Wow! What can I say about Into the Whirled's gorgeous goodies that isn't already expressed in the equally gorgeous photography displayed in shop!
Christine's batts are something everyone needs to experience. They are, in a word, perfect. Each batt is completely smooth, the color changes are bold and yet effortless at the same time. I am deeply in love with these batts! I had the wonderful opportunity to spin a "Minotaur" batt last month and I was almost as thrilled with puzzling out how to spin the colors, with the fluffiness and squeezability of the batt!
We're giving away a wonderful 4.5 oz Minotaur batt to a lucky commenter! Just visit Into the Whirled, find something you like, and write about it below. We'll be drawing on Friday so sit back, relax and enjoy clicking through each of Christine's beautiful listings!
For those of you who tweet, plurk, facebook and blog, we'll give you an extra entry for telling folks about Christine's beautiful shop- just let us know you did it :)
Thank you so much, Christine for sharing your beauty with us!
All of her batts and roving are gorgeous. She has a great sense of color. I have to say the "Superfragilisticexpialidocious" batt is breath-taking.
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ReplyDeleteSome of my favorites aren't even listed... they're from her flickr account... but from what's listed... I think Brandywine might be my favorite.
ReplyDeleteI love her colorways so much...
Crys
Oh Poseidon, I want you soooo much. And off to RT on Twitter NOW!
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ReplyDeletelove it!!!
i haven't seen an etsy shop that makes me weak in the knees in a while)
I was an ITW lurker for quite a while. I would stop by her Etsy shop and admire and covet and one day, I realized that I should be more than lurker, I could actually get some of the gorgeous fiber to be my very own. I bought Laduree in Falkland wool. What a joy to spin! I wasn't quite sure at first what about that color lured me in but one night while plying, I realized that it is the color of my favorite Happy Ending sundae at Friendly's - one scoop black raspberry, one scoop pistachio covered in sumptuous hot fudge. Just so yummy!
ReplyDeleteUh, yeah. I too got to spin the minotaur last month and I now have these four marked in my etsy faves:
ReplyDelete64s Merino wool top aka roving for spinning or felting - Marbles
64s Merino wool top aka roving for spinning or felting - Minotaur - Featured in September Phat Fiber Sampler
64s Merino wool top aka roving for spinning or felting - Skeeter Bits
64s Merino wool top aka roving for spinning or felting - Boletus
Well, not to seem like I'm sucking up, but I really love the Minotaur colorway.
ReplyDeleteAnd of course her photography is beautiful.
I really love the Ant Farm Batt. All of her stuff is gorgeous.
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Blue Faced Leicest for the win. Beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI have admired her fiber batts for months now. The photography is beautiful. I especially like the "superfragilisticexpialidocious" batt!
ReplyDeleteI love the look of the twirly batts, but I haven't tried one yet. There were lots of appealing fibers in the shop when I peeked in (love the Falkland braids!) but the Falkland wool batt in Superfragilisticexpialidocious really is "splendiferous"
ReplyDeleteWow, I pretty much love all of them. Some favorites are: Superfragilisticexpialidocious, Aardvark Parts, and Yamdrok. RTed @ssailorss
ReplyDeleteI have wanted more of the Minotaur colorway ever since I spun the sample of it in the September box! But.. the Merino braid or the Falkland batt?
ReplyDeleteI just can't make up my mind!
Her rovings are so pretty. I love the
ReplyDeleteposeidon it is such a lovely color.
Oh, and tweeted, too @mytinkertots ;)
ReplyDeleteOf course the Minotaur is beautiful, but looking through the sold items, I'm awfully fond of Quadruped Amaphore as well.
ReplyDeleteAnt Farm, Vegetable Medley, Poseidon, Yamdrok...WOWSA colorways!
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Love this:
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I love all the color combos! The way she combines them makes them all work together so well. I love the batts!
