One Planet Yarn October Update-NEW! NEW! NEW!

October Newsletter - One Planet Yarn and Fiber

I hope all of you are doing well.  I am excited to have made it to my one month
anniversary!  I hope you love the new things I have added to the store.  I have more new goodies arriving all the time.  I will be updating images as I learn how to work with the lighting.

Introducing Lantern Moon, Noni Designs, JULSilver, Heritage Fiber Publications and The Natural Dye Studio.

I am very excited to introduce new products to the store from some of my favorite companies.   From Lantern Moon there are now many types of beautiful Rosewood needles-straights, cable, repair hooks and the new circular needle, Destiny.  There are also stitch markers and the famous sheep measuring tape.  There are new patterns that have been added as well.   11 patterns from Nora Bellows of Noni Designs.  Beautiful felted patterns for bags of all types and some wonderful knitted sweaters.  Yarns that support these patterns are available, plus I will be adding 14 colors of Stonehedge Fiber Mill's Shepard's Wool to the site soon.  The wool is in the shop, just not posted yet.  Noni kits will be posted soon, too.  Noni Designs has a sister company, literally! Laura Bellows of  JULSilver works with artists from the Far East that produce hardware for purses and wonderful buttons.  I have stocked some of their buttons in two sizes from the Seed, Stem and Bark Collection.  The aroma from the cinnamon buttons is heavenly.  I've added in 10 new patterns from Heritage Fiber Publications.  I can't wait for you to see the little booklet they produced to carry along in your knitting bag.  And finally, we arrive at The Natural Dye Studio of England.  I was drooling as I worked at unpacking these fabulous fibers.  I only purchased one of each color, but I have since reordered and there will be more here in a week or two.  There are also 2 patterns from Amanda Perkins of NDS that use their yarns, more patterns coming soon.  Amanda loves to crochet and she has a fantastic eye for color and design.

 

What else is new?

There are 3 new patterns from LaLana Wools using Streakers yarn.  As always, I must constantly be adding in from Fleece Artist and HandMaiden.  There are new colors in Lady Godiva and new Merino spinning fibers in the big balls.  I ordered 12, there are 9 left, each one of a kind.  Artesano Aran yarns are here again and being refurbished on the website.

Your input is needed!

One Planet Yarn and Fiber will soon be introducing several clubs to the shop.  The first one will likely start in the middle of this month.  I will be hand painting some Lanas Puras Fingering each month for the next 3 months.  Each month will be a different colorway and no 2 colors will be alike.  I would also like to start a fiber of the month club, either hand dyed or natural  roving for you to dye or spin.  After the first of the year, The Natural Dye Studio will be dying yarn colors exclusively for a One Planet sock of the month club.  For crocheters out there, The Natural Dye Studio will be including us in their Motif of the Month club.  Please let me know if you are interested in any of these cllubs so I can get an idea of the amount of supplies I will need.  Clubs will be 1, 3, 6, 9 or 12 months long.  The longer the club, the more little perks will be included as a member.

October Offers

Take
advantage!  I hope you take advantage of some
of my offers and that they will help you order something new and
exciting for the fall. 

1. Free Shipping on Orders over $ 50.00. Coupon Code: OctShip
2. 10% off all "On Sale" Items - even more savings on items already marked down! Coupon code: Sale10
3. 10% of all Lanas Puras Yarns - If you like soft merino yarns like Malagbrigo or Manos, then you will love Lanas Puras Yarns.  There are many great colors!  Coupon Code - LanasPuras10

**Important-These
coupons cannot be combined.  Discounts are not retroactive.  If you placed an order last
week or the week before, we are sorry, we can't credit you now.
Discounts must be taken at the time of order.  Please do not write us
after you placed an order and ask us to apply a discount.  We are
sorry, but we just can't do it.  If you need help, please email us
before you place your order.  In addition, these special offers are
only valid for in-stock items.  They are not valid for special orders
for new colors or yarns that we might not have in stock yet.

