Monday, January 2, 2012

Counting Sheep Farm SW Merino Giveaway!


It's 2012! What?! :) Yay new years!! Yay learning to spin!! I hope lots of you make 2012 a fun filled fibery one! Today, we're featuring fiber from Counting Sheep Farm! Rachel has been a long time phattie, and it's always fun to feature her!

Counting Sheep Farm has a lovely .com and an Etsy where lots of her farm goods are. Gorgeous color alert! You've got to check out her "sweater babe" yarn! 500 yard skeins- enough to make a small cardigan out of just one!

We're giving away this 4 oz of superwash merino in "Hardy Dam" today! Visit Counting Sheep Farm, find something you love, and write about it in the comments section below! We'll draw the winner later in the week, you have time to gain extra entries by your preferred social networking- help spread the good word!

123 comments:

  1. I love the Hardy Dam color way (am super excited to spin up the sample I received in the December box!) and I also really like the Heffalump Farm Fresh Batt. There's just something about the darker colors with a pop of bright that draws my attention every time!

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  2. sweaterbabe hardy pool! For Sure! I want!

    Tweeted too!

    Happy 2012 Phatfiber!

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  3. The "Sirens" colorway on the sweater babe yarn is eye-catching!

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  4. Wow, Deep Sea is gorgeous!!!

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  5. Liking the Deep Sea Sweater Babe as well?

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  6. I love the Hardy Dam colorway.

    My 2 favorites in the yarn are
    Sweater Babe Sirens and Deep Sea
    colorways.

    Seems like Deep Sea is going to a favorite!!

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  7. All the Pretty Flowers BFL/Silk is my fav!

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  8. I really love Targhee Wool, HARDY POND colorway, 4 ounces. So pretty.

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  9. Whats not to like in Rachael's shop. If I had an unlimited budget...also I have to ration myself :(

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  10. I LOVE the bright colors of the Easter Egg yarn!

    fb'ed and tweeted

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  11. "Tea Rose" is a lovely colorway! Very true to its name.

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  12. Love "Pretty Flowers" on BFL and Silk! Such beautiful colors!

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  13. Ooh. Hardy Pond in Targhee. Yum!!

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  14. All the Pretty flowers invokes thoughts of spring! Very pretty, indeed!!

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  15. Hardy Pond is a beautiful color. I can see lots of items made up using this!

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  16. The "Sirens" colorway of the Sweaterbabe is lovely. I want to spin up the "Deep in the Forest" and see how those bits of blue come out, and the "All the Pretty Flowers" roving reminds me of tasty, tasty candy.

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  17. Wow--love the Heffalump! I think if someone had described it to me I wouldn't have liked the sound of it but it looks very intriguing!

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  18. Ooh, love the Farm Fresh Batt in Heffalump! I got a wheel for Christmas, so I'm finally making some progress on the fiber stash!

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  19. Soooo pretty! Hand Dyed Fingering Weight Yarn NOVEAU
    I would really love to win something!

    Facebooked
    (thinking about getting twitter just to get more entries!)

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  20. I love the Targhee Wool, HARDY POND colorway.

    Happy New Year!

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  21. I would have to say that my favorite is the Sweater Babe yarn - amazing length (I hate working the ends in!). For the color, I am torn between Siren and Hardy Pond. Siren might win out for variety, but I love the deep blue tones of Hardy Pond. Thanks for the great giveaway!

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  22. Pinned Sirens yarn on Pinterest


    http://pinterest.com/pin/243616661062757575/

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  23. Tweete, too https://twitter.com/#!/AlphaBecky/status/153885294658199552 Thanks for the extra chance to win!

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  24. farm fresh roving for 8$ sounds good to me. Sign me up!

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  25. I am loving the greens and blues in Hand Dyed Sock Blend, HARDY DAM2 colorway, amazing fiber!

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  26. Wow! It's all gorgeous but the Sweater Babe yarn (100% BFL) in the Hardy Pond color way is my fave. Love it!

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  27. Love the HEFFALUMP.......very different!!

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  28. The Sirens colorway is unbelievable!

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  29. The Sirens colorway is unbelievable!

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  30. Heffalump Farm Fresh Batt is cute. But I'm a sucker for aqua, I love that roving!!!!!!!!!

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  31. The Nouveau colorway is amazing; it's listed in superwash merino fingering weight.

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  32. I love the blend of colors in Deep in the Forest!

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  33. The sirens colorway is lovely. I also like Targhee Wool, HARDY POND colorway.

    Karen aka purplepenguin

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  34. Fish scales is so pretty.

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  35. The Hardy Dam colorway is beautiful!

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  36. I checked the Etsy site, but the Hardy Dam fiber is my favorite. The blues are so peaceful looking!

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  37. I retweeted the link to this drawing on my Twitter account @ cshannonpdx

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  38. Another Hardy Dam colour way lover here :-)

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  39. I love Fish Scales! (fuzzy wuzzy fish scales!)

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  40. I like the BFL/Silk All the Pretty Flowers. I'm not too fond of pink but here it just looks like part of the "flower bed"!

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  41. The Hardy Pond colorway is really gorgeous. :)

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  42. It's got to be a tossup between Hardy Pond, Hardy Dam and All the Pretty Flowers for me. <3

    I posted on my blog to get help deciding. ^_~

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  43. The "Hardy Pond" targhee looks lovely and soft.

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  44. I really like the Sweater Babes Deep Sea Blue- that is some gorgeous fiber and a very generous amount, too!

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  45. I love the Sweater Babe yarn in the "Sirens" colorway! I also adore the Hardy Dams and the Hardy Pond rovings.

