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.

It Feels Like A Holiday!

It always feels like a holiday at One Planet lately-because we keep getting in new boxes of incredible items. I don't know how long this will last-adding new things-because we are running of room, but in the meantime it is really fun.

We are very excited to have added on some of LaLana Wool's yarns and patterns and kits. They are honestly the most gorgeous out there. The yarns are plant dyed yarns. The owner of LaLana is an amazing women who has been into natural dyes for many many years. Some of the plants that are used are wildcrafted in New Mexico. We just went crazy in their store when visiting in Taos and we wanted to offer these yarns and products to our customers. Yes you can also order direct from LaLana but anything you buy also is eligible for our customer bonus programs, so there are benefits to buying the items through us.

We have the Streakers yarn line which is gorgeous and many of the patterns are designed for Streakers! yarn. Not only that, any pattern which uses worsted weight yarn, can use Streakers yarn. We have a whole section on our site of "patterns for worsted weight yarn" so make sure to consider these. If you buy yarn for a specific Streakers pattern, the pattern is free!!

Here are just a few photos to make you get all excited and happy like we do when we look at yarn and pattern photos. First, Day-O and Oriental Blue Streak Streakers Yarns. Absolutely beautiful!




Here the Berry Shady Cardigan pattern, designed by Valentine Devine, which can be made in any color of Streakers Yarn. Love this!!


Please go take a look at the LaLana Wool section on our site and you will see how incredible their yarns are. We can't show everything here. We are able to get any kit , yarn or pattern for you from there. And we are working together with LaLana on a new project we hope will work out!!!

What else is new? We are so excited to finally post The Plucky Knitter yarns to our site!! We have been waiting for these hand dyed gems for months! Sarah , of the Plucky Knitter is an amazing fiber artist. She spends a great deal of time making each sure each skein is just right. She did a wonderful job sending us these absolutely incredible superwash blue faced leicester sock yarns. For all you indie sock yarn lovers, make sure to try these. They are machine washable and and blue face is as soft as merino only more durable for socks. These are so beautiful............ Here is a little view of some of her beautiful colorways.........




Other new things coming in the next few weeks.....a new shipment of Avi Wasserman Spindles, many new Fleece Artist and HandMaiden yarns and knit kits, Jo Sharp Silkroad yarns -DK Tweed and Aran tweed (scrumptuous!) and alpaca kid lustre, and much much more! OH, almost forgot, we have many new items in from Perl Grey Studios. Perl Grey is the sister company to Fleece Artist. They have a new line of stitch markers which I just love. My favorite new item is the stitch marker necklace, five stitch markers you wear around your neck so you always have one if you need it :) There are many other new Perl Grey items too, so take a look!

Introducing Desert Nights Shawl Kit and Pattern

Autumn is officially here and the evenings are getting cooler. Why not throw a lovely shawl made with Lanas Puras Melosa over your shoulders!?? We are so pleased to announce the release of the lovely Desert Nights Shawl designed by Pam Covert. Pam is the talented designer who also designed the Llama Bag, an exclusive pattern for One Planet Yarn and Fiber, in Lanas Puras Melosa. This shawl has the beautiful wool to keep you warm but is surprisingly light. The pattern includes both knit and crochet versions using large sized needles and airy stitches to create a light and drapey fabric you’ll love to wear on a cool evening anywhere. Large stitches mean these shawls work up quickly, making them a great gift giving project! The stitches used are easily mastered by the beginning stitcher.

The first photograph shows the knit version of the shawl.

The second photograph shows how differently the pattern looks using the same lovely Lanas Puras Melosa colorways, but in a crochet version.

Here are a few shots of the two versions side-by-side. Both of them are really beautiful and make a perfect accessory for fall.

We are proud to release this pattern in a kit which comes complete with all 5 skeins necessary to make either a knit or crocheted shawl as shown along with the pattern download. The kit includes a discount on the Lanas Puras Melosa as well as a FREE pattern! The pattern download is also be available for sale.

