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Our 2023 Advent Box just opened for preorder!!

If you’ve never seen one of our Advent Boxes before, they are absolutely over the top.

We spoil you absolutely rotten with 25 days of FULL-SIZED knitting (or crochet) goodies 💕

Fair warning, we’re not like most other knitting or crochet Advent boxes you may know. Every day is different (tell me that you don’t lose a little excitement after the 10th mini-skein in a row…) and there is no make-along to keep up with during the holiday season.

Absolutely no pressure.
Just presents!
Every. Single. Day!

So what’s inside?
I can’t tell you that! It’s a surprise!

But here’s what I can tell you…

Inside you’ll find:
– 25 full-sized products
– 14 of our signature items in EXCLUSIVE colors and charms (think stitch markers, row counters, knitting bags, or anything else that may have seen in our shop or social media)
– 7 unique items that have NEVER been seen before (and may never be available in the shop)

That all breaks down to at least:
– 1 chain row counter
– 1 set of stitch markers (for either knitting or crochet)
– 1 skein of wool or wool blend yarn (worsted weight)
– 1 pattern to coordinate with your yarn
– 20 other surprise goodies!

Just click the link to see what we’ve included in the last two years of boxes so you can get a feel for what to expect.

Then grab your spot!

Don’t forget to use the coupon code ADVENT25 to get $25 off your box through July 31st!

Olive & Two Ewe Studios

156 Days to Christmas and in Between, it’s Halloween!

July 20, 2023

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Christmas in July! We are still celebrating with a little bit more than 150 days ‘til Santa comes! Have you started your holiday knitting? If the thought of that is scary, then we’ve got a treat for you! Our next favorite holiday inspired a Halloween treat…31 Days of Mystery! It’s full of fun and marvelous surprises including yarn, notions, projects, and more yarn! So exciting! Be sure to check out all the details in the shop.

If you are looking for something really gorgeous to make something special for someone or for yourself, you’ll want to pick up one of our Cozy Christmas Trios. Superwash Merino fingering weight yarn with a beautifully subtle sparkle in rich browns — it’s just the thing for an elegant holiday cozy you’ll wear for years to come.

Have you cast on your Dumpling Bag? We’ve seen a few of our Yarny Ewes starting this fun project for our Dumpling Bag Make-a-Long. Only 1 hank of our Tolkien DK is used for this super useful bag. Take it shopping or gift it to a loved one. Easy peasy pattern and so squishy good.

Are you ready for the Cumulus MAL? You’ll want to get your yarn order in lickety-split so you’ll be ready to cast on with us on August 1st. This simple beautiful sweater is knit with two strands of our fluffy delicious Bronte, a suri alpaca and silk blend. Pick up one of our kits to make yours.

Be quick! The next installment of our Dye Live Plus Club – Made with Love and Libations is open for sign-ups, but only for a limited time. This is the last of our 3-month series for August, September and October. In addition to club exclusive yarn on your choice of base, you get to attend a live video dye experience with Carolyn, our very talented and creative dyer. It’s loads of fun to see the process behind the scenes. Read all about this entertaining club here.

Plans for our Scotland trip in the spring are coming along. If you’d like to join us, send us an email so you can stay in the loop as our trip comes together.

Make plans and get your tickets now to come see us at the Olive & Two Ewe Studios booth at Indie Untangled in upstate New York in October. You never know where we’ll pop up! Sign up for our newsletter to stay up to date or join our fun, free Facebook Group, the Yarny Ewes.

Last but not least, we’re going live on our YouTube channel, The Traveling Two Ewe Knit, Saturday morning at 9:30AM Eastern time. Grab your coffee or tea, your yarn, and let’s have a great time together!

Fiber friends are the best friends! Thanks for being a part of our yarn community, and we’ll be back next week for more updates and adventures!

Olive & Two Ewe Studios

Merry Sockmas in July!

July 13, 2023

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Christmas in July is at the halfway point, and we need to get moving on our holiday knitting! To provide inspiration, we have ALL THE WHIMSY SOCK SETS for you! In all the best colors and yarn weights, there is something for everyone. Check out these beautiful sets and pick a few to make your holiday socks.