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  46. HARDY DAM2 colorway, amazing fiber is so pretty. Love it all. Sock knitting

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  47. All the pretty flowers looks like some scrumptios cotton candy!

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  48. I love the sweater babe yarn, both colors are perfect!

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  49. I tweeted @Lealee33

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  50. I shared on Facebook!

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  51. The Fish Scales batt is super cute.

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  52. Ooh, I love that Sirens Sweater Babe skein!!

    Jess

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  53. I love the Targhee in the Hardy Pond colorway. It would be a perfect gift for my friend Leeonie who wants to learn to spin

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  54. I think Hardy Dam is actually my favorite! I also like the Hardy Pond fiber, I'd love to spin either of those! (I posted about this on Facebook, name: Maya Remblai)

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  55. The Heffalump is amazing!!! Love the splashes of color in the grey.

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  56. How can I resist anything called "Heffalump"?

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  57. I *love* that you named something "Hemphalump"!

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  58. I like All the Pretty Flowers hand dyed BFL and Silk. So pretty!

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  59. I really like the Tea Rose worsted weight yarn.

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  60. Love the Targhee Wool in the Hardy Pond colorway. It'd be so pretty all spun up.

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  61. The All the Pretty Flowers color way is very pretty!

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  62. Love the Deep in the Forest Batt.

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  63. Love the Sirens yarn!

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  64. Sweater Babe Yarn, DEEP SEA. need this!!

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  65. I love the Sweater Babe Yarn HARDY POND colorway, but I have to say I also love that you posted the sweet potato casserole recipe!

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  66. I love the Fantasia fingering yarn, all the colors in it are just gorgeous!!

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  67. Some of the best batts I've ever spun came from this shop! I love the Fish scales batts. That would be my perfect item!

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  68. The Deep Fall colorway is gorgeous!

    lindaran on Rav

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  69. Ooo targhee.... Hardy pond is lovely!

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  70. Oh my, deep in the forest and Hardy Dam ;)!!

    facebookd!

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  71. I like the Sweater Babe Yarn in HARDY POND colorway.

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  72. Cancer does suck! There are too many people around me dealing with it right now, so that's probably why that item caught my eye.

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  73. Fantasia fingering wt. yarn is beautiful.
    Plenty of beautiful colorways to choose from.

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  74. I love the "Hand Dyed Sock Blend, HARDY DAM1 colorway" and want to spin it!

    -stacylovesyarn on Ravelry

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  75. Deep Sea - thats what I want to make a heavy shawl with - i need two.. oh boy, is their stuff yummy!

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  76. That beautiful Hardy Pond fiber has me doubly wishing I'd gotten in on the December box. Gorgeous!

    I added a pin on pinterest for it, as well. Lovely.

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  77. Oooh, the fish scales color is wonderful. Plus, the alpaca locks are tempting.

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  78. Love the BFL/Silk in All the Pretty Flowers colorway!!!

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  79. Love the Hardy Pond Targie Wool

    cdaniele on Rav

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  80. I love the Heffalump batt. Grey with pink is pretty!

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  81. Love the Deep Sea Sweater Babe yarn!!
    Thanks :)

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  82. Hardy Pondy roving! So soothing!

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  83. <3 Sweater Babe Yarn, DEEP SEA, 500 yards

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  84. Sweater Babe Yarn SIRENS colorway is just amazing. colours to die for and one skein = one small cardi. perfect

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  85. The DEEP SEA color way is divine! Such amazing deep color. Nice work!

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  86. I absolutely love the sweaterbabe yarn in Sirens. I need to save up to try some.

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  87. I like the Fantasia, Hand dyed Yarn, Fingering Weight. But the Hardy Dam colorway made me smile as I grew up in Grand Rapids MI and had relatives in Newaygo, it brought back some happy memories

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  88. Love the sirens yarn

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  89. I think the Siren sweater babes is gorgeous!

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  90. I love the Tea Garden merino for spinning -- such lush but quiet colours.

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  91. hummmm... lets see I LOVE ALL of Rachel's fiber creates... but I have been eyeballing her Fantasia fingering yarn colorway since I received her shop update e-newsletter. Counting Sheep Farms has been one of my favorites since I first introduced myself to Phat Fiber sampler boxes. :)

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  92. All the Pretty Flowers BFL and silk roving!

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  93. Love the "fish scales" farm fresh batt. Bet it is gorgeous spun up!

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  94. I like the all the pretty flowers bfl/silk roving.

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  95. I LOVE the Deep in the Forest batt!
    Neutrals, with just a touch of blue to liven it up!

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  96. Hardy Dam 2 braid! That would make an amazing pair of socks.

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  97. I love the Targhee Wool, HARDY POND colorway, 4 ounces! It is so lovely!

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  98. I would love to try the blue kettle dyed soysilk! It looks so fun! Although, I have the perfect hat/neckwarmer pattern picked to knit for my husband if I were to win the superwash merino.

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  99. I tweeted about the giveaway! (Mamahobbit)

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  100. I love the EASTER EGG colorway in the fingering weight! Those colors are soooo bright!

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  101. Oh, I love the Farm Fresh Batt, DEEP in THE FOREST! So beautiful!

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  102. The soysilk kettled dyed fiber looks gorgeous! WANT! ;)

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  103. The Sweater Babe Yarn SIRENS colorway is wonderful.

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  104. I like the warm colors of the Hand Dyed Fingering Weight Yarn DEEP FALL, 464 yards.

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  105. What a pretty blue also love Hand Dyed Worsted Weight Yarn, Tea Rose, Phatfiber October Sample, 140 yards ON SALE

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  106. Fantasia hand dye yarn is really beautiful.
    LaEmma (Rav ID)

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