The wholesale order for The Loopy Ewe is complete! It will be mailed out in the next few days! Yay!

First I talk, the contest will be at the bottom of the post if you are here just for that.

That wholesale order kicked my butt. I have a limited time to dye a day to start and for the past month+ my children and I have been passing a cold/flu/something back and forth between us so I’ve either been sick or taking care of the sick, then there was the week Ben had the kitchen torn apart and unusable to install a dishwasher (yay!), some quality control issues with my yarn base, plus I had not anticipated how long it would take me to hand wind all those skeins by hand. My method is not very efficient and all the wear and t ear resulted in a newly broken swift. *sigh*

Needless to say the first thing I plan to buy when I’m paid is an electric skein winder! And more yarn so I can update the shop, of course. I’m so sorry the shop was neglected while I worked on the wholesale order. This has definitely been a learning experience on many levels, I especially need to learn to better balance wholesale and the shop.

I will be out of town for a few days, once I get back I will dye up the remaining yarn I have here until I can order more.

Ok, enough of that, it’s contest time, right? Right! To celebrate PDY’s first completed wholesale order we are having a contest!

How it works- Just guess how many skeins are headed to The Loopy Ewe! Anyone and everyone can join, even those who I told how many skeins Sheri ordered. Why? Because due to some issues with my base yarn I was not able to fulfill the original order (yes, very very sad). Just leave me a comment to this post with your guess. If more than one person guesses the right number then the random number generator will decide the winner.

Here are a few pictures of the order stacked up on my dining room table, yes the yarn that is not skeined in the first photo is part of the order.

What will you win?
A skein of PDY Beat Sock in Seafoam- Dark & a Piddleloop Piddly bag

As well as a few other small treats- sample of soak in Aquae, stitchmarkers, a Loopy Ewe tape measure (of course!) & maybe more if I find fun stuff out and about

Happy Guessing! The contest will close at 11:59 PM (EST) Monday, June 2nd & a winner announced sometime on Tuesday June 3rd.

My daughter, Anna, is my biggest fan. Whenever I’m labeling yarn she wants to touch it, pet it, hug & kiss it, calling it “Mommy’s pretty yarn.”

This is the Yarn Haven (in Perrysburg, OH) May Sock Club installment.

I dyed up the yarn for a somewhat local (same state, just on the other side from me) yarn shops May installment of their sock club.

Sarahlou organizes it and she’s a pleasure to deal with. The club likes a local twists to their yarns so I hunted down a poem about the area from the 1800′s and used that as my inspiration-

On Maumee, on Maumee,
‘Tis Ague in the fall;
The fit will shake them so,
It rocks the house and all.
There’s a funeral every day,
Without a hearse or pall;
They tuck them in the ground
With breeches, coat and all!

On Maumee has tan, khaki and browns and while it may not look like much in the skein, I fell in love with the colorway as I was knitting the sample up. SarahLou also knit up some Maumee Monkeys and recommends the pattern to her sock club.

Hi all! Sorry the shops been barren, I was sick, then away at the Spring Fling and when I came home Eli got me sick again, I’m fairly certain it’s bronchitis.

A few items have been moved to the Sale Section and there are now a few skeins of Path of Hope(Free Verse Sock) up for sale (with more to come soon-ish, when I’m better)-

> With each Path of Hope skein sold, $7
> will go toward helping a lovely young
> lady, Tirzah, make her way this fall
> to work in an orphanage in Rwanda. As
> per her request the colorway reflects
> the colors of Rwandas new (as of 2001)
> flag- blue, yellow and green.
>
> “The blue band represents happiness
> and peace, the yellow band symbolizes
> economic development, and the green
> band symbolizes the hope of
> prosperity. The sun represents
> enlightenment.”