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Birthday Bash SALE!!!

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Well…time has done that thing that it does so very well and has flown by.  Next week is my birthday and since the whole ~ I made it through cancer thing ~ I am a firm believer in celebrating every single year I am here! So… my  lovely knitting friends this is what 61 years on the planet feels like to me in color on yarn!!

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“It’s my party and I’ll dye what I want to!”
It’s bright and happy and fun!!

All three things I am looking to add more of into my life this year!! It has speckles and droplets and then slashes of color through out with just enough white space to showcase it all!!  I am pretty tickle with it! I am balling up a skein to take with my to Port Townsend this weekend for my birthday vacation with my buddies and the ocean!! ( Excited!!)

We are also celebrating with a SALE!! 

All yarns and roving from this very moment until midnight Pacific time on the 30th will be 15% off!!!

You will need the following code to get the discount: tinasbdaybash18

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One of the best ever birthday presents is the release for this movie this weekend!! So excited!! And as promised! Your SOLO colorways! I started our Star Wars color tribute with the theme of this story since it is a prequel! It was a bit of a challenge. It’s truly not that easy to dye a skein of yarn to look like a space ship.

I have been trying to pick a favorite and I fluctuate between Chewie and the Falcon but also Lando… .  I love that little bit of bright yellow popping out of all of those darker saturated hues! Stay tuned for lots more Star Wars themed colorways.

Our contest winner are:  Alice, Karen, KT34, Leann and Kellie. We will be emailing you next week for address verification. Or if you like you can email us @info@bluemoonfiberarts.com

Okay so a few more things we have going!

Our fab new yarn Soft Rock is up!! I do love this yarn!

Soft Rock is a light fingering-weight 2 ply yarn made from the same fiber base that we use for our beloved Socks that Rock yarns! Our goal was a yarn that had a lot of the wonderful attributes of our signature sock yarn, but with a little less of a twist and a little more drape. Since our goal with Soft Rock is not a sock yarn, we can lighten up on the the twist of the ply which gives us a more relaxed yarn for shawls and cowls and such!! Soft Rock still has a nice elasticity and also rocks, just not for socks!!

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Tour de Sock starts on June first and we are part of that fun again this year! Yay!!! Here is our new colorway for this year.

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Tour de Sock 2018!!  There is a coupon code that for our sock yarns you will get when you sign up!! Check out all the info on their RAV group page!

We are also going to be participating in Tour de Fleece with a coupon code and all. Maggie is setting up a group.

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A few other things….

If you are waiting on an order it will ship early next week!

We will be shipping Sock Club at the end of next week! So if you have address changes please do let us know!

Sign-ups for School of Yarn are still open!!!

We will shipping off the Merino patches today or Tuesday for this last semester!

Okay so I know I have more but this is the most important and I now have a few more additions to my list before I can leave here.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend. Check out my instagram feed more ocean pics this weekend!

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May 12

Happy Mother’s Day

I am heading out soon with yarn, knit samples and a yarn tasting on my way to Stash in Corvalis for a meet and greet and to chat with all the lovely knitters about yarn, color, knitting and supporting our local yarn shops.

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If you are in the area I would LOVE to see you! Bring a little show and tell with you!  I will be there from 12:00 to 4:00

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Tomorrow is Mother’s Day which can be hard for some of us. I lost my mom a few years ago which honestly was harder than I thought it would. My mom and I had a difficult relationship. Still…she’s my mom which is a powerful thing.

On this day I celebrate the essence of mothering in all of us. I feel the void and grief because my own mother has donned her wings. I send out compassion and love to all of my friends and loved ones who have also lost their mothers which makes this day so very hard. I send so much love and peace to all of us displaced and motherless children, maybe we can mother each other a little bit more on this day!

 

I also bask in the light and love of the four glorious souls ( Narayan, Rabia, Sophie and Candace) that call me mom. There is nothing that I have loved more in my life than being their mom.  (Oh geez… I made my self cry.)

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LOVE! LOVE! LOVE! LOVE!

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Okay my dear, dear knitting friends.

I need to shower and get my act together.