Watch this site over the next few months for more fabulous patterns and kits in Lanas Puras Melosa, Lanas Puras Clarissa and Black Pearl cashmere yarns!

Rebecca Magazines and GGH Yarns!

We are really excited to have just added Rebecca pattern magazines and GGH yarns from Germany to One Planet Yarn and Fiber! Rebecca Magazines are well known for their fashion forward designs and we think you will find at least five or six patterns within each issue that you will want to make just for yourself!!

If you go to One Planet and click on each Rebecca issue you will be taken to a web page that shows a sampling of the patterns from each issue along with the yarns you need!




We have three of the GGH yarns in stock right now in fairly large quantities with more colors coming. GGH Bel Air is an amazing yarn. Bel Air is a soft and lofty yarn that almost looks like a single ply but it isn't. It is spun from pure merino and just a touch of nylon has been added for strength. We have a new yarn this year from GGH, Cumba, which is also very soft and luxurious. It is spun from merino, alpaca and microfiber. Then we added a luxury staple, GGH Soft Kid. There is an entire pattern book devoted to GGH Soft Kid. This yarn is so soft and it is even next to your skin soft because it is spun from kid mohair. The patterns are really fantastic so make sure to click to look at them!


We are having an introductory special for the rest of September only, 10% off Rebecca magazines and GGH yarns. Use the coupon code GGH at checkout!! You must spend at least $ 35.00 to receive this discount, however! We know you will love making projects with these gorgeous yarns.

Coming next week.......another new pattern for Lanas Puras Melosa yarns from Pam Covert who designed the Llama Bag, a new shipment of yarns from Chewy Spaghetti, and more photos showing you Jo Sharp designs along with the yarn requirements. Jo Sharp yarns are too special for words and so are the patterns. So we have started scanning the pattern photos and listing yarn requirements for them. This will be a big project so stay tuned. But you can see a mosaic below of some of the patterns for Alpaca Silk Georgette yarn which we have in stock. The yarn requirements are listed on this page (CLICK HERE) of our website.

Many New Colors of Sea Silk & Hip Knits

What's new this week?

We just reached our 1000th product! Hard to believe that we have that many items isn't it?!!

We had a very large shipment of Sea Silk Yarn come in from Hand Maiden Yarns. Just so everyone knows, the price went up slightly and probably will have to be raised again as it will at every other store that sells this yarn. Our exchange rate is really getting worse!! It is amazing the difference from only six months ago. Plus there was a price increase in the yarn itself. Still it is so gorgeous and when you think that two skeins make you a gorgeous silk shawl for around 65.00 or so that really is not expensive for a hand knit luxury item.

Straw is a new color for us:



Stone is a beautiful "newer" color


And many many customer favorites like glacier, are back in stock!


We also are currently uploading a new shipment from HipKnits in the UK. There are new self striping sock yarns spun from blue faced leicester yarn, and a luxury sock yarn that is 50% alpaca and 50% blue faced. Here is one pretty luxury sock yarn.


And then wow, look at this colorway. I am tempted to grab this for my own stash! This is a 90% wool, 10% nylon sock yarn and it is gorgeous!!!




Next week you are going to see a gorgeous new shawl pattern release by Pam Covert. The yarn is Lanas Puras Melosa and there is a crochet version and knit version. These shawls are gorgeous beyond words!! The GGH yarn and BRAND NEW Rebecca magazines for fall arrived today but we need a bit of web work to get them up! And many more exciting items.

Just an update for all of you. I hope you check our "What's New" page routinely and also put us on your bloglines blogroll

New Patterns for Fall in Lanas Puras Melosa!!

Fall will soon be upon us and what better way to celebrate the end of summer than to knit something new and beautiful! We are super excited to release two gorgeous new patterns in our very own Lanas Puras Melosa that will help you transition in style to the cooler weather.