Other Important Things

Make sure to visit the "What's New" and "On Sale" section of the site as I add items here regularly!
Join the Facebook Fan Club and be able to chat with other OPYF fans.
Read the blog about
all of the new companies and products that have been added to One Planet in
the past month-I have many new yarns, fibers, patterns and more from around the world.
Please join the Ravelry group!
If you haven't joined yet, please do and then post an introduction on
the thread titled  "Introduce Your Self!".  You might get something special in your inbox!
And please join the mailing list for monthly special offers and news!  I
send out at least one monthly newsletter with different coupons each month. I
never share your name or private information. I use it only for the
newsletter.

For those of you who have purchased since September 1, 2010,
please log in and check your accounts.
Once you are on the “My Account” page, scroll to the bottom.  There you will see a “My Rewards” link.  If you click on that link you will see that
you have already received points in the My Rewards program.  You can start redeeming these points 30 days
after your purchase.  You must redeem a
minimum of 100 points.  The point
collection program ends at Midnight on December 31^st and all points
must be redeemed by January 31, 2011.
Please make sure to read the terms and conditions for this program.

Best Regards!

Karen

New Stash for me!

One of my farm share stashes arrived today in the mail.  Wonderful fibers!  2 natural shetland colors, mohair locks, suri alpaca batt, angora batt and large border leichester batt!  Now I just need time to play!

Regards,
Karen
OPYF

September Sale Almost Over!

Hello One Planet Fans,
The First Day of Fall Sale ends on Thursday at Midnight.  See my last blog for details.

Here are some things we did this past week-

Special dye lot of my own handpainted roving in Corriedale X as requested by one of my Sharptalk Handcrafts customers-

Here's what she did with the previous lot on a drop spindle-

On a personal note, 3 in my family participated in the Walk for the Cure 5K run this past weekend.  We really enjoyed ourselves, despite how hot it was.  My husband took second place in his age group.  I am so proud of him!  It was his first ever 5K.

Regards,

Karen

OPYF

First Day of Fall Sale

First Day of Fall Sale

1. 15% off all orders over $ 89.00 - USE Coupon Code: Sept15
2. 20% off all orders over $ 129.00 - USE Coupon Code: Fall20
3. Free Shipping on all USA orders over $ 99.   Automatic - no coupon. New 1st class international shipping option for most countries reduces your shipping in half.
4. First class shipping for single skeins of yarn, patterns or orders that weigh 13 oz or less with packaging materials. Automatic - no coupon code.
5. PLEASE SIGN UP FOR OUR MAILING LIST! We will be having additional special 1 - 3 day sales during the year on various items........
6. ****Make sure to check the "ON SALE/CLOSE OUT" section of our website regularly because we are going to be adding new things each week. 

About the coupon codes:You can use either code but they are not valid with any other discount codes. Codes
valid to 9/30/2010.  Please see restrictions below. We are sorry but there are no retroactive discounts.

(Coupons NOT valid towards LaLana Knit Kits-please do not use these for LaLana items. If you have trouble with a code please email us before finishing your order as we can't do retroactive discounts. Coupons cannot be combined with any other offers besides those in this newsletter. All products in on-sale and close-out sections are final sales -no returns)

New Yarns From Natural Dye Studio!!

IMPORTANT! Make sure to follow us on Facebook, our Ravelry Group, our Twitter posts and our Blog .

Thank You for Shopping At One Planet Yarn and Fiber.

Noni Designs Patterns Being Added This Week

I am in the process of adding Noni Designs patterns to the website.  What wonderful design ideas Nora has.
  

I've got about 4 patterns up, but more are coming.

One Planet Yarn and Fiber Noni Designs

The yarn is on it's way from Stonehenge and the hardware is already here from JUL silver which Nora's sister Laura owns. 

I love family businesses!

Regards,

Karen

Lantern Moon products now available!

