Thank you, wonderful customers and friends, for supporting us and our shops.   If you are a club member you will be receiving a refund for your remaining months.

Thank you, wonderful artists, for working together to produce a great product if even only for a short time!

All the best,

CJ

Today only: Purchase a Moss box and receive $5 off the Wisteria box.

Here’s a sneak peek of the Moss box:

Being an occasional Phat Fiber box contributor and purchaser, I had heard of the Spindies boxes, but never purchased one. But when I heard there was going to be a yellow “Sunshine” compliments box I had to have one! I’m on a big yellow kick right now, and I have always been a fan of semi-solids. The opportunity to use multiple fibers from multiple artists in approximately the same colorway was exciting and I’m glad I got in on the fun! Here’s my lovely box contents.

The contents go as follows:

SUNSHINE by Wild Hare Fiber Studio with BLF, Corriedale, Mulberry Silk, Tencel, Angelina, & Firestar

SUNSHINE- Bohoknitterchic Spins- merino, bamboo, angelina
SUNSHINE by The Fuzzy Bunny with Polwarth, Bamboo Rayon, & Milk Protein Fiber
SUNSHINE ON MY SHOULDERS by Moonlight & Laughter with Merino, Rambouillet, Milk, Tencel, Firestar, Angelina, Silk
SUNSHINE & LEMONADE by H.A.Y. with Wool, Tussah Silk, Milk Protein Fiber, Bamboo, Mohair, Alpaca, & Firestar
JUST DUCKY by Dragonmaille with Superwash Merino, Bamboo Rayon, Alpaca, Seacell

I didn’t want to spin each batt entirely back-to-back, so I split each one into 3 and spun them in sequence. Here I am at the Northwest Regional Spinner’s Association fall retreat at Camp Bear Paw new Newport, WA, spinning away on my Babe.

What a blast! I got to see old friends and meet new ones. I didn’t get much spinning done but I did manage to get a single spun from my spindies box. My original plan was to do a two-ply, but I think the yarn looks great as a single and is just the right yardage for a Wonky  cowl, designed by bohoknitterchic , one of the spindies contributors! It’s even the October SAL/KAL over in the Spindies ravelry group .

Here she is, 116 yards, dk/worsted.

I could never pick a favorite, all of the batts were fun and I even got to try some new artists. Thanks for a great box and a fun spin!

Carrie

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TODAY ONLY Buy two of any box combination and receive $5 back, buy 3 get $10 back, and so on. $$ will be refunded via PayPal. You can combine the 3 month club with any box for the $5 back too! But hurry, there are a limited number of boxes available.

Hampton Artistic Yarns is the featured shop of the month in November- that means that one lucky box buyer will receive the ‘Golden Ticket’ good for $25 in H.A.Y.’s shop!

The beauty of a Spindies Paint box is that you can spin it any way you wish. You could spin each sample separately. In the Spindies Ravelry Group there is an entrelac cowl SAL/KAL going on now that would showcase this method amazingly. You could spin a supercoil art yarn. You could blend all the samples together and get a yarn completely unique… I’ve chosen to spin a yarn in a sort of “melting pot” approach. This will give a yarn with considerably more variation than a semi-solid or tonal yarn, but will still work well with patterned knitting.

For those who have never unwrapped a Spindies box, here’s a description of each of my Wisteria samples. When I checked each website, I noticed that some of the artists still had full sized Wisteria offerings in their shops. You could always ask them to reproduce a sample, too, if you’ve totally fallen in love with something that is sold out.

Starting at the upper left of the photo and going clockwise…

BohoKnitterChic Spins

Wisteria – roving containing superwash merino, bamboo and nylon

This hand painted roving has shades of purple and pink from deep to pale, contrasted with white. If I had a full sized braid, I think it would make some fun socks!

Dragonmaille Designs

Wisteria – superwash Blue Faced Leicester wool, nylon, bamboo rayon.

Wonderful shades of pink, from intense to gentle are blended together in this supersoft batt. Who doesn’t love pink!