The Cable Pleated Skirt is a chic pattern designed by Shirley MacNulty. Shirley is a professional knitwear designer, teacher, author and technical editor, and is a charter member and jury coordinator of the Association of Knitwear Designers (International). She is also a member of the National Needlearts Association, the Knitting Guild Association, and the Blue Ridge Fiber Guild. She has a great deal of experience designing patterns for both knitting companies and magazines.

The Cable Pleated Skirt is Shirley's first pattern designed exclusively for One Planet Yarn and Fiber and is shown here in Lanas Puras Melosa, fingering weight, in the blueberry colorway. The skirt is knit from the top down, a method that makes it easy to try on the skirt as you knit to be sure of the fit. The style is a simple classic, flattering to almost any body shape and can be knit in either a fashionable above-the-knee length as shown or in a longer length. It looks wonderful with boots or flats.


Analise is a fabulous dress designed by the talented Amy Marshall. Amy learned to hand knit in college from a performer she worked with at Kings Island in Cincinnati, Ohio. Later, in her college career she learned to machine knit on a hand loom, incorporating several knit pieces in her senior collection and she quickly began designing and knitting her own patterns. Amy started selling some of her handcrafted items in 2004 when she left the corporate world to work independently and began designing and writing patterns for publication in 2006. You can visit her Etsy store to shop for some of her lovely handcrafted items. Analise is a simple, but stunning cowl neck dress which looks fabulous over a pair of leggings with or without a shirt layered underneath it. The ribbon tie provides flattering shaping. The design works beautifully with handpainted variegated yarn and features our own Lanas Puras Melosa fingering weight yarn shown here in the Sunset colorway.

Watch this space for many more exciting patterns to come in the next few months designed with Lanas Puras Melosa, Lanas Puras Clarissa and Black Pearl cashmere yarns.

Please join our Knitters Group, a Knit-A-Long (KAL) space for all the patterns and yarns you purchase through One Planet Yarn and Fiber. To join the KAL, email Connie Chang at Connie@oneplanetyarnandfiber.com.

New Knitters Group! New Yarns!

I just wanted to let everyone know that we have a new "Knitters Group". It is set up like any Knit-A-Long and we hope that many of you will participate. It is a place to show off the yarns and patterns and projects that you purchased through One Planet Yarn and Fiber. It is also a place to ask questions and get support. Many of the designers who work with us are members of the KAL as well. Please sign up! If you are interested in joining, send an email to Connie Chang who is our new Knitting Group Coordinator. You can reach her at Connie@oneplanetyarnandfiber.com.

We just posted some gorgeous new yarns! Heather from Sereknity sent a new shipment of her brand new Sock Options yarn. She has a new fiber that is gorgeous. It is spun from superwash merino and bamboo and it has a nice sheen to it plus it is strong and machine washable. Heathers colors are so pretty. Here are two of our favorites All Hallows and Blue Hawaii.




We also received the most incredible shipment of yarn from Wooldancer in Australia. This yarn is hand selected pure Australian merino. This merino is processed without chemicals. Michelle, who is the fiber artist that owns Wooldancer is a talented artist. These skeins of yarns are so gorgeous, they look like watercolor paintings to me! I think they would make an incredible shawl or scarf in addition to beautiful socks. Here are two of our most favorite colors, Fairy Dust and Sacred Space.





Coming soon......a huge shipment from Hand Maiden yarns with many new colors of Sea Silk. We have trouble keeping Sea Silk yarn in stock for very long and the price is going up with this new shipment. Right now, all the skeins left of Sea Silk are still at the older price so if you want to take advantage, now is the time. We also have many new skeins of Lanas Puras melosa including new colors that will be going up this weekend and new patterns will be releasing next week! Please sign up for the One Planet Knitters Group and put the KAL on your bloglines list as well! Thanks for reading........

Madelinetosh-new patterns-yarn shipment

Madelinetosh has some adorable new sock patterns and we have a new shipment of her beautiful yarn to go with it. I love Madelinetosh yarns! The colors are beautiful and unusual. The patterns are all PDF downloads which are nice too!

