This Week’s Winner – New Giveaway! | Foxfire Fiber & Designs

Meet Verbena's little ewe-ling. That's what we're calling her for the moment, since she's only hours old and I haven't chosen a "font" themed name for her or for two brothers just yet. We're up to the letter "G". Let's see . . . . Garamond, Georgia, Gloucester. Or maybe we should move on to "H"??

I've drawn a winner from the commenters on last week's giveaway. SusanSW is the lucky recipient of a Sheep Shares spring yarn share and a copy of Gail Callahan's Dyeing book! Thank you, Susan, and everyone who commented last week.

Today kicks off another week of celebrating new-ness and all things spring with another giveaway!

In that spirit I'd like to say hat's off to Julia, Kate, Irene and Mary of Twist Collective – the fab online knitting magazine and design showcase. The spring issue just went live. It's full of amazing patterns begging to be added to your queue.

One of my favorites is this pullover by Marnie MacLean. "Cecchetti" is perfect spring evenings or summer days at the seashore. In fact, the gauge would be just right for my Foxfire Fiber Cormo Alpaca Lace yarn (shown above in Lavender Buds) spun from the wool of my flock combined with locally raised alpaca fiber.

This weeks prize is a whopping 5 skeins of this yarn, enough to make Marnie's lovely sweater (you can purchase and download the pattern at Twist Collective). Or you can check out some recent projects on my Ravelry group: Foxfire Fiber Friends. This yarn is also great for shawls – many Sheep Shares members can attest to that. What's really special about this yarn is you can no longer buy it. It was our winter share for 2009 and until I produce more, this is it.

Do you want it?

Thought so.

To be entered in this drawing I'll keep it simple this week:

– Leave a comment here, to this post. What would you make if you won 1200 yards of hand dyed Cormo Alpaca fingering weight yarn?

Details: There's a place for your email address when you post a comment – I need that to tell you if you win. (You don't need to mention your email address in the body of the comment itself). Taking entries up until 11 pm on Thursday, April 8. I will randomly draw a name from commenters and post a winner here on this blog on Friday, April 9th (and then will announce the giveaway for the coming week).

Thanks for visiting, always good to hear from you!

One more thing:

If you'd like to read about lambing at my farm in an earlier year, click here for the story I wrote for Twist Collective's spring '09 issue.

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