Winners this week!

Congratulations:

WC Mercantile custom dyed silk- brownbear

Katherine Vaughan Designs pack- quilting pansy

Rule Out pencil roving- Nifty Nappy

Please email me with your addresses ;)
phatfiber@yahoo.com

If you're skies are clear (and maybe if they aren't) tonight, you're in for a treat! Tonight is the first and probably biggest full moon of the year- also known in Native American folklore as the Wolf Moon.

Rule Out Fiber Addiction NOS giveaway!

We're due for a winter storm in the next 24 hours or so and I needed to look at some of this bright and cheerful fiber from Rule Out Fiber Addiction, NOS!

Remember, Emily is a mild mannered therapist by day, and she kindly explained to me that "NOS" means no other symptoms. So, Emily, does that mean you're only a fiber addict and you don't stray into other craft arenas? Hmmmm.

Regardless, I love how cheerful Emily's shop is! Just what I needed to liven up this winter-gray morning!

We're giving away this beautiful golden yellow cormo-corridale cross pin drafted (pencil roving) ketttle-dyed fiber today! Perfect for you new spinners! Visit Rule Out Fiber Addiction, NOS and find something you like. Write about it in the comments section below, and we'll be drawing for a winner later on in the week. Make sure you leave a way for us to find you- and why not twitter and facebook about this giveaway while you're at it? We'll count that as extra entries too!

Thanks Emily for cheering me up today!

Katherine Vaughan Designs Pack Giveaway

I am especially proud of several of our Phatties for stepping up and offering to donate small (sometimes large!) portions of their profits for Haiti Relief. It is just another illustration of how this amazing band of fiber artists come together in synchronicity to achieve greatness.

Katherine Vaughan was one of the first designers I noticed to offer a portion of her proceeds to help for Haiti. Having a personal ties to the country, she put advocacy in action immediately upon hearing the news of the earthquake.

Now through January 31st, $2 for every pattern purchase from Katherine Vaughan will be donated to a Haitian Relief effort. I'm off to purchase her Happy Wrap- I'd been eyeballing it for a while!

As a special giveaway, we are offering a 5 pack of printed designs for you! Just visit Katherine Vaughan's pattern shop on Ravelry , or her Etsy shop and let us know which are your favorites. We'll be drawing for a winner later in the week- and yes your pattern purchases count towards the superbox giveaway as well! We'll be counting your twitter and facebook updates as extra entries, so let everyone know about Katherine Vaughan Designs!

Thanks for fighting the good fight, KT!

WC Mercantile Giveaway!

Stephanie, from the best little wool shop in Texas (WCMercantile) created beautiful kettle dyed silk noil samples for the January box. Her inspiration was one of humanity's earliest novel's The Tale of Genji.

I think I may have told you all before, but I'll say it again. I visit WCMercantile and stalk her majacraft wheels. I must have her listings memorized lol! Her store is very "stalkable", don't you know. Feeling like silk- it's there. Some sparkle? It's there too! A fiber daydreamer's delight!

Stephanie has offered to custom-dye a couple of oz of this silk noil for a lucky commenter here on the blog. Just visit WCMercantile, find something you love, and write about it in the comments section below. We'll draw for the winner later in the week and you can arrange what color you would like to see your silk noil in.
Remember to use twitter, facebook, your blog or Ravelry and gain extra entries by helping us promote WCMercantile! Oh, and in case you win... make sure you leave a way for us to find you!

Thank you Steph, for being so generous and sharing your beautiful work with us!

Silver Sun Alpacas winner!

Congratulations AlaskanNancy! Random.org has chosen you as a winner!!


Just a reminder that the Superbox Buy Phat Incentive will be going just through the end of January- so this week is it! Post your purchases here: http://www.ravelry.com/discuss/phat-fiber-sampler-box/966440/

Hope your Monday isn't too bad! It's cold and drizzly and windy and I have lots of housecleaning to do- boo!

