Phat Fiber Giveaways!

If you run to http://www.phatfiber.blogspot.com/ now, or just click on the Phat Fiber Giveaways! title (I've made it just too easy ) you may still have a chance to get in on some terrific giveaways!

http://www.fibrofibers.com/buy.html is giving away their nightfall superwash sock yarn by Fibro Fibers yarn in the colorway WINE which is sold out at their shop already. Nightfall is a line that has stunning colors that go from a beautiful base color like Ivy, Copper, Wine and many others and travels to black! The sock yarn comes in two skeins so you can make matching socks that are just magnificent. It also comes in a larger skein so you can make a shawl or whatever your creativity takes you. They offer a free pattern at their site for a shawl made from Nightfall that you're really going to want to see and make your next project. They also offer a line of yarn that is dyed to order in several different weights that you'll love as well.

Color Bug Yarns on ETSY is also offering a giveaway of a beautiful skein of skinny bfl sock yarn from Color Bug Yarns in Koi- which has the most amazing combination of saturated deep turquoise blue and orange and green- very watery yet bright at the same time. Her shop is filled with incredible, colorful yarns, my favorite being the BFL sock yarn in Dragonfly-beautiful jewel tones that are hard to resist. She also has an amazing tool that I've never seen before but now wonder why someone hasn't done this before-a Scarf Fold Up. This cool gadget controls the unruly length of the scarf you're knitting and all you have to do is wrap it around the Scarf Fold Up. The Fold Up also has a built in 4x4 stitch and row gauge, a needle conversion chart and an 8" ruler all as part of the unit. It's a must have. I'm also loving her magnetic pattern markers - just slip it onto the pattern you're working on and you don't get lost while you knit. They come in a package of 3, each in a different length.

All you have to do to enter the giveaway is go to www.phatfiber.blogspot.com take a look at each shop-they make it easy by having links-take a look around each shop and see what you like and then post your comments on each of the entry sites on the Phat Fiber page. It couldn't be easier and you're going to love the shops...and who knows, you could win some great yarn!

For Kitty With Love and Thanks 3/26/10

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with a muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message She Is Dead,
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

She was my North, My South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.

(Thanks and apologies to W. H. Auden)