Here are the 3 sock patterns:



We also have a new shipment of gorgeous Sereknity yarns which will be posted this week! And on the way here are a shipment of Wooldancer yarns from Australia, Plucky Knitter hand dyed yarns (yippee!!). Also arriving are a new and big shipment of Hand Maiden Sea Silk yarns with many new colors, and more....... Keep your eyes on the blog!!

After Labor Day we have two absolutely incredible exclusive Lanas Puras knitting patterns releasing along with a huge shipment of new Lanas Puras yarns and colors. You are all going to be amazed at the Lanas Puras patterns and Black Pearl yarn cashmere patterns releasing this fall....

Are you on our mailing list? Make sure to join to receive special coupons. If you sign up as a new member and send us an email, we will send you a little gift for signing up.
Also check out our customer bonus programs. We are starting a new knitting group on line which is a KAL for our customers who are knitting patterns they bought on our site. If you want info about the Knitting Group, drop us a line as you receive added discounts on knitting projects if you participate.

Enough news? There is so much more to come..Enjoy the rest of summer and three long days before fall arrives finally!

what's new? August 20th

Is it really hot where you live? It is hard to think of knitting in humid 108 weather!

But we do have a lot of beautiful fall things arriving soon.

We will be listing a shipment of Madelinetosh sock yarns this week. Any day we are receiving a shipment of gorgeous Wooldancer yarn from Australia.

We have been oogling over previous years Rebecca magazines and patterns and we can't wait to see Issue 34 which will be here any day along with several of the yarns in many colors for the patterns.




We just listed some new Sheep Shop Yarn Colors and a huge Lanas Puras Shipment came in this week with a few new colors! There are about 10 or more One Planet exclusive patterns releasing soon.

We had a wonderful trip to beautiful Taos and visited the magical LaLana Wool store and we will have some surprises for you from there as well. It truly is magical in the LaLana Wool store. Here are a few photos for you to enjoy. That is a felted warrior hat I believe and it is Jodi, not Lis in the photo....... For exquisite plant dyed yarns are behind her and they are all beautiful and so are their patterns and kits. Really truly amazing and I would say some of the nicest on earth!





We have a knew Knitters Group that is only for affiliate members. You get special discounts on some projects but you have to have a blog or website and be an affiliate member. Read about our bonus programs and join up: HERE
Ifyou are on the affiliate program, you'll be hearing about the new knitting group soon, soon......


Also, make sure to look at the Knitters Review magazine this Thursday for our ad. The ad really turned out fantatstically.

Monday August 6th

Just a few announcements. We are going to be out of town this coming weekend so any orders placed Thursday though Monday will be shipped out on Tuesday. Just a short delay!! All emails will be answered though!!

We just got some new Sock Bugs and Baby Bugs in. I just always marvel at the fabric that Diana finds for these bugs. They are just gorgeous and make me want to learn to sew! I want pajama pants from this fabric:

If you don't have a Sock Bug or Baby Bug, you really are missing out. They are the most unusual little knitting bags, notion bags. Each Sock Bug has space for two baby bugs to clip on and there are little pockets for your tape measure, scizzors, etc.

We are having a sale all month on the yarn that goes with the Sunshine Tank pattern. The yarn is Yarn Botanika Radiance Merino and Tencel and it comes in a number of gorgeous handpainted colors. Some people seem to think that tencel is like acrylic and this is not the case at all! It is a very soft and breathable fiber and it adds a soft silky shine to the yarn. It is actually a very "eco-friendly" yarn made from wood pulp. Two skeins of Radiance also make a beautiful shawl, and one pair make great socks. We even have a free sock pattern that you get for purchasing just one skein of Radiance.

Use the discount code SUNSHINE to get 10% off the Radiance yarn for the month of August.