Don’t miss out on our pre-order for our yarny Hannukah and Christmas Countdown Calendars! They are only open for a short time! Do not miss out on this extra special treat!

We’ve restocked some of your holiday favorites and what better way to celebrate Christmas in July than with beautiful jewel tones for all your holiday gifts? Imagine the joy these rich colors will inspire in scarves or mittens or socks or shawls for those you love.

New in the shop and full of holiday spirit is our Twelve Days of Christmas felt embroidery set. Make them for someone special or for your own tree. We think these would make a marvelous wedding gift or housewarming present.

Don’t miss the last of our regular Dye Live Plus Club series: Made with Love and Libations. Join our dyer Carolyn live virtually in the dye studio during your private happy hour and watch her dye the club colorway. You can even choose your base and quantity. All the details can be found here on this fun virtual dye experience.

Have you seen some of the Magical Christmas Stockings in our Make-a-Long that lasts the entire month of July? It’s not too late to get started. We’ll start our Knit-a-Long for Purl Soho’s Dumpling Bag on Saturday, July 15th. It’s a quick one hank project and sure to be appreciated in soft, squishy Tolkien DK.

We are loving the hand work projects, and at Needleworks later this month, Mary Nielsen will be teaching a Wool Applique class. Register soon for the class on Friday, July 21st at Needleworks, our community craft space in Winter Park, FL. Mary will teach us basic techniques used to stitch the Candle Mats from Bareroots. Choose from three designs, including a special Christmas mat! Class fees cover the kit and three hours of instruction. No experience needed for this beginner class.

The Cumulus Sweater Knit Along starts August 1st. Cumulus kits featuring our luscious Bronte base are live in the shop! Order yours today so you can be ready for our cast on!

Stay tuned for travel opportunities with upcoming events in New Orleans, Rhinebeck, NY, and Scotland. If you are interested in learning more about our 2024 Scotland trip, email us today at [email protected].

Last but not least, we’re going live on our YouTube channel Saturday morning at 9:30AM Eastern time. Grab your coffee or tea, your yarn, and let’s have a great time together!

Fiber friends are the best friends! Thanks for being a part of our yarn community, and we’ll be back next week for more updates and adventures!

Southern Skeins

Christmas in July!

July 11, 2023

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Happy Christmas in July!

To celebrate we are doing a flash sale of our 2023 Countdown to Christmas Advent Calendars!

This year our Advent is inspired by bright, shiny Christmas lights and ornaments. This Advent will take you on a whimsical magical journey through a Christmas Kaleidoscope of color!

Each mini is a little bundle of joy, bursting with brilliant reds, greens, blues, and golds from bright to light. It’s like holding a handful of Christmas ornaments ready to be strung together into something beautiful and festive. Whether you’re knitting a cozy scarf or our annual Advent pattern, this Advent is perfect to bring your holiday creations to life in a kaleidoscope of Christmas color!

As always, we are offering a variety of options to fit every budget.

Calendar Level Options
Option 1: The Standard Advent Calendar Includes:
• 24 days of yarn (in Southern Sock or Southern DK yarn)
• 100g skein to open Christmas Day
Reusable fabric calendar (see photos for last year’s; this year’s will be themed differently)
• Advent knitting pattern
• Knit-a-long with prizes!
• And a few other goodies by some of your favorite makers that we will keep secret until December. 😉

Option 2: Deluxe Calendar Includes:
All the Standard goodies plus!
• Drawstring project bag by Miss Fiber Fox

Option 3: Just the Yarn (no extras) Includes:

•24 mini skeins of Southern Sock or Southern DK to unwrap daily
• Advent knitting pattern
• Knit-a-long with prizes!

