Light Brown Hare Fiber Giveaway!

Yay! One of my favorite yarnies is now dyeing fiber! This makes a lot of sense to me, even though she's not a spinner- Yet! ;)

I gifted some Light Brown Hare yarn in a swap recently and my partner was completely thrilled with it! I mean, who wouldn't be? There is just about every color you could want and Dale's bases are wonderful. I have this skein of arctic hare that I am hoarding- it's a beautiful green/gray mmm. As you'll remember, I used Light Brown Hare's Jackelope base for my Witch of Pungo Shawl. In summary, I love Light Brown Hare and I can't wait to start using her fiber too ;)

We're giving away this beautiful leaf green corriedale roving to a lucky commenter! Just visit Light Brown Hare, find something you love, and write about it in the comments section below. You've got to be quick because we're drawing for a winner tomorrow! We'll count social networking pings as extra entries :)

Farmgirl Chic Fall Gourds Giveaway!

So, I'm really feeling this crisp air in the morning! Just a couple of weeks ago, we were really suffering here with mid to upper 90 degree weather- boo! Now, I can see my breath when I walk outside at dawn! When the weather is nicer, I think folks are able to think better. For example, this morning while sipping my coffee, I realized how inexpensive a fiber addiction can really be. Why are you laughing? Really, think about it- let's say I can spin 4 oz of fiber in a weekend. If we take fiber from Farmgirlchic, and add up 4 oz of this beautiful fall gourds fiber, that comes out to $16- plus probably $3 shipping so let's say $19. That's under $20. I can't take my husband out to eat for under $20 and that lasts an hour at best. In fact, I can't go to a movie with someone for under $20 - well maybe if I carry a big giant mexican straw purse and smuggle drinks and popcorn in- but how can you feel good about that? In the case of this Fall Gourds Fiber, you'll need to spend a little time prepping it or at least planning how to spin it too. The fiber will encourage you to stay home and spin instead of going to the mall or wherever, to shop too. Also, you'll need to stay home and cook because you can spin a little while the pasta noodles are boiling. $20 for the weekend and you have yarn afterward to make into a gift- which will negate the $20 spent in the first place. I think I'll call in to Dave Ramsey and explain to him how if everyone would just get into fiber crafting, it would help get them out of debt.

While I do that, please visit FarmgirlChic, find something you love, and write about it in the comments section below. We'll draw for this Fall Gourds Fiber winner on Friday, so be quick like and make sure you retweet/FB/ravelate etc to help Melissa out!

Learn to Spin gift from Dawning Dreams

I am quite excited about this weekend! Several phatties will be traveling here to spin, knit, eat and play together this weekend! Dawn from Dawning dreams is one of those phatties! Dawn and I have met a couple of times before and that woman is as sweet as pumpkin pie! Just look at this spinning starter set she's sent in for a giveaway! A beautiful but easy to spin batt and spindle!

I love just about everything in Dawn's shop and I hope she brings a few things to unload this weekend- wink wink! Maybe you all should pick some things out for yourselves so I'm not so tempted ;)

Please visit DawningDreams, find something you love, and write about it in the comments section below. We'll award you extra points by using your mad social networking skillz and helping spread the good word about the shop! Drawing will be held on Friday so act quickly!

Crafty Q Giveaway!

New phattie alert! Pam of CraftyQsPlace contributed for the first time in September and was generous to send in a few hand-crocheted market bags with her fiber roving samples inside.

Pam's shop has been busy and several folks have snatched her freshly dyed roving and posted in the big giveaway thread! I just love to see folks supporting a new shop- we all need encouragement in the beginning!

We're giving away this market tote and sample today! Just visit CraftyqsPlace, find something you love, and write about it in the comments section below. Twittering/FBing/Ravelating will not only help Pam, but get you extra entries to win- and one can never have enough reusable market totes!

Buy Phat! Big box giveaway!

I just wanted to remind you all that we're giving the giant box of samples from the September video away as a "buy Phat" incentive. Just post your Sept. purchases from Phatties here in this thread: http://www.ravelry.com/discuss/phat-fiber-sampler-box/1310387/1-25 and you'll be entered to win!