Lantern Moon is finally on the website.

Well, it took me forever to build the pages.  First the internet kept dropping out on me and then the cable modem died all together.  So, I finally finished building the pages a few minutes ago.

It gave me such pleasure to add these products to the store.  There will be many more images coming once my daughter can spare her poor mother a few minutes to re-shoot, but please enjoy what we have in the meantime.

Best Regards,
Karen

Have you met the in house mascots?

Here are pictures of my furry gang.  They stay near me when I'm working in the office.   They follow me if I go in search of yarn for an order  Sometimes the smaller ones even end up on my lap while I'm typing.

Hunter

Lady Bug

Ranger

Wee Bear

Best Regards,

Karen

Fleece Artist, Handmaiden and Natural Dye Studio

Fleece Artist

I hope you are all having a wonderful Labor Day weekend.  I took some time away from the shop on Friday and Saturday and I feel refreshed and ready to go.

I wanted to give you a sneak peek at what will be added to the website in the next week.

From Fleece Artist-12 BIG balls of wonderfully dyed merino roving.

Handmaiden Lady Godiva

From Handmaiden-several new skeins of Lady Godiva.











And finally, from the Natural Dye Studio in England-beautiful, natural dyed yarns.  I received many different types and colors.  One skein each.  So when you see them on the website you only have one shot at these yarns.  I will be reordering from them again soon, but this helps me to test the waters.

Natural Dye Studio Angel Alpaca, Cashmere, Silk

Natural Dye Studio Dazzle BFL

I am so impressed with the yarns from Natural Dye Studio that we are going to have a "Sock of the Month Club" starting January 1st.  Each month we will offer an exclusive color and yarn for you.  You'll be able to sign up for the club for 3, 6, 9 or 12 months.  More details to come.

I will also be offering a "Fiber of the Month Club" too.  Again, more details to come as I flesh this out.

Natural Dye Studio Precious Silk

Happy Barbecuing!

Karen
One Planet Yarn and Fiber.

12 balls of Merino sliver arrived today from Fleece Artist.  I also received a refresh on the Handmaiden Lady Godiva yarn.  I'll get this up on the website this coming week along with the Natural Dye Studio yarns.

There is a box headed this way from Urban Gypz with 36! 4oz slivers in fantastic fibers and colors.  I so need to get to photography!

Regards,
Karen

Day 2 and I have added a few new items!

LaLana Wools Streakers! Sad Song Pink

I made it through Day One and I am very happy about that.  I have received 2 shipments from artists so far.  

LaLana Wools sent me more Streakers yarns, including one new color.  I also restocked some patterns and there are 3 new ones!  These are now available for sale on the website. 

I also received my first order from a new company from England-

LaLana Wools- 4 Directions Poncho

Natural Dye Studio uses historical plant dyes which produce an astounding spectrum of beautiful subtle colour.  Their aim is to produce desirable luxury yarns in as ethical and enviromentally friendly way as possible.  They dye using the plants rather than the extracts as its much more fun!  They have an exclusive Dazzle British Blue Faced Leicester is licensed by the British Wool Marketing Board to carry the prestigious British Wool mark. All of their exotic yarns come from a family run mill in Peru.

I'll be posting images from Natural Dye Studio yarns to the website as soon as I have images available.

The yarns that are here from them are-

LaLana Wools-Mellow Yellow Tunic

DAZZLE Sport

DAZZLE HT Fingering

DAZZLE Worsted

ANGLE Lace

PRECIOUS Lace

PRECIOUS Fingering

Regards,

Karen

One Planet Yarn and Fiber

LaLana Wools-Penelope Purple

We're Open!

http://www.oneplanetyarnandfiber.com/

Grand Ribbon Cutting! Happy September 1st!

Greetings to all from a very excited new owner-Karen!

One Planet Yarn and Fiber was opened about four years ago by Lis and Jodi. It has been a great success for them since the day they opened the website.  They succeeded in supporting smaller independent fiber companies and designers. 