I am absolutely in love with all of her work. I have told her to brace herself for this weekend when I go to Rhinebeck and come with a full wallet, and she is first on my list :) My favorite so far is actually the batt she uses in the picture for her avatar, though it isn't on sale currently in her shop. If I had to choose one in her shop, it would be the Dinoflagellates roving. I just love the contrast of colors, and the way they harmonize so peacefully. Also mentioned Into the Whirled in my facebook status just now, as well as my Twitter. SmooMcGoo (Twitter and Ravelry) and Sarah Dawley (fb). Yay for giveaways!!*crosses fingers*
ReplyDeleteI can't pick just one, they are all so beautiful. I'm still drooling over my keyboard.
ReplyDeleteI am LOVING the Yamdrok colorway! I'm really into the orange/blue combo right now!!
ReplyDeleteI'm lovin' the Ant Farm colorway! I met Chris at the Clermont show and she was so nice, can't wait to stop by the booth at Rhinebeck!
ReplyDeletetalk about dreamy!! posiedon!!
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I really like the Vegetable Medley color in the bamboo merino blend. I may just have to get some of it!
ReplyDeleteDinoflagellates I like for both the name and the earthy color scheme! I also quite like Marbles, Laduree, and Poseidon. So hard to pick just one favorite!
ReplyDeleteSuperfragilisticexpialidocious of course! What's not to like would be the better question.
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I tweeted! monkalicious on twitter and rav.
ReplyDeleteI love the Dinoflagellates and Poseidon and Iridaceae rovings.
ReplyDeleteI can't say I'm all that fond of ants but that Falkland Wool AntFarm makes me want to cozy up to some critters.
ReplyDeleteomg, I love her stuff. The "Superfragilisticexpialidocious" batt is really tempting right now, but so is the BFL in Pousse Cafe.
ReplyDeleteI'm not supposed to purchase more fiber until my current stash is at least somewhat lessened, and I've been ignoring the Ravelry ads, but I think this might have just broke me.
ReplyDeleteFunnily enough, the one that caught my eye immediately was the Minotour, which I might be purchasing anyway in a moment...can't ever have to much fiber, right?
I'd climb the highest mountain for yamdrok!
ReplyDelete60/40 Merino / Bamboo blended wool top for spinning - Vegetable Medley has sucha pretty colorway
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Wow, the colors are wonderful! I think I like royal platypus, yamdrok, and parasol the most.
ReplyDeleteI love Pixy Dust and Royal Platypus, and the Minotaur of course! Just some beautiful things!
ReplyDeleteboletus & poseidon are both lovely (well, they all are!)
ReplyDeleteI love the Dinoflagellates colorway. It reminds me of all the colors I'm seeing on the trees in Maryland right now :)
ReplyDeletelove the falklands wool in superfragilistic color way
ReplyDeleteDinoflagellates is both a beautiful colorway, and a hilarious name!
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There's so much pretty, it's hard to choose. :) My favorite has to be the 64s merino top in Boletus - gorgeous!
ReplyDeletePoseidon! and dinoflagellates... beautiful sense of color -- so rich.
ReplyDeleteI really like the 56s falkland in laduree!
ReplyDeleteHer colors are wonderful. I love Vegetable Medley and Marbles, but it is too hard to choose.
ReplyDeleteLove the 'Royal Platypus' Superwash BFL - gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteI love the royal platypus the color are wonderful
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I should have learned by now about clicking links from this blog. They're dangerous - every single one has some sort of beautiful fibre or yarn on the other side that I can hardly resist!
ReplyDeleteLike this: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=vl_other_1&listing_id=30607241
How can you see this photo and not feel the need to own such pretty colours?
I love the Minotaur colorway so how perfect would it be if I won that one?!! lol. :)
ReplyDeleteLove the 60/40 Merino / Bamboo blended wool top for spinning - Vegetable Medley, just seems to call my name
ReplyDeleteI REALLY want this one! So I've been eyeing Supercalifragilisticexpealidocious for a while now....