Winners this week!

MMM homemade granola is the best... just sayin'

Winners this week, please send your address to phatfiber at yahoo dot com and we'll mail them out asap!

Linda- you won The Critter Ranch Autumnal roving set!

Laurel- You won the beautiful WCMercantile fiber !

HeatherD- You won the Garilynn project!!

CozyKnitting- You are the Texas Alpaca Fiber giveaway winner!

Texas Alpaca Fiber Mixed Giveaway!

I'm so very excited about this blog post! When I was giving a workshop in at WCMercantile in Navasota Texas, I was introduced to Laurence of Blubonnet Hills Ranch. Laurence was one of the first 4 ranches to bring Alpacas to the state of Texas and now has a lovely herd of 85! While Bluebonnet Hills/ Texas Alpaca Fiber has been perfecting their fleeces since 1997, they're new to our Etsy world and I hope we can all show them support!

Of course, I snatched some of this gorgeous bay/black alpaca millspun while I was down there, and I intend to make a shawl (of course!) with it. Mmm so lofty and warm!

We're giving away this beautiful mixed alpaca roving- what a beautiful tweedy/marbled yarn this would make! Just visit Texas Alpaca Fiber (easy to remember, huh?) and find something you love, write about it here in the comments section and we'll be drawing for a winner in a couple of days. We'd so appreciate it, if you would also twitter/facebook/plurk/ravelate about Texas Alpaca Fiber as they are so brand new, it would really help out! We'll count those extra social network pings as entries for this giveaway!

Garilynn project kit giveaway!

Do you all remember the beautiful project bag I pulled out on the video, as well as Garilynn's flower market bag pattern? I'm really excited about it. One can never have too many reusable shopping bags, right?

Garilynn, creator of Knit Stitch graph paper and the skein snake is a also a designer who has a keen eye for practicality. I love the Bernard in garter and the Sherlock holmes hat!

We're giving away this wonderful Flower Pocket Market Bag kit- which includes both the yarn and pattern to make the bag, and the beautiful fabric project bag so you can carry it with you while you're working on it! Thank you, Gari!

Please visit Garilynn, find something that strikes your fancy, and come back here and post about it in the comments section. Retweeting, facebooking, ravelating etc will net you extra entries because we appreciate it so much!

WCMercantile bfl/silk mixed berries giveaway!

This BFL/tussah silk is amazing! It's so soft and Stephanie of WCMercantile has dyed these colors to perfection. Our theme as you know for September is Farmer's Market- these are Stephanie's interpretation of mixed berries and oooh I could just eat them! I love the dark jewel tones in fall, they transition to winter really well.

When Stephanie sent these in, she suggested one could hold two or three of these colors together and draft them together creating a barber pole effect. I think that would be really neat to try- you can see her list grab bags every once in a while, or convo her about creating one just for you.

We're giving away this beautiful 3 oz collection today! Just visit WCMercantile, find something you love, and write about it in the comments section below. We'll count extra tweets, facebook updates, blog posts etc as extra entries for helping spread the good word about WCMercantile!

The Critter Ranch Autumn roving giveaway!

Sue from the Critter Ranch has captured perfectly the beauty of fall flowers in her Mums and Sunflowers roving and her delicious pumpkins, gourds and tomatoes roving! Deep reds, warm oranges, yellow ochre and a smidge of leafy green to round it out- does it get any more perfect?
Oh, I didn't mention it's made from Llama, Alpaca, firestar, bamboo, tussah silk and angelina!

Sue's shop is chock full of those fall fiber flavors and colors- go take a look!

We're giving away a chance to taste (1 oz each) both of Sue's colorways for September. Just visit The Critter Ranch, find something you love, and write about it in the comments section below. We'll be drawing for a winner later in the week, but be sure and spend some time retweeting/fbing as we'll count that as an extra entry for you!

Thank you for this gorgeous giveaway, Sue!