YARN BASE OPTIONS:

1) Southern Sock Yarn | 80% Superwash Merino wool and 20% nylon | 24 individually-wrapped 20-gram mini skeins with 80 yards per mini | one full-sized skein 100g with 400 yds (Deluxe option).
Or
2) Southern DK Yarn | 80% Superwash Merino wool and 20% nylon | 24 individually-wrapped 20-gram mini skeins with 46 yards per mini | one full size 100g skein with 245 yds (Deluxe option)

What is a Reusable Fabric Calendar?
Basically, it’s the wrapping for the mini skeins. It’s handmade. There a picture on the listing of last year’s. We are trying to be eco friendly by giving you a 100% cotton fabric reusable calendar with pockets! Handmade numbers let you know which pocket to open on which day. Perfect to reuse year after year to put treats for kids, or anyone else, to count down to Christmas! Or, give it to your spouse/significant other to fill next year with goodies for YOU!

Olive & Two Ewe Studios

Christmas at the Cabin

July 5, 2023

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Chestnuts roasting on an open fire. Jack Frost nipping at your nose… we can dream of a little cooler weather, can’t we? It is, after all, the most wonderful time of the year when our yarn-y Hanukkah and Christmas Countdown Calendars are in the shop! Talk about a treat!

Order Hanukkah here

Order Christmas here

Christmas in July continues with Christmas at the Cabin! Think of frost and berries and pine and you’ll fall in love with this rustic yet modern take on Christmas colors. You’ll find this glorious color on several bases and in sparkly sock sets, too! Paired up with some new shades and some familiar, you are sure to find a favorite for your holiday projects.

Have you cast on your Magical Christmas Stocking for our Make-a-Long that lasts the entire month of July? It’s not too late to get started. A quick holiday gift is Purl Soho’s Dumpling Bag, and we’re doing a Knit-a-Long later this month. Plus, there’s lots of other holiday fun including an opportunity to sign up for our limited-edition Christmas and Hannukah boxes!

At Needleworks later this month, we’ll host a Wool Applique class on Friday, July 21st. Instructor Mary Nielsen will teach basic techniques used to stitch the Candle Mats from Bareroots. Choose from three designs, including a special Christmas mat! Class fees cover the kit and three hours of instruction. No experience needed for this beginner class. If you are in the Orlando, Florida area, sign up and join us!

We had so much fun stitching our Super Summer Sweaters we decided to hop right back on the sweater bus and launch the Cumulus Sweater Knit Along! Cumulus kits featuring our luscious Bronte base are live in the shop!

Stay tuned for other travel opportunities with upcoming events in New Orleans, Rhinebeck NY and Scotland. If you are interested in learning more about our 2024 Scotland trip, email us today at [email protected].

Last but not least, we’re going live on our YouTube channel Saturday morning at 9:30AM Eastern time. Grab your coffee or tea, your yarn, and let’s have a great time together!

Fiber friends are the best friends! Thanks for being a part of our yarn community, and we’ll be back next week for more updates and adventures!

Olive & Two Ewe Studios

Christmas in July is Here!

June 29, 2023

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It’s here! It’s finally here! Merry Christmas in July!

The sun may be warm and the winter chill a long way off, but we are still celebrating our favorite summer holidays!

We’re casting on for our Magical Christmas Stocking Make-A-Long that lasts the entire month of July. It wouldn’t be a holiday without a fiber friend swap, and we’ve got one that is easy as 1, 2,3! Plus, lots of other holiday fun coming in the next few weeks including an opportunity to sign up for our limited-edition Christmas and Hannukah preorder boxes!

Wee’ve been playing with all the great COLOR we have in the shop. Last week, we were wowed with Persimmon and Sitting Shiva and this week we’ve brought Teal We Meet Again to the party and the combination of these three colorways is AMAZING! In the spirit of Christmas in July, some sugarplums for you in our newest Many Minis for Ewe pack: Christmas at the Cabin. How beautiful are these? And to round out the dazzling yarn selection, coordinating cousins to our Fleetwood Mac inspired Dye Live Plus colorway: Little Lies and Everywhere. Gorgeous!

Don’t forget to sign up for the Wool Applique class with Mary Nielsen on Friday, July 21st at Needleworks. Mary will teach us basic techniques used to stitch the Candle Mats from Bareroots. Choose from three designs, including a special Christmas mat! Class fees cover the kit and three hours of instruction. No experience needed for this beginner class.

If you have an embroidery machine, you’ll want to see the new Kimberbell products we have in the shop: With easy-to-follow illustrated instructions you’ll easily make beautifully embroidered designs for your home, family and friends. If you are looking for a particular Kimberbell product, we are happy to order it for you, too.

