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These Eight Days of Easter Yarn Kits may even be better than chocolate Easter bunnies!

I’ve dyed eight soft and speckled pastel colorways on my luxurious So Silky Sock yarn base, which is made of 50% mulberry silk and 50% Superwash Merino.

You’ll receive eight 10-gram minis. Each mini will come inside an Easter egg, and all eight Easter eggs will be placed in a reusable basket complete with Easter grass and a little extra surprise as well. ????

Each 10-gram mini is 40 yards, so you’ll receive 320 yards of sock-weight yarn in the colorways shown in the photos.

I have 10 kits available, and I’ll be shipping them by Monday, April 15th, via priority mail so as to arrive in time for Easter.

The kit also comes with a heavy paper copy of my Diamond Twist Cowl pattern–a simple but elegant knitting pattern perfect for spring and summer since it’s an open-work lace pattern. It’s suitable for an advanced beginning knitter or beyond. The last two photos show the cowl pattern knit up in a different colorway.

Of course you can open all the “yarn eggs” at once if you like, but I’ll have them numbered in order of the pattern so you can open one and knit that part of the pattern each day during the octave of Easter and have a lovely cowl to enjoy at the end.

I’m doing another Choose Your Yarn Adventure Yarn Giveaway this week. Choose your favorite of five lovely yarn bases, all dyed in my A Little Princess colorway. The winner will receive his or her favorite skein.

The bases to choose from include:
*So Silky Sock, which is made of 50% mulberry silk and 50% superwash merino.

*Donegal Sock, which is made of 85% superwash merino and 15% nylon nebs, giving the yarn a lovely tweed look.

*Squoosh DK (my newest yarn base), which is made of 100% extra-soft superwash merino that’s impossible to stop squeezing.

*Donegal DK, which is made of 85% superwash merino and 15% nylon nebs. This is just like Donegal Sock but warmer.

*Buttery Soft DK, which is just so soft. It’s made of 45% baby alpaca, 45% extra-fine merino, and 10% silk.

Here are the terms:

The giveaway ends on Monday, February 25th at midnight.

This time I chose one of my favorite colorways — A Little Princess — and you get to choose your favorite from five different yarn bases. The winner will receive his or her favorite one.

Everyone who enters will also receive a free subscription to my awesome weekly newsletter with secret sales for subscribers only, free patterns and tutorials, and a monthly interview with an amazing pattern designer. You’ll also receive a coupon for 15% off your first purchase from Purple Lamb as soon as the giveaway ends.
After you choose your favorite skein of yarn, you can get extra entries and increase your chances of winning by liking, following, and sharing. Thanks for helping to spread the word about Purple Lamb Fiber Arts! It means a lot to me.

I have a wonderful new squishy soft yarn base available in my shop. It’s called Squoosh DK, and it’s made of 100% extra-fine Merino and comes in 4 ounce skeins with 250 yards each.

I can’t stop squeezing it!

I am starting this new collection with eight different coordinating colorways.

I’m doing another Choose Your Yarn Adventure Giveaway. This time I have four different colorways on four different yarn bases for you to choose from. The winner will receive his or her favorite skein. You can find out more and enter to win here.

Also, as I look toward the new year I have decided to focus on fewer yarn bases and more different colorways, so to that end I have a super sale going on some lovely yarn here.

Thanks for looking! Have a very Merry Christmas!

I am really excited to bring you this mini-skein set for the Twelve Days of Christmas! It will make a fabulous gift for the yarn lovers in your life, and it would also be a great way to step away from the busy-ness of the wonderful Christmas season and enjoy a little time to crochet or knit for yourself. Sending hints to your loved ones is definitely allowed. ????

Each day starting with Christmas Day, you or the person you give it to will get to unwrap a beautiful little box containing a hand-dyed 20 gram mini skein. The boxes will be numbered for each of the twelve days of Christmas. Each 20-gram mini skein is 87 yards long, and I will be dyeing them as a gradient set of twelve minis in a combination of variegated, speckled, and tonal colorways that are made to be used altogether. The minis are made of squishy soft 100% Superwash Merino, and the whole set of minis will come to 1,044 yards and 240 grams. That is enough for a medium-sized shawl, poncho or cropped sweater.

If you would like to make it even more special, you can choose to add a full-sized 100-gram skein made of my So Silky Sock yarn to give for Christmas Day, and then the minis will last through the Feast of Epiphany on January 6th. If you choose the full-sized skein too, then the whole set will come to 1,481 yards of sock-weight yarn and 340 grams, which is enough for a bigger shawl, poncho, and many full-sized sweaters. The So Silky Sock yarn is an amazingly soft yarn made of 50% silk and 50% Superwash Merino.

This set will work with a lot of different patterns, but I’ll include a list of some great knit and crochet patterns that would work well for both sets.

You can order through the end of November, and then I will be dyeing up all the orders and mailing them out by the 10th of December to make sure they arrive in time for Christmas. Because of the short timeline, I’m afraid I will have to limit these sets to others who live in the U.S.

I will not be using traditional Christmas colors for these. Instead I will be dyeing the minis in a gradient that goes from purples to blues to a soft sea-foam green — colors that will look great all the time.

I’m doing a Choose Your Yarn Adventure yarn giveaway!! This giveaway ends at midnight on Sunday, November 4th. I’ll be announcing the winner on my website, on Facebook, and by email on Monday, November 5th.

I have three beautiful sock-weight skeins for you to choose from on different wonderful yarn bases. The one on the left is Lizzie on my So Silky Sock base, the one in the middle is Smaug’s Treasure on Sparkly Merino Sock, and the one on the right is Nebula on Donegal Sock. Which one is your favorite? Just go follow the link here to choose your favorite and enter the contest.

The winner will receive his or her favorite skein. Everyone who enters will also receive a free subscription to my awesome weekly newsletter with secret sales for subscribers only, free patterns and tutorials, and a monthly interview with an amazing pattern designer. You’ll also receive a coupon for 15% off your first purchase from Purple Lamb.