Because I have similar interests and 30 years of business experience, Lis and Jodi felt I was a good match to take over the helm. 
My husband and I have been self-employed since the day we were married.  In our first business, we were Bureau of Indian Affairs licensed Reservation traders.  We traveled 5 states and did four trade shows a year.  We worked directly with Native American artists and crafts people.

Our next business we worked directly with artists and crafts people in the custom knife business.  We bought and sold handmade pocket knives from artists around the globe.  We attended 12 shows a year to purchase product. 

The business after this we owned a retail fine jewelry store.  Again we worked directly with artists and crafts people to create product for the store.

For the last three years my husband and I have run our own fine pen store.  The store is called Scottsdale Pen.  We are the only store of its kind in the Phoenix metro area.  Again, we work with artists and crafts people,  as well as manufacturers to supply the store.  The store is doing great.

My husband has always asked me as we are getting ready to start new businesses what I would like to do.  Since I always worked with him I told him that I would know when the right thing was when it happened.

Since I was a child, I watched my grandfather, who was a professional tailor, and my grandmother, who spent ALL her time knitting and crocheting.  It seems I inherited their passion.   I started crocheting and knitting as a small child.  I learned to sew in middle school.  I learned to needlepoint in high school. 

I continued these things until my time was taken up with other things.  Recently, because of my 18 year old daughter, I started to knit again.  Then I decided to learn to weave and bought a rigid heddle loom and learned to use it.  I posted what I was doing on Ravelry while I was weaving a beaded shawl and was asked to teach that to the rigid heddle group there.  Pictures and all appear there.  Then I decided to learn to spin.

Now I am in trouble.  I had a wonderful teacher.  She taught us to spin from the ground up.  No kidding.  I started with dirty fleece off the sheep.  I learned to wash it, tease it, hand card it and spin it.  So now I wanted to learn how to dye it.  Natural dye class, very messy.  I learned to use acid dyes.  Lots of fun. 

So now I have 2 fleeces and several pounds of sheep and alpaca that still need cleaning, dye pots and lots of yarn.  I own three farm shares and help support and Alpaca rescue in Southern Arizona.

In come Lis and Jodi.  They see that I really love this art form, have the experience to run and grow a business, and a husband who loves to see that I have such a great passion for the subject.

I have placed several orders in the last week or so.  I just received my first box from LaLana Wool.  I have ordered from Fleece
Artist/Handmaiden and Urban Gypz.  I have placed inquiries with more of our current vendors to see what’s new.

I am adding in new vendors too.  I have orders coming in from Lantern Moon.  I just love their needles and notions.  The Dye Studio from England is sending me some yarn.  I also ordered from Philosopher’s Wool in Canada.  If anyone has read the book “Fair Isle Sweaters Made Simple”  you will know that Eugene and Anne have been a driving force in Canada to restart the Canadian  sheep fleece industry for small farmers in that country.  How could I resist ordering some of their product.  There are several sweater and shawl kits arriving soon as well as beautiful wooden buttons that they import to support craftspeople in Africa.

Melissa is staying on as Artistic Director.  Lis and Jodi are hovering in my background to offer support to me.
I am happy to be cutting the virtual ribbon today to reopen the store.    One Planet Yarn and Fiber has a Facebook fan page, Twitter, a Ravelry page, and blog site that I try to update a few times a week.

The website is open 24/7 as usual, with an added benefit.  You can reach me by phone 10:00am to 6:00pm Monday through Friday.  480-250-0188.

New features for the store include an MCommerce site.  If you have an iPhone or Droid, you can use those devices to view the website, optimized for those devices. 