Silver Sun Alpacas Drop Spindle Kit Giveaway!

UPDATE: RECEIVE 20% OFF OF YOUR ORDER THIS WEEKEND ONLY USE CODE "GIVEAWAY" WHEN CHECKING OUT

Have you learned to spin yet? Ricky from Silver Sun Alpacas is determined that you learn!
We're giving away this beautiful drop spindle kit this weekend!

We want you to visit Silver Sun Alpacas and find something you like, write about it in the comments section below and maybe while you're in the shop, take a look at everything Silver Sun Alpacas has to offer. I am participating in the Fairytales Spin-a-long and I can't tell you how gorgeous Ricky's batts are- Soft and sparkly spinner's dream!

Want to see more of the Fairytale SAL? Join the Silver Sun Alpacas Ravelry group: http://www.ravelry.com/groups/silver-sun-alpacas

We'll be drawing for the spindle kit on Monday- so be sure and use twitter, facebook or your own blog to help get the word out about Ricky's shop- let us know you did for extra entries. Make sure you leave a way for us to contact you if you win!

Buy Phat Incentive- Super Box Giveaway!

We are hosting as new "buy Phat" Incentive superbox giveaway.

This is retro-active to January 1st 2010- If you purchased and item from a January Phattie (list on Rav group) and post it to this thread: http://www.ravelry.com/discuss/phat-fiber-sampler-box/966440/ you'll be entered in the January Superbox giveaway.
If all goes well, we would love to continue doing this as a way to support our participating phatties.

Stay tuned for a wonderful weekend giveaway!

Winners this Week!

Ahh What a way to end the week! Winners!

The Critter Ranch Llama in Pajama book and roving- KIM R

Twice Sheared Sheep Shawl Pin and stitch markers- EJ

The Fox Hop Yarns and books 2 winners- Michelle (mbouchier) and Missy (seksi)

Congratulations winners! Please email me with your address so your prize can be mailed out asap!

I've got some important new info about Phat Fiber coming up as well as a weekend giveaway!

The Fox Hop Handspun Giveaway!

Are you Alice or are you the Cheshire cat? Tiana, the fiber temptress from The Fox Hop, has created two lovely handspun yarns for two lucky commenters!!

Each of these handspun yarns- Cheshire and Alice will come accompanied by a copy of Alice in Wonderland!

Please visit The Fox Hop Shop and find something you love, write about it in the comments section below and you'll be entered for the drawing tomorrow! Be sure and leave a way for us to track you down in case you win, and be sure and use twitter, facebook, your blog or Ravelry to help get the word out about The Fox Hop!

Tiana, I greatly admire your handspun! Thanks for creating these yarns for us to enjoy!

The Twice Sheared Sheep

I love things that have dual purposes. I also love beautiful things. Perhaps that is why I love Twice Sheared Sheep's new shawl pins! Her heavy wire pins double as stitch marker holders (and who wouldn't want to display her infinity stitch markers?).

Dawn has been busy creating all sorts of wire shapes (check out the shawn the sheep ones!) for her pins. They might just be the perfect touch to top off your shawl! Speaking of shawls... some of you may have noticed I am on a huge shawl kick lately. I just can't stop knitting them! Shawls could just be the most perfect accessory ever invented. Feminine, functional, looks good on every body type, and I doubt anyone would mistake your knitted or crocheted shawl for some mass-produced big-box garment. My personal goal for the Ravelympics is to spin 8 oz of fiber and then knit that yarn into a shawl- if you're looking for a group to join, check out the Team Phat! Whew, I think I have convinced myself I am in desperate need for one of Dawn's shawl pins.

We're giving away this shiny copper shawl pin and stitch markers to a lucky commenter. Just visit Twice Sheared Sheep, find something you love, and write about it in the comments section below. We'll be drawing for a winner this weekend, so be sure and twitter, facebook, plurk or blog about your favorites!

Thank you Dawn, for creating this lovlies for us to enjoy!