More entries!

It's so much fun seeing what people have made with one skein our Good Karma yarn! Keep those entries coming, folks!

Linda Hanford knit and modeled this Hurricane Hat, which she made for her husband:

Naomi Foran used a skein of Winter Sky to knit the 198 Yards of Heaven shawlette:

If you're not a member of Ravelry, the last link will not work. Another good reason to become a Ravelry member!

Today's entry

Isabel Corrales designed and crocheted this lovely hat for the Big Contest. She lives in Stockton Springs, Maine.

We're so pleased to see entries that are crocheted. There's a lot of crocheters out there!

Faerie Garden Scarf

Congratulations and a big thank you go out to Lynn Swiriduk, who sent us not only a photograph of her Faerie Garden Scarf, but a detailed set of instructions for her creative design. You can find them here.

Lynn knit her creation in Sweetheart and she wrote, "I used all but 5 yards of the skein." 

I don't know how long it took her to make the scarf, but she said, of the instructions, "I think it took longer to write them down than to actually knit the scarf." 

"And our first contestant is. . ."

Congrats to Gracey for being the first person to send in her contest photograph! She bought her skein of Mamma Mia at the Rhode Island Sheep and Wool Festival.

Gracey said, "I made a cowl of my own design..it's pretty simple and used most of the skein...there's about 96 inches left, enough to make a crocheted flower...." 

Contest!

How would you like to win 8 skeins of our yarn, in a brand new colorway of your invention, and named by you? That's the prize! Now, here are the rules:

Knit or crochet a one-skein project using our worsted weight 60/40 blend. The yarn may be purchased from us at the farm store, online, or from one of our retailers listed below, or it may come from your existing stash of Good Karma yarn.

Heavenly Socks Yarns Belfast, ME

Spruce & Guss  Bar Harbor, ME

Yarning for You San Marcos, CA

The Yarn Garden Littleton, NH

Baadeck Yarns Baddeck, Nova Scotia, Canada

You can knit up our new Nautilus Scarf pattern, or use any pattern of your choice, but it needs to use one skein. Don't worry if it's not the full 210 yards. We won't be weighing the entries.

If fact, all you need to do is send us a photo, via email, with your name, contact phone number and your own email address, along with the name of the pattern you used. DIdn't use a pattern? Great! Let us know that, too.

We are looking forward to sharing your photos on the Web, here, on Facebook, and on Ravelry. It'll be fun to see what you all come up with!

If you would prefer we keep your name private, let us know. We do need your contact information so we can inform you if you win! Images should be jpegs with a maximum size of 1000 pixels. If you are unsure about the photo size/format, contact us.

You can enter as many projects with photos as you like. Each entry gives you another chance to win.

One name will be chosen at random from all entries.

Entries will be accepted until midnight on July 15th.


The winning name will be chosen at random the following day, July 16th.

The winner must reside in the U.S. or Canada or agree to pay the postage to receive their prize.

Good luck!

The Nautilus Scarf

This new colorway of yarn inspired me. It reminded me of our Belfast coastline - blue water and pebbles, bits of crumbled old sidewalk, and foundations of buildings never built or built long ago. I set out to make a one skein project, and having made quite enough fingerless mitts for a while, a scarf was in order, a long scarf, one that was perhaps more decorative than useful.

I wanted the form to look organic, and indeed, it felt like the scarf was growing right off my knitting needles. Alas, it was not true, for I still had to knit 210 yards of yarn!

I'm not complaining. It was fun, but not as much fun as we had playing with it!

All coiled up, it looks like it might have grown here, along with the lichen:

And yes, it functions quite well as a scarf. Amy will be happen that I've cropped out her face to give you this close-up:

The pattern is here. It's oh-so easy to knit, even though, no, it doesn't magically knit itself. If we find out otherwise, we'll let you know!

Lots o' stuff going on!

You can read Clara Parkes' take on our 60/40 wool/alpaca yarn and a bit about Belfast, Maine over at Knitter's Review.  We do want to clarify a misperception that was in the review (as happy as we were to see it): all the wool in our yarn does not come from island sheep. The wool in our Secret Island 6-color does.

This coming Tuesday, March 22nd, we'll be having a knitting night at the farm starting at 7:00 p.m. Bring your knitting, your spinning wheels, or what have you. We'll have some of Jim's new spindles available for you to try your hand at.

Amy used her camera to make a little movie of Julie spinning on one earlier today:



Julie will be teaching an introduction to lace knitting workshop at the Treetop Zen Center on April 23rd. You don't have to be a Buddhist to take the class!

The following Saturday, April 30th, we'll be having a Build-a-Batt day from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. Folks will have an opportunity to, well, build their own batts. For $50, you can pick your own dyed or natural colored sheep and alpaca fleece, and see your  custom made 8-ounce batt carded right before your eyes. You'll have complete freedom to make them how you want - multi-colored side-by-side, layered, filled with extras (at extra charge) or plain. Bring your wheels and friends, and make a day of it. Hopefully, it'll be feeling like spring by then.