Have you joined our Affiliate Program yet? We have new people signing up every day! Make sure after you sign up that you log into "MY ACCOUNT" (at the top of each page of the site) and scroll down to the section that says Affiliate program. Inside there, you will find your own unique URL along with your affiliate statistics. Remember you earn 5% of every sale that you generate through your website.

We are starting another new program for those who love to knit and show off garments that they make on their blog. This will be offered only to people who are on the affiliate program and I'll be sending out an email soon about this. Just make sure your links and buttons to One Planet are set up correctly on your blog.

What else is new? Already in the shop are new Sheep Shop Patterns-some really adorable ones, Knitting By Zen Yarn is absolutely gorgeous, and so are the new Sunshine yarns.

In August, we are expecting new Fleece Artist yarns including some gorgeous new luxury yarns, Jo Sharp yarns and GGH yarns coming soon along with Rebecca pattern magazine for fall! We have a few new indie yarn companies sending in yarns in August!

Happy Monday

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 Download patterns by Anni Design

We are excited to offer you some new download patterns created by Anni Design. Anni is a Norwegian designer living in the UK. She learned to knit as a child and knitted lots of traditional Norweigan fair isle jumpers in her teen before giving up knitting for several years. Anni returned to knitting with her eyes set upon designing her own patterns. She now has a range of patterns including socks, shawls, bags and accessories. She has also just started to hand paint yarn. Since finding her passion for knitting again, Anni has become a self professed "yarn addict" and spend most of her days knitting, surfing knitting sites and blogs and dyeing. We are very pleased to have Anni's patterns for sale at One Planet Yarn and Fiber. Be sure to visit Anni on her website or her blog.



Just to wet your appetite, here are a few of Anni's wonderful patterns.








These patterns and more can now be purchased as downloads at One Pattern Yarn and Fiber.

Coming very soon! A new pattern by Melissa Wehrle along with some beautiful new Radiance colors to go with it, new spindles by Avi Wasserman, a gorgeous new shipment of Sunshine Yarns and a new Indie Yarn company from Australia called Knitting by Zen! And more!! :)

A Few New Things!

We just received the very brand new Jo Sharp book Knit Issue 3. The patterns are gorgeous!! We will be posting more examples of the patterns within each book listing along with yarn requirements. We still are in the process of ordering all of the fall Jo Sharp yarns but we love the patterns! Make sure to keep checking as soon under each yarn and pattern book, there will be some more specifics.


We also just received a new shipment of SOAK products. They all sell out so fast! Back in stock are the mini-soaks and also the SOAK sampler kits which are a great way to try each scent.


We have a new spindle company! They are called the Vermont Spindle Company and they are associated with Copper Moose, which some of you might know. I loved Bill's spindles the minute I saw them and I read an article about him in Spin Off last year. So I have been emailing him every few months asking for an order!! We have it!! These should all go live tomorrow!! I also just received a phone call that a box arrived from Israel and this will include 12 new Avi Wasserman spindles. It will be fun to open this box as I know he sent a unique assortment!!

Next week watch the blog and your email very very very closely for a special announcement :) :) Part of it is that we have the cutest, cutest pattern by Melissa Wehrle releasing! But there is more!!!!

Also, did you sign up for the new affiliate system?? IT IS SO EASY to sign up!! Honest!! Please don't worry if it asks for a TAX ID. Just ignore that part of you don't have one.. Also several people wrote me from various countries and definitely you can be part of the program no matter where you live! We had a load of sign ups but we sure would love more. If you have questions/problems, email us!! INFO@ONEPLANETYARNANDFIBER.COM

We posted all of our new "Customer Bonus Programs' on the website. Just click on the top bar.

July Newsletter & NEW Afilliate Program

We had some problems with our July Newsletter because I think the photos took up too much space so a lot of your email boxes rejected them!! So I am going to put the special July offers here. If you are not on our mailing list , please sign up!

Also we are going to be sending out a special flyer soon that lists all of our bonuses for our customers. Some of you know about these because you may get things in your order, but we will be adding some new promotions too.