I am happy to announce the One Planet Yarn and Fiber My Rewards program.  From now until December 31, 2010 for each purchase you make, excluding tax and shipping, you will receive one point for each dollar spent.  There is nothing that you have to do to participate in this program.  Every dollar counts as a point.  After 30 days the points will be released into your account for you to use.  Once you reach 100 points you can begin to start redeeming points against purchases.  You can let the points build up or you can spend them every time you reach 100 points.  There is no limit to the number of points you can accrue.  Once the program ends on December 31, 2010 for accrual, you will have until January 31, 2011 to use them up.  After that point, any unused points will expire

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Best Regards,
Karen

4 days left!

I am taking a short break tomorrow and heading to a Spin In. I need the time away. LOL!

I worked on paperwork most of the week, but I also managed to order a few more things. I've added in 3 new suppliers this week. I very pleased to be offering product from these companies. I will announce everything the the email newsletter from the store website on Wednesday. I'll try to include some images of the products due in. It will take me a few days to receive the goodies before they will be available on the website.

Regards,

Karen

One Planet

It's Monday again!

I have gotten so much done this past week. I can't wait to open on the 1st!

I have been in touch with several of our suppliers today and I have started to order new products and refresh some of the standards. I have really enjoyed talking to these people. They have all been so supportive.

I actually sent out 3 orders today! 2 were pattern orders and one was for my own handpainted rovings from my Etsy store. I need to move it all over into the One Planet website once I get a chance.

I've got 2 fleeces to prep too. One is a Lincoln sheep named Leonardo. I started working on him in June. I have washed the fleece several times and I am now sorting it out into locks and fiber for carding.

The second fleece is from an Alpaca rescue here in Arizona. Skippy's fleece is so soft. I can't wait to start working with him. I also received some Llama from there too. It would be good for felting with.

Leonardo appears on my Sharptalk Handcrafts Fan page on Facebook. It's in the photo albums for June 2010.

Be talking to you soon!

Karen

Yummy Yarns!

It was a great pleasure to unpack all the yarn and fiber. The feel is so luxurious. Each box and bag yielded another splendor to behold. I've included images from Monday's work. This is just about 1/3 of the inventory and much of it moved on Tuesday' I'll get those pictures up soon.

Pictures from Sunday night

I The first few pictures are of all the bags and boxes that it took to move things here Sunday.

Regards,

Karen

One Planet Yarn and Fiber

480-250-0188

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Greetings from Karen

Hello All,

I am the new owner of One Planet Yarn and Fiber. I am really excited about this. I love to work with yarn and fiber and I have been a member of Ravelry since this past winter.

I am in the process of unpacking and sorting all the inventory into it's proper places and learning how to use the online store software.

I'll start posting to the One Planet blog as I go along here so you can see my progress. The blog will also show some of my work, and some of yours as I get all this going again.

My user name on Ravelry is sharptalk. I also am starting a fan club on Facebook so you will be able to join me there too. You will also be able to converse with other One Planet addicts from around the world.

Best Regards,

Karen

PS-This same note will appear on the Ravelry page today, so please pardon the repeats.

New fiber/Summer sales

Just a quick update to let all of you spinners know that we have some fabulous new balls of hand painted roving from Fleece Artist now up on our site. These gorgeous balls of fiber contain 250 g of fiber which is equivalent to 8.2 oz. This is enough fiber to spin yarn for a pair of socks or a light shawl depending on how thickly you spin your yarn or how many plies are in the skein. These balls are absolutely gorgeous. We only have one ball of each so don't wait to order!

Here are a couple of our favorites. First, here is a luxurious 70% merino and 30% silk ball of fiber. The silk adds a beautiful shine to the fiber. This one is gorgeous 100% BFL (blue faced leicester) spinning fiber also known as "British merino." This yarn spins up wonderfully even for beginning spinners and the colors are really incredible.

Please check this section often for more beautiful balls of fiber from Fleece Artist.

We also wanted to let you know to keep any eye out for our summer sale newsletters as well as to regularly check the close-out/sale section of our store for special deals. We are cleaning out our inventory to make room for some wonderful new products. Happy shopping!

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!!!