the months to come.

We have many new Radiance colors for you to choose to knit this gorgeous tank!! And we are having a special offer on this yarn for this pattern as well as our other main yarn lines. But you must be on our mailing list to receive the code! If you aren't on our mailing list yet, sign up and let us know and we'll send you the sale notice.

Also new this week....... We have a wonderful new Indie yarn company all the way from Australia called Knitting by Zen. Knitting by Zen is owned by a truly "Zen" person who seems to practice the name of her business...... She is wonderful to work with, an honest and upfront person and a very talented fiber artist! She uses all local Australian wool. It really has a different feel to it. It is soft and squishy and simply luscious!! Check out the new yarns just listed by Knitting by Zen. Here is one sample skein called Rosewood, one of my favorites!!

We have a new shipment of gorgeous yarns from Sunshine yarns.. Did you know Sunshine Yarns is one of ETSY.com's top sellers? Not only is she an amazing fiber artist, but she is the sweetest woman to work with and she is also getting married this month! Congrats Dani!!
Look at one of her beautiful new semi-solid colorways..... This one is called Avacado and it is so pretty if you love greens!!



We are still listing our new shipment of spindles from Israel from Avi Wasserman. He really outdid himself on this shipment. There is one that has an inlay of turquoise and then this other one of our favorites has stained blue tulip wood. If you are a spindle collector, these spindles are just incredible.......

Enjoy!!

PS August Sunshine Summer Special Promotion & Our Five Day Summer Sale
Didn't get the flyer? Sign onto our mailing list and then drop us a line and we'll email it to you!

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!

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. :)

The week of 2/19/2007-update

Happy Presidents Day! A US national holiday for our many international readers. It is an interesting holiday created to celebrate the birth of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, two of our most famous presidents. We used to celebrate each of their birthdays separately and then it was combined into one holiday. Hope some of you are having a long relaxing weekend.

We have a lot of new products this week at One Planet and many more coming in the following weeks. Every week, I'll try to post a few photos about the products and also tell a bit of history about each company.

Sheep Shop Yarn Company

First, Sheep Shop Yarn Company. I mentioned them last week, but now that all the new colors are updated, I thought you should know a bit about them. I first read an article about the founder of Sheep Shop in the weekly Knitters Review newsletter. You can read this same article by clicking here: About Sheep Shop Yarn Company. This article really is worth reading and it is part of what turned me on to this company. Sheep One is a single ply worsted weight wool. Sheep Two is a double ply bulky wool and knits up fast. Both come in a huge variety of amazing colors. We will have Sheep Three, the new yarn, in a few weeks. The owner, Fonnie, sent us a skein of Sheep 3 and I fell in love. It is a lovely soft DK weight yarn that is 70% merino and 30% silk. it comes in many of the same incredible colorways and the silk adds a really nice shine.

What can you do with Sheep One and Sheep Two? Well Sheep Shop has some lovely patterns for both the worsted and bulky weights. They are also releasing another dozen or so patterns. The most popular patterns are these shown below.. Using Sheep Shop one, the bag (which I JUST LOVE) and also the Cabled Rib Pullover - look at that color!




















For Sheep Shop Two, the most popular patterns are the Seamless Chunky Raglan Sweater (the yarn for this G43 sells out on a consistent basis) and also the Shawl Cardigan-look at the colors! This yarn is color F31 and if you like green, this is your color.



We stock all the colors now of Sheep Shop but in quantity, many have to be special ordered, but that is ok, it doesn't take long. Just order the items and we will let you know the estimated time of arrival.
There is a special offer for the next month on Sheep Shop Yarns-and other items :) You still can use the discount code BLOG to get 10% off your order.. See what you get for being a faithful reader? Last week, many people took us up on this offer! Hint...the coupon is good for the whole month!

There are other patterns that work really well with the Sheep Shop Yarns. Make sure to check out our patterns sections for worsted weight yarn patterns and bulky weight yarn patterns for many other ideas. HINT-I am going to make Ariann by Chic Knits with colorway G148, an incredible new Sheep Shop Color. Sheep One would also work great for Wendy Bernard's Flair pattern.

Woolpets

This next company, Woolpets, really deserves an entire blog post of its own but we have so many new things it is hard to do. I first heard about Woolpets from my friend, the Yarn Pirate. She was raving on her blog about their needle felting kits. I just looked and she has photos up too!! I fell in love with them too, being a pet lover and fiber lover and all . I think I am going to make every one of them because I want to learn how to needle felt and I want to have my own little collection of Woolpets right here next to my computer while I work. One of the most interesting facts about Woolpets is that Laurie and her husband, the owner (gosh I don't know his name, sorry to refer to him as the husband! HAHA) raise their own sheep!! So all of the fiber for the Woolpets kits come from their own sheep. These make the cutest presents for just about any fiber lover including yourself. Make a sleepy sheep or a penguin..!




Coming Soon

Lots and lots of yarns from Yarn Botanika including tons of handpainted miscellaneous yarns (cashmere, silk, wool, etc) and the introduction of our new Radiance line of yarns. More about that later including a special pattern release and very cool kits designed by Gina House of Sleepy Eyes Knitting. We also have new shipments coming from Marions Sock Yarns in Germany (these are amazing) and the entire line of Hipknits Yarns and patterns from England. Within a few weeks, Llamajamas products will be here and also lots and lots from Fleece Artist and Handmaiden of Canada! These will all get their own special blog posts so keep an eye out!

Thanks for reading......And don't forget the BLOG discount code, just for you!