ReplyDeleteI facebooked, blogged (http://steelespun.blogspot.com/), and tweeted!!
she has amazing color combination, but I especially love pixy dust.
ReplyDeleteThe, 56s Falkland wool top aka roving for spinning or felting - Dinoflagellates, looks like it would spin up beautifully! Although, everything in her shop looks like it would spin up beautifully!
ReplyDeleteLove those Skeeter Bits! I learned to spin on a drop spindle two weeks ago and I'm hoping to be able to learn on a wheel soon. Can't wait to get my skills to a point where they're worthy of such gorgeous fluff!
ReplyDeleteI think my favorite is Parasol, with Vegetable Medley a close second. And I, too, hope that one day I'll have her amazing photography skillz.
ReplyDeleteI tweeted this as well.
~Rachel
I love the Ant Farm batt! Along with most of the other stuff in her shop!
ReplyDeleteLove all of these colorways! Terrific eye! My favorites include Dinoflagellates, Esmeralda Queen, and Pousse Cafe.
ReplyDeletethe 60/40 bamboo blended merino wool top for spinning is gorgeous in jonathan.
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"Dinoflagellates" is wonderful! I love the name and the mix of colors. I covet it. :) Minotaur is great too! I really love all of them.
ReplyDeleteSuperwash Blue Faced Leicester / BFL wool top aka roving for spinning - Iridaceae is wonderful.
ReplyDeleteLove the Jonathan colorway!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful, I'd love to try spinning some time.
ReplyDeleteWow! Amazing fibers in this shop! The color combos are scrumptious! I just love the "coi" batt - beautiful!
ReplyDeleteI like the Quadruped Amaphore and Sensation spinning batts.
ReplyDeleteWhen I got there, there was nothing in the shop. I am so bummed out. The sample in the photo is gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteI love her colorways.
ReplyDeleteAll of her batts are absolutely wonderful. I recently bought one in the Quadruped Amaphore colorway and it is a works of art!! She takes such wonderful care with packing and little thoughtful goodies. I highly recommend!! :)
ReplyDeleteIt was kind of strange to have to go through the sold items to see what she does, but I really enjoyed looking at the range of her colorways!!! The Minotaur is lovely, but Brandywine is far and away my favorite in the BFL!!!
ReplyDeleteThe Poseidon merino is gorgeous- but there are at least 10 others I drooled over.
ReplyDeleteI really like the Vegetable Medley in the bamboo/merino blend and of course the superfragilisticexpialidocious.
ReplyDeleteGoldenrod is yum-tastic! What beautiful fiber! I'll cross my fingers!
ReplyDeleteOf course, when I just followed the link to her Etsy shop, it's closed! I have bee a fan of ITW for quite some time (although I haven't bought anything yet.)
ReplyDeleteI love the Pluck colorway that she has done up in an 80/20 merino/silk blended top. so gorgeous!
I've posted on my blog at
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I love Inferno. Must have when back In Stock.
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ReplyDeleteI have coveted some of this fiber for a while now; one of these days I'll actually buy some, but I'm putting it off, sort of an anticipation deal :P In the shop right now, I would sell a kidney if any of her fibers, anything at all, were to appear on my doorstep by the time this comment is posted :P
ReplyDeleteI've always enjoyed looking at the items in this shop. The Grape Ape falkland 56's top is so pretty though...
ReplyDeleteOMG!!!! Ant Farm rocks!!!!
ReplyDeleteWow, wonderful colors! I loved Mary Poppins when I was young, now I love the Superfragilisticexpialidocious batt!
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ReplyDeleteOMG...I laughed my butt off (and that's a lotta laughing!) at the dinoflagelattes!
ReplyDeleteI have to go with the Superfragilisticexpialidocious batt, gorgeous colors, and with a name like that it has to be fun to spin.
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All the colors are beautiful!
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