Stay tuned for more details regarding a brand new Embroidery Club, brand new Featherweight Club and more coming soon!

Today is Prize day! We’ll be awarding prizes for our Super Summer Sweater Make-a-Long, our monthly #oliventwoeeweprojects prize, and our Pets in Knits MAL. (Clever Ewes shared all three projects in their social media with the #oliventwoeweprojects to up the chances of winning!) And coming soon, the Cumulus Sweater Knit Along.

Don’t miss out on attending our Ewe Crew in the Woods Falloween 2023 Retreat at historic Barnsely Resort in Georgia, open for registration now. This weekend is a super fun, laid back, fall retreat in beautiful north Georgia. You won’t regret it!

Stay tuned for other travel opportunities with upcoming events in Rhinebeck, New Orleans and Scotland.

Last but not least, we’re going live on our YouTube channel Saturday morning at 9:30AM Eastern time. Grab your coffee or tea, your yarn, and let’s have a great time together!

Fiber friends are the best friends! Thanks for being a part of our yarn community, and we’ll be back next week for more updates and adventures!

WoolenWomenFibers

A FANGtastic Halloween

June 22, 2023

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Enjoy spooky fall fest treats in the form of color and SamsTinyTrinkets charms. And extra goodies with our fall equinox box! Then dive into the 14 scares of Halloween with our slayer- and vampire-themed Halloween countdown — A Woolen slayer: a FANGtastic Halloween!

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We are currently taking preorders for a year-long KAL starting in September! join us in knitting A Stitch in Time by Kay F Jones as we play detective in solving a case each month. Zoom parties, grab bag prizes and grand prizes will be available!
Want to donate a prize? Contact us.

Plies & Hellhounds Yarn

Solstice Sock Calendars and Solstice Fiber Calendars (Pre-Orders)

May 30, 2023

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The Winter Solstice Calendars will be inspired by the general witchy cozy vibes of a snow covered forest on solstice, think dark trees, Moon glows and the cronching of snow beneath your boots while it echoes through the forest.
BOTH Calendars. Each year I like to mix up the advent/calendar styles and I couldn’t choose just one so this season we are doing a Solstice Sock Calendar and a FIBER calendar.

Solstice Sock Advent ($200): You will receive 4 sock sets each set being 1- 100g skein and 2 – 20g minis in contrast colors, all on the Nectar base. Alongside the yarn you will also get notions!

Fiber Solstice Advent ($160): 12 -20g bumps alongside the same vibe as the sock sets, not the same colors but same vibe and 1 – 100g Braid.
All of the fiber will be the same blend that way you don’t need to change any spinning techniques between the days!

Preorder days: June 1, 9a ET and July 1, 11a ET — Each preorder will be up for 10 days or until they sell out!

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Countdown to Summer!

May 18, 2023

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This will be Created by Elsie B’s sixth seasonal fiber countdown. It started with Spring 2022 and has continued to be a customer favorite.

On Blue Faced Leicester this time, you can choose from a total of 15 oz or 7.5 oz (1 oz or .5 oz pieces)

Orders close on Monday, May 22nd and will ship out May 29th and should arrive with plenty of time to start the daily surprise on June 7th. Starting that day means you’ll open the very last piece on the official first day of summer!

Each of the 15 pieces are packaged individually in a white mini paper lunch bag and there will be pieces of a poem inspired by the season stapled to each bag with the numbered order in which you should unwrap each piece.

How you use the pieces is completely up to you — we’ve had people keep them in individual mini skeins, do one large skein with all the colorways, pair a few days together, or wait until they’ve opened all the days before deciding on the color placement they like best.

The color inspiration for this countdown is red and aquamarine blue, but there will likely be other shades and tones that sneak their way into the final project. Typically each piece includes two or more colors for visual interest as you’re working with them (so each piece isn’t just a straight solid color).

I hope you’ll join us for the fun and if this round isn’t to your taste, keep your eye out for Fall’s Countdown coming soon!

WoolenWomenFibers

Start your summer right… and end it even better!

May 15, 2023

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