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Tomorrow there is a very rare sale on ALL Yarns for the 24 hours that is Mother’s Day. Consider my way of mothering through the comfort of color and fiber and knit joy!

15% off ALL yarns. Coupon code: maymds18

Sunday May 20th I will be teaching all about gradients (from light to dark, cool to warm, speckled to multi-colors) here at Blue Moon and there is still room if you’d like to join is. So much color fun and loads of dye and fiber information.

Next week is full of exciting things!

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I get to take my collaboration with Valori Wells to Quilt Market!!!! So very excited!

Also we have a few new yarns coming your way so stay tuned for those.

Have a great weekend!

May 4

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May the Fourth Be With You!

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I am a HUGE Star Wars fan, nerd, geek, freak…whatever you want to call it. So this is one of my days! And add in the May release of the new movie that looks to be packed with all kinds of wonder. I’m so excited. Solo!!!! Seriously!!!  Okay so with all of this love it’s quite amazing that I do not have one Star Wars colorway, not a one my friends. What is with that. I think my love is so huge I’m a little afraid of not doing it justice and letting my Star War heroes down… maybe? I going with that, it feels right.  Obviously this needs to be rectified and equally as obvious is that I’m going to need some help. So my knitterly  friends who are maybe as Star War obsessed ( you know you are) as I am ~ let’s do this.

Please in the comments section here share with me one of your fav Star Wars movies, moments, heroes, villans….anything goes. I will need a description that shares what speaks to you so I can capture that in color with yarn. I would like to release these before the movie comes out so… we do not have a whole lot of time. ( I do not have a whole lot of time.) Actually…I just remembered I have done a Vader colorway! We will not discuss that this is the only one I have done. It says nothing about me at all! ( lol) It was for Eat Sleep Knit.  Anyway… .

Please share. If I pick yours to create you will get a skein of what we come up with together!! Yay!! I have a full dye staff now so this will happen!!! If you do not want to comment you can send me an email at info@bluemoonfiberarts.com. Please title it Star Wars in the subject line of the email. Thanks for your creative input! I so appreciate it! I do love creating color together. If we could get these in by Wednesday of htis coming week that would be all kinds of awesome!

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Maryland Sheep and Wool is upon us. Who is going?? I so wish I was. One of these days! I have been getting photos of the booth all day. The Buffalo Wool Co and Toni have done an amazing job setting everything us an making the yarn we dyed look beautiful!!

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I could NOT love this more!! Toni and Ron and Theresa are some of the best people I know. So generous and kind and funny and kinda sassy and…the list goes on and on. What a power trio!! I am a lucky dyer indeed!

We sent so much wonderful yarn! I hope everyone has a wonderful show and all kinds of sheepy fun!

A few other tidbits!!

Price increase on the following as of next Friday May 11th.

Targhee Worsted:  36.00
Targhee Bulky:      36.00
Super Sparkle:       25.00
Tigger:                     25.00
Single Silk Targhee:   36.00
Super Targhee          30.00

RSC: My dear notorious friends if you have not downloaded or accessed your pattern from RAV you patter if you could please do so soon. We noticed that there was some browser issues with Firefox. I just downloaded it and  then hit the link and it all worked fine. Of course you can also use another browser.

School of Yarn: We have had some internet issues this week. Thank you Century Link. Don’t even get me started on this.  Anyway most of them shipped this week the rest will ship early nest week and you should all have your pdf’s!! Oh Silkworm!

I will be at Stash  on Corvalis next Saturday the 12th from noon until 4 with a small pop-up and some samples and my very opinionated self. I would LOVE to see you! Please come by and hang out and see what we are up to. If you have knits to share I would LOVE to see them!

Check out the top scroll bar for my not-so-secret anymore project I have been working on with oh, so creative and lovely Valori Wells!

Both of our beloved Blue Moon team goddesses Karen Alfke and Maggie Baird have birthdays this weekend! Maggie’s is today and Karen’s is on Sunday!!  Happiest of birthday dear lovely friends!!!

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Happy Birthday ladies!!! All love!!