Fuzzy Bunny Fibers

Clematis – hand-dyed blue faced leicester roving

Shades of pink and purple in smooshy, bouncy BFL. I love the intense colors in this roving.

Hampton Artistic Yarns

Wisteria Blossom – kettle dyed organic merino

Oh, so soft merino roving in shades of purple and blue that I just can’t stop touching. I could see myself making a chunky singles yarn and knitting it into a cozy cowl if I had more of this.

Moonlight and Laughter

Wistful Wisteria – superwash bluefaced leicester roving

Beautiful blues that hint at purple in soft, smooshy BFL. This would make a beautiful semi-solid yarn.

MoonWood Farm

Wisteria – milk protein fiber, mill end wools, rambouillet, bamboo, firestar

Don’t let the idea of mill ends confuse you into thinking this batt is anything other than amazing. It is so soft and such a dream to spin.

Natchwoolie

Wisteria – merino and bamboo

A beautiful white merino roving paired with bamboo of the palest of pink. Two different kinds of softness that would be fun to combine in a number of ways.

Silver Sun Alpacas

Lavender Vanilla – contains alpaca, merino & silk

This sample looks to be a strip pulled off a full sized batt. It has different shades of lavender, lightly blended with vanilla (white).

Wild Hare Fiber Studio

Wisteria – Smoothie Specialty Batt (pulled into roving) – contains merino wool, silk and angelina

This batt (roving) is so soft I wish I could sleep in it. It has several different shades of purple with a bit of sparkle and sheen all blended together.

Woolie Bullie

Wisteria – merino

pillowy soft merino in the palest shade of pink.

My Wisteria Spindies box has been so much fun even before I began to spin it up! Feeling and looking at the amazing contributions of the fiber artists has been a delight. I must confess I was hesitant to start, since I’d been enjoying how the bowl of samples looked on my coffee table. But once I decided to spin it, I chose to go with what I know I will love, 3 thin singles, plyed into a fingering weight yarn. I wish I had a blending hackle, but since I don’t, I found another way to blend all the samples nicely. I stretched each sample out to a big rectangle (approx 15″ x 20″) – very easy with the batts. Not so much with the rovings – those I broke into 20″ strips and teased apart.

I stacked each stretched sample on top of eachother.

Then I ripped the sample sandwich into eight strips. To keep things tidy, I twisted each strip into a little knot until I was ready to deal with it. Once I was ready to spin, I predrafted each knot and spun to my heart’s content!

I lost a little bit of my singles due to some difficult, then impossible, tangles.

Here’s the finished yarn. 5oz, 420 yards, fingering weight yarn. Maybe, I’ll put it back on the coffee table to admire!

Check the shop next Wednesday, November 3rd at 1pm EDT for the new boxes.

The November Paintbox color is somewhere in the image:

The November Abstract Art Box color is somewhere in this picture.

I will also be adding a new feature to the blog. It’s called “Feature Friday” and will include blog posts from Spindies customers and their experiences with the box. The first one will be posted tomorrow!

The Paintbox color this month is Fuchsia:

And the new Abstract Art Box (chunky art fibers) color is Midnight:

There is also a special surprise for 1 lucky shopper this month- The Golden Ticket! One box will contain a Golden $25 GC to MoonLight &
Laughter! It’s a mystery who will get it as the boxes are sealed prior to selling them.

She won a $25 gift card to the Spindies contributor shop of her choice. Congratulations!

Is that brains I’m boiling at Midnight? Maybe, maybe not. But it’s definitely a clue about the October Spindies Paintbox Color, releasing next Wednesday, October 6th.

Check out the Spindies Ravelry Group for this months Spin-A-Long and Knit-A-Long. Currently there’s a SAL/KAL going for the Entrelac Cowl and we’re just starting another SAL/KAL for the Wonky Cowl and Sweet Georgia Hat. So get out your Spindies Paintbox or pick one up in the Shop and join in on all the fun!