Fiber Club - June's Spoiler

My inspiration for this month's fiber colourway was flora and I decided to pick an orchid flower to inspire the colourway which is a lovely blending of pinks and reds. The colourway is Cymbridium and named after the orchid pictured in the card that accompanied everyone's orders. The fiber is a blending of superwash merino and SeaCell and is a fabulous spin! Enjoy everyone!

Fiber Club - June's Shipment & Teaser

Hello all fiber club members! I am packaging everything up today and the fibre shipments will be in the mail tomorrow! Shipping time from Canada to the USA averages about 5-7 days so if we’re lucky, it’ll be shorter than that and fibre will start arriving the end of this week! Some shipments have been known to reach everyone in 3 days after I’ve mailed so let’s hope for a quick delivery this month!

The fibre this month? Well, I’m not telling! And the theme? Not telling! But then again, from my little teaser photo below you can see that I went with Flora as my inspiration. This fibre is particularly lovely and wonderful to spin - hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

P.S.: Congrats to Mia for choosing me in the contest!

Fiber Club ~ June's Dyer

Mia guessed it, June's dyer is indeed Roxanne of Zen Yarn Garden! I believe she will combine shipping if you would like to order something directly from her at www.zenyarngarden.com. Perhaps she will chime in here with any pertinent details!

I've just got one question for Mia, "Ok, now that Roxanne has gone, who's your first guess going to be next month?" ;) I love that you're chiming in, keep it up!

**Note from Roxanne: yes, if you want to add anything to your shipment for the end of June, just let me know you are part of the Fiber Barista Fiber Club with your purchase and I'll combine shipping!**

Postcards from Home Sock Club - May 2009 Spoiler

Here's the colourway for May's sock club! And as you all know by now, my month was themed on the famous Niagara Falls here in Canada and the yarn is named Falls to represent that. In an attempt to capture the blues and greens of the water of the falls, I ended up with a colourway that was a mix of blue and green. For some reason, the digital camera couldn't quite see it properly and erred on the side of blue. I am still not sure I have the colour exactly right but it gives everyone a bit of an idea of how the colourway turned out! I can't wait to see everyone's projects! Enjoy :)

If you are wanting to stash the yarn on Rav, here's the link to the yarn.

Postcards from Home Sock Club - May 2009 Teaser

Hello! I'm May's dyer and the sock club packages are on their way tomorrow! Squee & woot! LOL This month's yarn is a new one for ZYG so it'll be a surprise for everyone and as for my theme, well, I tossed between 2 and landed on one that is a wonderful representation of Ontario, Canada. Hope you like it! 

And that grayscale photo? It's a little teaser of what's to come. Yes, I know there's no colour but if I showed even just the slightest hint of colour, you'd know what it was so to keep it a surprise, I grayscaled the yarn...LOL  However, it does look pretty squishy don't you think?!

Mailing time from Canada to the USA is 4-10 business days by airmail. Mail tends to take about 5 days on average so packages should start arriving sometime early to mid next week. Enjoy!

Introducing Roxanne of ZenYarnGarden.com

Hello everyone! My name is Roxanne and I am your Fiber Barista from Ontario, Canada and the fiber artist behind ZenYarnGarden.com. I'm really excited to be a part of this wonderful group of fellow dyers who are all going to bring you a little piece of home with yarn included!

As for me, I started dyeing yarn in late 2005 and am pleased to say that I am now in my 4th year of creating colours! My goal, as a dyer, is to create colourways that inspire the knitter within each of us. As a fiber artist, I believe that colour speaks to us on many levels not only from how it affects our moods but also to how it affects what we are inspired to knit. My hope is that all the colourways I create are tools of inspiration for each and every knitter that has bought one of my yarns. Currently, I'm very much into spinning so I have also taken up dyeing fibres in colourways to inspire everyone's inner spinner! Colour is my motivation and is what keeps me going from day to day!

Here's a little sampling of some of my work:



For this club, I already have ideas brewing for what I'm going to be sending to everyone and it will be a nice representation of my home province of Ontario, Canada. Won't you join us? This is going to be a lot of fun!