The best and one we love the most is our AFFILIATE PROGRAM! Be sure to sign up!! You probably already have a link to One Planet Yarn and Fiber or a button to our site! Well we want to reward you for linking to us. If you sign up with our affiliate program, you receive a unique URL to use every time you mention One Planet and also to use in your hyperlink and with your button. Then every time a new customer clicks on the link/button and comes to One Planet and purchases, you receive 5% of their sale!! Once your bonus amount reaches $ 25.00, we will issue a gift certificate to use. SO PLEASE SIGN UP!

Go to this link: http://www.oneplanetyarnandfiber.com/affiliate_info.asp

You will have detailed instructions there. You will receive your unique URL to use and a choice of buttons! Please put us on your sidebar and earn bonus dollars!!

Here are the July specials for those of you were not able to open the newsletter...

JULY SPECIALS! - use the discount code JULY at checkout

Lanas Puras Clarissa - INTRODUCTORY special 10% off.... try this gorgeous new, unique cotton/merino yarn, hand painted, one of a kind !

Fleece Sea Wool Sock Kit- 10% off. Gorgeous wool mixed with sea silk results in a soft fingering weight yarn with shine-perfect for socks and shawls and it is washable!!



$ 7.00 off to help with shipping! If Your order is over $ 85.00. Just use the discount code (SEVEN) to receive $ 7.50 off your order when the total equals $ 85.00 or more after discounts. You can combine the SEVEN and JULY discount codes!

Enjoy!!

Introducing Lanas Puras Clarissa!

Lanas Puras Clarissa

We are very excited to introduce a new yarn by Lanas Puras. It is called Lanas Puras Clarissa. This yarn was spun and dyed for One Planet Yarn and Fiber in Uruguay. Since we designed the yarn ourselves, we are the only company that we know of with this wonderful yarn. The yarn is spun from 50% cotton and 50% merino wool. It is the same pure soft merino used in Lanas Puras Melosa, but spun with a strand of cotton, which results in a lighter, more breathable fabric. The yarn has an artisan feel to it because it is slightly thick and thin and it has some texture to it. My swatch using size 7 needles came in at 5 3/4 stiches per inch. Using size US 5 needles, it came in at 5 1/4 stitches per inch. This is considered a DK or light worsted weight yarn. We are considering adding Clarissa as a chunky yarn too and we would love your feedback on this after you have tried it! We will have patterns coming for this yarn. In the meantime, it works wonderfully for most DK or light worsted weight patterns. It is great for sweaters or shawls. If you are a designer and are interested in doing a pattern in Clarissa, contact Melissa Wehrle, our creative director. Since we have so many patterns coming out already this year, these might be for spring 2008 but still we would love to see and hear your ideas! The yarn is GORGEOUS and very unusual!!

Lanas Puras Clarissa currently comes in 12 gorgeous colors. Because of the way the dyeing is done, the yarn has a "tweed effect" It is simply beautiful!

Here is an example of two of the colors, Indigo and Pomegranate. Underneath, is a swatch of pomegranate on US 7 needles.




Coming Soon------

We are working on the Jo Sharp yarn and pattern listings and they will be up within the next week! More Jo Sharp yarns will be added later in the summer. We are also adding one other very exciting company- more information later on that!

We have an adorable pattern release coming soon. A pattern by Melissa Wehrle using Yarn Botanika Radiance Merino & Tencel. It is so cute!!! We are just waiting for our last shipment of merino and tencel yarn to arrive..... Did you know tencel is an eco friendly material? It is made from wood pulp and we love it! It adds a beautiful soft shine to the yarn. We have a ton of new colors coming soon, and there are still a lot of the older colorways on sale if you want to take advantage now...

We are introducting a new customer rewards program which I think you all will be excited it! We know you love the cards that come in your orders and there will be a slight change to those plus an additional program for people who buy from us frequently! If you are not on our mailing list, please join so you can hear about all of the new things happening at One Planet Yarn and Fiber.

Happy July 4th!!