Monday, February 23, 2009

I'm Phat, I'm Phat, You Know It: Part 1

Who's phat? I am! Ready?


BAM!
The February 2009 Phat Fiber Box:

Do you hate me yet? This box is chock full of fabulouso stuff.


Exhibit A:
Left: 8 grams of "Lover" Handspun, hand dyed merino blend yarn from Evergreen Creations. It's a 2 ply. I'm guessing it's worsted weight. I think there might be enough to make a little coin purse. I might try felting with it, too.

Center: Happy Hands Goat's Milk & Shea Butter Hand Creme: "Tea & Roses" from Local Gringos. The rose scent is so faint you can barely smell it....which is how I like it. Plus it's got honey in it. I love milk and honey stuff.


Right: A little 4 gram puff of unlabeled fluff from From Ewe to You. I'm guessing it's wool...but I'm not sure what kind. I don't see it in her shop. I'll probably card this together with something else. edit: I've since learned that it is Dorset/Montadale

Exhibit B:
Background: Pattern: "Under the Rose" Fingerless Mitts from Ganiggle Knits.

Big beautiful puff of fluff: A generous 13 gram chunk of 100% merino superwash roving from Kangaroo Dyer. This is definitely one of my top 5 favorite things I got in this box. I'm excited to see what it turns into.

To the right of the big bright puff: You can see the corner of an envelope. The front of the envelope had standard knitting abbreviations on it. Inside were all kinds of coupons from places like Farmgirl chic, Local Gringos, Moonwood Farm, eXtreme Spinning (I'm really sad I didn't get a sample from here. I will probably have to take advantage of 20% off to make myself feel better about it, though) and My Fair Bag Lady. There was also a cute little stich marker from Pedras (the stitch marker didn't make it in the picture. Go check out her stuff, though. Cute. I also got a sock yarn note card from Knit it Up. (no picture of this, either....but please go see her stuff. Definitely worth the time and bandwidth to click).

That gorgeous little pink and grey poof?: It's a 5 gram sinfully soft mini roving ball in the "snuggly" colourway from Moonwood Farm. Check out this description:

This particular blend consists of alpaca blended with a little satin angora bunny fiber - white first shearing from Mickey [an alpaca, picture on the card] blended with a bit of pink glitzy prepared roving, purple hand dyed (koolaid) from Sergeant Major [another alpaca, picture on the card], grey from Dominic (his fiber is blended with 25% black satin angora from Nero [Nero is a bunny]), as well as a sprinkling of silver angelina.

Holy cow! (or is it holy alpacas and bunnies?) Complex with undertones of "wow!" Aside of feeling like I've been entrusted with a little bit of sacred fiber, I think Moonwood wins for the "best tag" competition among the things in my box. Pictures of alpaca and bunny pr0n, a description like this, another description of how she made my roving ball, and directions about spinning and washing the fiber. Roo...you need a Ravelry group for your farm. I'm totally a fan.

To be continued...

8 comments:

  1. Looks like a great box! By all the skeins of yarn was it the non-fiber box?

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  2. No, it was a regular box. I got 5 spinning fibers, a diz and a spindle sack as far as spinning related stuff. Maybe I got less fiber because I got the sack?

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  3. I haven't tried to get a box yet, but thought there was an option for one that was more fiber heavy, so why I was asking. ;^)

    This popped up in my Amazon recs and I immediately thought of you!
    http://www.amazon.com/Hello-Cupcake-Irresistibly-Playful-Creations/dp/0618829253/ref=pd_ys_shvl_5 It's in the library system if you haven't already got it on request. He he

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  4. Right now there are the mixed boxes and the "stitches only" (yarn and knitting stuff only) boxes. There is talk of a spinner-centered box coming out soon, though. Some people who got mixed boxes got tons of great spinning fiber, though.

    I just requested a cupcake book from paperbackswap.com and I think that's the one. If it ends up being different, I'll have to check it out at the library.

    ReplyDelete
  5. I just featured you on the Stone Soup Blog today! http://stonesoupchallenge.blogspot.com/2009/02/this-is-attitude-i-love.html

    I hope it's ok!

    ReplyDelete
  6. Hey Carissa! Found your blog on Sister Sheri's!
    Your crafty-ness is admirable. I wish I had the patience. Maybe someday... :)

    ReplyDelete

Comments make me happy! Thanks in advance for sharing your thoughts.

