Saturday, November 12, 2016

The Homestead Hobbyist, Let's start with our newest contributor!


We are still using Giveaway Tools to help us manage the giveaways. The plus is that the tool keeps track of all of your entries and then pulls a winner for me at the end. If there's something better out there, I'd love help finding it. I will be creating a little giveaway tutorial a little later in the month. Perhaps that will help us work out the kinks.

Okay, this first giveaway is so beautiful from The Homestead Hobbyist. I'd love to keep this yummy yarn to myself! Here's a link to the product on his site: Crime Scene Collection, Bloodstain.


Here's a little description from the The Homestead Hobbyist:

This yarn is small-batch spun at a mill near Seattle from small-batch, custom-designed blends of fiber.
This skein is 460 yards of fingering-weight 3-ply yarn in the Bloodstain colorway from my Crime Scene Collection of Savage Blends.

The Crime Scene Collection contains:
Superfine 18.5 Micron Merino 37.5% Shetland 37.5% Mulberry Silk 25%
This skein is a gory blend of fresh blood-reds with a bit of texture and a smooth, fluffy finish.

The color is gorgeous and rich. The fibers are so soft. You'll love this yarn!


How do I win?! FIRST sign in on the giveaway widget above. You'll be given several options to gain entries to the giveaway.

The first, and only mandatory entry, is that you will go to The Homestead Hobbyist find something you love then come back here and comment about it.

You can gain an additional entry for each of the following: tweeting about the giveaway and pinning a photo of the yarn on Pinterest.

You will earn three additional entries for making a purchase in the The Homestead Hobbyist Store and sharing the order number.

Thank you for supporting our independent artists. They are the only reason we have Phat Fiber to obsess over! Be sure to respond if I send you an email letting you know that you've won!

51 comments:

Nicole Acuna said...

I love the Bloodstain DK! That color is gorgeous :)

Kate said...

I love the Sinningia colorway! It's beautiful and is love to spin it up!

LesleyAnn said...

Love the greens in amorphophallus

Unknown said...

The Toxic Waste colorway is fabulous!!

Paula B. said...

Bloodstain dk is my pick!!

Caranam said...

I'm deeply in love with the colors of the the Dyckia fiber.

s said...

Love the "chain of custody" colorway!

an ika said...

i like the Criolla yarn.

Monica A said...

The Criolla yarn. 200 yards. Batch 04 makes me want to go make a cup of cocoa! :)

Carolyn said...

I like the Examiner's Gloves colorway.

Kitten With a Whiplash said...

Conveniently, the giveaway yarn, BLOODSTAIN Fingering is my favorite. KittenWhiplash on Rav

purplepenguin said...

I like the Savage Blends, but would like yarn instead of fiber. So, I like the Bloodstain DK weight.

Chris said...

Criolla Batch #10 for me. Bless those sheep for their gorgeous fleece!

Kristen said...

I like the Amorphophallus colorway. And the name, lol. ;)

I'm globalite on Ravelry.

spaceystacie said...

There are some lovely things in this shop! I purchased the Crime Scene Collection spinning fiber and it is gorgeous!

Unknown said...

Bloodstain do is lovely!

Unknown said...

My favorites are the crime scene fibers with cross contamination being my favorite.

Walt said...

Fibre of Mass Destruction of course - Bioweapon... largely 'coz you have such fun with the names! the creator of course is one of my favourites too..

noreen said...

Toxic Waste Color is beautiful

Unknown said...

The Hematite colorway in her gemstones collection is beautiful. They all are actually!

Chel said...

Hard to pick just one thing ;) I really love Deviant Kraken though, so beautiful...

Elaine said...

Love, love, love how Wounded Ranger spins up. I did 12 oz of it for scarves.

Sarah said...

oh i love the amethyst!

Perrin said...

Not fond of the name, but I like the Blood Stain colorway

Ariaswiftwind said...

Anything honestly, but crime scene colection tops the list

craftyone said...

I like the bloodstain colorway the most.

Sheila said...

I love the bloodstain fingering weight yarn you're giving away. Mind, she isn't showing any other colors of that yarn at the moment, or I might pick another color. Or I might not, that's a nice deep red for the coming holiday season.

Kenneth Moore said...

I'm not entering to win this skein (it would be like cheating, since I already have more than I have time to knit with!), but I wanted to let some folks know--I'll have "Suit Up, It's A Mess In There," "Murder Weapon," and "Eye Witness" in fingering and DK up in the shop in March!

The mill just received the fiber today, and I'll have the yarn in late January. I'll be debuting the new colors at Madrona Fiber Arts Winter Retreat and Stitches West in February, and I'll put them up in the shop shortly after. I'm still working on figuring out which will be the next colors I turn into yarn in 2017 (I'm designing a few more neutral colors to expand the Crime Scene Collection of spinning fiber as well, so those might be my next choices for yarn).

Nicole O. said...

I love the fiber Crime Scene, it looks amazing

tktl said...

Oh the Hematite from the gemstone collection is gorgeous!

Karen S said...

I have to say, this brand is so badass. I love everything. If I must choose, I'd say I love Suit Up, It's A Mess In There and Amethyst.

Mary B said...

so many beautiful & interesting things to choose from but one of my favorites is Murder Weapon. It is such an striking blend of purples with those pops of blood-like red. It really holds your attention.

asteride said...

Despair! and Crime Scene is nice too!

asteride said...

Despair! and Crime Scene is nice too!

asteride said...

Despair! and Crime Scene is nice too!

Dovile said...

Bloodstain yarn is my favorite.

ryllisse said...

Oh my god these collections are awesome! The color of Examiner's Gloves is spot on and made me laugh out loud! Toxic waste is absolutely GORGEOUS fiber, too.

Michelle Wulf said...

Murder Weapon is glorious. <3 Love the colors so much!

Carolyn said...

My favorite thing is the Criolla yarn!!

Knittingdancer on Ravelry said...

I like the Bloodstain yarn in fingering weight.

Lindr said...

I like the "Suit up, it's a mess in there" fiber. The color is beautiful and the name makes me laugh. :)

Miskate said...

I love the gemstones collection sampler, the colors together are just glorious.

GretaOto said...

Sinningia, is beautiful!

InJuneau said...

I love the Dyckia fiber!

Amy W. said...

Not normally a fan of red but the Bloodstain coloway is to die for (pun intended!).

Unknown said...

Despite its name, I love the color of the Murder Weapon roving!

Emily said...

That Dyckia colorway is beautiful, with colors that combine together well. And I've always been a fan of flax/linen.

susanjd said...

the Gemstones Collection Sampler is most enticing!

ikkinlala said...

I love the Batch 10 Criolla Yarn.

Goodenough said...

Amorphophallus is my favorite, I love green!!! Plus is was a fun challenge for me to remember how to spell it without having to look back at the shop.

Ember said...

The bloodstain colorway in either weight is soooo luscious