And the winner is....

Kimchi/Elaine! So Elaine, please contact me here, through twitter, etsy, or ravelry so I can send you your prize!

I can't tell you how much I appreciate all your comments and feedback. I read every single one of them and they warmed my heart. And thank you to those who re-tweeted, blog posted, etc. about my giveaway. There will be more giveaways to come, so please stay tuned. I plan on holding at least one a month, but hopefully two. :)

Thank you all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

xo Lisa

Ravelry Fiber Swap Club!

I am so excited I found this Ravelry group! It's a great way to create custom fiber gifties for people and receive custom fiber gifties for yourself. Deadline for sign up is June 21, so sign up now!

Ravelry Fiber Swap Group

Go to the "NEW! Sign-ups for ROUND 5!!" thread towards the top of the posts.

This is not my club, but I love the idea of it so much that I felt compelled to promote it. Plus, I'll be taking part! :D

Estes Park Wool Market

This post is a couple of days late, but I had an awesome time!

I ran up there for just an hour or so with the intention of picking up some undyed combed top. (need it to dye b/c my big shipment does not come in til next Thursday). Alas, there was no ecru combed top to be had, but I picked up the most amazing CVM/Corriedale cross fleece from Sheepfeathers. The crimp is insane and the color is a delicious variety of cool smokey browns. AND I found out that the breeder is just the next town over, which will be great for scoring more of this stunning fleece in the future.

I also put down a deposit on a **cherry Matchless**. I had tried a Matchless when I was a beginning spinner and since I was then a beginner I couldn't really tell the difference. But when I tried one yesterday, having a little more experience under my belt, I was sold. HAD to have one, and since she had one cherry left to sell it just made perfect sense. Not to my pocketbook, but to my fiber addled brain.

Only went into the goat and alpaca tents (the goat population seemed far smaller this year than last?), and took a couple pics of a beautiful fawn alpaca that stole my heart.

Glad I decided to go up. :)

Beautiful roving giveaway!

Hi everyone!

Since I have started a new blog I have decided to do things a little differently around here, which includes holding regular giveaway contests! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

The first giveaway will be for 4.15 ounces of beautiful hand-painted Falkland combed top!

Just browse through the blog, find something you like, and write about it in the comment section of this post. A winner will be chosen at random on Wednesday, June 17. Remember to post about it to ravelry, twitter, facebook, plurk, your blog, etc to be entered twice in the giveaway! Just post here about your extra social networking post with link to be given extra credit. :)

Uberlicious FIBER CLUB!

Hi Everyone! I have decided to offer a monthly fiber club. The Uberlicious Fiber Club! What I will be doing is offering a particular fiber (mainly luxury) for the upcoming month, open a limited number of spots, and ship by the 15th of that upcoming month. The colorways will be brand new and will be guaranteed not to be replicated for at least 6 months.

This month you will receive at least 4 ounces of sumptuous 80/20 Merino/Silk combed top. I will only be offering 12 spots. The price for the combed top will be $22 with U.S. and Canadian First Class shipping being $3 and International shipping being $6. It will be shipped to you no later than July 15.

Slots are available on a first come, first serve basis, with slots opening on Etsy at 2pm EST today, June 15.

Thanks all! I am very excited about this new venture! :D

xo Lisa

http://poppyflowerfibers.etsy.com

Update tonight 9pm EST

I only have a few colorways to offer as I am plum out of fiber until next week.  I wasn't going to go up to Estes Park for the wool fest this weekend, but I just might so I can grab a small amount of fiber to tie me over until my delivery comes.

Here's a pic of what will be offered:

New blog and featured in Spin Off magazine!

I just got finished transferring my old LiveJournal blog entries over to this blog.  Phew!  Glad that's over with.

Not a whole lot to say right now.  Should be dyeing for the update tomorrow.  I'm really low, uber low, on fiber right now and after this is dyed up I'll be lucky to have any for the following update.  My crack dealer, e'hem fiber dealer, is delaying the shipment a bit so I'm in a bit of a bind. 

What else is new?  Ahhhh, I've been featured in Spin-Off magazine's "Get This" section.  I tend to keep things of this nature to myself as I am a wee bit shy in this respect, but I have been encouraged to share, so here it is:

Lastly, I have finally gotten my website up and running thanks to the wonderful Miss Velvet. She really came through for me at a time when I was ready to throw my computer out the window. My website is very simple. Just the way I like it. Here she is: Poppy Flower Fibers.

That's about it. Really need to dive into those dyepots. Time to crank up the tunes and get to work.

First update in 2 months (june 02, 2009 lj blog entry)

I am so happy that my strength has returned and that I am able to dye again. I had so much fun with this lot. Here are some pics of what I will be offering in my store at 9pm est tonight. You can see more pics on my Flickr page. :) poppy flower fibers

march 31 lj blog post

Hey all! Here are some of the Colorway Compilations I was talking about earlier. I'm pretty excited about them and looking forward to seeing the yarn buyers spin with them. :) available at my store as usual, http://poppyflowerfibers.etsy.com :)

march 29 lj blog entry

here are some i dyed up recently that are now in my etsy shop. I'm kind of glad that my surgery is only 10 days away. I can feel myself reaching burnout. Should be able to get in a couple more batches of dyeing within the next few days before I need to stop for at least a month. http://poppyflowerfibers.etsy.com