Monday, February 23, 2009

I'm Phat, I'm Phat, You Know It: Part 1

Who's phat? I am! Ready?


BAM!
The February 2009 Phat Fiber Box:

Do you hate me yet? This box is chock full of fabulouso stuff.


Exhibit A:
Left: 8 grams of "Lover" Handspun, hand dyed merino blend yarn from Evergreen Creations. It's a 2 ply. I'm guessing it's worsted weight. I think there might be enough to make a little coin purse. I might try felting with it, too.

Center: Happy Hands Goat's Milk & Shea Butter Hand Creme: "Tea & Roses" from Local Gringos. The rose scent is so faint you can barely smell it....which is how I like it. Plus it's got honey in it. I love milk and honey stuff.


Right: A little 4 gram puff of unlabeled fluff from From Ewe to You. I'm guessing it's wool...but I'm not sure what kind. I don't see it in her shop. I'll probably card this together with something else. edit: I've since learned that it is Dorset/Montadale

Exhibit B:
Background: Pattern: "Under the Rose" Fingerless Mitts from Ganiggle Knits.

Big beautiful puff of fluff: A generous 13 gram chunk of 100% merino superwash roving from Kangaroo Dyer. This is definitely one of my top 5 favorite things I got in this box. I'm excited to see what it turns into.

To the right of the big bright puff: You can see the corner of an envelope. The front of the envelope had standard knitting abbreviations on it. Inside were all kinds of coupons from places like Farmgirl chic, Local Gringos, Moonwood Farm, eXtreme Spinning (I'm really sad I didn't get a sample from here. I will probably have to take advantage of 20% off to make myself feel better about it, though) and My Fair Bag Lady. There was also a cute little stich marker from Pedras (the stitch marker didn't make it in the picture. Go check out her stuff, though. Cute. I also got a sock yarn note card from Knit it Up. (no picture of this, either....but please go see her stuff. Definitely worth the time and bandwidth to click).

That gorgeous little pink and grey poof?: It's a 5 gram sinfully soft mini roving ball in the "snuggly" colourway from Moonwood Farm. Check out this description:

This particular blend consists of alpaca blended with a little satin angora bunny fiber - white first shearing from Mickey [an alpaca, picture on the card] blended with a bit of pink glitzy prepared roving, purple hand dyed (koolaid) from Sergeant Major [another alpaca, picture on the card], grey from Dominic (his fiber is blended with 25% black satin angora from Nero [Nero is a bunny]), as well as a sprinkling of silver angelina.

Holy cow! (or is it holy alpacas and bunnies?) Complex with undertones of "wow!" Aside of feeling like I've been entrusted with a little bit of sacred fiber, I think Moonwood wins for the "best tag" competition among the things in my box. Pictures of alpaca and bunny pr0n, a description like this, another description of how she made my roving ball, and directions about spinning and washing the fiber. Roo...you need a Ravelry group for your farm. I'm totally a fan.

To be continued...

8 comments:

  1. Looks like a great box! By all the skeins of yarn was it the non-fiber box?

    ReplyDelete
  2. No, it was a regular box. I got 5 spinning fibers, a diz and a spindle sack as far as spinning related stuff. Maybe I got less fiber because I got the sack?

    ReplyDelete
  3. I haven't tried to get a box yet, but thought there was an option for one that was more fiber heavy, so why I was asking. ;^)

    This popped up in my Amazon recs and I immediately thought of you!
    http://www.amazon.com/Hello-Cupcake-Irresistibly-Playful-Creations/dp/0618829253/ref=pd_ys_shvl_5 It's in the library system if you haven't already got it on request. He he

    ReplyDelete
  4. Right now there are the mixed boxes and the "stitches only" (yarn and knitting stuff only) boxes. There is talk of a spinner-centered box coming out soon, though. Some people who got mixed boxes got tons of great spinning fiber, though.

    I just requested a cupcake book from paperbackswap.com and I think that's the one. If it ends up being different, I'll have to check it out at the library.

    ReplyDelete
  5. I just featured you on the Stone Soup Blog today! http://stonesoupchallenge.blogspot.com/2009/02/this-is-attitude-i-love.html

    I hope it's ok!

    ReplyDelete
  6. Hey Carissa! Found your blog on Sister Sheri's!
    Your crafty-ness is admirable. I wish I had the patience. Maybe someday... :)

    ReplyDelete

Comments make me happy! Thanks in advance for sharing your thoughts.

 
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